Quote: My direct point is.....what is wrong with the heart and soul of a high school team also playing club together? With the same coach?
Are there advantages of this? Sure!!! Are there disadvantages? You betcha!!!
But why is it against the rules?
Actually, it's not against the rules, as long as you consider the "heart and soul" of the high school team to be 8 or fewer players and they don't use any school facilities.
The rationale behind restricting out-of-season practice in the first place, I think, is to keep the playing field more even among schools who may or may not have a coach who does only one sport. Many schools have coaches who do double or even triple duty; if someone is helping with football, for example, he wouldn't have a chance to work with his players in the fall no matter what the rule, whereas someone who only coaches soccer could practice with his team year-round. Restricting a high school coach to working with the high school team only during the high school season helps to avoid penalizing coaches and their teams for coaching more than one sport.
