Michigan High School Athletic Association officials made the big decision Friday to call off the football season.
It’s a decision that will now lead to a plethora of decisions that the MHSAA will be forced to make in the months ahead. The MHSAA announced that it intends to push the season back to the spring, but just how it plans to do so remains to be seen.
MHSAA media and content manager Geoff Kimmerly told MLive.com Friday that one option is to play the season in March, April and May, which MHSAA executive director Mark Uyl stated during Thursday’s Huge Show. But Kimmerly added that there are more options to explore before a commitment is made.
“Illinois is doing mid-February-to mid-May. February in the Upper Peninsula and the northern lower peninsula is not great for football, at least as far as games go,” Kimmerly said. “We have to figure out when practices would work for everybody and when that allows us to have games where weather won’t allow us to have too many issues.
“I’m sure there will be a few concepts put out there because we will have to look at when postseason ends and when the regular season in the spring begins to ramp up. We will have a lot to work out. We have said that this is a possibility for a long time now. But now we have to focus on this pretty intently and pretty quickly.”
Kimmerly said the concept the MHSAA does select will prevent as much overlap as possible with spring sports. Michigan spring sports traditionally begin with tryouts in mid-March, and it’s not unusual to see some sports begin competition if weather permits before schools head for spring break.
“Obviously for years we have been encouraging multisport athletes, and we are going to continue to encourage that,” Kimmerly said. “We are going to need our schools to continue to go with us down this road of being really flexible. I’m sure they will be open to allowing their athletes to take advantage of as many opportunities as possible.”
The MHSAA said in July that it was going to announce a decision regarding the football season by Aug. 20. Players began practice throughout Michigan Monday with helmets only, with the expectation that they would wear pads beginning Aug. 17.
Kimmerly said the fact that contact would be allowed next week forced the MHSAA to make the decision Friday. The Representative Council of the MHSAA met Friday and decided it was not comfortable at this point with contact.
“We had a meeting with our council to give them an update on where we are after our first week of practice and with pads starting up on Monday,” Kimmerly said. “When we did bring everybody together today, we did hear a lot from our council members from what they had received as far as input from their individual areas. There were a lot of concerns out there, and by the end of the conversation, it just didn’t make sense for our council going on with that level of concern. Some of the consultation we received from the state health department, they didn’t feel great about going into the contact portion of football.
“But we are going to move on and figure out what to do in the spring and figure out how to make this work so people can play a winter sport, play football and a spring sport. That’s the direction that we have to go.”
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