Story: Football Moved to the Spring
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From the beginning of the Freshman baseball to the end of Fall baseball, my son played in over 80 games. Just doesn't happen that way in football
Didn't take long for Boom to announce something. They were hoping for this all along.
No there is no complaining before. But football traditionally had summer stuff too with 7v7.
But also never before did an entire season get cancelled , and then give that same season 50 percent or less of it back while giving more to all other seasons
Football practice outside in late February will be great for the immune system. Every line coach in the state may be dead by the playoffs.
Unless a kid's name is Khalil Mack (in my opinion) it could be a horrible decision to transfer to a new program in August to get two games on film for a D1 school. A kid is not going to pick up offensive or defensive schemes, adjust to new teammates and coaches, or develop unit team timing and a rapport in a matter of a couple of weeks. I think a kid will do far more harm than good by appearing confused on film and not playing fast, which is going to happen. Anyone who has been around transfer kids knows that there is huge learning curve, even if you dummy it down, and it can months to make a comfortable transition.
Football doesn't have any state 7v7 . Terrible comparison. Football has zero summer competition they can do.
But Baseball can play multiple times in a week, so you're just looking at the number of days. That doesn't necessarily correlate to a number of games.
Can play twice a week, 3 if a doubleheader. So instead of 35 games you get 15-18 total. Then looks like no playoffs. Half a season
You mean teams don't play 7v7 against each other in past summers? Pretty sure that was normal
As Part of an IHSA summer league ? No. once a week maybe some teams. But that's only half your team. Lineman have nothing. 7v7 is NOT football. Summer baseball IS baseball.
Half of baseball doesn't even do summer league anymore. It's not even affiliated with ihsa. Regardless, the spring sports got screwed big. Especially softball and baseball, who don't share fields with other sports and state just said is lowest risk to play right now. Should have been fall full season
Weren't you against moving it to the fall at one point, because it was unfair.
Is that twice a week, three with a double header a new rule for the condensed season?
Yes that was before what JB said with the risk levels and the IHSA deferring to them. Once they said they were deferring to JB, and he said softball and baseball were lowest risk and could play now, I was hoping it would be fall. Then if it got bumped again they could push to spring if necessary. Once I saw levels today with football being most at risk and was clear it wouldn't be fall, makes most sense to try the ball teams in fall. If IHSA is supposed to support all sports equally then it should be that way.
Yeah it’s not as easy as here go stay with him, their may be some temporary guardianship papers to be filed. I know I’m not telling you anything you already haven’t reasearched. Hard part is if you send them over there and they pull the plug you may be out of luck in IL...sucks....I don’t know why these colleges won’t adjust to what’s going on. Lot of them moving to Spring, I’m betting most will soon
Spring sports got screwed 7 week season after losing last season.
Not even 7 weeks since games start May 17. 6 weeks, and not sure if the end date of June includes playoffs (if there is any) or not.
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IHSA does not run summer league. Coaches association does. Also very few good players actually play in that tourney. They all do travel ball instead.
That’s not true, they play in afternoons and usually on M-W sometimes Thursday so the travel kids can travel. We played a bunch of good teams with their best players. The year end tourney may have some conflicts at times
Summer league is a joke overall. It is why fewer and fewer teams participate every year.
So do grandma and grandpa get a vote? Or do they just get tossed aside because their life is over the hill? You aren’t putting your children at risk. You are putting your parents or someone else’s parents at risk.
No. I heard a guy on the FND podcast say that Gramps would gladly die so there can be football.
I don’t disagree with it being a joke, but the teams we played had their best players from some of the states best programs
No one is stopping a club football system being formed. We might see club football played in the spring from 2022 on.
Ain’t read mother here but just stopping to in to tell ya told ya so.
Sucks balls for sure. But at least there is spring ball. Let’s make that a tradition ... along with a fall season.
Sucks balls for sure. But at least there is spring ball. Let’s make that a tradition ... along with a fall season.
If there is any type of playoff, teams without a lot of scholarship seniors but very good juniors are going to benefit the most. Now if the NCAA moves signing day to say April instead of February than we have a different situation. Doubt that happens though since most states are going fall.
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