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Post by gccwolverine on Jan 4, 2019 7:20:14 GMT -6
Casino at MN is going to be a $ h i t show..... Also the the hotel said you can't bring in your own soda pops and that they have right to search coolers.... thats not going to go over well with 5,000 football coaches. I have heard the same but am most concerned with having 7 coaches sitting at black jack tables for 18 hours a day... Ehh only live once... split and double aggressively!
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Post by gccwolverine on Dec 12, 2018 13:02:11 GMT -6
why play any games then? Let's just shut the whole thing down (no more games) so that way we assure we aren't exploiting anyone. The best solution would be a minor league system where they can play (with pay) from 18-21 and develop skills under the tutoring of NFL-style coaches and schemes. Would stop NFL coaches from complaining that college kids don't get coached to play in the NFL and would make professional football look like other leagues (MLB, NHL). not the best solution. 250ish kids a year get drafted that's it and even fewer make it to a roster. Just because a portion of college scholarship players can't see a path to extracting value out of the educational opportunities provided to them, doesn't mean we should blow up the system for those individuals, in great number, who benefit from the system as it is. There are dudes out there majoring in aeronautical engineering, architecture, computer science, whatever else... and getting great lifetime value from their deal as it is. Let's not blow that up so a few guys can make 75K a year for 4 years until they may or may not become good enough to be draft eligible. The best solution is keep the system as is - expand cost of attendance stipends - allow student athletes to retain rights to their name and the ability to profit off of it - allow them to sign autographs and sell memorabilia - and provide life time medical and life time educational scholarship opportunities It's not anyone but Rasahd Mccants fault that he didn't take his educational opportunities seriously and took joke classes at UNC
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Post by gccwolverine on Dec 12, 2018 11:27:59 GMT -6
Side note-- the number of players sitting out of bowl games this year has reached double digits. Good for those kids. I hope it continues to be an issue for the NCAA. why play any games then? Let's just shut the whole thing down (no more games) so that way we assure we aren't exploiting anyone.
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Post by gccwolverine on Dec 5, 2018 8:52:09 GMT -6
I think it's absolutely absurd to assume that OP isn't prioritizing school because he's miffed that a kid wanted to miss an essential part of summer practice for AP classes. The kid probably wanted to use that time to do his summer homework, which was assigned well before the end of the school year. That's how AP works. The kid procrastinated and then wanted to miss practice to cover for it is what it seems like. I'd be miffed about that too, and I'm all in on the classroom. Regardless, the kid showed where his priorities lie. Probably Fortnite. I think its ABSURD to get mad at a kid for putting his future and education before football. Want to know a reason why football numbers are down, its because of coaches that get mad at kids for doing whats right for their future and not yours. Kid made the right choice, you can rationalize it all you want, but the kid was right and so was his parents. Your won loss record isnt important to the future of the kid. why even practice then? Let's just cancel everything we can throw the extra 2+ hours into academics or procrastination of academics just show up on Friday's roll the ball out and run around and just have fun and sing kumbyyah
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 21, 2018 10:09:48 GMT -6
1. I think its a terrible rule 2. Idk what else to tell a kid whose giving 80 pounds up to a kid coming to try and knock hi head off and I cant sit there with a straight fface and tell him to take it on standing up and wrong arm it 3. Sometimes its not called So we're going to cut his ass down until the officials actually show us they are willing to make that call. Since you're threatening my player's health, by cutting him when he has no reason to think that he should be cut, I'm teaching my guy to land with his full weight on your guy. Personally, if it was me, I'd land with something sharp, like a knee or elbow but it wouldn't be ethical to teach that. You want to talk about health? How safe is it to tell a 155 LB OSL that he has to stand on his own to feet while a 280 LB guard comes from distance and attempts to run through his face? Missed matched head collisions are 10x more dangerous than a guy getting chopped down. The rule should be changed and I won't change my philosophy on coaching it. "Cut their asses down ….. until we get flagged"
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 21, 2018 1:56:04 GMT -6
I didn't know that was against the rules. What rule are you defensive players breaking? I'm not being an a$$. I honestly don't know. Cant block below the waist unless both players,and the ball, are still in the Free blocking zone. 1. I think its a terrible rule 2. Idk what else to tell a kid whose giving 80 pounds up to a kid coming to try and knock hi head off and I cant sit there with a straight fface and tell him to take it on standing up and wrong arm it 3. Sometimes its not called So we're going to cut his ass down until the officials actually show us they are willing to make that call.
