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The decline of Chicago HS football (and its effect on ND). by G.K.Chesterton

That's what stood out to me in this article.

“The Chicago Catholic League in the ‘70s and ‘80s was the most dominant league in the country,” analyst Lemming said. “Now it’s not top 10. Back in 1986, the year Notre Dame took 10 guys out of Chicago, 141 kids from the Chicago area signed to play Division I ball. Now you’re lucky to get 60.

“Some of it’s population moving. Some of it’s the steel mills in Pennsylvania shutting down and blue-collar people who play a blue-collar sport have to move to find new blue-collar jobs. The Chicago public schools produce one or two guys a year that would be considered Power 5 kids. In the ‘80s, you’d get 25 or 30.

“They’re still there. They didn’t just all of a sudden stop developing the great athletes, but they don’t have the money to fund football programs. If you do have a head coach, the assistants are volunteers. You can’t afford to pay them anything. Down in the south, football is everything and they find the money to fuel that reality.”