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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2278400, member: 780"] Please! Since over 1 million boys play 11 man football in US high schools (1,o80K in 12/13) an average drop of 7,500 equates to a dramatic plunge of .7% (That's seven tenths of 1 percent!) Given all the other things that affect high school populations like demographics, you are using an extremely small number to try an suggest football is declining. Only 410, 982 boys were playing soccer in 12/13. Adding 12,500 boys to that is about a 3% increase. Given all the new high school students that hail originally from countries where soccer is the number one sport, I'm surprised there isn't more. Your use of selected statistics (raw numbers added without explaining the base) isn't exactly a forthright presentation of helpful facts. [/QUOTE]