Nike Dallas FC Was Created to Help Solve the Inefficiencies of Youth Sports

Sports is a dominant element of our culture, and for better or worse, the road to the glory of professional sport starts at a young age. On an upcoming episode of Game changers, host Katie Steinberg sits down with Nike Dallas FC president Chuck Thompson to discuss how he saw the inefficiencies of youth sports and how that led him to starting his own football team as his own so-called midlife crisis. I think net net, it's going to be a positive. I think there's going to be lots of things that come along with it. But I think what you're doing is you're changing the economic standing of players across the spectrum, right? So some of the players come from poor families. These are going to be rapid changes. It's going to be rapid responsibility on the player right to manage it. We'll see what happens with young NFL players and the things that go on there. And now we're going to back that up four or five years or six years, whatever it is, right? You know what I'm saying? So they're going to be all of these challenges. Those are going to be negative. I think as far as from low income to high income, you know, I think if you look at the talent that's going into the division one, it comes from across the spectrum, right? So you have the kids that come from wealthy families can form all the personal training that are great athletes. Do you find kids in rural areas that are just freak of nature athletes? And they make it. And then you have kids from lower income families that we have really great football programs like, you know, great. You can go across the state and point to all the great high schools that are in low have low income districts, right? Or you can go into the private schools and you see in the private schools because the scholarships they give out, you have kids from across the spectrum in their programs. So I think Nella Neal is going to play out. I don't think there's going to be those types of inequities, but I think it's going to be I think it's going to be very challenging. And the part that I think would be interesting is how does the high school coach or, you know, or the coach had a private school? How does he or she handle all of that right? How are they going to be? And so we're all trying to figure this out together. Make sure to subscribe to market scale to stay up to date with all of our original shows, including game changers with Katie Steinberg.