Every Southern California high school football team is in pads now, but that wasn’t the case for the first three days of fall practice.
Safety rules have been implemented statewide requiring teams to only wear helmets during the first 72 hours of fall camps. In addition, coaches and players are balancing a California Interscholastic Federation rule that limits practice to 18 hours a week with only two 90-minute full contact practices.
We spoke with coaches and players at San Clemente, Santa Margarita and Tesoro last week. All said that they’re still getting used to the changes.
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.
