Jaylen Slade and the IMG Academy. I have a couple of questions

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3 years ago 03/25/2021 9:38am EDT

Jaylen Slade looks like the REAL DEAL for America's future. He is originally from Georgia and now runs for the IMG Academy. I do have two questions, one based on ignorance:

1) I know IMG costs a lot of money to go there, but is it not primarily based for sports? Like you would pay that money because you want to become a pro athlete. No disrespect to the other 4x4 team members, but it seems like you should be running at least a 46s 400. That is a lot of money to be running times that you could achieve through hard work at any decent track program.

2) Jaylen Slade is a beast. IMG costs a lot of money. Has no one given him some basics on how to take a 4x4 handoff? For the money, it seems you would get down every detail of training down well, or at least the basics that you learn past the middle school level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2d9e-X8QBU

3 years ago 03/25/2021 10:20am EDT

re: humidity is my altitude

IMG is so weird to me. If I had that much money I guess I'd let my kid go there I guess.

3 years ago 03/25/2021 10:34am EDT

re: humidity is my altitude

On the second point: You thought that handoff was bad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3qiywMuUBQ&ab_channel=FloTrack

3 years ago 03/25/2021 11:13am EDT

re: humidity is my altitude

Here is how IMG stays afloat - I guarantee Jaylen Slade pays $0 to go there.

The top athletes are all on full scholarships. IMG hosts camps in the summer which cost big $ and students from around the country head there. These students (especially ones that have money) are then "recruited" to IMG. Lots of promises of top training facilities, college exposure, etc. Most of which is true. But their main purpose is to allow the funds to fully finance the top recruits who keep the whole operation going.

This is even more apparent in basketball and football. IMG has multiple basketball teams and football teams. Even give them hilarious names - National, Varsity, Junior National. So Varsity is really the "B" team. So they can tell rich kids to come play varsity basketball at IMG so that we can fund the travel and tournament expenses for our actual A team.

3 years ago 03/25/2021 11:33am EDT

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in the know about IMG wrote:
Here is how IMG stays afloat - I guarantee Jaylen Slade pays $0 to go there.
The top athletes are all on full scholarships. IMG hosts camps in the summer which cost big $ and students from around the country head there. These students (especially ones that have money) are then "recruited" to IMG. Lots of promises of top training facilities, college exposure, etc. Most of which is true. But their main purpose is to allow the funds to fully finance the top recruits who keep the whole operation going.
This is even more apparent in basketball and football. IMG has multiple basketball teams and football teams. Even give them hilarious names - National, Varsity, Junior National. So Varsity is really the "B" team. So they can tell rich kids to come play varsity basketball at IMG so that we can fund the travel and tournament expenses for our actual A team.

The basketball teams are color coded.....blue, white, etc. Only one of the squads is any good and the best of the rest of them would be barely competitive in most Florida HS districts. The back end of the best squad along with the rest of the basketball squads fund the scholarships for the 4 or 5 really good players they have on their roster.

3 years ago 03/25/2021 11:54am EDT

re: humidity is my altitude

My understanding is that IMG is a sports boarding school. When I think of the concept I get this dystopian vision of a mad scientist megalomaniac rounding up select children to groom into superhumans to use in furtherance of his goal of world domination. Then, Austin Powers, posing as a teen athlete phenom, infiltrates the school to discover that Fat B@st@rd is the head of coaching.

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