https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-14/go-ahe...

Interesting take on the booster who takes huge deductions and gets great seats and other perks. I wonder if this whole arms race would go down the sewer if that were to happen.

You have zero evidence to base this on.

Keep dreaming on that end, you paint the photo of the sky is falling, but football is not going anywhere anytime soon

It's dying in my county here in the DC area. Walt Whitman High School, a school near me with an enrollment of just under 1,500 had 30 kids try out for the football team this year. Just a couple of years ago they had nearly 100 tryout. Participation in soccer and lacrosse are way up here. Parents just aren't letting their kids play the sport anymore. When I was a kid every kid played football in the Fall. I have three boys and I only know of one of their friends that has any interest in playing football in high school. My youngest plays flag football and they have won the league in three of the last four seasons and are odds on favorites to do it again this year. Not one of the kids is going to play in high school. Obviously there are a number of factors that play into that, specialization of sports now being one, but 20 years ago I'm guessing every single one of them would have it on their radar. Now one county over participation is still pretty high but apparently here there has been some discussion about whether we should go to 8 man football.

I was always the biggest kid in grade school but my mother would not let me play football. I thank her all the time!