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unwavering faith + extraordinary effort

#TheMiracleEquation

[Super Prep @prep_super]

On Friday afternoon, the Douglass athletic department announced the appointment of Rodney Hill as the head coach for the boys basketball team, as reported by Miles Perry of Super Prep.

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Great day to be a Trojan 🖤🧡⚔️

@DHSAthleticsOKC

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Put your faith in God!

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The causality of faithfulness sometimes is entitlement.

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Quit hanging out with people who don't want you to win.

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You have to see both sides like chanel.

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You see my life. God goood!

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The word “no” is a blessing.

[Flip Trades @tradewithflip]

Don’t say I never gave you anything. #glob

[Marcus Sloan @bigsloan32]

The assist is just as important as the bucket. I wish more people understood that. Good morning.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why parents pay $25,000 a year for youth sports their kid will never play professionally, because the math is more interesting than the headlines suggest.

The $25K is buying admissions arbitrage at elite colleges. Run it both ways.

Scholarship math first. The US has 8 million high school athletes. Roughly 7% play in college, 2% at D1. Total NCAA athletic scholarship spend is $3.6 billion across about 175,000 D1 athletes, mostly partial aid in the low teens per year. A family putting in $25K annually from age 6 to 18 spends $300K chasing a maximum return of about $80K. The expected value is a lottery ticket.

Admissions math second.

The SFFA v. Harvard trial disclosed that recruited athletes get admitted at 86%. The non-athlete rate sits around 5%. Even academically weak applicants jump to a 98% admit probability if recruited. A non-athlete with a 1397 SAT has roughly 0.08% odds at Harvard. The same kid recruited for crew has 70%+. The athletic hook is the largest single advantage in elite admissions, bigger than legacy or dean's list. Ivies don't even offer athletic scholarships. The value is purely the admissions ticket.

This is what $25K buys. Year-round travel ball is the qualifier round for an admissions process operating on different rules than the one your kid's classmates compete in. The "country club sports" pipeline (squash, lacrosse, crew, fencing, golf) is a feature. Barrier to entry is the product. 90% of Ivy League squash players come from $30K-a-year private high schools. The math works because the alternative pool is small.

PE arrived after the demand existed. Unrivaled Sports, Perfect Game, regional travel-ball roll-ups. Upper-middle-class parents had already turned youth sports into a class transmission mechanism. PE consolidated the supply chain and raised prices because the buyers were already there at $25K.

$300K to convert a 4% admit rate at an Ivy into an 86% one. Plus the alumni network and pre-professional sorting that follows. That's the actual equation.

The trade is rational at the top of the income distribution. Brutal everywhere else.

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Flowing from my heart … is gratefulness!

[Ray Caldwell @CwellRay]

Geez Trap.

Your boy made 400% on a play today and you still son-ning me!

Gotta get my way weight up‼️

S/O to @CoachFlip12 and @rayg1410 for that real plug today though.

Turning a dollar into four in 3 hours made me feel like Warren Buffet😂

[Ray Caldwell @CwellRay]

Tez over there WORKING!
Already landed MiMi now Ogechi.

Got a G Redus like trajectory.

✅Elite trainer ( Bailey Maupin)
✅Can X&O
✅Has charisma

Let him mess around and land Jackson…😳

[Bronny Tribute @BronnyJamesJr]

FIRST EVER FATHER TO SON ASSIST IN THE NBA 🔥

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🗣️ Ashlon Jackson

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@Ashlon3Jackson Proud of you 💙

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@Ashlon3Jackson keeps the 🥽 on. She’s an elite playmaker.

[Travis Recek @TravisRecek]

Virginia Tech guard Carleigh Wenzel grew up in San Antonio and has ties to Austin, so being here to play in the NCAA tournament is special for her. @CarleighRenae_ @cam_umscheid @SpectrumNews1TX

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@bballjkey Appreciate it brother! You know the journey better than most.