I played sports in Maine growing up. Moved out west as a young adult and was shocked how far more advanced Football, Basketball and Baseball was outside of New England. My Grandson plays HS football at a 5A school. He has a year round personal trainer that is also a position coach. He is at the gym at 6 am five days a week and goes after school three afternoons a week during offseason. Half of his team mates are either talking to colleges already or already offered scholarships in their junior year. Most all of the starters in Hs here have year round personal trainers and position coaches and many also have nutritionists giving their parents recipes. Then summer comes and most of his team mates go to 2-3 colleges summer football camps and many are "invited" for free. They serves as kind of a "tryout" for colleges to see if they want to offer you a scholarship. This summer my grandson is going to the Boise State, University of Oregon and University of Washington HS football camps. If you don't do that for your kid, odds are he/she wont get playing time at one of the good public High schools or simply transfer across town to the school that doesn't win many games. PAC12, Big 12 and even SEC assistant coaches and scouts are at many of the games. Its a different world outside of Maine.