[Fly Like a Duck]

Biased. But I still love mine.

I used to be the complete opposite of this thinking.

Start later; much later (some 3-4 weeks later than we do now depending on the option).

Season ends the same as it does now in regards to the state finals.

Regular season ends the 2nd week of November. Don’t win your district/make the playoffs? Tough. But there is a consolation...You still get to play on Thanksgiving (or Black Friday if you so choose).

Look it up. Still very big in the Mid Atlantic states and in the Northeastern states.

Tell ya what else would happen if things went this way...you’d get more kids out. Season wouldn’t start until the first or 2nd weekend of September thus also pushing back the start of practice to let’s say August 1st (which is when school starts for the majority or at least that first week of August), so all are BACK and summer is over as is.

Telling everybody right now...if you don’t think that:

1) Practice starting July 10 (so practically all of July)

THEN

2) School starting August 1 (some even start July 30/31)

...doesn’t have an effect on kids playing and parents signing themselves up for it; you’re nuts.

People talk about the lack of Freshman teams; even for the smaller schools. Well go back and look at some old year books in the 60s, 70s and 80s at some of these places and you’ll see a FULL freshman and JV squads both in the year books.

Guess when they started then? See the above. Practice was August 1. Games started Labor Day weekend as did School (or maybe the week before at the earliest).