I think there is going to be alot of pressure to give the outgoing Seniors there last hurrah if the Fall season is cancelled.
It would definitely impact the Spring sports but I believe they could coexist.
It's not though, there won't be games in February and there won't be games in April. If for some reason we're still locked down in September there won't be sports, simple as that.In Texas? Definitely.
In Ohio, or other states, maybe. I just can't imagine the cost and fanfare of high school football missing an entire school year just due to the technicality they couldn't play by a self imposed cutoff date.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Winter or spring football is entirely possible.
Baseball needs to start a month latter anyways to deal with the wet season and bleed over to summer. Let the AAU teams deal with it. Track could be an issue, but you could almost run track events along side Football. Especially for the runners. field events might get rough. The bigger issue is practice, When do you start it? I think kids need a multiple weeks to get their bodies ready.maybe if we are lucky. but we would probably be looking at a shortened season so athletes could participate in spring sports for a period as well
Possible Scenario:
Social distancing ends early fall:
Have your winter sports ready to go and get started with competitions as soon as possible. Shorten the season in an effort to:
Play fall sports in the late winter/early spring. Shorten the season in an effort to:
Play spring sports in the later spring early summer.
Maybe tournaments are put on hold for a year or participation in tournaments is cut down. Not a bad price to pay.
Golf and girls tennis may be losers in this situation.
There will always be a million reasons why not. But it gives you fighting chance to have three season next year if this thing lasts well into the summer.
say social distancing ends september. you have a preseason football training camp that lasts 2-3 weeks. start basketball/wrestling on schedule. continue lifting for football January into february. start football practice first day of march. two more weeks of practice and you play a 6 game scehdule. season over by May. playoffs would continue with 4 teams per region, stretching throughout all of May. state finals first week of June. Track/Baseball starts May 1st and those still playing football will have OHSAA mandated time to participate in there spring sports. example: football practice max of two hours a day, allowing for 1 hour of baseball/track 3 additional days a week until the football season is over. Track state championships wrap up the week before or week of july 4th. June would be mandatory no contact period for football athletes. allow july/august for conditioning/camp/practice and start the season after memorial day.Baseball needs to start a month latter anyways to deal with the wet season and bleed over to summer. Let the AAU teams deal with it. Track could be an issue, but you could almost run track events along side Football. Especially for the runners. field events might get rough. The bigger issue is practice, When do you start it? I think kids need a multiple weeks to get their bodies ready.
I really like the idea though.
Just spitballing here but it is not as wild as it sounds. Maybe shorten the regular season by a couple games?
It’s plausible that weeks 1 and 2 could get lopped off the schedule, to accommodate the off-season being bumped back while also finishing “on time.” Not unlike what the NFL is possibly going to do, which is make weeks 1 and 2 home and away for all 32 teams so that (if need be) they can get cut out for a 14-game / 15-week schedule.
likely a seasonal disease so not wiped off the earth, but out of seasonI'd be great with this, but how is this a possible scenario? Are we all of a sudden ok with corona death in September? Or will corona be wiped from the earth by then?
likely a seasonal disease so not wiped off the earth, but out of season
Although I haven’t heard any discussion of spring football. I would not rule it out. OHSAA and many school athletic department’s survival might depend on it.
Here’s a hare-brained idea:Might work at the big schools. Not at the smaller ones.
No way the ohsaa can go without revenue from state playoffs. That would be almost an entire year of missed revenue. No way they can sustain not having playoffs if there's football.
Ohsaa will probably get a bail outNo way the ohsaa can go without revenue from state playoffs. That would be almost an entire year of missed revenue. No way they can sustain not having playoffs if there's football.