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inb4 guy turns out to be a major sex offender and/or a pedophile
Nope, four years too late:
https://apnews.com/article/sports-lawsuits-business-tennessee-sexual-abuse-5095b649ad29005c84aaa06c6dc107bb
All a creep has to do is cut Webb a check, and you could open a team that young girls and their parents would do anything to be a part of.
A lot of those coaches were just randos in their 20s/30s who wanted access to athletic kids with zero oversights and frequent hotel trips.
There's been a bunch of lawsuits, but Varsity tries to hold zero accountability despite being the oversight body that's actediting the coaches/gyms.
To think that as these children "filter up" to the more elite teams the behavior stops would be incredibly naive. Hell, even just the social media pipeline from it is bad, but absolutely no one is looking out for these kids in real life either.
That sounds about right. Running an organization for kids and teens is always going to be either an eternal battle to keep pedos out or the creation of a den of pedos. I've got no judgment for orgs that fight that battle sincerely, and understand that sometimes they'll fail, but any that don't fight that battle are going to leave me suspicious of the leadership's motivation, even though it's damning regardless.