[HAT51]

At many places, especially small schools, therenisna fine, fine line between installing discipline and trying not to cut your own throat in the process.

For example, offseason attendance, I know of a couple top tier programs throughout the state that if it weren't for allowing weightlifting as an in school elective for their athletes (football players in this case), then their off season attendance would be 50% at best (and, that's just counting kids who aren't involved with winter and/or spring sports).

Now, with saying that, I know programs who aren't considered top tier (.500 types) and don't have in class weightlifting, yet make their players attend x amount of workouts in the off season, or they can't play. To which my question is,does the school who is top tier ( allowing their student athletes the opportunity to in school weightlifting) really have a program with that much more discipline than the team down the road who doesn't allow it, yet struggles with off season attendance in after school attendance?

Disagree. They will be there if you tell them they must be there. An absence here and there is not going to break you but pressure must be applied.