For my kids it was the commitment coaches wanted

Sep 17, 2019
10:04:25am

Hobo 3rd String

I went to the initial freshman football meeting with one son. Coaches talked about camps, spring practice, summer practice, 7on7, lifting year round, fundraisers, on and on. It was too much. He did other sports instead and got academic scholarships.

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Hobo

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Author

Time

HS football participation continues to drop

Gustav

9/17/19 9:30am

The costs are so prohibiting & a lot of kids see gaming as the way to punch a

pegushin

9/17/19 9:33am

football is super cheap compared to other HS sports

BlueFrog

9/17/19 9:35am

This is true...

CoachSpeak

9/17/19 9:38am

On HS baseball or club baseball?

Gustav

9/17/19 9:49am

Both...

CoachSpeak

9/17/19 10:01am

Football cost me over $2k this year

TheLost

9/17/19 9:54am

That's a lot...

CoachSpeak

9/17/19 10:02am

Travel out of state 🙂

TheLost

9/17/19 11:29am

Yea you're right...

CoachSpeak

9/17/19 11:43am

Like basketball?

permiso

9/17/19 9:39am

Even in XC/Track I shell out $100 every month or so on shoes...

Fdnman

9/17/19 9:52am

Ok I stand corrected, but I do see kids with athletic skills

pegushin

9/17/19 9:53am

51 total kids in the entire Cottonwood program. From 9th-12th

BlueFrog

9/17/19 9:34am

What happened to Cottonwood?

Canusa

9/17/19 9:41am

Skyline could have put 100 on them. Every team can. It's sad

BlueFrog

9/17/19 9:43am

They have won 2 games in the last 3 years and none this year

Canusa

9/17/19 9:45am

first of all they are a refugee school now. like 25% of the school wasn't in Utah 3 yrs ago. these refugees aren't

BlueFrog

9/17/19 9:52am

Ran out the big money guy that was funding them...

CoachSpeak

9/17/19 10:03am

I wonder how much of it is risk of injury vs. concentrating on one sport?

Jesse Pinkman

9/17/19 9:38am

Yes but that was also true in 2014. That said, data on other sports would be

garyfan

9/17/19 9:51am

I do not like specialization...

CoachSpeak

9/17/19 11:38am

I agree with everything you're saying

Jesse Pinkman

9/17/19 11:52am

Not knowing your kid I'll give you credit for making a realistic assessment...

CoachSpeak

9/17/19 12:17pm

better to note per capita. California is not surprising given family out migrations

Bob Vance

9/17/19 9:40am

The rate (football players per 1000 students, or something) is the number.

CosmoK

9/17/19 9:54am

fair enough

Bob Vance

9/17/19 12:54pm

I wonder if the whole concussion scare from a couple of years ago

CoogsWin

9/17/19 9:46am

For my kids it was the commitment coaches wanted

Hobo

9/17/19 10:04am

Smart move. If we spwnt as much time on academics as sports more kids would

kotacoug

9/17/19 10:28am

The commitment required epitomizes “the thick of thin things”.

RealityCheck

9/17/19 10:57am

IMO, adults and their attempt at vicarious living in perpetual youth via sports

Division Bell

9/17/19 10:17am

Agree

kotacoug

9/17/19 10:28am

California's is certainly a demographic issue.....

mokelembembe

9/17/19 10:31am

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