That’s a massively load-bearing “if”, I fear.

JT O’Sullivan QB School!

The first enlightening alt text I’ve come across.

Also the first that nearly sent red wine out of my nose whilst reading it.

Before they graduate to working varsity games. So their main exposure early on is with math teachers who think they’re Vince Lombardi chewing them out all game with no real rules knowledge. So a lot of them assume it just gets worse when they get to more serious games, so they quit. It’s brutal.

I do football (middle school and high school) and hockey (adult beer league) in Texas. The common wisdom down here is “the younger the age group, the worse the abuse”. Unfortunately, most new officials are stuck doing mostly middle school (and youth ball, if they’re so inclined) (1/2)

If Willie Nelson is somehow in those files I might fall out.

Honestly “white flight” is too good a term to get this kind of treatment from revisionists. Own your (lowkey racist) branding, people!

(To the tune of Secret Agent Man)

🎶Little… BAAAAAABY maaaannnn🎶