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 20, 2018 22:02:19 GMT -6
We teach out LBers and SS types to cut the legs of OL coming to kick them out. It's a rule violation, I know it is, IDC tell them you cut them down and spill the ball until we get flagged if we get flagged from there on we have to take it on standing up to spill it. It's what's best for our kids and it's what's best for undersized LB's and SS's who are being kicked out by OL's they are giving 80 pounds up too.
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 18, 2018 22:06:37 GMT -6
If youre acceptimg the penalty you better be going pass pass if you take it and run it on 3rd down you should be fired. seriously? pass for 2 consecutive plays, im debating firing myself with that thinking. if you cant get 2 yards running the ball on both plays, then you should be fired. run the ball on 3rd, and with some success, run it again, stuffed at the line, play action pass. but no chance in hell im calling back to back best passes. and I like to throw the ball!!!!! all honesty, im taking my 4th down chance on under a yard, best player the ball in his hands, somehow. toss sweep, jet sweep, power, counter, zone read, triple option, dart, buck sweep, counter criss cross, power read, something with the best in our program with the ball, get me my 1 yard. run where they aint! Its math guy. 1 play at 18 inches or 2 plays at 4 yards. You need to run the ball for 2 yards a play in option 2 and only need to run it for 1.5 feet a play in option 1. If you back it up you have to throw the ball based purely on math otherwise just keep it where it was and run the ball.
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 16, 2018 5:22:30 GMT -6
If youre acceptimg the penalty you better be going pass pass if you take it and run it on 3rd down you should be fired.
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 15, 2018 14:08:38 GMT -6
I didn't speak it clearly because I was referencing Illinois and Michigan counting the wins of your entire schedule. I shouldn't have used the word ONLY. Ohio has whats called level 1 points for YOUR wins based on the size of the school you beat. Then level 2 points based on the wins of the teams you beat. The point was they don't get any points for scheduling a 10-0 team and then losing the game. And you get very little reward for beating a 1-9 team in the level 2 points but you do get some in the level 1. In Ohio you want to beat teams of equal or greater classifications who beat teams of equal or greater classifications. It prevents scheduling down and playing just the little sister of the poor. Generally as you look through the Ohio playoff teams in each classification you find that they 1. have at least 1 or 2 quality wins on their schedule and 2. very rarely do you find a team without a winning record every once in a while you might see a smaller school team who played a ridiculous schedule get in at 3-7 or 4-6 I believe Youngstown Ursuline did this one year and maybe went on to win it all becuase what they saw in the regular season was 15x better than anyone they played in the tournament.
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 1, 2018 21:30:19 GMT -6
plenty..... Win games against teams of equal or larger size that win games. That 9-1 "conference champ" could be a D3 school - 3rd largest classification in a league with a bunch of D4 and D5 schools who aren't any good and didn't win any games. While that 6-4 team could be a D7 school smallest classification in a league with all D5's who won a ton of games. with 32 teams getting in generally if you've won 9 or 8 games your pretty much in. But I think this system does the best job of - 1 making every game on the schedule count and 2 - getting the best teams in - beat teams equal to or greater than your size who beat teams. You shouldn't be rewarded for playing scaboochies. Also you only get points for game you've won or your opponent won. You get don't get credit for losses. And it makes every game in the season matter. I can't stand district play where potentially only 5 games of your season actually matter. How you do you unschedule conference games? You don't and can't but Schools in Ohio are free to form their own leagues or conferences or not join a league or conference they aren't forced to played in state determined districts or regions. It allows teams to control their own schedule and league affiliation. All 10 games on a schedule shouls matter not just 5 or 6 district region or league games.
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 1, 2018 12:50:15 GMT -6
I think Ohio does an okay job with the playoff system. It is not perfect but you get rewarded from playing bigger schools and schools that win games. Sure some teams try to load up on cupcakes early, but if they don't win games it doesn't really help you. For instance, we beat a D1 team (largest divison) when we were D4 and it ended up not helping us as much because the team ended up having a really crappy year even though we thought they should be able to be around .500 at worse. Yes there have been 4-6 teams to make the playoffs and make runs but those teams are generally playing murderous schedules so it's a bit more palatable. www.ohsaa.org/sports/ft/boys/rankcalc.htm9-1 Conference Champ sitting at home because they are ranked lower in their region...than a 6-4 team that did not win their conference? What sense does that make? plenty..... Win games against teams of equal or larger size that win games. That 9-1 "conference champ" could be a D3 school - 3rd largest classification in a league with a bunch of D4 and D5 schools who aren't any good and didn't win any games. While that 6-4 team could be a D7 school smallest classification in a league with all D5's who won a ton of games. with 32 teams getting in generally if you've won 9 or 8 games your pretty much in. But I think this system does the best job of - 1 making every game on the schedule count and 2 - getting the best teams in - beat teams equal to or greater than your size who beat teams. You shouldn't be rewarded for playing scaboochies. Also you only get points for game you've won or your opponent won. You get don't get credit for losses. And it makes every game in the season matter. I can't stand district play where potentially only 5 games of your season actually matter.
