Ryder Dean

Smaller 4As and under are gonna really suffer. Not that I don’t agree with the new rules. I absolutely do when it comes to our kids safety. But it’s gonna become a story of the haves and have nots. ISD‘s that don’t have a pavilion field will have to decide which time they want their varsity programs to practice. Early before school certainly works, but then your junior high kids will not get to practice most likely until potentially the later part of September. This creates unfair playing fields and dangerous lack of player development elements. Think about this, an 8th grader who has not had a chance to be in pads and practice contact due to the heat because the school doesn’t have enough coaches to facilitate practice for jr high and high school before school. So varsity practices before, which I agree with, and the jr high after school, but can’t practice in pads and contact under the new rules. These young players go out to play in the first game having not been drilled on proper tackling technique.. that young man is now far more prone to injury just from lack of proper preparation for contact. @uiltexas and @GregAbbott_TX need to find a way to create funding opportunities, grants, etc.. for each ISD/community to build pavilions without dramatically increasing the cost burden on the communities. Especially the smaller more rural ones like @rUSkfootball