In 2018, the Aspen Institute said there had been a first update on football. Citing figures from the Sports and Fitness Industry Association, an advocacy organization for sporting goods stores and manufacturers, the Aspen Institute noted that, for the first time, more young Americans ages 6 to 12 were playing flag soccer (3. 3 percent of that age organization) than attacking soccer (2. 9 percent). The National Football League sponsors flag leagues.
At the top level of the U. S. school, there are still a hundred soccer players ranked for both flag soccer players, according to figures compiled through the National Federation of High School Associations, but the advent of the high school flag has led to a boom in soccer. Girls’ participation. According to the NFHS, there are 10 women betting flag football by betting on take on football (there are 11,000 women in flag for around 1, a hundred in take ons, which, of course, is still well below the total number of take ons of about 1. 1 million).
When there is a significant, even disruptive, replacement underway, you may see it as an opportunity or a problem. In a suburban New York community, they opted for the latter, ending the local flag football league in large part because the best local football coaching school declared it “detrimental” to their program.
In July, the Athletic Club of Shrub Oak (N. Y. ) voted 7-5 to cancel its flag football program for children in grades 3-6. It had 183 participants in 2018. According to Yorktown (N. Y. ) News, the explanation for why the club first of all flag football sponsorship re-examined was that player attendance was incredibly uneven, resulting in common schedule changes, other systems did not use the fields. Keep playing and refund.
But what tipped the scales was the coach of the best local school, Lakeland. Mike Meadows, who is not part of the Shrub Oak Athletic Club, told the organization that flag football kids don’t grow up to play soccer, and if they do, they are far from the capabilities of communities that offer take instead of flag for young children, putting their program at a competitive disadvantage. Yorktown News:
Flag football, Meadows said, “wasn’t preparing our kids to play football. “
“What we saw in the numbers was that other people walked away from the takeover to play the flag, and they didn’t come back to the takeover game,” Meadows said. “The flag is wonderful as long as it doesn’t have an effect on the Take On program. “
Not only does this put Lakeland at a competitive disadvantage compared to neighboring communities, many of which don’t offer flag soccer beyond the current year, but it also puts players in a dangerous situation because they haven’t learned how to play the ball well. high-contact sport, Meadows said.
“Not only is there a commitment they have to learn, but we also have to condition their brain and structure for what football is,” Meadows said.
This inverse relationship between participation in flag football and the quality of the football game will surprise Middlebury, Vt. , High School, which has established a championship program based on youth playing flag football without a game (usually flag football players). not wearing protectors) and then move on to tackling at the best school. recently introduced a flag league in San Diego. )
However, I’m not going to lead any kind of effort on the web to provoke Meadows for his opinion. 2017 cancelled the flag league he managed due to attendance issues. Interestingly, Schwantz cited parents’ injury concerns (concussion code) for not letting their kids play soccer anyway, and injury coverage (concussion code) is a nominal promotion. Point for the flag.
The challenge for top school coaches like Meadows is that their favorite sport, tackle football, is threatened for reasons beyond concussions. One reason is that parents with means enroll their children in what are perceived as wealthy sports like lacrosse. and rugby than football, and if you’re worried about concussions, you’re not signing up your kids to play lacrosse and rugby. And if there’s one thing Shrub Oak has that doesn’t look in favor of football, it’s average families: Shrub Oak’s median household income of $78,529 is higher than the national median of about $64,000.
At this point, according to the Yorktown News, Shrub Oak Athletic Club has held a tackle football league.