In addition to spring football, currently there are elite 7 on 7 competitions that are going on in Texas. Spring ball and spring game typically take shape in May. Summertime brings on 7on 7 leading into school practices in August. Why There is limited spring ball in the northern states is beyond me.
There are plenty of domes around the metro area that are filled every night for soccer. I would think if there was enough demand there would be domes available for 7v7 football.
Around the metro area, maybe.
But is it really fair to have metro teams be able to practice year-round while everyone else sticks to the current schedule?
Around the metro area, maybe.
But is it really fair to have metro teams be able to practice year-round while everyone else sticks to the current schedule?
Around the metro area, maybe.
But is it really fair to have metro teams be able to practice year-round while everyone else sticks to the current schedule?
There are plenty of domes around the metro area that are filled every night for soccer. I would think if there was enough demand there would be domes available for 7v7 football.
Around the metro area, maybe.
But is it really fair to have metro teams be able to practice year-round while everyone else sticks to the current schedule?
The whole spring football thing is a joke and overrated in my opinion. Yes, I know the southern states have spring ball and the northern states do not, but up until 2014 or 2015 Minnesota High School Football had some of the most lenient rules in the country. High schools in Minnesota could practice in full pads every day from June 1 - the beginning of August with the exception of the 4th of July week. Now the MSHSL has scaled it back similar to what southern states do in the spring. I believe the majority of the southern states cannot do any practices outside of their spring all practices.
Around the metro area, maybe.
But is it really fair to have metro teams be able to practice year-round while everyone else sticks to the current schedule?
Life isn't fair my son. The rural schools may have just 5-10 good basketball players but they get to compete in state tourneys while urban schools may have a 100 good basketball players yet only a handful get to play on the varsity.
I can only offer my perspective. In HS, I played 5A football in Texas in the Houston area. At that time, we had
trimesters which had four classes each day. One of those classes was offseason football (Athletic PE). As such,
one fourth of our academic day was done in lifting, running, agility, etc. When Spring Practice was in session,
we would head to our last class of the day, athletic PE, and then go straight to spring practice, which was no holds
barred, full contact. Now, our head coach played for Frank Broyles at Arkansas and Norm Van Brocklin with the Vikes,?
so one can only imagine how our practices were (lol) Still, it did show the lengths that the state was willing to
go to for excellence in football. I've never gotten the sense that there would be that type of support in the state of
Minnesota. For fishing maybe, and hunting, but not for football.
There are plenty of domes around the metro area that are filled every night for soccer. I would think if there was enough demand there would be domes available for 7v7 football.
Looking at it from a holistic approach- what's the purpose and the cost of spring football? Is the purpose so that we can develop a couple more prospects for D1 football- really? Is it really worth that?
If you run 3-4 weeks of practice or even 3x/week 7 on 7 you completely disable kids from experiencing other sports/ experiences during the spring. We have summer 7/7 already along with tons of camps. At a time when many coaches are going back to advocating for kids to gain extra skill sets by playing other sports do we want to force many of them to miss that opportunity? More importantly for the 99.9% who won't get a scholarship either way do we want to lessen their potential of becoming proficient at multiple sports? Just a thought.
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