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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boys already have football. What are you adding to balance volleyball for girls? Title IX is still a thing [/quote]

+1. These parents and kids have been going to meeting after meeting about this with no comments about the Title IX issue. [/quote]

I’m not familiar with Title IX but when looking at the list of fall sports, there are more girl sports than boy sports.[/quote]

Number of sports isn't the issue, it's the number of slots and the funding. Football is both huge and expensive [/quote]

Our football team has banners, private trainers who come onsite to do speed/agility, free meals, and a huge "tunnel" that only they get to use. It's ridiculous.

Meanwhile, we had out of state HS tournaments for our girls team and had to drive individually b/c we didn't have the budget for a bus. [/quote]

I suspect your school's football team has thousands of people in attendance, where the girls sport your kid might just break 100 people.

I attend football games because my kid is on one of the supporting performance groups at the home games.

Not only are there football parents in attendance paying admission, but there are marching band families (in the hundreds), choir families (a couple dozen), cheerleading families (a hundred or so), dance team families (around a hundred).

There are thousands of students in attendance, not just high school kids but tons of middle school kids and elementary kids.

They host events during the season for younger kids. For example, at pyramid night all the K-8th football players from local league run on the firled with the team, the choir sings the anthem with any interested K-8th grader in the feeder schools, the marching band invites the middle schoolers to join in the spirit band, and the dance team hosts a performance for interested elementary kids at half time.  This event brings in easily a 1000 additional people paying admission, because little kid performances come in tow with siblings and grandparents.

At our weekly football games, there are alumni, teachers, young families without kids in high school looking for an easy, cheap, family friendly weekend event, and lots of old people and senior citizens trying to support the local school.

I am not a fan of football, but it is undeniable that high school football brings the most community members back into the school and makes them feel like part of the community.  The only other events that even come close in outside community support and attendance are the big spring musicals and the homecoming parade.   Basketball has a big audience,  but it is mostly students and not as many community members.  Track might be close due to the sheer number of kids involved, but I think that track has far fewer "community" members attending than football.

Those of you complaining about Friday night lights getting the most attention are forgetting or ignoring how well attended those games are and how much money they bring in to the school.  I don't have sports kids so I am not privy to the booster financial records, but I would bet that the football ticket and concession revenue brings in far more, and perhaps many times more revenue for the sports booster clubs than all of the other sports combined.  You would have to willfully ignore your own eyes not to see this.
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To be fair, Friday night lights is also more than the football team. Ours also has the Marching Band, Cheerleaders, and Dance Team perform. Which brings in lots more supporters for those groups.

IfI wonder if other sports started also having the Marching Band, Cheerleaders and Dance Team perform - would those attendance numbers go up?

Let's be honest, football is the moneymaking sport at 99% of all schools and funds other programs. But given the large rosters across 3 teams, it also demands a lot of players. 
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