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.
