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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my kid played football at a FCPS HS last Fall and he said some of the players were invited by the head football coach, who is a PE teacher at the HS, to go up to the field DURING school hours and train this week. That would have to be a violation, correct? Also, the head coach also is the head coach of a flag/two-hand touch team that is just a bunch of kids from the football team. They practiced all through the winter and even this week and will practice next week. The team has tournaments coming up. Is that legit for a head coach to coach this team as well?[/quote]

Possibly, possibly not. You have to read your conference manual. Our conference manual calls Thanksgiving through early May a blackout period for football.

All instruction during that period has to be fundamental, no pads, no strategies and practices cannot resemble normal in season practices.  Cannot coach off campus teams.

The PE period gives a ton of loopholes.

Two hand touch, flag and (popular in the south) 7-on-7 is probably sufficiently different that it skirts the blackout period, but just depends on wording of your conference.

Usually the penalty for violation of a dead period can include ineligibility for the involved players so most coaches steer clear of rule violations. [/quote]

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