This isn't about two sport blue chip prospects or kids whose primary sport is football.
This is about kids who excel at baseball and also play high school football because it's something to do.
We have two kids in town. Both 2023s. Both are very good baseball players. Both have the talent to play college baseball somewhere after High School. Both really want to play college baseball. Both would never play college football other than on special teams at a lower level D3...maybe. Neither has the size and speed to play college football offensively or defensively as a starter. Neither has any desire to play college football. But both play High School football.
One tore his ACL playing High School football in the fall of 2020 and had to miss the entire 2021 baseball season. He would have been a sophomore starting on varsity baseball because his bat is that good.
The other tore his ACL and his MCL at High School football practice this fall and will miss his junior season as a high school baseball player. He would have most likely would have been a starter for his school. Right now he's in the midst of 16 weeks of PT just to get back to being able to walk.
Hopefully both end up playing college baseball after they graduate in 2023 because it's what they really want to do.
But they both had to go through serious surgery and PT and lost a season of High School varsity baseball because they were playing High School football for something to do.
Is it worth it?