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0-0 at halftime. Probably double the number of sacks than 1st downs so far.

I completely agree! I had to leave at halftime, plus I didn't have a dog in the hunt, and that one half of watching CPA play was the best "soccer" that I've seen this season and probably in a while. I wish I was good enough of a coach to get my boys to play like that. But as we have seen at all levels, if you have good defenders and one stud forward, anti-football can get you rings.

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2016 Wilhoit College Showcase Kicking Coach James Wilhoit is holding a combine for 2017, 2018 , 2019 & 2020 kicking prospects at Franklin Road Academy on June 13th from 1-6 PM. This camp will have COLLEGE Coaches in attendance and will be designed for long snappers, kickers, and punters. Schools confirmed to attend U. of Tennessee UT Martin North Alabama Carson Newman Cumberland Bethel Many more schools have expressed serious interest in attending and are waiting to discuss with head coach. Cost: $150 until June 1st & $175 after June 1st Sign Up at www.jameswilhoitkickingcoach.com Email James at jameswilhoit@gmail.com with any questions

2016 Wilhoit College Showcase Kicking Coach James Wilhoit is holding a combine for 2017, 2018 , 2019 & 2020 kicking prospects at Franklin Road Academy on June 13th from 1-6 PM. This camp will have COLLEGE Coaches in attendance and will be designed for long snappers, kickers, and punters. Schools confirmed to attend U. of Tennessee UT Martin North Alabama Carson Newman Cumberland Bethel Many more schools have expressed serious interest in attending and are waiting to discuss with head coach. Cost: $150 until June 1st & $175 after June 1st Sign Up at www.jameswilhoitkickingcoach.com Email James at jameswilhoit@gmail.com with any questions

2016 Wilhoit College Showcase Kicking Coach James Wilhoit is holding a combine for 2017, 2018 , 2019 & 2020 kicking prospects at Franklin Road Academy on June 13th from 1-6 PM. This camp will have COLLEGE Coaches in attendance and will be designed for long snappers, kickers, and punters. Schools confirmed to attend U. of Tennessee UT Martin North Alabama Carson Newman Cumberland Bethel Many more schools have expressed serious interest in attending and are waiting to discuss with head coach. Cost: $150 until June 1st & $175 after June 1st Sign Up at www.jameswilhoitkickingcoach.com Email James at jameswilhoit@gmail.com with any questions

OK. I have another question that shows my ignorance. I keep hearing from different people that soccer as well as all high school athletics will soon be changing...do you know anything about that or is it some kind of wishful thinking?

I don't see how this affects a "huge percentage of kids from playing travel sports". To me, this looks like it only affects the elite few...I may be wrong, and if I am that is fine, Can you explain that part, please?

After reading that same email, and the posts on this thread...I am starting to agree with you. This whole thing smells like a plan to help the elite travel teams and the very, very few high school teams (mostly private schools) that this affects. And quite honestly, I am sick and tired of these travel coaches thinking that they are superior to high school coaches! "Wow! You have a 'D' license...that must have been a hard weekend for you!" They practice two or three times a week, play their games on a Saturday, coach against teams that are the same age and level of skill as their players...how hard is that? My biggest victory as a coach was back in 2007 when I took my team that had all of 1 guy playing travel, and we beat a vastly more talented team, on the road, that made the state tournament that year...travel coaches will never have that feeling.

I would ask, just how many kids are we talking about? How many teams are in that premier league of travel or whatever it is called? Or is it one of those deals where a few kids from an area with a lot of money and influence are being affected and they are trying to get the rules changed for them?

In boys soccer in the spring, college coaches absolutely recruit the kids. In my 10 years coaching here in the midstate at 3 different schools, I have had numerous college coaches coming to see my kids, and almost all of them made their decision on offering a scholarship based on what they saw. I don't know about girls soccer and I especially don't know about travel (if I was interested in cutthroat politics, I would run for office, but I'm not, so I coach at the high school level instead of travel).

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If it was moving boys to the fall, I would be for it (I hate coaching in the cold of the early spring), but I'm against moving the girls to the spring, if for no other reason, the amazing damage that would do to our soccer fields. Plus, think about all the people who play on football fields...those football coaches would have a fit if there were two games played on a wet day on their precious field.

BigG, is there a timeframe for when this might happen?

I forgot to add that the reasoning behind this possibly happening is because most, if not all, of the states in our region (southeast), play both in the spring. The way we do it, messes up girls travel soccer. North of us, almost everyone plays both in the fall, which would be ok field wise, because the grass is stronger and it doesn't rain as much.