On a personal note, yes. When I graduated from high school here in Regina, I went to the States on a football scholarship. The States do it so much differently in terms of the coaches there. As the lady asked before, they are more at the professional level. They are getting paid, and it is pretty serious stuff.
Football is not bad, particularly in Saskatchewan. In Saskatchewan alone, there are four post-secondary places where you can play football after high school: two junior programs and two university programs. The other sports don't necessarily have that. If you are a volleyball player, there's really only two teams: the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina. They have 12 or 14 students on those teams. But in comparison to the number of kids playing volleyball out there, that's not very many spaces available for students to develop at the next level where there is.... Again, I go back to this idea of professional coaching. The coaches at the university level are getting paid, and theoretically they should know more than, say, I do, at the high school level coaching volleyball.
I think it would help. It's a bit of a biased opinion. I know that some people will point to the downfalls of U.S. colleges, and the scandals and unfairness and such that goes with that, but that's a pretty small percentage. What you see on TV in the States is a very small percentage compared to the number of schools out there that do have scholarships. They are getting an education and they are actually developing their skills.