County start dates for practice

[gatorman001]

Will continue to update list as information becomes available

Gilchirst County - Aug 24th

Glades County - Aug 24th

Alachua County - Aug 24th

Clay County - Aug 24th

Washington County - Aug 24th

Hillsborough County - Aug 24th

Taylor County - Aug 24th

Indian River County - Aug 24th

Pasco County Sept 7th

Hernando County - Sept 14th

Union County - Aug 24th

Okeechobee County - Aug 24th

Putnam County 8/24

Lee County - Sept 11th - county only play

Duval County - Aug 24th

Nassau County - Aug 24th

Escambia County - Sept 7th

Sarasota County - Aug 24th

Bradford County - Aug 24th

Calhoun County - Aug 24th

Walton County - Aug 24th

Hamilton County - Aug 24th

Gulf County - Aug 24th

Holmes County - Aug 24th

Bay County - Sept 7th

Lafayette County - Aug 24th

Leon County - Sept 11th

Levy County - Aug 24th

Madison County - Aug 24th

Marion County - Aug 24th

Martin County - Aug 24th

Osceola County - Sept 7th

Polk County - Aug 26th

Seminole County - Aug 31th

Suwanee County - Aug 24th

Franklin County - Aug 24th

Baker County - Aug 24th

Gadsden County - Sept 1st

Jackson County - Aug 24th

Jefferson County - Aug 24th

 

[gatorman001]

Lee County has decided to play a county only schedule, there has also been rumblings from the Miami area, that they that area as a whole may withdraw from the FHSAA state series this year, creating a situation where state titles claimed this year would have to be identified with asterisk at least this year........... particularly without representation in the playoffs from teams in this area of the state that dominated the state last year in football! Will be interesting in the next few days to see what counties commit to the Aug 24th start date and which counties choose not to?

 

[Neutral 0bserver]

Should be exciting.

Will spectators be allowed in? Or just cardboard cut-outs?

 

[gatorman001]

Good question, and the answer probably will have to answered separately by each county? I know when I talked last to the Manatee AD 4-6 weeks back, she indicated at that point all options were still being considered by the county...... (Which included no fans in the stands and charging for games to be streamed online as an example of things that are being considered). Information on the virus continues to evolve, since I last spoke to the Manatee AD. My primary concern when I spoke to her, was finding new ways to generate revenue for the Manatee HS sports program on the whole. As the typical revenue sources (local businesses in the community), would in all likely hood be negatively impacted by the virus to say nothing about the possibility of not being able to have fans in the stands and how it would subsequently negatively impact revenue generated from home games.

Back in the spring Venice HS boosters had a online streaming fund raising drive having some its more famous sports alumni on during the online drive, question and answers with coach Peacock etc......, and Manatee boosters while not doing anything as elaborate as what the Venice boosters put on, did do a online fund raising drive as well.

I haven't heard back from the Manatee AD, she did promise once the dust began to settle with this situation, to reach out to me. But I see revenue being the next big obstacle to be dealt with for most schools sports programs