I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.
My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.