I have a friend whose daughter is the same age as mine. His daughter does not want to play softball in college. She's a very good student and a decent player but not really a college prospect.
The friend makes statements that indirectly put down college softball players and smaller schools of less academic renown. The tone is this - My daughter could play softball if she wanted to (which is presumptuous and a little insulting to all those who are actually working their butts off trying to do it), but she is not going some crappy school to do that (anything that isn't major division I or academically elite is crappy).
He doesn't put it that bluntly, but that's the message I get.
Does anyone else encounter this attitude? Is it a mistake to go to a lesser known school when you could just be a student at Oklahoma or Tennessee or UCLA?
The friend makes statements that indirectly put down college softball players and smaller schools of less academic renown. The tone is this - My daughter could play softball if she wanted to (which is presumptuous and a little insulting to all those who are actually working their butts off trying to do it), but she is not going some crappy school to do that (anything that isn't major division I or academically elite is crappy).
He doesn't put it that bluntly, but that's the message I get.
Does anyone else encounter this attitude? Is it a mistake to go to a lesser known school when you could just be a student at Oklahoma or Tennessee or UCLA?