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At the same time, high school participation is way down over the past 10 years: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/30/high-school-football-numbers-drop-
by ZacharyPitts 8y ago
At the same time, high school participation is way down over the past 10 years: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/30/high-school-football-numbers-drop-brain-trauma https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/30/high-school-fo... (plus many more articles with just a quick search).
Locally, a couple of high schools dropped varsity football because they couldn't get enough recruits for brain injury.
- Dirlewanger 8y agoInteresting to read, but I wonder how many of those schools actually sent kids to D1 schools. I'd be willing to bet that most of the schools shuttering their football programs weren't college football recruitment hotspots to begin with and only had the odd kid every few years play at a D1 level.