Tucked in a WaPo article about a NJ high school disbanding its football team (link below) is this pearl:

"But other regions — namely the Midwest and Northeast — are shedding high school football programs at a significant rate. Michigan has seen a net loss of 57 teams in the past five years."

I've long thought that Detroit/Michigan's economic demise means U of M will never again be what it once was. Michigan losing nearly ten percent of its high school football programs over the last five years is another data point.

Also feel free to use this thread for caterwauling about football's imminent collapse because of concussions, Goodell, The Media, etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/the-leading-edge-of-a-...