do you have to play high school football to play college football?
78671
No, in fact there are a couple of players in the NFL that did not play in high school.  Even still, they do play other sports in high school and are raw athlete material.
35305
If you are a top rated High School basketball player, only the NBA is off limits.  A top rated HS football player, no NFL.  But there are other leagues you can get paid to play in.\n\nA HS golfer?  Sure you can.\nA HS Tennis Player?  Sure.\nA HS Baseball player?  Sure.\nA HS Soccer player?  Sure.\nA HS CC/Track athelete?  Sure.\n\nOf course, if you just mean will you EVENTUALLY have a chance at going pro, then the answer is yes.  Heck, you don teven have to be good to have an opportunity.  Just have to make the most of it when you get the chance.
803317
Future of College Football Teams is college football games.
978711
No, you don't automatically get in, but they should give you an idea when recruiting about whether you are a shoe-in to get into the school, or whether there are some other things you need to work on like grades or test scores to ensure you get into the school.  And be careful about being recruited right now, its not legal.  If you want to play in the NCAA, you need to read up on the rules and regulations for recruiting so you don't accidentally break any rules and ruin your eligibility.
990610
Definitely. When a high school applicant signs his letter of intent to accept a college scholorship he is signing a contract.\nWhen a school spends so much to teach and develop an athlete he should at least hold up his end of the business agreement by finishing at least three years of college.\n\nIn the end the college athlete gets an education and learns about honoring business agreements, trust and loyalty. Otherwise, we should have football minor leagues as baseball does.\n\nI really admire athletes like Peyton Manning that stay the full 4 years of their college even though big money was offered to jump ship early. Part of that shows his strength of character and commitment which are lacking in some of the best athletes today. Besides once injury or other career changing events occur, what does the athlete do if he has no degree and other skills/training to offer a propective employer. Also, the athlete needs to know how to invest and seek other business adventures with the money he earns. Just turning ovre his money to a financial rep can lead to great losses swindling his account.\n\nLook at the difference between Manning and Leaf drafted #1 and #2 in the same year. San Diego sure learned the lesson didn't they?
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That is difficult to tell, as many smaller colleges don't have football teams.\n\nHere is a list of colleges that would qualify for Division I play (the larger colleges) who never have had a football team:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Division_I_schools_that_have_never_sponsored_football\n\nHere is a list of Division I schools that once had a football team but no longer do:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_Division_I_football_teams\n\nYou can see that these two lists are quite a number of colleges.\n\nHope this helps.
760923
Most college coaches got their start in high school with several years experience. You can also attain a degree in coaching and sports administration at some schools, but most college coaches have tons of experience and don't just rely on a degree. You can start now by volunteering to coach a sport if you can't currently get paid to do it. A good thing to do is also sit down and talk with some college coaches and see how they got their start. Hope that helps!
833055
Well I do not know how many youth play football, but there are 32 teams in the NFL each with about 70 players on their active rosters and practice squads.  That means there are about 2240 players in the NFL.  Most high school football teams have about 50 players per team (Varsity, JV, Freshman) and there are thousands of high schools in the country (to make the math simple lets say that there are 10,000 high schools in the US with Varsity, JV, and Freshman teams.  That means that there are about 1,500,000 people playing high school football in the US.  Of those only about .14% of people who play high school football make it to the NFL.  These numbers are just estimates, if anything the number of high school football players is low.
408637
At your age I guess you want to play for fun, as a hobby, not professional. Because you are a little old to start now a football career. I'm not saying it's impossible, but you must play really really good, nice is not enough.
766913
From my understanding you dont sign up for a soccer scholarship, that is if your looking to play at a college leave. College teams scout players when they are in high school and offer them a scholarship if they feel that they are good enough, now if your looking to play higher than College then im not real sure how you would go about that. hope i was some help.
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It will probably only make a difference if you want to play water polo in college.  Being on the varsity team at anytime during high school is good to put on your college app., the fact that your a freshman indicates you're very good, but again it will probably only impress the coaches.  If you are really concerned about spicing up your college app., don't underestimate good grades, and VOLUNTEER somewhere, doing some kind of public service work during your time in high school.
307646
Yes definitely!\n\nImagine a football player having to run a play, while reciting a cheer, staying in step with the player next to him (or her), then at the correct moment have three to four players lift him up.  Cheerleaders do it.\n\nA high school cheerleader will, in most cases, memorize the names of all of the football and basketball players in order to do personalized cheers...on top of the pages of generic cheers they must learn.  A football player does have plays to remember, but he doesn't have to worry about the basketball team.\n\nIf you take five football players, five basketball players and five cheerleaders and required them to score a touchdown, score a basket and put someone in a half, (a half is where the flyer is lifted to sholder height of the bases) the cheerleaders will win.  There is a specific way the flyer has to jump into the hands of the bases or it's not going to go up.  Throwing a football can be done most anyway you hold it.  It may not go far, and it may not spiral, but it will go.  A basketball does not have to roll off the fingertips to score, but it will go into the basket.\n\nI broke my finger playing football as a child.  I ripped the tendon in my shoulder while playing centerfield as a teen.  I didn't injure myself playing basketball, but I did play on a league as a teen.  I have never been able to do anything above a thigh stand in cheerleading.  So, I am familiar with all sports as a participant.\n\nCheerleading is definitely a sport.  Like football, there are "plays" to remember and execute.  Like basketball, there is timing.  Like running, there is endurance.  The only difference is the participants have perfect hair the entire time.
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Like the Above answer stated, A true Freshman is sumone who plays in their VERY first year of college. Its as opposed to, like the above answerer stated, a "Red shirt Freshman" who may be 1 year into college, but has defered his athletic eligibility for 1 year, his/her true freshamn year, for whatever reason. And once you have declared as a Redshirt, even if yer in yer second year, THats when yer eligibility to play begins. so in theory, you can graduate and still have College athletic eligibility and be able to play whatever sport it is you play. Redshirts can go to their teams practices and work out with team and attend classes on full scholarship if they have a scholarship, but they do not participate in games..thus preserving that one year of eligibility... thats why you have 5th year seniors in college sports..no, theyre not dumb/stupid academically lol, they just redshirted.
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no there is no limit.  there is a benchmark where a player can play a certain amount before redshirting, for example michael bush may redshirt this yearso he can play next year, even though he is a senior.  there is no limit to how many games you can play.  players may apply for extra eligibility if they can show a need, jason white played a second senior year because of a medical hardship exception
181051
No.  College is about education so you have to attend classes and get a certain grade point average to be on a college football or track team.
103390
Tell them this :\n\nMom dad, please let me play. I know after I graduate high school that would be one thing i will regret..not being able to play football. You only live once. And high school life can't be repeated. I really want to play.\n\nAsk them for their reasons. And most likely it's because they think you'll get hurt. It's part of the game. What's the wort that can happen? You dont like football n u quit. Simple. Either u like it or u dont. let ur parents give u a chance n let u try. Its part of growing up..making ur own decisions.
913095
No.\n\nYou don't need one to get in to many universities and colleges, via things like 'mature' or 'special' student programs; scholarships and bursaries are available to them with little or no consideration of high school anything, so...