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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tackle football is by far the most participated HS male sport according to NFHS which regulates HS sports.  The idea that it is dying comical.  The largest event that 99% of all HS hold are home football games.  The money brought in from football in almost the entire athletic budget at most places.  Football isn’t going anywhere because without it HS sports can’t survive.[/quote]

Try to keep up.  Clearly you live in a 30 year old bubble.  Most football gains are now coming from flag football, especially due to girls:

https://nfhs.org/stories/participation-in-high-school-sports-tops-eight-million-for-first-time-in-2023-24

Flag football is dominating social media.  It’s a sport that can be played coed, thereby doubling the commercial value of the future market.  It is much faster, with far less delays.  Anyone with a shred of intelligence is ditching tackle football because it is horrific for young, developing brains.  Tackle football is a dying sport.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/football-participation-decline-politics-demographics/[/quote]

You must be right. I am watching 100,000 people in LSU’s stadium playing against Florida. The stadium is stuffed to the limit. LSU (inexplicably for warm Louisiana) has an indoor track facility a half mile away from the stadium. Maybe that is where the flag football game is being played.

From an economic standpoint there likely is no greater GDP producing event in the state (except for Super Bowl years). In case one wonders whether LSU is idiosyncratic Bryant Denny in Tuscaloosa was stuffed to the gills today too against mediocre Wisconsin. And even a team with limited attendance like Georgia Tech had a full stadium against. There are very draws like top level NCAA football.

One of the reasons the SEC is so good is that the best youth athletes in the south opt for pee wee football. They aren’t throwing the discus. The big time linemen who have size typically played the skill positions in pre wee football, and become unusually fast and agile. This starts at a young age.

By the way I am a former NCAA All American D1 guy and have lots of concerns over the corrupting factors in big time college football. In many ways not a fan. But my grandfather was a pro football player and it is in my blood. Flag football is fun, but college football isn’t going away. [/quote]

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