sports....
roughly one million kids play highschool football.... only seventy thousand of those kids get to play college football.... or around seven percent.... and then.... and then only around two hundred and fifty of those kids are drafted into professional football each year.... that is a whopping two tenths of one percent of all highschool players get to play professional football.... that is one in five hundred.... one in five hundred.... (1)
the ratio of highschool athletes who make it professional is just as bad for most of the other sports.... some of the ratios are much worse.... where.... according to Georgia State University.... only one in sixteen thousand highschool athletes make it pro.... (2)
now.... even more shameful.... is that.... twenty seven million people in the united states enjoy playing basketball.... and eight million of those.... claim to be core players.... playing more than twelve times a year.... (3) thus.... eye know that this is a stretch.... but if we assumed that all of those people who play basketball.... want to play professional basketball.... then.... only one in forty four thousand people get their wish.... get to see their dream come true....
so.... we should change all of this.... do you think.... we should help more people do what they WANT to do in this world.... instead of making so many fail at achieving their dream.... what do you think.... eye certainly think we should.... and.... eye intend to change all of this.... to see more about this.... check out the upcoming chapter.... what was eye made for....
eye will NOT break up the nfl and nba and other professional sports.... like eye am going to break up the universities.... eye am not going to be the trust buster here.... however.... eye WILL create more opportunities for folks....
eye cannot tell you how far this will go.... but.... the first step.... is to support the formation of a second league in all of the professional sports.... to support.... another professional football league.... in the off season.... AND.... another basketball league.... in the off season.... and.... other professional sports leagues.... in the off season.... people have tried to do this before.... with football.... the whole arena football league thing.... but.... in order to pull this off successfully.... to really pull this off.... there needs to be government support.... for example.... it will take government intervention.... to allow the new leagues to participate in the draft.... eye would make this a one for one thing.... the nfl gets the first pick.... and then the second league gets the second pick.... and back an forth.... and.... the new leagues would also need serious funding.... government funding.... in order to compete with the nfl and nba.... otherwise.... the people drafted to the new leagues would feel shafted.... you would need to make the new leagues instant successes.... in order to make this work.... in order to make this fair.... eye think that this can be done.... it would take some creativity.... but it most certainly can be done....
so.... adding another league in the off season is the first step....
the second step is to break sports away from the school system.... in both highschool and college.... take sports away from public schools.... so that teachers can focus.... on teaching.... this will also make high school sports more popular.... because.... teachers do not know how to manage sports teams.... we need to put the teams in the hands of professionals.... people who specialize in managing sports.... and marketing sports.... and the players need to be turned into professionals.... at both the college and high school level.... yes.... even at the high school level.... playing sports should be considered a job.... and the players should be paid.... starting at an early age.... and the players should be able to choose the team that they play for.... the coach that they will play for.... right now.... highschool coaches have WAY too much power....
and finally.... eye will discuss this more.... in another chapter.... but.... we need to break up the united states.... into fifty separate countries.... or.... more.... and perhaps eye could do that tower of babel thing again.... and break all of the states up into fifty different languages.... :-) making sports much more popular at the state level.... rather than at the national level.... imagine.... no not the john lennon kind of imagine.... imagine.... fifty separate superbowls.... fifty different opportunities for highschool players.... to play professional football.... look for the upcoming chapter.... states.... under the section.... trust buster.... for more insight into all of the benefits of breaking up the united states....
eye just have to add on thing here.... when we free up all of those unnecessary government workers.... such as all the ones working on the welfare state.... and when we free up all of those irs agents and tax accountants and tax attorneys.... when we implement a flat tax.... and when we free up all of those attorneys.... when we make the law much simpler.... there will be plenty of opportunity.... for all of these folks.... to do.... what they actually WANT to do.... what they chose to do.... before they were born.... what they were made for.... many more people will be able to do.... what they actually want to do....
and do not worry.... all of you people who enjoy being government workers and accountants and lawyers.... there will still be jobs available for you.... they will not all go away.... BUT.... they will be much easier to do.... much much much less complicated....
(1) Odd Of High School Player Going Pro. The Ohio State University, College of Public Health. Retrieved March 22, 2024. (Link)
(2) From Highschool to Pro - How many will go? Georgia Career Information Center, Georgia State University. Retrieved March 22, 2024 (Link)
(3) Broughton, David. Hoops slam dung: Basketball adds to long streak as favorite major sports to play. Sports Business Journal. September 26, 2022. (Link)