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<blockquote data-quote="CuseJacket" data-source="post: 555865" data-attributes="member: 274"><p>Very familiar with all of what you said about lacrosse, except magnify it by 100x. I got a letter of interest from the GT club lax team when I enrolled as a freshman... simply because of the HS I came from... and I never played lax. Syracuse made it to 22 straight Final Fours from 1983-2004. They have 5 national titles in the 2000's. They've performed poorly by those standards in the last decade which I largely attribute to the growing popularity of the sport everywhere, and so the playing field has been leveled. I've noticed the increase in popularity in and around Atlanta area high schools.</p><p></p><p>Re: the structure of sports and the benefits to kids... I think you can get that in almost any sport, not just baseball or pop warner. It won't upset me if those sports die out, though I don't think they will any time soon. Hopefully folks don't take it the wrong way, I'd still put my GT football fandom up against anyone. I enjoy the pageantry and atmosphere that surround college football games. In a way I think fantasy football saved, or at minimum was a boon, to the NFL. People who can't throw a pigskin and had little affinity for the sport are now talking about Cover-2, WR targets, , back-up RBs, etc. because they're in a fantasy football league at work or with friends.</p><p></p><p>People are creative, so it'll be interesting to see what takes hold over the next 20-30 years. I played baseball, soccer and basketball growing up. Ultimately focused on basketball and became a hoops junkie. I think it's a sport that requires nearly every attribute of an athlete, whereas I think others require subsets of those skills. But I know I'm biased.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CuseJacket, post: 555865, member: 274"] Very familiar with all of what you said about lacrosse, except magnify it by 100x. I got a letter of interest from the GT club lax team when I enrolled as a freshman... simply because of the HS I came from... and I never played lax. Syracuse made it to 22 straight Final Fours from 1983-2004. They have 5 national titles in the 2000's. They've performed poorly by those standards in the last decade which I largely attribute to the growing popularity of the sport everywhere, and so the playing field has been leveled. I've noticed the increase in popularity in and around Atlanta area high schools. Re: the structure of sports and the benefits to kids... I think you can get that in almost any sport, not just baseball or pop warner. It won't upset me if those sports die out, though I don't think they will any time soon. Hopefully folks don't take it the wrong way, I'd still put my GT football fandom up against anyone. I enjoy the pageantry and atmosphere that surround college football games. In a way I think fantasy football saved, or at minimum was a boon, to the NFL. People who can't throw a pigskin and had little affinity for the sport are now talking about Cover-2, WR targets, , back-up RBs, etc. because they're in a fantasy football league at work or with friends. People are creative, so it'll be interesting to see what takes hold over the next 20-30 years. I played baseball, soccer and basketball growing up. Ultimately focused on basketball and became a hoops junkie. I think it's a sport that requires nearly every attribute of an athlete, whereas I think others require subsets of those skills. But I know I'm biased. [/QUOTE]
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