I have this dialed in about as well as IrishDawg.
Every other kid has an inhaler now. I have so many fucking inhalers in my pockets during practice I don't even check names anymore. I just say "That's right, don't work through the pain to better yourself" and I hand them the first inhaler that I grab. People that actually have asthma sound like a jet engine when they run. Now if it hurts when you run hard (which is natural) you have asthma.
Parents think their kids are special. I spent aboit $500 of my own money getting a Pac-10 program to take a kid as a walk-on by sending him to combines, paying a handler, etc. The next year his parents called me a racist because I wasn't playing their 5'6" 150lb, black son at QB over a 6'2" 215lb Mexican kid that worked harder and was just a better QB overall.....I'm white.
Every and I mean EVERY fucking good hit is a concussion now. The shitty part about this is all the kids who just want a jersey to wear in the hall ways claim they have a concussion and go fail the test every Monday so you can't cut them. The concussion thing has caused so much more bad than good.
Video games have done the most damage. Kids play video games nonstop and they control one player. They don't understand the part where the computer used to other 10 players to clear a path for them to pretend to be Barry Sanders. They don't find the hard, physical nature sexy like it used to be. Fundamentals are also viewed as a waste of time. Things like influence blocks are useless now. Linebackers are so lazy with their reads they won't bite on your disguised looks.
At the high school level recruiting in the metro areas have turned bad programs into extremely awful ones.
Letting retards score touchdowns. The very harsh reality is almost everyone that plays organized football at any level will never score a TD. Now the cool thing to do is to say "fuck you" to all of the kids who work their asses off year round and let some kid that can barely function prance into the end zone to a standing ovation while everyone is just standing around. You want to give a kid a gift like that make it an offensive guard or a nose tackle. The first time this happened it was fine. Every time since then it has been " We can do that too and look even more caring than the last guy." It for PR, nothing more.
Penalties completely control games. In a tight ball game the outcome is never really decided by the players. Some stupid safety flag or a bullshit PI call will dictate how the ball moves, not the offense.
Now we have to deal with lawsuits from all angles, zero loyalty because everything from high school on up in mercenary mode. Instead of building where you are it's just a given you will leave to somewhere already built. A Don James won't ever happen again. He'll leave after year 5 or 6 now for a paycheck. In the NFL franchises aren't loyal to stars anymore.
The game has went to shit because we all have allowed it to happen.