Scrimmage not so fun

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I do not think teams should play each other before the season. Just my take. It sounds like you create some other issues by doing this.

Originally Posted by Rich

Well, that's what scrimmages are in most of the civilized world -- teams scrimmage each other.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Well then play a real game. But I mostly hear of all these problems about how they are handled. If they are scrimmages, then why all the problems?

I've been working high school varsity intersquad scrimmages for thirty-five years, and never once considered that the extremely rare problems that I had encountered, like a player mouthing of to me, were caused because there were two different teams involved.

Players could mouth of to an official in an intrasquad scrimmage just as easily as in an intersquad scrimmage.