As a positive, hopefully the kids that have been struggling for playing time the previous 3 seasons will get to see more snaps
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Here's a question along those lines, and I have zero skin in any game here and am just using Antioch as an example because I know their senior qb is highly regarded and that according to the University of Minnesota, he is not an early enrollee on campus:
Q) With no playoffs to qualify for or a state title to try and win, and a college scholarship already safely signed sealed and delivered for the senior QB, I wonder if the motivation of the Antioch coach will be to give snaps to a current sophomore or junior QB in order to get the kid more ready for the fall season? Really, wins/losses this spring aren't the end-all.
Personally, I envision the feeling of spring games being similar to watching high school summer league basketball action at Stevenson. I have seen games there, and the kids are wearing school uniforms and representing their school, there are a handful of fans, and the kids are playing to win, but there's no consequence for losing, or winning for that matter.
If you watched the end of the Bulls vs. Blazers NBA game on Saturday, you saw how the Chicago players reacted when the miracle three-point shot went in at the buzzer to beat them. In a summer high school basketball game, that same play could occur, but the feelings won't be the same because losing the game in the big picture doesn't matter.
That's what I think spring ball is going to be like.
I also worry that there are schools, and I am going to use Warren here just because they were second in state last year and football is big at that school ... anyway I worry that Warren is going to get a lot of players out this spring (I have read several posts suggesting they are loaded with transfers, although it's not clear if those kids were seniors last fall or underclassmen), and while Warren is loaded, the schools they are playing have found that interest in spring football is waning.
Games that Warren would ordinarily win 35-7 might become 49-0 games at halftime because the opponents are short-handed compared to what they would be in the fall.
I haven't been able to wrap my arms around the section on this forum about which teams are most impacted by Covid/spring football? How does anyone know until practice starts and we see how many kids are out there, and which kids are out there?
I am not picking on Warren or the North Suburban Conference. But reality is, Mundelein is a basketball power and not a football power. Zion-Benton is a basketball power and not a football power. Waukegan is a basketball power and not a football power. Kids who play both sports during a normal school year, well, we'll have to see who winds up where.