Quote: To the best of my knowledge... the rule was placed in order to prevent HS from having year round teams... This was not because of football but because of basketball (it is what I understand). Apparently a few years back a school had essentially a year round team and if you did not play for the club team you had no hope of making the varsity team in the school. Thus the 75% rule.
however the rules as written clearly have not progressed with the times and need to be updated...
For example many schools in the midlands have started lacrosse teams, yet SCHSL does not cover the sport, therefore they can do what they want.
So if the SCHSL "works" for the member schools, then the schools need to be the ones forcing the issue. Unfortunately this means ADs are the ones who have to do the work and since they are football people, well nothing else is important.
