We were getting ready for spring football. Fun times.
This time last year.....
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Wouldn't it be cool to have two football seasons every school year.
A short little 6 game spring league would be awesome
Yea, from a coaches standpoint I can understand that answer. Coach would just about have to give up family life. I was thinking more as a fan that can’t get enough high school football.
So y’all played spring football. That’s crazy.
No sir I didn’t play, last year I was 60 years old. I just watched.
As a fan of high school football I loved having two seasons in one year. But I really felt bad for the coaches and the players because there was very little time off and they had to be exhausted by the time December came around.
So you want to sacrifice the rest, recovery, little free time, and health of coaches and players for your personal entertainment?
hmmmmm
I just said, wouldn’t it be cool. I know now and I knew when I posted it it wasn’t going to happen. Most fans would love an extra season every year. If I were a coach and they started a second season I’d personally retire or just flat out quit. In other words, no, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice a coaches time or health.
I think maybe you took the purpose of this post the wrong way. I was simply trying to bring up the fun and uniqueness we had last year with spring football. Wasn't trying to suggest it should be a thing really.
It was weird. My memory was wet, sloppy, cold early practices, bad fields full of rebel ryegrass and poa annua all season, temp checks and Covid-19 check-in sheets every day, extra cleaning, players sitting out, etc.
On 2nd thought, it wasn't weird. It sucked.
On 2nd thought, it wasn't weird. It sucked.
The coaches I know would love to have spring football in NC the states south of us do. Have a 10-15 day period of full contact spring ball like the colleges do. Not sure that will ever happen with the current leadership in the NCHSAA.
I’m completely opposed to anything that would prevent or discourage kids from playing more than one sport.
But colleges don't exactly have full contact Fall practice, to help prevent injuries during the season
Does anybody really have full contact practices anymore? Every high school and college coach I’ve talked to says they haven’t in years. By the way, how’d you like that Pro Bowl?😂
You are right OC, no one should be doing anything that will pull kids from other sports. Specialization is a curse.
I'm pretty sure though we were going to be allowed to have 10 days of "organized" practices with unlimited numbers and something less than thud in the spring of 2020. Then Covid happened. Spring of 21 was our Covid season. Unless rules have changed this would be the first spring those new rules could be implemented. Smart coaches will wait until May when most spring sports have wound down so they can get the bulk of their athletes.
Pro Bowl was a joke. If that's what its going to be the NFL needs to eliminate it.
I'm pretty sure though we were going to be allowed to have 10 days of "organized" practices with unlimited numbers and something less than thud in the spring of 2020. Then Covid happened. Spring of 21 was our Covid season. Unless rules have changed this would be the first spring those new rules could be implemented. Smart coaches will wait until May when most spring sports have wound down so they can get the bulk of their athletes.
Pro Bowl was a joke. If that's what its going to be the NFL needs to eliminate it.
Baseball, basketball football, track,etc. they want that, but say they don’t.
I know a few. Spent fifteen years getting chewed out by some of them. It certainly creates challenges at the “football schools”. But most of them make the best of it. The vast majority of Thomasville’s basketball stars were football players too. But when they pull off the cleats, they’re all in to the hardwood. The way it should be.
I think the moral of this story is it was a cool thing to be a part of (although I do believe we could have played in the fall of 2020 and that's as far as I'm going to go with that) but it's something that those seniors on those teams that played last spring will always remember. Yes as a fan of football it was awesome having two seasons in one year. But I think speaking for the coaches and players, they were exhausted by the time December came around.
