Season Starts Monday!!

[JRutledge]

It is not unusual for football players not to play the first week of basketball (mostly boys) if the football team played deep in the playoffs. Many players that would play both if they are done early int he playoffs (first round is the last week of October), then they are usually more than ready to start the basketball season. Again there are only 32 teams statewide that are at all playing football at this time of year. That is a very small percentage of the overall schools that are playing basketball when the season starts (nearly 700 schools). This is not much of an issue.

Yes we have girls that play football, but again such a rare thing this hardly influences a girls team on any level.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

It is not unusual for football players not to play the first week of basketball if the football team played deep in the playoffs.

My hometown high school football team made it to the State championship a few years ago, in a tournament during which games were postponed a few times due to snow, and didn't have three basketball starters until the first game, they missed almost all the practices and scrimmages, and got off to a slow start that they never recovered from. Whole new basketball coaching staff that year, I felt sorry for them. Parents weren't as forgiving as me.