CCS High School Football Season Could Be Cancelled: Report

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA — If the coronavirus crisis doesn’t improve by the year’s end, forgot high school football.

That’s according to a San Jose Mercury News report citing Central Coast Section Commissioner David Grissom, who told the publication Monday that in all probability the sport would not be played this school year if it can’t keep to a schedule that's already been modified.

The CCS last month announced plans to postpone the season until the winter, with practices scheduled to begin in mid-December.

The CCS has 152 member schools stretching from San Francisco to King counties.

“If we don’t have a (winter) season I don’t foresee us going to a Plan C,” Grissom told The Mercury News. “If we don’t start in or around Dec. 14 we would be hard-pressed to start it all.”

The California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for all of the state’s sanctioned high school sports, released a reconfigured calendar last month for all sports.

The revised calendar lists April 10 of next year as the last day a state section football playoff game can be played. The deadline for holding a state playoff game is April 17.

Grissom doesn’t envision the football season stretching into the spring, as some collegiate football conferences including the Pac-12 plan to do, noting that doing so would interfere logistically with the spring sports schedule, according to The Mercury News report.

“There has been a real intent to have a spring season because those students in particular by and large missed their spring seasons,” Grissom told The Mercury News.

“To miss two years in a row would be devastating.”

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