WHAT WILL YOUTH/AMATEUR SPORTS BE LIKE TEN YEARS FROM NOW?

So let me ask you this: what are youth and amateur sports going to be like in 10 years?

Will they — and the sports parents and coaches — be even more out of control?

Or will we see a kind of reversal where sports parents finally demand and insist on better behavior from spectators at games?

Will the issue of the decline of enough refs just continue on?

Will we see obnoxious sports parents get arrested and fully prosecuted?

Will more and more ambitious kids leave HS sports and turn instead to travel and club?

Will the better HS coaches follow those more talented kids?

Or will we see more and more kids just quitting sports at earlier ages?

Or will more kids focus and specialize in one sport?

I asked this very fundamental question about the future of youth sports on my radio show this morning, and I opened the phone lines. The responses and reactions were remarkable and thoughtworthy in every way.

As for me, I really do sense that the time has come for a national movement, such as a Commission of Youth Sports to be organized, and to galvanize sports parents all over the USA – to try and enforce some civility and respect back into our kids’ games.

Listen to the show here: The Sports Edge with Rick Wolff