No More Spring Practice

[CoachT]

The 50% rule does not affect AAU basketball.

 

Also, AAU will benefit from the fact that there is no spring practice for basketball, beginning in spring of 2008. High school baseball and soccer should benefit, also.

[bobbybooshay]

Someone said football coaches should be happy about the rules. If that is true answer these questions. 1) Why are there not any AAU football programs? 2) The summer dead period hurts what sport the most? 3) Why would no open facilities hurt basketball or baseball?

 

Here are my answers: 1) Expense, insurance, time, practice facility. 2) Football's conditoning program. 3) It would eliminate coaches from CHEATING. They can still shoot, play, 3-3 or whatever. Football can't even have open facilities. No camps in July, BFD. Football can't have them in June and that is when most colleges have their camps.

 

REMEMBER this starts AUG. !, 2007 - so this summer is not affected one bit.

[pedo_29]

QUOTE(bobbybooshay @ Mar 18 2007 - 09:57 AM) 826416127[/snapback]Someone said football coaches should be happy about the rules. If that is true answer these questions. 1) Why are there not any AAU football programs? 2) The summer dead period hurts what sport the most? 3) Why would no open facilities hurt basketball or baseball?

 

Here are my answers: 1) Expense, insurance, time, practice facility. 2) Football's conditoning program. 3) It would eliminate coaches from CHEATING. They can still shoot, play, 3-3 or whatever. Football can't even have open facilities. No camps in July, BFD. Football can't have them in June and that is when most colleges have their camps.

 

REMEMBER this starts AUG. !, 2007 - so this summer is not affected one bit.

 

 

Are you serious.....how will this affect baseball...was that a serious question? Quit looking through your football blinders. Your question was "Why would no open facilities hurt basketball or baseball?"..........then you answered with "Football can't even have open facilities"....You are comparing apples to oranges. Football lifts practically year around and then they have spring practice in the spring. Taking away baseball's open facility in the fall and fall league is the same as taking away football's spring practice....that is if you want to compare apples to oranges bobby.

[Mojo20]

The TSSAA once again didn't use its available resources and tried to solve everyones problem. We hear all the time that less than 3% of all high school athletes play in college. So really the last possible level that 97% of its participants play in is the TSSAA, so if you have something as great as high school athletics why not make people, students, parents, make the decision. If you commit to play on the high school level and be involved with a TSSAA member school, then you commit to that institution. If you play or want to play in a state tournament or be a part of a state championship team you won't be on a AAU team, or a USSSA baseball or softball team. Decide on when the dead periods are give them to the schools, if you get word these periods are not being followed get in the car drive down and find out, and if they are being violated tell the schools to handle the problem or they won't be a TSSAA member much longer. Remember high school athletics doesn't make a school but one thing that a school won't mess with is coaches that put their athletics in jepordy. Just like the commercial says "Membership Has It's Priveledges."

[knight2]

I do not understand why they took 2 games away from Basketball instead of playing a game they will just practice. If they wanted to do something why not just limit practice time's or days instead of games. Most coaches will have 3 hours of practice 5 to 6 days a week as soon as their season starts to me that would had made more sense than cutting 2 games out but it is the TSSAA. They need to understand that 2 games means alot of money to these schools even the small schools that do not have the funding that some of the bigger schools have.

 

And the 50% rule how in the world are they going to know unless someone tells on a kid. Then you are going to have TSSAA filled with reports and do you really think they are going to go out and check on all of the reports. NO

 

I think the TSSAA means well but they need to think things through before they take action. If they know of coaches crossing the lines during the off season then they need to check them out and not take it out on all of the schools that do it the right way. This 50% rule I believe will only hurt small schools that now if they want to play during the off season they will have to have their parents drive them 1-3 hours away so they can play and practice.

[LSMFT]

pedo_29,

The summer dead period hurts what sport the most. If baseball players lifted and conditioned as much as football players, how would you like to have 2 weeks off, 3 weeks before you could start practice. There are football coaches all over this state that would give up spring practice if they got something in return. Baseball loses fall ball and open facilities in the fall. When football has open facilities it's called practice. Baseball can still throw all fall. Baseball can still hit and throw 6 WEEKS prior to their "OFFICIAL" practice begins. So tell me how baseball lost a bunch.