Survive declining interest, Cap'n. The decline has been going on for a decade.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/201...0dc4687540
I was astounded to read that schools in North Carolina were being forced to give up varsity football because not enough kids came out for the team. I always thought that football was even more important than religion in the south.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/201...0dc4687540
Quote:By any measure in the National Federation of High School Associations' athletic participation survey -- the most comprehensive annual study of youth sports participation in the United States -- football is nearing a decade of decline. A few numbers from the 2017-18 NFHS survey, released in August (numbers are aggregated after they are reported by NFHS' state athletic association members that oversee high school sports):
- The number of 11-player football participants is down 6.5 percent from its peak in 2009-10 -- to 1,039,079 at 14,079 schools during the 2017-18 season from a top of 1,110,527 at 14,226 schools. The number of girls in 11-player football has nearly doubled during that time, but that's only to 2,237 players, not nearly enough to make up for 72,436 fewer boys.
I was astounded to read that schools in North Carolina were being forced to give up varsity football because not enough kids came out for the team. I always thought that football was even more important than religion in the south.
