[charlie22]

Not saying I agree with the decision (I don't) but it's my understanding that a group of football coaches and basketball coaches asked the KHSAA to make the change and the change was approved by a vote of all schools. A lot of football coaches now are saying that they weren't aware of the change when it was voted on by the schools and if they had been aware, they would have lobbied their principal to vote against it.


My instincts tells me (although I don't know for sure) that the football coaches in the group that asked for the original change came from schools that were basketball powers. They were losing their players to summer basketball the entire summer. The change allowed them to at least get their football players during the month of July. So the change was better than what they had at the time.

I know it's fashionable to blame the KHSAA for every action that we don't approve of, but folks need to keep in mind that the change was proposed by a group involving football players and was actually approved by a vote of the member schools. If the football coaches now upset with the change weren't aware of the change when it was voted on, they should blame themselves, their football coaches association leadership or their school principal for not informing them.

Supposedly there is a group of football coaches that will propose that the change be rescinded but we'll see if that happens.