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Post by gccwolverine on Nov 1, 2018 12:46:45 GMT -6
I think Ohio does an okay job with the playoff system. It is not perfect but you get rewarded from playing bigger schools and schools that win games. Sure some teams try to load up on cupcakes early, but if they don't win games it doesn't really help you. For instance, we beat a D1 team (largest divison) when we were D4 and it ended up not helping us as much because the team ended up having a really crappy year even though we thought they should be able to be around .500 at worse. Yes there have been 4-6 teams to make the playoffs and make runs but those teams are generally playing murderous schedules so it's a bit more palatable. www.ohsaa.org/sports/ft/boys/rankcalc.htmI'm from Ohio, been in OK, IL, and now GA. Ohio is the best system I've seen or come to know about anywhere. District play for you states that do that SUCKS.
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Post by gccwolverine on Sept 24, 2018 12:32:27 GMT -6
Yes..... No one swears in the real world.
Time and place, time and place.
If you consider HS athletics an extension of the classroom as many administrators and parents do, profanity is hard to defend.
And if they want to get rid of you for whatever reason, using foul language gives them a justification.
I agree with all of this. Time and place absolutely... and sometimes in the heat of the competition a human being might let one fly. Just like on a job site, or at work out of anger or frustration with the situation people in everyday life might let one fly. I let one go 2 weeks ago during a generally {censored} {censored} defensive session on a Tuesday. We couldn't set the front correctly all of a sudden for some reason. The front is literally "Bench" set the darn thing to the short side of the field or (the bench). I can't make it any easier. So I snapped let a word fly, our superintendent whose son is on the team and watches practice everyday was in his usual spot. I was worried. HC said to me, "he's out here everyday he knows how you interact with the kids everyday, he knows that's not an everyday occurrence and you aren't out here cussing kids out. You're fine."
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Post by gccwolverine on Sept 24, 2018 10:48:29 GMT -6
newhope I'm not in favor of using profanity ("Potty Mouth" to kids) or losing one's poise in the heat of battle, players or coaches. Or even at practice for that matter. HS sports are supposed to be educational. I do think ejection and suspension for part of next game is extreme. But that is also one of those things you have to coach against - like any other penalty. Agreed. A kid in my one of my classes ended up with two write-ups and a day of in-school suspension for swearing in class within the first two weeks in school. We're just as hard on the kids for swearing during practice as they have to understand that it's not acceptable in the real world. The kid I wrote up was furious until I told him "You let loose with an f-bomb twice in class and you get ISS, I let do that twice and I end up fired." I do believe that the ejections and suspensions are over the top but it is what it is. Yes..... No one swears in the real world.
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Post by gccwolverine on Sept 14, 2018 9:32:02 GMT -6
Ok.... because literally every kickoff is this. A returner with a full sprint and cover man with a full sprint more than 20 yards apart and a come to balance high impact collision. Again I don't like the drill in fact I hate it I think you can accomplish something similar in a better way. But this uproar of this is the absolute worst thing anyone'sever seen is absurd as well. Multiple kids are going to be in this exact position tonight all across the country. But this isn’t true. Some might be similar. But how many times is it a pure straight on tackle and the returner tries to run the guy over instead of make him miss? More than zero which is the point I'm trying to make. How safe is a kid if he's got a guy barreling down on him from 20 yards away and the runner decides nah we aren't going for the make him miss here we're going through him, and the kids never ever been in that position before? Football is the only activity in the world where we now all of a sudden expect a kid or player to get better by doing the skills and tasks necessary for success less. I don't like the drill (hell we rarely tackle people but we get a million reps at it), my rant is more so on the continued limited contact, limited time, limited time in pads rules that are shoveled upon us. Guess what..... you want kids to better safer tacklers making the game safer? THEN THEY HAVE TO TACKLE! How are we making kids safer if the first time they are in a situation is a 8:35 pm on 1 of the 10 Friday's throughout the year? The people that are writing the rules haven't figured that out. We'll play a back next Friday that is 230 lbs he had a offer from Auburn as a Freshman he's a freaking beast he will have angles on safeties and DB's multiple times in games I've broken down and he won't take them infact he'll turn and make a B-line to initiate contact by going through a safeties face. My message to our kids next week will be PROTECT yourself, and we will drill and drill and drill the heck out of it because The kid's first time having it happen can't be Friday night in the 2nd quarter when the RB breaks loose.
