UIL Announcement

[stardog]

UIL could delay start of athletics until September according to a conference call. There will "most likely" be an announcement Monday, July 20, from the UIL regarding the start of school.

[WOSgrad]

TAPPS delayed the start of 2 a days to Sept. 8th

[Old Tiger]

Honestly if high schools can’t afford to properly test then imo there should be no season.

[TarponFanInNorthTexas]

IMO, they need to switch Fall & Spring sports, at least for this coming school year.

[YTBulldogs]

UIL's 100th year, they want a full season. If that can't happen, might delay till next year or the spring.

[Celina8]

If they try to move football to spring then wouldn't many of the college recruits go ahead and just enroll for spring ball at the college they choose to attend . I am sure a lot of the college coaches would prefer they not play or encourage them to not play and risk injury that close to the college fall season.

[stardog]

If there is a fall football will be Sept 8 the earliest kids can start practice, first games October. Probably district games only.

[stardog]

UIL meeting today - Mon. 20th - No news out today, maybe tomorrow.

[stardog]

All Texas HS athletics continue as scheduled !!!https://www.uiltexas.org/policy/covid-19

[stardog]

Correction (after looking at the UIL revisions effective 8/1/2020. 5A and 6A will delay 5 weeks until 9/8/2020.

[Aesculus gilmus]

I understand Coach Metzel is currently trying to find replacements for scheduled 5A opponents Pine Tree (second scrimmage) and Lindale (Sept. 18 game).

[Aesculus gilmus]

Oops. Forgot that Lindale moved down to 4A, so no problem there.

[Celina8]

Good God after reading the UIL's Risk Mitigation Guideline Requirements I don't really see the point as half these items I doubt will be strictly enforced especially if you expect the students to be the one to do the cleaning and disinfecting of equipment, locker room, and other items. Plus football players will be sharing sweat towels and water bottles on the sidelines and during timeouts while on the field . To me the UIL wrote these guidelines to protect their A$% but know that the reality is that several of these requirements will be implemented with a wink and a nod!

[stardog]

The UIL announced that attendance will be capped at 50% capacity for football games.

[SaltySixes]

The UIL announced that attendance will be capped at 50% capacity for football games.

Who will enforce?

[stardog]

Who will enforce?. Trump's special police force.

[stardog]

Waiting on school to decide who gets to go to football games.

[YTBulldogs]

Show a Benjamin, bet ya get in.

[Old Tiger]

. Trump's special police force.

Space force?

[Celina8]

I just watched the news where one of the professional baseball teams had 12 players test positive yesterday or today which has them having to put a halt on the next few games . I kinda think this is what so many schools will be having to deal with and it will just create a fragmented season of some games played some had to be cancelled.

[SintonFan_inAustin]

Who will enforce?

Group of Rioters oops i mean protesters....






but on a serious note that is a good question. Seen info for Calallen that there is no season ticket being sold only General admission and its first come first serve.

[d0tc0m]

Group of Rioters oops i mean protesters....

Or worse, groups of unmarked, armed and non-identifying federal agents.

[Yoe_09]

From the UIL website on 7/27/20:

Risk Mitigation:

"Groups should maintain at least six feet of district from other group at all times, including the process of admission and seating. A group is defined as no more than 10 people including members of the household and those person who traveled together to the facility.

Schools should not allow seating in consecutive rows, and should block off seating to maintain a minimum six feet of distance between groups."

I don't see how you get 50 percent capacity with these particular guidelines in place.

[waterboy]

I understand Coach Metzel is currently trying to find replacements for scheduled 5A opponents Pine Tree (second scrimmage) and Lindale (Sept. 18 game).

Regular season remains in tact, but we had to replace our scrimmage with Pine Tree. We will scrimmage Terrell instead.