Why Did We End Up In This Predicament Summary

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Shane Murphy, at the end of the chapter “How Did We End Up in This Predicament?” explains that there is a distinction between two themes of youth sports: participation ethos and spectator ethos. Murphy is concerned about the participation of youths in sports as they grow up. He says that as a child athlete ages, there is a selection of the “best” athletes in the sports and players are segregated due to being skilled or unskilled. Next, Murphy goes on to say that this trend keeps happening all the way up until college, where it becomes an “unstoppable force.” In my small beach town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, most of the kids growing up played a sport, and the ones who didn’t filled that space with another activity. Personally, growing up, I never experienced a…show more content…
My town was so small (graduating class was around 100 students) that no one was really left out during a game or competition if they were part of the team. The only exceptions I can think of are that, with soccer, the players who were more athletic (as in they could run longer) would receive more playing time—which was reasonable. I believe that if you are dedicated to a sport and enjoy playing it that you should have an ample amount of playing time in it and be able to be treated as well as everyone else. An exception to this, in which I can see it being granted, would be that in order to hone a very skilled person’s talents, the program would dedicate more attention to them. Exclusion in sports, in larger schools, is somewhat necessary; exclusion is what makes high schools have a junior varsity and a varsity team, as well as schools making cuts on teams. This whole ordeal seems unfair at first, but if there are only a desired number of sports, the players who are the most skilled are the most likely to be chosen to play because they could possibly have a career in the
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