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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Football is so unpopular now that our football powerhouse HS takes every kid and could use more. 15 years ago, there were try outs that cut 1/2 the kids.

Best the top 5 kids on M or F soccer teams at our school is really hard. Ditto swimming and track/cc and basketball. Football?  Nope.

Yet, colleges need more FB players than swimmers or soccer players. [/quote]

Then your school isn’t a football powerhouse.  In Baltimore, we have Spalding and Saint Francis.  But as has been said numerous times in this thread, the South and Midwest continue to produce tons of football playing kids.[/quote]

So can anyone explain why Ivy and similar D1-III football programs are so much smaller and worse than the other D1 teams?

[b]Princeton basketball made it to the sweet 16 two years ago so they could hang against Power 5 teams.

However, Princeton football would never play a Power 5 football team due to risk of serious injury to multiple players.[/b]

Clearly there is a disconnect between who gets recruited to those teams vs all the kids across the country that play football.[/quote]
5 v 5 and 22 v 22. Easier in hoops to get 1 or 2 players to make it competitive. [/quote]

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