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[QUOTE="superjohn, post: 3010238, member: 1522"]
No but it's very rare for kids to get full D1 rides for sports and even more rare they grow up and make a lot of money in their chosen sport.

It did apply to one of my best friends growing up.  His dad got him playing basketball 24/7 from a young age.  His dad played college ball and was 6'3 or so and the mom was 6'0 so their pedictrician told them the son would be like 6'8.

We would all be playing at the local park or gym and his dad would show up and take him to the other end of the court and make him shoot hundreds of ft's.  They made basketball his whole life and even got crazy enough with it that they basically floated the idea to my uncle if their son could live with our uncle and go to St. Anthony's to play for Bob Hurley.  The truth was he wasn't good enough to play there and my uncle thought they were nuts for entertaining the idea.  End result after traveling around the country playing in a million tournaments and camps he only grew to 6'2 and wound up playing D3 ball and quit because he was totally burned out and wanted a social life.  To his credit he always had a great relationship with his parents, don't think this is the case with a lot of these situations.
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