It's like a basketball, football or baseball fan talking about the top high school prospects and yes, lots of grown adults follow high school prospects in other sports.
How many people knew or talked about Lebron when he was in high school?
Of course. There are forums talking about top high school commits for college football and basketball and forums with discussions about the youth academies of European soccer clubs.
Do you not think there are soccer forums with discussions about u17 world cups?
Do other sports have forums of grown men talking about high schoolers? Kinda odd to me.
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Yes, almost every sport I can think of the interest begins early, often before high school and is a much bigger deal than track, for which there is very little money. The big money sports the interest is high and starts young. For example, the interest in kids playing soccer(football) in many places in the world is insane and competitive. Kids are recruited very young and will move away from home to train at very young ages.
Your troll attempt is also pathetic, given what you are aiming at, any you just look like a fool when you consider other sports where girls are sexualized at a very young age - every heard of gymnastics? What about figure skating? Swimming? Tennis? Idiot.
Yes, even adults much younger than 50. I just don’t get it. I stopped caring about high schoolers back in college and never looked back. I just can’t care enough about Newbury Park, historic as those kids’ accomplishments may be. I’m comfortable waiting to tune into them when they turn pro. Even NCAA is only of passing interest to me and is interesting only when it’s obvious that they are practically pro level in that they equal or better pro runners anyway.
Breaking 4 is great and all in HS but fairly mundane at the level of the world’s best, which is what keeps me interested.
I’m ok with 50 year olds looking at results and making predictions.
What I do find weird is when they make threads about every little detail about individual girls, such as surgery, injury, and sicknesses about girls. Like this one:
In light of all this discussion on HS runners, i'm wondering does anyone remember Carly Mcnatt? She was doing so amazing and then got injured. What happened to her? If anyone has more details, let me know. I believe from her...
Genuinely surprised that absolutely no one on this website knew about this. Yesterday found out from someone very close to the source that Tuohy had major knee surgery during quarantine and did not run anywhere from 2-4 month...
Do other sports have forums of grown men talking about high schoolers? Kinda odd to me.
You must not follow college football or basketball. College football has a huge interest in recruiting.
Also it depends on what the discussion is about. Discussions of performance or where a kid might go seems reasonable. Or maybe where they rank all time. But when it turns to how "hot" they are, then it gets really creepy.
I don't understand why Americans get so hung up on age and insist on dividing ourselves into age based silos. There's really nothing inherently abnormal about people of all different ages taking an interest in each other, or even interacting with each other.
Generational apartheid - just one of the many gifts of cultural marxism.
And we wonder why millenials are such imbeciles. Probably the fact that they were the first generation never allowed to mix with anybody older than themselves is part of the answer.
Seeing as pedophilia and sexual assault is rampant I’d go as far to say there are several sexual predators on this site and the blojos are enabling them.
Wow, what an outlandish statement to put out there. I guarantee you that if I was one of the brothers, you'd be banned for life. Reported
I think it’s fine if they’re talking abt performances/things related to the sport. Talking abt their appearance/general lives seems really weird to me most of the time tho. I figure there’s high schoolers/college kids (like myself) who post abt performances from kids around our age (like myself), and I imagine a 50 year old could be just as excited abt kids running sub-4 as me, especially when they could’ve seen the days of US distance running where no kid broke 4 for decades.
Seeing as pedophilia and sexual assault is rampant I’d go as far to say there are several sexual predators on this site and the blojos are enabling them.
Wow, what an outlandish statement to put out there. I guarantee you that if I was one of the brothers, you'd be banned for life. Reported
Yes, even adults much younger than 50. I just don’t get it. I stopped caring about high schoolers back in college and never looked back. I just can’t care enough about Newbury Park, historic as those kids’ accomplishments may be. I’m comfortable waiting to tune into them when they turn pro. Even NCAA is only of passing interest to me and is interesting only when it’s obvious that they are practically pro level in that they equal or better pro runners anyway.
Breaking 4 is great and all in HS but fairly mundane at the level of the world’s best, which is what keeps me interested.
This. I don’t care about high school athletes at all. Except it was cool when the kid from PA with glasses broke 4 in a non pro race. Other than that I’m here for the cliff notes and to poke fun at people because this is the internet after all.
the american obsession with school children in sports is just bizarre. another example of how americans take something relatively normal and have to just take it too far.
I do find it a bit odd. There's always old guys who have season tickets for junior hockey teams around here, I honestly don't get it. What it's even odder though is. Adults in their twenties and thirties still watching tv series and movies about high school. I had an ex who somehow always managed to be watching shows about teenagers, she was in her late twenties.