For many decades, footballloving men gathered in coff ee shops to dissect the previous Friday night’s schoolboy football games. There was more dissecting than coff ee-drinking.Many may not have realized it, but those games – won, lost or tied – helped to unify community spirit.For the most part, high school sports were kept in perspective, unlike major university programs today. Currently, mighty television moguls call the shots, the NCAA goes along and major institutions buy in, thus greatly tilting football and basketball away from their initial purposes. Never mind that governing boards give their blessings, and for a couple of ...