Re: OT: WPIAL
The additional sports available today have a huge impact, too. As mentioned, in the old days at some schools there was football -- and, only football. Now, those extra 30 kids are playing different sports rather than just riding pine on Friday nights. Soccer has poached a lot of great athletes ... many would have been very good high school football players.
It's a generation thing, too. This is a Fort Night world now. Football isn't nearly as glamorous as it once was in the high school universe. I'm only 20 years removed from high school but games used to be the social event of the week for the student body. I attend games now with hardly any students even there.
Football is a tough game. Kids get hit and injured. Kids get yelled at a lot. It's very physical. ... kind of the opposite of society today.
It's not for everybody.
The additional sports available today have a huge impact, too. As mentioned, in the old days at some schools there was football -- and, only football. Now, those extra 30 kids are playing different sports rather than just riding pine on Friday nights. Soccer has poached a lot of great athletes ... many would have been very good high school football players.
It's a generation thing, too. This is a Fort Night world now. Football isn't nearly as glamorous as it once was in the high school universe. I'm only 20 years removed from high school but games used to be the social event of the week for the student body. I attend games now with hardly any students even there.
Football is a tough game. Kids get hit and injured. Kids get yelled at a lot. It's very physical. ... kind of the opposite of society today.
It's not for everybody.
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