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Post by gccwolverine on Sept 14, 2018 9:06:39 GMT -6
No I don't think this scenario takes place multiple times in games. Maybe once a season. I haven't seen one anything like this in a game ever that I can remember. That is over the last 15 seasons. Ok.... because literally every kickoff is this. A returner with a full sprint and cover man with a full sprint more than 20 yards apart and a come to balance high impact collision. Again I don't like the drill in fact I hate it I think you can accomplish something similar in a better way. But this uproar of this is the absolute worst thing anyone'sever seen is absurd as well. Multiple kids are going to be in this exact position tonight all across the country.
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Post by gccwolverine on Sept 14, 2018 7:16:26 GMT -6
For the record I think this drill is absurd, I wouldn't run it, not like this, not full speed, not person vs person and certainly not everyday. But are we saying that a kid is never in this position in a game? A kid is never asked to make a full speed head on profile tackle with the ball carrier coming at him like this? A safety never has to cover down from 10-15 yards deep with a back hitting a hole full speed right at him? Kickoff doesn't present this very scenario multiple times a game? Again this drill is silly, I wouldn't do it, I wouldn't run it like this, We'd employ a bag or a tackle wheel or thud it up at contact or any number of alternatives, but Football seems to be the only thing in the world where we expect people to get better and safer by doing the fundamental tasks of the activity less and less.
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Post by gccwolverine on Sept 11, 2018 11:16:58 GMT -6
DO NOT........ DO NOT...... DO FREAKING NOT PLAY A DEFENSE OF THE WEEK. EVER!
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Post by gccwolverine on Sept 11, 2018 11:03:18 GMT -6
Why do most OCs sub players themselves but position coaches sub plays on defense? The personnel on defense determines what we call just as much as it does on offense. I'm the DC.... I Sub my DBs both corners are major O players so the 3rd corner is basically a starter for us rotating between which guy he's giving a break too. I sub our LB's as our LB guy is in the box on the set with me, we do it through communication. Our long time DL coach has always "subbed" his DL and when I say that its been basically put his first 4 out there and then forget about them until they are dead. At the beginning of the year when I took over as DC we sat down and had a conversation that we need 6-8 guys rolling at the DL position and that the personnel that was in the game was going to have a major impact in what type of calls I feel we can make and play especially early on. We chat before and between every series about who I want out there and he now does a much better job of keeping them rolling in and out during series. I create a call sheet each which with our defensive calls, our "depth chart by position" - guys that matter and will factor in to the game when it is still a game, and note and reminders for me and for our kids in our pregame meeting. Coordinators should handle and approve all subs - position coaches once they have an understanding of what the coordinator wants and expects should then be able to take it over and communicate who is rolling in and out.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 24, 2018 8:58:35 GMT -6
I've been on some really good ones and it makes the job way better and coming to work a joy. The one I'm on now is not so great, the male ego, while being a driving force behind the advancement of human civilization, can be a PITA when it comes to football staffs. We are at a place where the kids are awesome and most seasons you will be competitive-good, most of the coaches are from here, they ain't leaving, and all of them pretty much feel like they should be coordinators....so issues arise, it's a shame too, they are good guys individually, but they have broken up into little factions like we're on an a season of survivor or something. oh well It's the other way here. The guys that are from here are just guys on staff, they have no desire to do anything above show up on Friday nights and the bare minimum monday-friday. We play today, first game, 3 of them haven't seen a clip of practice film all summer. But they are "coaches."
