I'll go first: Most sports are just glorified kayfabe and how rich/serious the owner is has more of an effect on a team's success than anything else
school and professional sports shouldn't exist. municipal clubs should be subsidized so poor kids can play.
parents shouldn't be allowed to attend t-ball games under any circumstance.
the person who invented stadium naming rights should be shot.
That second point though.
I coach comp swimming. Parents yell so fucking loud from the stands all the time. Not only is it impossible for your child to hear you yell while they’re in the water, natatoriums have zero sound absorption. They’re just giant metal and water echo chambers.
i agree mostly but what's wrong with school sport? corporatised like US college football sure but physical sport education should be something people learn, though it ideally should be done very different from what it is in the US currently
gym class is quite different from organized sports but this post asked for hot takes so i won't get into how physed needs to do better by non-athletes.
westerners have too much
to not violently hate the other over nothing so we should get rid of anything that enables that mentality until shithead isn't the dominant mode of thought. school sports is just an embodiment of a bigger social maladaptation.it's social maladaption to believe sport can only enable hating people. it's very simple why a school is a convenient base for organizing sports--the kids go there every day like it's a job, it should just be fully subsidized and not be plugged into a national for-profit sport industrial complex. kids don't want to beat the shit out of each other because
it's because it's put to them that it might be their only avenue to higher education/economic advancement to kick ass in a sport. solve the economics solve the toxic competitive spirit.it's social maladaption to believe sport can only enable hating people.
my experiences as an athlete in american sports culture are a large part of why i want it burned down but I never said anything about only
it certainly did that (or normalized it, these things are rarely so explicitly top-down) when i went through the system. A bunch of those kids that definitely didn't have college sports prospects loved the shit beating part too.
US football should actually just be done away with, even in a less competitive culture everything about it for a century has been geared around beating the shit out of people.
but the culture of the severity of the competition in other sports is inflected by the college-prospects even for the non-contendors, simply to keep pace. and don't forget the coaches who drive this behavior are also justifying their employment/looking for advancement
yup and if you get rid of all that shit you aren't left with anything recognizable as the last 50+ years of american school sports.
I only watch American pro basketball so all my takes are about the NBA. It would be more fun to watch with fewer threes. I was watching 2 elite teams running down the court and trading short clock clanks for several minutes. Need to change the value of points in general to devalue the 3. 2 pointers = 4 points, and 3 pointers = 5. Free throws will 2 pts per attempt except for the last 3pt FT which will be 1pt.
College free throw rules where if you miss any attempt, the ball goes back into play.
If there's a time limit for how long a FT routine goes for, then there should be a time limit for how long it takes all players to get into position for the FT. Violation counts as a tech.
Technical fouls should just automatically award 1pt and the possession to the opposing team.
The San Antonio Spurs should trade Victor Wembanyama to Brooklyn for cash considerations.
There should always be a ref stationed at the review monitor, and every call should be actively reviewed so that decisions don't take 5 minutes.
but it could still be in a school tho