[Fly Like a Duck]

8th graders do not need to be practicing in spring ball. In fact spring football should be done away with. It's done very arbitrary. The window opens when both boys and girl teams are eliminated? That's ridicules. What does girls basketball have to do with football? Some teams window will open within a week yet others open a month or more from now. Is that a level playing field? Instead the state should permit full equipment practice after the dead period in July and open up June for passing leagues. Let the kids play spring sports.

I agree. Why it matters when the girls basketball season ends is beyond me.

Kids can and should play their spring sports, but the fact of the matter is, baseball teams typically dress about 30 kids 9-12 at the max, with half of thoe at best maybe being football kids; so that's 15 kids. Track might have another 15 or so football kids at max. So, that's 30 kids at best out of a team of, let's say 50. What about the other 20 kids that don't play baseball or track.

Why is it bad to take them out for 10 days and really concentrating on football fundamentals as a time to improve?

Let me ask you this, if you are against football spring practice, are you also against AAU basketball in the spring and fall baseball? Regardless of the fact it is typically AAU/Recreational affiliated. Honest question.