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10-18-2014, 10:19 PM | #260 |
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Lets all take a moment though to reflect at how awful and not in line with reality this thread was from the start.
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10-18-2014, 10:46 PM | #263 | |
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New teams coming, and cities around the US SCREAMING for their own. |
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I think it's a legitimate point that to get more youth players you need to have heroes that kids aspire to be like, they need to see the game on TV and want to emulate that. You don't need to look any further than how those participation rates would split up across racial lines. White kids grow up idolizing baseball and football players and so they play those sports. Black kids grow up idolizing basketball players more so they play basketball more. There are other factors of course, like the cost of participating and that there are fewer places to play baseball than basketball especially in the urban core, but someone has to want to be something before they will try. It seems like soccer has long existed in America as an introductory sport for younger children who then move on to other sports. I think in the next decade that will probably continue to change but the league needs to increase its profile on television more than anything else. |
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