Coach Macho
aka Beardy Ryan
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2012
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To be elite at any sport you have to make it your lifestyle. It has to be ingrained in you from the time you're a little boy. That's definitely the case with football. In certain areas of the country football is not just a sport, it's a culture. Those areas will continue to thrive. Football will never fall off there.
With my years of experience working with (coaching) suburban kids I've learned that football is not as important to them. A kid from the hood has been strapping on pads since he was a little boy. A kid from the suburbs starts tackle football at a later age. Many of them join their high school football teams without any prior experience. They just think it'll be a "good idea" to play some football, it's not truly ingrained in them. They don't actually play football in their spare time with their friends, for fun, they only do it when they're obligated to. (i.e. football practice) They have CHOICES where they live. They can play baseball or lacrosse instead. Ain't no choices in the hood, you're playing football.
With my years of experience working with (coaching) suburban kids I've learned that football is not as important to them. A kid from the hood has been strapping on pads since he was a little boy. A kid from the suburbs starts tackle football at a later age. Many of them join their high school football teams without any prior experience. They just think it'll be a "good idea" to play some football, it's not truly ingrained in them. They don't actually play football in their spare time with their friends, for fun, they only do it when they're obligated to. (i.e. football practice) They have CHOICES where they live. They can play baseball or lacrosse instead. Ain't no choices in the hood, you're playing football.