Regular Season Nov 8, 2009
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With summer 7-on-7 tourneys and instructional camps at full boar, we decided to ask a few workout weary football coaches what they thought about the debut of last month's AAA-mandated dead period, when all coaches and players were kept off limits from school's facilities for two full weeks?
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Aaron Clark
Elkins football |
 | "I kind of like it. I think all the kids need time to get away and it's a great time for parents to plan vacation where they don't have to miss anything. We know ahead of time that we have these two weeks off and exactly when it is. And one of those weeks is the coaches' clinic, so most of us should be off that whole week anyway. I think it's a really good thing for the kids and the coaches." |
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Josh Floyd
Shiloh Christian football |
 | "We're in the middle of Texas somewhere so we're kind of enjoying it. It's good thing the AAA has done because our guys need time off because we work them year round so hard that they really need the time off. It's beneficial but it's not a lot better or different than what we have done before because we always give our guys time off. Our guys work extremely hard the rest of the summer and take a lot of pride in it so not that big of deal to us to take a little break from it all." |
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Barry Lunney Sr.
Bentonville football |
 | "I'm for it because of the fact that the kids are just so taxed now, especially your multi-sport athletes with baseball and track and we have some. It's a long year. And for the coaches, too, they just need some guaranteed time off. They are just so busy through the summer with 7-on-7s and team camps, and it takes a little pressure off the coaches because they feel like they have to do something in the summer because the competition is doing it. Whether it's tourneys or what, it takes that peer pressure off the coaches but it's primarily for the kids. They need a break from us. We need a break from them. And when they come back, every one is fresh." |
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Ronnie Peacock
Rogers High football |
 | “I personally think it’s got positives and negatives for it. You’ve just got to plan around it. It is getting to the point where football is obviously a year around sport and we are stretching some of the kids pretty thin by the teams camps and 7-and-7s. And the kids that want to play basketball or baseball, their summers are just packed. It makes it harder and harder to have multi-sport athletes. With football being the next one (in season), we want to get our share of time and that puts a lot of pressure on the kids. As long as everybody has to do it, it’s a good thing.†|
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