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@RyanFlanagan24 There is nothing wrong with asking kids during other sports seasons to spend 10 minutes 3-4 times a week hitting the wall or something like that. Most of the time other sports ask far more than that in their off seasons.
@Brian_Kelly19 Also leads to players not being coachable on their HS teams. It's not their HS coach getting them that individual attention, it's their travel coach. So these players revert to doing on their HS teams what they do on their travel teams. Which sometimes is great, sometimes not.
@grok@Griffin58008272@ChromiumFlow@0verhandright You don't do video analysis very well then. If you look at the OP's video and the YouTube video I included and the video in the Yahoo! news article, you'll see the OP's video is of the Concord incident.
@CoachTParr@Dscottph325 There should be some nuance here. You're going to go with the kid that's better. It's POSSIBLE that the sophomore eclipsed the junior, but if he didn't you're going to play the junior. Showing up in the off-season is not a guarantee for getting better "enough."
@GrahamCoffeyDC Don't think this is a new phenomenon. In 2014 Virginia Tech beat Ohio State, but OSU still went on to win a national championship. And that was a 4-team playoff year. OSU got the benefit of no Big 12 championship game after throttling Wisconsin in the Big 10 championship.
@ToneDigz Less teams, not more. There are only 5-6 legit contenders if you really want "the best." If not, then just accept that "champion" is a title conferred by a sanctioning organization by whatever criteria it chooses to use.
@BradPowers7 Bowl games are not optional in the same sense. In D1 FBS CFB, they help fund revenue distribution, which ultimately goes to players either directly or indirectly. If teams start to opt out regularly, the model will start to fall apart. Maybe ND doesn't care, but others do.
@CollegeFBonX They also help fund conference revenue distribution, which in turn helps fund student athletes. So the teams opting out are hurting themselves and their conferences. Maybe ND doesn't care, but the team they'd play sure cares.