My wife's idea

Sure, sounds like a good idea. 

 

So..... how would you go about making that change?

 

It would be easier than changing the rotational axis of the earth. But not by much.

Seems like a good idea at first....and being from Ohio, it would be great...BUT....

 

Football practice would have to start in mid-February to have games begin in April.  Not real conducive weather (or field conditons) for that to happen....and you can't just have football practice indoors like you can for baseball.

 

Baseball practice would have to start in August to have games begin by early September.  August is the prime recruiting time for HS baseball players who are being looked at by colleges.  I also don't think kids heading off to play in college would do real well playing their last HS games in the fall of their senior year, then having no games until summer ball starts in June.  That's a long time off considering they'll be competing for a spot on their college team by late August.

Hahaha heck I felt that way 30 years ago when playing in HS. Two a days would be much better in 30 degree december than 100 degree August.

Not entirely impossible, I think States can make their own seasons.

 

For example, in our state, the HS golf season is in the Fall. I thought that's true for all states, but later learned that most states have golf season in the Spring. It worked out great for our kids, since half of the golf team also play baseball.

 

Not sure how it happened though. I guess if you are serious you should start lobbying and petitioning the state HS athletic board or something.

Each state association can make up their own seasons, but they better be pretty close to what is considered normal.  Major lawsuit lost by the Mich High School Athletic Association a few years back dealing with when women's sports are being played. 

 

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It makes some sense.  It certainly makes sense for baseball, maybe a bit less for football.  As a guy who did two a days in Texas many moons ago... Joe Bob sez "Two thumbs up".

 

But more realistically, I think it really does make some sense at the collegiate level... not moving football to spring, but moving baseball to fall.  Not just for the weather either... Think about Friday night baseball games prior to Saturday's football tilt... with a Saturday baseball game slotted before or after football.  Could encourage all the more alumni activity each weekend.  Would be a boon for the Northern programs.

Here's why it will never happen.

 

Football is king.  By the season starting when it does, the majority of "borderline" student/football players are academically eligible.  It usually takes a bit deeper into the season before the academic challenges begin to reveal themselves.

 

If you start football in mid March, you're going to have a lot more academic ineligibles to deal with.  There is absolutely no incentive for football to change (read my second sentence above). 

 

Besides, as posted on another thread, fall is football season and spring is baseball season.  All is right with the world in that order.

Nuke83 - What goes on at your school where you have to worry about what seems to a large number of academic issues?  Sounds like they should cancel sports and get the school in academic order.

There are no worries on the baseball side, but football in the south . . . . It doesn't necessarily have to be a large issue, just large enough.  I've heard more than one coach and AD suggest that kids who are going to struggle with academic eligibility do so in the spring far more often than in the fall.  It's a simple reality.  

 

Personally doesn't affect my sons as my academic standards for them being eligible to play are far more stringent than the school or county will ever have.

Swapping seasons would *rock* the recruiting world - no longer would ESPN be doing their February football signing day shows - it'd be what September/October?

 

Maybe (haha) schools should take *winter* off and have the students go in summer, then we have basketball later and baseball later... Ummm not.

 

Better solution - move somewhere that baseball starts in January with 50-60 temps ;-)

If you don't think this is extremely common in football hotbeds...

 

Your wife needs to swap North for South.