OT: Shrinking high school football rosters

[Pitt79]

WPIAL (and therefore the PIAA) have boys lacrosse in the spring.

My bad I meant to say SPRING.

 

[Pitt79]

There was a thread earlier this year in which Fairview in Erie County forfeited a game. Fairview while not the size of North Allegheny, is a solid 3A (not playing up) and is probably one of the more affluent suburbs of Erie.

Football is becoming more and more like boxing. The poorer kids will play because it is a path to college. The rich, white suburbanites don't have to.

Nobody just does it because they like it anymore? Everything is just a calculation for the future? I busted my ass playing HS football, purely because I liked doing it and wanted to do it, I pretty much knew the entire time that I wasn't getting a scholarship and that I wasn't going to play in college.

 

[BFo8]

Are homeschoolers allowed to tryout for their local team now? I new a kid that wanted to play 5-6 years ago but the city of Pittsburgh, the school district or the school itself said no. The school in question had no difficulty fielding teams.

I think all sports are seeing this in varying degreed. I have family in one of the fastest growing and biggest districts in GA. They've doubled in size in 10 years and now approach 500 in a graduating class. Their sports teams jave gone from mediocre to very good in all sports yet their participation numbers for all are only slightly higher and they have to recruit from their own student body to get kids out. They are also pretty open about recruiting (mildly) from other districts. I don't think that is seen negatively down there.

Going back a few years obviously, but Jason Taylor was home schooled and allowed to play for WH.

 

[HOF Coach]

Again, these are PLAYOFF GAMES...

 

[pittdan77]

Meyersdale still has a HS program

Meyersdale does have a program with good numbers. But they also take kids from a smaller school that doesn’t have their own program. Berlin does the same. Do you understand now?

My bad. I misread an article a while back. I went and found it and realized my error. Sorry.