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PAUL BASSLER |
@COACHBASSLER
Triad High (Ill.)
“We will just flip our fall and spring workouts, so it will not have much of an effect. I was more worried about going into the fall season without having much of a summer. Now we will have more time to regroup going into February.”
MICHAEL HARRISON |
@BTHSEASTLANCERS
Belleville East (Ill.) ■■A spring football season will force coaches to adjust their fall calendars.
Coaches Comments:
WHAT WAS YOUR INITIAL REACTION TO FOOTBALL GETTING PUSHED TO THE SPRING SEASON? Coaches all across the country are dealing with disruptions to the football schedule. As of press time, several states had already pushed football season into the spring. Minnesota, Colorado, Maryland, California, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia and Washington have already postponed football until 2021. We asked the FNF Coaches audience how they felt about the change. BY DAN GUTTENPLAN, FNF COACHES EDITOR
JOE BEVIS |
@COACHBEVIS
Collinsville High (Ill.) “We ended our summer contact days, and we set up a lifting schedule moving forward. We now have an opportunity to develop ourselves as athletes for another five or six months. It also gives the incoming freshmen time to adapt to the ways of high school long before any competitions start.’’
DAVID BUCHANAN |
@CHIEFSMOKE10
Mercer County (Ky.) “I’m not that torn up about the lengthening of the strength and conditioning period, because we lost March, April and May (due to school being out). I think I’ve got a great strength and conditioning coach, Josh Painter. So, for Mercer County, this work with him has been … really, really good for us.”
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“This will have a major impact on the 2021 seniors who have not already been offered or made decisions on college. So, the time of the year that is usually recruiting season and is normally marked with college coaches visiting the school and doing in-home visits will definitely change this year. However, as long as these schools are still fielding football teams, they will find a way to recruit. We’ve had a lot of communication with college coaches virtually this spring so they have a lot of the players’ information and evaluations already.”
JEFF TURLEY |
@MARINAVIKINGSFB
Marina High School (Calif.) “I believe this is the best plan to allow us to hopefully get back to workouts prior to season starting. It’s going to be strange not having double-day practices in August. Knowing a start time that hopefully will work is good. [It is] something to prepare for with less question marks. Bowl games, playoffs, championships, that is January and February football, so I think it will be fun for a season. More weather to work through.”
JONATHAN HADNOTT |
@COACHHADNOTT
Waukegan High (Ill.)
“We’re basically going to flip our schedule and do (now) what we normally do in February,” Hadnott said. “We’re trying to build our offseason program. We will give them a break to get acclimated to school and start our offseason training soon after.”
ANDY BRUNGARD |
@AWHSFOOTBALL
Anthony Wayne (Ill.) “We’re doing walkthroughs and any kind of teaching sessions with everybody having a mask on, and disinfecting equipment after practice. Really following the CDC’s guidelines on what we need to do when we’re here to be doing it right.”
