I'm not in the decision-making loop for my track coaching job, but I do have my ear to the ground because what the hell else am I going to do right? In any case, we are at the "rumors" stage where people more important than me are hearing the possibilities that people more important than them are discussing and beginning to strategize around those second-hand details. Then they email me and ask me for my third-hand thoughts. And now I'm asking you.

So here's what I was pitched yesterday. It's not a plan that any school system or athletic conference has. It's just a plan based on a rumor.

The rumor is that we won't be permitted to begin any high school athletic competitions until January 1st. The present assumption is that practice will be allowed.

The plan is then to shove all three seasons into the remaining January-through-May of the school year. Because it's just a rumor, there's no hard dates. But basically, they want the "winter" season to last January through mid-February; the "fall" season to last mid/late-February through beginning of April; the "spring" season to last beginning of April through mid/end-May.

Assume the January-through-May plan happens whether you like it or not. Is three-seasons-in-five-months the best answer? Should we just cancel fall and then start mid-stream in January?

Obviously, it impacts different sports in different ways so don't be afraid to be a partisan if you answer here. I'm a track and cross country coach, which means I don't really care about football and soccer except insofar as they provide track athletes. If you've got a good plan for basketball players but haven't really thought through how that impacts golf or baseball, who cares? Name it anyhow.

For whatever it's worth, the person who sent me this plan/rumor wanted to remove cross country from the "fall" season of mid-Feb to early-April and just run it concurrently with track in the "spring" of early-April through mid/late-May, mixing an abbreviated cross country schedule and championship meet amongst standard, flat track meets.

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"Walleye, a lot of things are going to go wrong in your life that technically aren't your fault. Always remember that this doesn't make you any less of an idiot"

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