[Alberta's Child]

At some point, that person would probably be better off honing his/her athletic skills outside of high school sports. Within just the last couple of weeks there was an article in a New Jersey newspaper lamenting the decline of high school soccer in New Jersey -- a state that has produced a disproportionate share of the nation's top-level soccer players in recent decades.

The article indicated that interest in soccer among kids in New Jersey isn't declining -- they're just migrating to private training programs and traveling club teams instead of playing in high school.

[Mr. Blonde]

Soccer and some other sports have a very well developed league outside of schools. I’m not aware of those for Football in particular. Most sports are developing them as concentrating on one sport and making it a year round deal becomes more prominent. I think it will be hard for that to happen in Football because of the huge personnel needs.