11-04-2018, 05:35 PM
I avoided football in high school primarily because of two cousins who played and were always injured and having surgeries (same school). But I did run track briefly until I realized the coaches were using it to train for football. They didn't care about track in the least. I went on to a Baptist college with no football and I didn't even bother with sports at all, just followed my own workout. My son followed in my footsteps, avoiding team sports because the coaches were not at all good people. I think it would have been different if we hadn't both gone to big 5-A and 6-A schools.