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What is the new rule for preseason soccer? is the 8 players and a ball no longer...and it is now we can practice for a certain period of time in november?

August 1-October 31, 2010 -- Closed Season/Closed Facility
*Can work on skills with 2 students per day
*Cannot attend team camp
*Can continue to condition and strength train with all prospective players
*Can coach an outside team (75% rule must apply)
*Can use school facilities and/or equipment if coaching an outside team

November 1-21 -- Open Season/Open Facility
*Can practice as much as you like
*Nothing can be mandatory
*No outside scrimmages or competition

November 22-January 30 -- Closed Season/Closed Facility

January 31 -- First Practice

February 1 -- Schedule Due

February 7 -- First Scrimmage

March 7 -- First Playing Date

May 6 -- Deadline to Report Qualifiers (All Classes)

May 9 -- Playoffs begin (All Classes) Girls

May 10 -- Playoffs begin (All Classes) Boys

May 16-21 -- State Finals (All Classes)

May (when you are eliminated -- Closed Season/Closed Facility regulations apply
*Exception 75% rule does not apply

June 1-July 31, 2011 -- Open Season/Open Facility
*Can practice as much as you like
*Can participate in 10 days of school competition and team camps (June 1-July 23, 2011)
*Days spent at team camp(s) count toward the 10 days (June 1-July 23, 2011)
*Nothing mandatory

thanks for the info.; any ideas why they changed the rules again...

SCHSL i think

Oh-so-helpful unlimited open season for spring sports: Nov. 1-21.

Football playoffs: Month of November.

Chances of a soccer team that shares facilities with football getting any field space while their football team is still in the playoffs: Slim to negative.

Usefulness of a Nov. 1-21 open season for these teams: Minimal.

Now, I'm left with three obvious possibilities.

1. The powers-that-be didn't consider these little details of practicality when making the decison.

2. They saw the possibilities for conflicts but intentionally ignored them in favor of other considerations.

3. They brainstormed to find a way to make out-of-season practice for spring sports more inconvenient and of less value than the model that was then in place.

I think we'd all welcome any representatives from the decision-making body to shed some light on the rationale behind these changes; I'm sure there were practical reasons we are just not seeing from our limited standpoint.

Great post Coach Chass!

You're absolutely right. Somewhere in my district or at least my town/county (definitely not on our campus during football), there is. Being able to practice on our own campus without having to worry about students driving or arranging transportation elsewhere is a privilege, not a right.

Complaint withdrawn...there's always a way to "just make it work."

Oh, and the boys on the soccer team who also play football certainly don't need that practice time for a spring sport either...or perhaps their football coaches will give them time to go to an off-campus site and split practice time. Problems solved. Simple.

Y'know, you go off and think about something while sitting in meetings and things just keep occurring to you...PMSL Cup is in mid-November and SCSCL Cup is in early December.