New Football League (from the people that brought you the XFL)

[Gman]

How is the talent pool drying up since the 80s?

More and more parents are keeping their kids from playing football due to the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

[MarkCO]

More and more parents are keeping their kids from playing football due to the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

When another parent complimented my kid for being so fast and asked him why he did not play DB or WR on the football team. He answered..."Baseball takes a lot of time to work on all phases of the game. If I want to play football in College I'll try and walk on and speed is all you really need because I won't be big enough to play line." I'll spare you the other parents comments, but that was pretty much what the HS football (who really wanted Blake to try out) and baseball coaches told him.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

When another parent complimented my kid for being so fast and asked him why he did not play DB or WR on the football team. He answered..."Baseball takes a lot of time to work on all phases of the game. If I want to play football in College I'll try and walk on and speed is all you really need because I won't be big enough to play line." I'll spare you the other parents comments, but that was pretty much what the HS football (who really wanted Blake to try out) and baseball coaches told him.

Even still, baseball can be +/- a lifelong sport, as all my fantasy camp friends are sending pictures from Phoenix. If he can get some money for college from baseball, do it, but why destroy your body for your entire adult life trying to play football if you won’t get a penny, and baseball already nets the scholarship? Then he can get a real job and play NABA or MSBL or whatever until he bores of it.

[MarkCO]

Even still, baseball can be +/- a lifelong sport, as all my fantasy camp friends are sending pictures from Phoenix. If he can get some money for college from baseball, do it, but why destroy your body for your entire adult life trying to play football if you won’t get a penny, and baseball already nets the scholarship? Then he can get a real job and play NABA or MSBL or whatever until he bores of it.

He's only a Sophomore, but he played on the Varsity team some last year and they went to State, won the year before. He knows the MLB is a longshot. With his shooting accomplishments he might get enough from two sports to make it in to College. If not, he is not worried and has looked at Army options as well.