My kid can't get enough football (8th grade). He would play year round if he could. He loves the fast paced, backyard version that 7v7 offers, but damn is it taken WAY TOO SERIOUSLY by some of these coaches and parents.
You'll see people all decked out in their programs gear, parents arguing with other parents, parents talking about their kids best options for scouting and scholarships. You'd think Iowa produced 80-100 p5 D1 prospects every year listening to these people.
Then you have to question how clean some of these programs are because they're not checking birth certificates and no damn way some of these kids are U12 or U14. We say a kid playing 14u with a full beard yeterday.
I sit as far away from everyone as I can and just laugh at it all. I don't believe for one second that any college coach gives a damn what any kid can do in 7v7, it's a completely different game. But if you listen to some of these parents they firmly believe this the best route to get little Timmy a full ride to Georgia. They buy into whatever some of these snake oil salesman of program directors/coaches tell them.
You'll see people all decked out in their programs gear, parents arguing with other parents, parents talking about their kids best options for scouting and scholarships. You'd think Iowa produced 80-100 p5 D1 prospects every year listening to these people.
Then you have to question how clean some of these programs are because they're not checking birth certificates and no damn way some of these kids are U12 or U14. We say a kid playing 14u with a full beard yeterday.
I sit as far away from everyone as I can and just laugh at it all. I don't believe for one second that any college coach gives a damn what any kid can do in 7v7, it's a completely different game. But if you listen to some of these parents they firmly believe this the best route to get little Timmy a full ride to Georgia. They buy into whatever some of these snake oil salesman of program directors/coaches tell them.