Multiple levels of coaching education and even licensing or certification of coaches is now standard operating procedure in many other places.
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Young people are starting sports much younger today than 100 years ago when the MHSAA was created, or 50 years ago when the MHSAA was incorporated.
Today, in many places, 6th-graders have aged-out of non-school, community sports, but they are not permitted to play on MHSAA junior high/middle school teams.
The season limits that have been put in place allow some junior high/middle schools, or their entire leagues, to fit four distinct seasons in a nine-month school year . . .
More likely reasons for the gap between the number of schools serving 7th- and 8th-graders and the number of those schools belonging to the MHSAA are these:
In state after state, the NFL paraded young people with sad stories in front of state legislators looking for good headlines.
I spent almost all of my days as a competitive athlete in a position where all the other players were in my field of vision.
“Television” is rarely free to viewers today. Ninety percent of people who watch video broadcasts of sporting events today pay for that privilege . . .
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