Weigh In: Trend or Outlier?

[Indndawg]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...20da1aeb507_story.html?utm_term=.d3ebe3d2b260

 

[missouridawg]

I'm not sure it's an iceberg, but it's the start of something. As a parent of 2 boys under the age of 3, I'm certainly hoping that neither of them want to play football. I will definitely encourage baseball, basketball, golf, and soccer.... but if they want to play football, they're going to have to beg for it.

 

[bulldogbaja]

This is why I think MSU needs to find a way to pick up men's soccer right now, and get ahead of the game.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

It's not just parents discouraging it. I spoke to a coach last year just about school and the team and he said it's getting harder and harder to get kids interested in playing. He said basically that they keep their eyes glued to their phones when not in class and stay obsessed with social media.

 

[HumpDawgy]

As long as the cute girls sign up for cheerleading and wear those short skirts, enough guys will want to play on the football team.

 

[00Dawg]

That map says neither.

That map says it's a demographic shift that points to Southern football dominance for the next 20 years.

Honestly, the article seems to say that, too. Oh, and if my 4th grader mentions building her résumé, there will be adjustments to her priorities.

 

[KurtRambis4]

As time passes,

present-day America is slowly turning into the America from "Demolition Man."

 

[Drebin]

present-day America is slowly turning into the America from "Demolition Man."

The more correct analogy is that as time passes, present-day America is turning into the America from "Idiocracy."

 

[horshack.sixpack]

present-day America is slowly turning into the America from "Demolition Man."

But we live in such enlightened times that we don't even need the science of genetics. What could go wrong? BTW, I'm suppressing my outrage that you suggested such a thing as "Man" existed. Insensitive louse!***

 

[mstateglfr]

"A white mother said her son in fourth grade complained he had nothing to put on his résumé."


Well then my oldest daughter is 17d since she just started 5th grade today and doesnt have **** for a resume so far.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I wondered about that too. The school appears to be highly rated in New Jersey - it has an overall A rating according to Niche and is a Top 13 public high school in New Jersey. So maybe it has a really good academic reputation (IOW, better than Briarcrest's) and the parents and children do not want that to be watered down. So what I'm thinking is that there's a neighborhood of academic high achievers who are getting less and less interested in football due to demographics and academics and, yes, CTE-- even if it's not mentioned in the article.

Link to Niche: Here.

 

[Junction John]

Didn't Mullen give some vague answer about his own kids playing football during media days? I remember thinking what an out-of-the-blue question it was, but his answer was a little surprising too.

 

[aerodawg.sixpack]

I feel like this would be less of an issue if they would teach the young kids how to tackle correctly in the first place. I mean in the damn article they linked there is clear evidence of the incompetence of lower level coaches. If I saw some kids practicing tackling with their heads down like that, I would chew the coach's ***.

 

[DerHntr]

It's probably going to be a trend going forward depending on the region of the country. The head injury data is pretty damn hard to look away from.

I don't want my boys to play and it was my favorite sport growing up.

 

[mount lefroy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...20da1aeb507_story.html?utm_term=.d3ebe3d2b260

Outlier. But football still needs to focus on player safety more and more if it expects parents to discount some of the more horrific injuries they see on the news each night.

I mean heat injuries and head injuries mainly.

 

[EurekaDog]

If it came down to the point of fielding flag-football teams rather than

full contact teams, would you watch it? Would you pay to watch it?

 

[amcdan2000]

Trend. $$$ I don't see how some colleges travel. This is the Sesame Street generation coming into power now. Participation trophis for all. South Park Sarcastaball.