LOL at this below response. What are the fastest growing sports in the country now? Lacrosse and Soccer. LaCrosse is a bit physical and soccer is about as non-physical as it gets. Before too long, unless some serious changes are made to how football is played due to more and more research dealing with concussions, those sports will surpass football in numbers.Anyways, it is not hard to get kids out for wrestling because of singlets. I coach at a very small school, yet manage to more kids out for our club, jr high and HS programs than most large schools with thousands more kids. It has nothing to do with a singlet. The new kids I recruit at all age groups every year, know exactly what we wear going in because I tell them. Sure its a bit embarrassing, but so is losing in front a bunch of people with no one else to blame but yourself. That does far more damage to a kid not wanting to do a sport, than a singlet.Other things that keep kids out of our sport, our tournament formats. We have to be some of the dumbest people when it comes to running tournaments. We sit in a gym for 8hrs plus to compete maybe 4-5 times over a course of about 30mins total. The rest of the time is spent sitting and waiting. How stupid is that? I can go to damn near any other sport and compete for 1-2hrs and I'm done, plus I'm competing for 40mins or more of that time. We lose more kids to poor tournament management, than we do to singlets, guaranteed.Track had 300,000 more boys participating and they practically compete in skimpy underwear. Heck, our singlets go further down the leg than track shorts do. Look at the sprinters, what are they competing in? Singlets.There are way more issues out there causing our numbers to be stagnant, singlets are way down on the list. Sometimes I think we would rather think of excuses why numbers don't go up rather than actually address the real problems at the top.
