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Message: [QUOTE="upperdeck, post: 1294881, member: 474"] It would be interesting to see what kids are playing what sports at HS and how it compare depending on school size.. Im sure the smaller the schools the more kids are playing multiple sports. But are the sports actually getting the best kids playing each sport? My kids is about done and I have seen all the kids in our HS play youth/varsity in almost every sport I know at our school we have soccer/fball as the major fall sports. there is not one kid on the soccer team that would play meaningful minutes on the fball team. being a small school there are 25-30 kids on fball and 15-20 or so on the soccer team. I think if you gave our fball team a week to practice they would beat our soccer team with no problem and our soccer team isnt awful. not sectional quality but competitive most of the time.. By far the best athletes in the school are playing fball. kids grumble about playing time. the coaches play their favorites unless its a blowout. basketball we are very competitive, won the sectionals multiple times and gotten to the states final 4 a couple times. Still I know there are a group of kids not playing at all because of the time commitment and coaching demands that would beat our varsity and our team is top 10 in the state this year. But there are kids willing to sit the bench and not play a minute because the team wins. Baseball there are probably 2-3 kids who could play that aren't playing. mostly because no one wants to sit the bench in baseball its too hard a sport to play well and much easier to spot kids who are struggling. In NY you add in some hockey/lax. Schools like Ithaca which have good programs most of the better kids who would be good fball players dont play at all, partly because the team is bad at fball but they are bad because the best kids dont play. and there are Div 1 athletes playing hockey/lax at many upstate ny schools who would be the type of player to excel at fball. [/QUOTE]

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