HS Football practice length

[Tenacious E]

That's wild. Why was contact with your coach forbidden? We were doing things all year long, there was never an "off season" for football, basketball or wrestling when I went to school in the early 90's in Iowa.

It's kind of murky but back in the early 90s, we couldn't work out with coaches. There were like 40 to 50 of us who all went to a local gym and worked out, and then we ran afterwards. There was a non-coach alum who was the training leader, because he enjoyed it as a hobby. I believe he later got a job as an assistant coach at the high school when they allowed non-teachers to coach. But I don't remember having any coaching contact before August or after November when we won our state championships.

 

[beanerhawk]

That was the rule until relatively recently. You could have a camp and weights that was it. if you were running plays/teaching you were cheating.

Yeah I guess I should have been more specific, you couldn't practice in the off season but we were at camps, tournaments, open gyms or weight lifting all the time and the coaches were around. They just couldn't "coach" us so to speak during the off season.

 

[beanerhawk]

It's kind of murky but back in the early 90s, we couldn't work out with coaches. There were like 40 to 50 of us who all went to a local gym and worked out, and then we ran afterwards. There was a non-coach alum who was the training leader, because he enjoyed it as a hobby. I believe he later got a job as an assistant coach at the high school when they allowed non-teachers to coach. But I don't remember having any coaching contact before August or after November when we won our state championships.

Yeah, I wasn't very specific. They couldn't coach us either, but we talked with them all the time and they'd watch open gyms or off season tournaments. Hell all of them were our teachers also.

 

[gohawks50]

That was the rule until relatively recently. You could have a camp and weights that was it. if you were running plays/teaching you were cheating.

Don't activities weight lifting, camps, etc. outside the season still have to be "voluntary"?

 

[Tenacious E]

Don't activities weight lifting, camps, etc. outside the season still have to be "voluntary"?

They are voluntary in name only.

 

[gohawks50]

They are voluntary in name only.

I realize that, but isn't that still a state requirement?

 

[Tenacious E]

Yeah, I wasn't very specific. They couldn't coach us either, but we talked with them all the time and they'd watch open gyms or off season tournaments. Hell all of them were our teachers also.

Maybe it was up to interpretation or some programs cheated? All I know is that there was not any kind of year around training with coaches around. I think in the area, Davenport Assumption was the first to push the boundaries with their "bigger faster stronger" program. Who knows, maybe it was just a culture thing where I went to high school, and they didn't mess with the process because we kept winning, because we had the best players.

 

[Tenacious E]

I realize that, but isn't that still a state requirement?

No idea, but it probably is. All I know is that my son recently went through a 5A program in Iowa and while the lifting/working out/summer position group practices were technically voluntary, you didn't really play unless you were a full participant (or were in a sport).

 

[Bulldogs1974]

It's kind of murky but back in the early 90s, we couldn't work out with coaches. There were like 40 to 50 of us who all went to a local gym and worked out, and then we ran afterwards. There was a non-coach alum who was the training leader, because he enjoyed it as a hobby. I believe he later got a job as an assistant coach at the high school when they allowed non-teachers to coach. But I don't remember having any coaching contact before August or after November when we won our state championships.

that would be fine.