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 23, 2018 13:00:07 GMT -6
Maybe I take this for granted, but one of the BEST parts of coaching is the fraternity of our staff. Now, we've been together since 2007, so maybe that has something to do with it. We've had awesome teams, average teams, and teams that won 3 games, but through it all, it is really enjoyable to have guys who share the same values, set their egos aside, really care about the kids, and sacrifice for football. I could not imagine a staff where we didn't hang out after games until 2 am, get together in the offseason for meetings/chill time, yell at officials at basketball games, EPIC clinic adventures, etc........ It just wouldn't be as fun. So many of the guys I played with in college are coordinators (even HC's) now, but the situation is sooooo good where I am at, I have no problem coaching DT's and OL for the next 3 decades. So my question is: Is it rare to have such a strong bond with the guys I coach with? If everyone has invested the same sweat equity into it the bond is strong. If they haven't the bond doesn't become as strong. There's 5 guys on our staff I'm really close with 4 I'm not. the 5 are the workers, the film watchers, the doers, the coachers. The 4 are just there stealing a check.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 23, 2018 12:52:51 GMT -6
We don't get a penny extra. So I guess its just what you are used to. How do you ask guys to work 30-40 hours a week for free? Shouldnt there be some sort of consideration for reducing what they do. I know in West Lake TX, they dont even ask their assistant coaches to come in. We don't get paid for the summer. Some places around us have 11 month contracts for coordinators and the HC some bigger places give the entire a staff an extra month and the HC a 12 monther. It just varies. We do about 12 hours a week in the summer June and July with a week off in July. I never look at my check as - Teacher pay + football stipend + baseball stipend + summer pay (which is nonexistent). I simply look at it as I'm paid about 54K a year to do the job (all things in included, year round). I don't look at is a fragmented deal where there's a bill paying gig and a side gig. It's all one gig that's just part of it. If we for some reason were to lose consistently we'd be gone and I wouldn't just lose my stipends. I'd be looking to try and replace the whole check. Administration came in last year and gave everyone on the staff 1K more a year and coordinators 1500 more. Small, in the grand scheme means nothing but it's nice to be at a place that makes you feel valued. I was once at a place that paid assistant coaches for like 15 hours a week in the summer at a minimum wage rate. Again small amount but felt good to have a little extra. New super came in in year 2 and turned that place into a hell hole to be at. Mass exodus everywhere. Those who stayed did not become champions.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 21, 2018 12:33:12 GMT -6
In my state, Virginia, there's no rule about helmet decals. That said, unless you have a reason for not giving everybody a decal (We gave decals as a reward for passing the fitness test) I have to think that it can't help team unity to have some kids not get decals. His reason is he ran out - he's ordering more. It literally says exactly that in his post.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 19, 2018 23:09:01 GMT -6
If coaching football is your life, you need to reevaluate your life IMO. I'd rather have coaching football be my life than selling cars, or being a tellemarketer, or working in a facotry or pretty much anyother gig in the world. I'm absolutely certain I'd be absolutely miserable doing anything else with my life. No reason to reevaluate here.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 17, 2018 12:47:42 GMT -6
When you have 30 total 9-12 you have no choice. Could be like us and our freshmen are our varsity. Only half kidding. THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT! Forgive me my LB's coach has me on this new kick of trying to find the positive in everything because I've been a miserable pissed off at the world grouch first year DC for the past 2 weeks. We can't play soon enough.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 17, 2018 12:26:03 GMT -6
I think every DC alive says that and here's why- Sometimes you plan to bring a blitz against a certain play in practice because you want to see how badly it leaves you exposed should you happen to call it during a game and they happen to call the right play. You run it in practice, they expose it, the HC or scout team OC lose their minds and you say you won't be in that defense in a game. Could be worse, I worked with a DC who did the opposite- he would draw up scout O play calls that were perfect for his D to look successful (he was the HC too so it was almost like he was trying to justify to everyone how well his stuff worked, so that if it failed it wasn't his fault). I can think of multiple times seeing kids get concussed while running toss into his CB blitz, or similar type plays. I try to script 20 plays of Team D a day about 5 of those plays I want the perfect call against them, about 10 of them I want base D, and about 5 of them I try and purposefully put us in bad spots where I as a coach make a bad call because it's going to happen on a Friday night, and I let my kids know that..... like bringing 2 off the edge vs RB swing so that the SS has to peel off his blitz and go match him ect. ect.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 15, 2018 12:39:07 GMT -6
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 13, 2018 5:31:15 GMT -6
The school population is 74% Hispanic. Also, as Jerry said, they're a smaller school in an area loaded with state powers. And the football players transferred out. So this has nothing to do with concussions, cte, fortnite, girls, wussification of America, Trump, Obama, Stormy, or coaching. It just is what it is. As is almost always the case..... The sky is not falling, now someone tell chicken little.... I mean Larrymoe.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 11, 2018 18:27:47 GMT -6
Jesus Christ football isn't dying. More college programs football existed last year than at any other time in football history. I believe the number will increase this year as well. The sky is not falling just because someone feels a rain drop. Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, numbers continue to plummet around the nation at the HS and youth level. You realize you're and hs numbers in all sports are declining right? It's kind of like when the talking heads on ESPN say the NFL is in trouble because ratings are falling. Well no, ratings are falling everywhere because people don't watch TV anymore and the #1 rated show on TV across all nights is still NFL football. There were more colleges who fielded football programs in this country than ever before last year.
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