Jump to content

RPI for football in FHSAA is official


Joshua Wilson

Recommended Posts

16 minutes ago, gatorman-uf said:

The important part of that story is buried at the end.

"In New Jersey, nearly 1,700 fewer players participated in football in 2017 than in 2016, according to the National Federation of High School Associations’ annual participation survey. The decline of nearly 7 percent dropped New Jersey’s total number of participants to 23,034, the lowest since the state had 24,144 football players in 2003."

This has to be concerning overall for all of football and all sports actually. Professional team owners, professional athletes, coaches, communities have to do more to make kids interested in football/sports as a whole. If they don't, the sport will die. (See baseball). 

Umm baseball is still around you know LMAO

 

It just doesn't have the same national popularity it once did but it is far from being "dead"

Link to comment
Share on other sites


8 minutes ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

Umm baseball is still around you know LMAO

It just doesn't have the same national popularity it once did but it is far from being "dead"

No baseball isn't dead, but it definitely is dying. Baseball no longer commands national attention (barely the World Series outside of the two markets). Even a game against two great teams late in the season barely makes a blip on the national radar. The sport is dying (just like NASCAR and Golf). And sports in general are dying, the audiences are trending older and older and the number of youth players is shrinking and even the interest in sports in general is shrinking by the average fan.

Today's average teenager knows and cares less about sports than they did 10 years ago or 20 years ago. Ask any person in marketing and advertising, you need to get them young. We as a society aren't doing that. Sports are no longer something done for "fun" but rather a lifelong commitment that turns off the average person from playing. Go look at the Little League fields in baseball and watch how many kids play just for fun vs how many kids play so that they can play on the travel teams. At some point, we have to make people fans of the game or the game will die. Baseball, golf, NASCAR all of their audiences are trending up in age. Soon it will become too expensive for the average family to attend a game and too expensive for the average family to participate in the sport for fun.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

30 minutes ago, gatorman-uf said:

The important part of that story is buried at the end.

"In New Jersey, nearly 1,700 fewer players participated in football in 2017 than in 2016, according to the National Federation of High School Associations’ annual participation survey. The decline of nearly 7 percent dropped New Jersey’s total number of participants to 23,034, the lowest since the state had 24,144 football players in 2003."

This has to be concerning overall for all of football and all sports actually. Professional team owners, professional athletes, coaches, communities have to do more to make kids interested in football/sports as a whole. If they don't, the sport will die. (See baseball). 

We are knocking ourselves out, squabbling over which playoff system to use, while the house is on fire.  This is not just happening in New Jersey.  Illinois' participation is down 17% over a few years.  We should be worried about the programs whose numbers are declining and/or who struggle to even be competitive.  Our focus is in the wrong place.       

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

15 minutes ago, gatorman-uf said:

No baseball isn't dead, but it definitely is dying. Baseball no longer commands national attention (barely the World Series outside of the two markets). Even a game against two great teams late in the season barely makes a blip on the national radar. The sport is dying (just like NASCAR and Golf). And sports in general are dying, the audiences are trending older and older and the number of youth players is shrinking and even the interest in sports in general is shrinking by the average fan.

Today's average teenager knows and cares less about sports than they did 10 years ago or 20 years ago. Ask any person in marketing and advertising, you need to get them young. We as a society aren't doing that. Sports are no longer something done for "fun" but rather a lifelong commitment that turns off the average person from playing. Go look at the Little League fields in baseball and watch how many kids play just for fun vs how many kids play so that they can play on the travel teams. At some point, we have to make people fans of the game or the game will die. Baseball, golf, NASCAR all of their audiences are trending up in age. Soon it will become too expensive for the average family to attend a game and too expensive for the average family to participate in the sport for fun.

The RPI is a prime example of our problem in sports.  Everything has to be taken to an extreme.  Nothing is "good enough."  Now one needs a computer and a PhD to be a coach.   I can only imagine where we will be in 10 years after the "experts" have made multiple revisions to the RPI in their fanatical quest for perfection.  We're not designing a nuclear reactor, folks.  We're talking about a game with a funny-lookin ball. 

The average high school football player that made the game great over the years was always just that...average...just another kid...a kid who played for the fun of it and didn't want things too complicated because he had other priorities in his life.  We've made high school sports bigger than life.  That's fine for the superstar athletes and the hardcore junkies like us...but it's a turnoff for the average kid and average parent.  And there are a LOT more of them than the former.  Not everyone wants life that complicated and intense...nor is that level of intensity always healthy.  

Are all of the wondrous improvements in sports today (like RPI systems), making kids truly happy...or just more stressed out?  Check out the stats on teen depression and suicide for the answer.  More than ever, kids and adults today need less complexity in their lives.  Our focus should be on the happiness of our kids in sports, not our obsessions as adults.  Some of what I see today seems like an OCD exercise by folks with too much time on their hands to think about the next best mousetrap.     

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...


  • Posts

    • I feel like y'all are always solid so I don't see y'all going no worse than 7-3. Biggest question mark for Cocoa is their O-line since they are only returning 1 and on the defensive side they only return their blue chip edge in their front 7 
    • Coach Wiseman, let me just preface this by saying that you were the best HC Sarasota's program has had in the last 20+ years. You brought them from being a perpetual losing program to the doorstep of competing with Venice for a district title and a deep playoff run. SHS will curse the day they fired you now that they are back in a rut. You are a true class act, and nothing will ever convince me otherwise.  Our backfield is certainly sparse right now. We do have Dorian Jones, a rising sophomore runningback whom did considerably well considering his limited playing time last season. Our offense will need an overhaul with the graduation of 3 offensive linemen and almost our entire receiving corps. Our defensive line will be strong with the return of Ke'shawn Vaughn, Elijah Jones, and Asharri Charles. Our linebacking corps graduates virtually everybody but should have at least one bright spot with the return of Ben Zarkawiecz. Our defensive backfield is still a work in progress with the graduation of Lester and Platt. At the moment, we have more question marks than exclamation points. And that's not a good feeling with the kind of competition Venice is going to face. 
    • It's possible that they find their stride by week 5, but at the moment we just don't have the on-paper talent to compete with teams like Miami NW, IMG National, Cocoa, or Bishop Verot. If Venice can find a way to go 7-3 with that schedule I would be happy
    • Ocala Vanguard https://x.com/VanguardFB/status/1772951193179840761?s=20
    • Just wait till spring is over and the top RB in the area will take his talent to 1 Indian Ave. 
  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...