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Contact days cut and ejection rule changed

1-Start August 1st since school year starts earlier now and you have the scrimmage Week 0
2-No Football in Summer/Lifting Only
3-Allow coaches to have a summer/Can alternate days covering weights
4-Most importantly allow kids to have a summer
5-Kids and coaches would be more excited to start on August 1st and fresh and actually be excited to see each other
6-Kids who are basketball/baseball kids who wouldn't play before might actually come out on August 1st
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Contact days cut and ejection rule changed

1-Start August 1st since school year starts earlier now and you have the scrimmage Week 0
2-No Football in Summer/Lifting Only
3-Allow coaches to have a summer/Can alternate days covering weights
4-Most importantly allow kids to have a summer
5-Kids and coaches would be more excited to start on August 1st and fresh and actually be excited to see each other
6-Kids who are basketball/baseball kids who wouldn't play before might actually come out on August 1st
Nah

If you love the game you love the summer.

Bears

You make some good points. I get the Sun Times for one reason. The sports section. As I have said many times, I wouldn't give a nickel for the news section and those articles. But some of the Times sports columnists are very skeptical people. But, even when the White Sox and Cubs are doing pretty well the Bears dominate those pages. Good or bad. I read a while back that all Chicago teams' winning percentages were under .500. That is awful.

As for the Trib, I have no use for that sports section. It's bad and so late in reporting. The news writers have also changed for the worse. As a result I stopped subscribing a few years ago.

I can't say I thought the Bears were going to be in the playoffs. As a matter of fact in this thread I said, many weeks ago, that this wasn't a playoff team. But honestly I did think they would win more games than last year and that isn't going to happen. They have regressed badly.
Agree.
I was definitely skeptical about the o-line.
I was basically just hoping for progress. After some teaser nice performances early vs Carolina and Jax (admittedly terrible teams), they completely went into the tank. This was definitely a wasted season.

Contact days cut and ejection rule changed

1-Start August 1st since school year starts earlier now and you have the scrimmage Week 0
2-No Football in Summer/Lifting Only
3-Allow coaches to have a summer/Can alternate days covering weights
4-Most importantly allow kids to have a summer
5-Kids and coaches would be more excited to start on August 1st and fresh and actually be excited to see each other
6-Kids who are basketball/baseball kids who wouldn't play before might actually come out on August 1st

Please don’t let this happen

By the time a kid is in 8th grade you "most likely" know if he will be a good HS football player. Yes, I know kids do grow/blow up in weight room and come out of nowhere at times, but the athletes have separated themselves by 8th grade.
Come on man. That’s weak. Someone recruiting a dozen or so 8th graders per program is somehow stacking the deck in their favor three or four years later? You want separation and all of this drama because of that? Still have to develop the kids, keep them together, keep them in the school, etc.

My son goes to a 7a public school that is successful in football. I guarantee these coaches have it much easier and better than what MC and LA have.

Please don’t let this happen


What is confusing? IHSA has said they wanted greater representation in the state playoffs. Due to their refusal to properly seed teams so they can accommodate this agenda that mirrors DEI, you got better matchups in 1a - 4a in the quarters and semis. The public schools in the finals would have been eliminated by better public schools in earlier rounds. This isn’t difficult to understand.
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Regarding expectations, I need to discipline myself to avoid pre-season blather and drivel about the Bears from the 2 major Chicago daily sports pages. I knew it's their job, but they provide the forum for all the over-the-top "coach-speak." They are so starved for content in the late summer, especially since the Sox and Cubs are stinking up the place by then, if a fly farts around Halas Hall, it's breaking news. Like the political coverage and predictions from the mainstream media - they are more likely to get it wrong than right.
You make some good points. I get the Sun Times for one reason. The sports section. As I have said many times, I wouldn't give a nickel for the news section and those articles. But some of the Times sports columnists are very skeptical people. But, even when the White Sox and Cubs are doing pretty well the Bears dominate those pages. Good or bad. I read a while back that all Chicago teams' winning percentages were under .500. That is awful.

As for the Trib, I have no use for that sports section. It's bad and so late in reporting. The news writers have also changed for the worse. As a result I stopped subscribing a few years ago.

I can't say I thought the Bears were going to be in the playoffs. As a matter of fact in this thread I said, many weeks ago, that this wasn't a playoff team. But honestly I did think they would win more games than last year and that isn't going to happen. They have regressed badly.
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