High school cancels football season due to low turn out.

Make Lacrosse a fall sport so it doesn't take away good sprint and field athletes from the T&F teams.

Sand Dunes wrote:

Progress, we just need to have marketing to make running manly again. Not something overweight middle aged house wives do.

This might have been meant as a joke, but it is absolutely true. We need to make running cool again.

Lacrosse wrote:

Make Lacrosse a fall sport so it doesn't take away good sprint and field athletes from the T&F teams.

I don't really know much about lacrosse but have seen it played. You dress like an ice hockey player from the waist up and a soccer player from the waist down. You run around on a field with big sticks and smack people with them all the while trying to put a ball in the net.

Yeah, I'd say move lacrosse to the Fall to free up some people that want to sprint without getting hit in the head, arms, hands, by someone with a big stick.

Justturnedlefts wrote:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Virginia-High-School-Cancels-Varsity-Football-Season-490601891.html

With this happening more and more, how can we make cross country and track more popular for these kids?

Notice the county that this happened in... They already have a few good xc teams around and one that is really good.

They might all be bald and have crooked teeth, but they are on to something with Parkrun.

Possible sporting events to replace traditional American high school football:

Active shooter obstacle course.

Cell phone zombie tag team.

Non- judgemental full participatory Snowflake uninspired lazy diversity kickball.

For inner city schools:

Team graffiti.

Flash mob vandalism.

M.A.G.A...

Highschool wrote:

This might have been meant as a joke, but it is absolutely true. We need to make running cool again.

Running used to be cool???

It's Hip To Be Square wrote:

Highschool wrote:

This might have been meant as a joke, but it is absolutely true. We need to make running cool again.

Running used to be cool???

Yes, for a brief time in the early to mid-70s, after Shorter won the Olympic marathon, The Complete Book of Running was a bestseller and Nikes were worn everywhere.

Sand Dunes wrote:

Progress, we just need to have marketing to make running manly again. Not something overweight middle aged house wives do.

Forget it. These gol durn kids today would rather play Fortnite, guzzle Red Bull and eat Cheetos after school.

SJWHippie wrote:

It's Hip To Be Square wrote:

Running used to be cool???

Yes, for a brief time in the early to mid-70s, after Shorter won the Olympic marathon, The Complete Book of Running was a bestseller and Nikes were worn everywhere.

Nah, I was there sporting my leather Nike Cortez's. It wasn't cool. Even when I got the newest Nike Waffle it still wasn't cool.

In schools with certain, uhm, demographics, football does not take kids from CC, soccer does. Doesn't matter what season soccer is played, in today's world every sport is pretty much year round, with travel teams and all - at least for the good players.

This happened in my high school when I ran xcountry and track back in the (ahem) 70’s.

the cross country team needs to be good. the coach needs to turn his athletes into champions. if there is a culture of success in the high school's cross country program, it will attract kids who might otherwise play soccer. if the cross country team sucks, promising athletes will choose other sports

wiz khalifa wrote:

the cross country team needs to be good. the coach needs to turn his athletes into champions. if there is a culture of success in the high school's cross country program, it will attract kids who might otherwise play soccer. if the cross country team sucks, promising athletes will choose other sports

The best coaching in the world won't turn no talent into a champion.

Highschool wrote:

Sand Dunes wrote:

Progress, we just need to have marketing to make running manly again. Not something overweight middle aged house wives do.

This might have been meant as a joke, but it is absolutely true. We need to make running cool again.

"Again"? Was it ever cool?

Not even a little bit wrote:

Highschool wrote:

This might have been meant as a joke, but it is absolutely true. We need to make running cool again.

"Again"? Was it ever cool?

Well I was born 30 years after it was supposedly "cool", so I was just going off of what I had read and heard.

wiz khalifa wrote:

the cross country team needs to be good. the coach needs to turn his athletes into champions. if there is a culture of success in the high school's cross country program, it will attract kids who might otherwise play soccer. if the cross country team sucks, promising athletes will choose other sports

Nah, you got that all backa$$wards! We're talking about High School XC and a successful program. Kids that are very good in soccer, upper tier Select and ODP type players started playing soccer when they were around 3-5 years old. By the time they get even close to High School the farthest thing on their mind is XC regardless how successful the XC program is if they are still playing high level soccer. A kid is not going to decide to go play competitive soccer when they are 14 years old as that ship has sailed a few years ago. What XC and T&F gets is the kids that can't make it in soccer anymore, as well as other sports, and have been "cut". That's when XC and T&F opens up to them.

@whiz wrote:

wiz khalifa wrote:

the cross country team needs to be good. the coach needs to turn his athletes into champions. if there is a culture of success in the high school's cross country program, it will attract kids who might otherwise play soccer. if the cross country team sucks, promising athletes will choose other sports

The best coaching in the world won't turn no talent into a champion.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work.

SJWHippie wrote:

Yes, for a brief time in the early to mid-70s, after Shorter won the Olympic marathon, The Complete Book of Running was a bestseller and Nikes were worn everywhere.

Nikes weren't even known by anyone except for a small contingent of runners.

Although mostly good points, this isn't always 100% true. I was a club player, started at 4 years old, and would have likely been at least a starting JV soccer player my Soph year of HS at very large school. But one thing did happen for me, I lettered in track my freshman year and our XC team had just finished 5th in the state the previous year. So I actually did make the conscious decision to switch to XC and never looked back (won a team title my Sr year). Who knows if I would have done that if my HS wasn't a perrenial power in XC???