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Originally Posted by KurtBryan
One of the points is, there is already a precedent for teams, areas, sections or states to do something different.
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The precedent has already been established in just this one area, and there are lots of items being presented to us.
Best of Luck,
KB  |
Kurt,
A-11 is not new, the youth leagues play with it all the time and officials officiate it.
Most states including California divide schools based upon attendance figures so that super size school does not play super small school.
NFHS has rules for 8 and 6 man football for those schools who for whatever reason cannot fill an eleven man squad. Know for many years Texas had such a program and one of the alumni was Dallas Cowboy QB Dandy Don Meredith.
My suggestion to you for what it is worth is play by the rules for 11-man football like them or not. There are some rules us officials do not like but we enforce them as written.
Or, see if you can enroll your school in a youth program where the A-11 lives every day at every game.
Or, rather than cry foul that other schools are bigger than Piedmont and this helps overcome that problem, drop down into an 8-team league.
I know Piedmont is an influential East Bay community and a wonderful place to live but quit trying to make everyone else subscribe to your "innovation."
Best of luck in whatever direction you take your program.