49ers - Brock Purdy - Still and Always #1

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roger craig HOF of huskers only
You're right, good catch. How he hasn't been voted into the Hall of Fame yet is beyond me. He was a first team all pro, offensive player of the year, 3 time Super Bowl champ, and first running back in the NFL to rush and receive for more than a 1000 yards each in a season.
 

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Because every team is now a “select” team, in every youth sport. Which means, of course, that none of them are actually select anymore but there sure are a lot of adults making a lot of money off parents convinced their little guy or girl will be the next Hall of Famer. So many kids on “select” teams are playing the same kids they would’ve played in the Y-League or town league but nobody made money from that so they just slapped a fancy-sounding word in there and now parents pay for the “prestige” of having a kid on one of these teams.

I’m a community/rec league guy. I coach little league and rec flag football. But my kids are also on a few club teams simply because they are the sports they care about the most.

If you’re a kid who truly wants to compete in your sport and 50% of the kids on your team are only there because their parents signed them up it’s frustrating.

The other argument is make is that good coaches are sometimes hard to come by in rec, and a bad coach can just ruin a kid’s enjoyment of a sport.