COVID-19 2020 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SEASON

[BoardHater71]

I made a post regarding this topic weeks ago but now the subject has came up and it's been hot & heavy in the last week.  The 2020 high school football season is something that many school districts are going to want to see pushed back due to the fact that some districts haven't had an opportunity to do anything all summer.  We have one more week and then the two week 'Dead Period' will follow.  On July 6th football workouts are scheduled to resume with hopes of playing the 2020 season beginning on Friday August 21st.  

If there's a delay in the season it's going to have to be pushed back to the week of September 4th.  This is the absolute "worst case scenario" to where we could fit the entire season & playoffs in before Christmas.  

Anything other than this would result in eliminating games and/or number of playoff qualifiers from each region.  

COVID-19 2020 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SEASON:  EMERGENCY PLAN

Week 1:  9/4

Week 2:  9/11

Week 3:  9/18

Week 4:  9/25

Week 5:  10/2

Week 6:  10/9

Week 7:  10/16

Week 8:  10/23

Week 9:  10/30

Week 10:  11/6

Week 11:  11/13

 

Round 1:  11/20

Round 2:  11/27 (Thanksgiving Weekend)

Quarterfinals:  12/4

Semifinals:  12/11

State Championships:  12/17, 12/18, 12/19

 

The following two weekends would be Christmas on 12/25 and New Year's on 1/1 and those are both out of the question.  Anything after this would not work because of the threat of severe weather and it would run into the second semester of the school year.  

[GeneralForrest]

SCAMdemic

[BoardHater71]

Here is what a potential 2020 season could look like with a restricted playoff field

(16 Teams = Top 2 Teams from Each Region):

 

COVID-19 2020 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SEASON:  EMERGENCY PLAN

Week 1:  9/11

Week 2:  9/18

Week 3:  9/25

Week 4:  10/2

Week 5:  10/9

Week 6:  10/16

Week 7:  10/23

Week 8:  10/30

Week 9:  11/6

Week 10:  11/13

Week 11:  11/20

 

First Round:  11/27 (Thanksgiving Weekend)

Quarterfinals:  12/4

Semifinals:  12/11

State Championships:  12/17, 12/18, 12/19

[ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood]

Glad to say West Carroll will be opening as scheduled on August 4th with a virtual option. Play some dang ball. 

[fredjones]

From the Charlotte Observer:

 

North Carolina delays start of practice until September 1st with likely first game on September 18.  South Carolina delays start of practice until August 17th with likely first game September 4th.

[Djohnson]

If cases don’t start going down no one will be playing. Where your mask

[fredjones]

Kreager is beginning to push the Virginia Plan.  He wouldn't be doing do if he wasn't told something

[pioneer42]

5 minutes ago, fredjones said:

Kreager is beginning to push the Virginia Plan.  He wouldn't be doing do if he wasn't told something

Who is Kreager??

[Yeti]

1 minute ago, pioneer42 said:

Who is Kreager??

I assume he is this guy

https://mobile.twitter.com/kreager?lang=en

[pioneer42]

14 minutes ago, Imthayeti said:

I assume he is this guy

https://mobile.twitter.com/kreager?lang=en

Thanks. I know colleges don’t want the Virginia plan because it interferes with pro draft and lots of players won’t play.

[Sidelinehustler]

30 minutes ago, pioneer42 said:

Thanks. I know colleges don’t want the Virginia plan because it interferes with pro draft and lots of players won’t play.

What? Interferes with the pro draft? I don’t want a spring season but I don’t believe what colleges want should have any bearing on the decision in Tennessee. 99.9 % of high school kids will play whenever. 

[pioneer42]

23 minutes ago, Sidelinehustler said:

What? Interferes with the pro draft? I don’t want a spring season but I don’t believe what colleges want should have any bearing on the decision in Tennessee. 99.9 % of high school kids will play whenever. 

You think college players are going to play college ball in May and skip the draft to play another season of college?? HS can play in spring if they are not early enrollees to college. I just said that colleges are not for it. It is a last resort. Got a feeling HS’s will follow suit with colleges at end of July. Going to be hard to play all three sports starting on December 28 with HS basketball if HS’s followed the Virginia plan.