COVID Football Data from Across the USA. Need Your Help!!

Coach, I can send you specifics from my school here in Florida. Things we did to protect players/coaches/training staff. I don't have state wide numbers though. What's your email?

coachcrews I tried to email you, but it got returned.

I believe he's asking for data regarding number of cases, close contact cases, games played, games postponed/canceled.

California, Oregon, and Washington are making an effort to have a season, but it is looking very unlikely. My personal opinion, is that although it's sad for our seniors, we need to move forward and start looking at how the heck we're going to get ready for the fall of 2021. If by some miracle, we do get to play some games this spring, the product can be very poor and even unsafe due to a lack of preparation.

Tennessee attempted to play full seasons across the state. I can't speak for everyone, but our team didn't have 1 single case of Covid. We did gain 5 covid forfeiture wins, and made it to the State Championship game in our classification. The team we played in the state game played 12 full games, with 2 Covid forfeiture wins.

I don't have any more stats than that at the moment but I can try to find some more rough data.

AAYFL in SE Wisconsin, Wisconsin's largest youth football league, cites 96%+ of games played this Fall despite strict COVID rules.

Looking at about 25 programs with with program having 2 to 8 teams 5th grade to 8th grade. (Smaller programs have 1 mixed 5/6 team and a mixed 7/8....larger programs have two teams at each grade level 5-8)

Amazing to be honest.

Not sure i'm 100% following your questions, but sensing some skepticism. The facts. All schools in Wisconsin had some level of inperson learning that ALSO had a football season, in general. Milwaukee, Madison, and surrounding large suburbs were 100% virtual....and also delayed their football season till Spring.

That said, any player testing positive was held out for two weeks. Additionally, any teams and teammates playing with or against this player were notified of the positive test. We can not force families to test their children of course. This with no fans at games (or 1 or 2 adults per athlete in some areas), requirement of temp checks at games for all players....pretty obvious COVID doesn't spread as easily outdoors....especially outdoors and kids.

Hell, look at the NFL. Positive tests here and there, and you'd think that playing and practicing against individuals with COVID would result in widespread outbreaks among athletes. It just didn't happen....COVID does not spread outdoors. Clearly close, confided space indoors is a major issue....but I believe masks have helped here tremendously in spaces (like school) that absolutely require them. 

I'd also invite you to read here.
www.tmj4.com/news/coronavirus/fall-sports-have-their-challenges-but-franklin-schools-are-overcoming-them

Positive test here and there? Denver went into a game with a practice squad WR playing QB. They had to postpone games and play them on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Cleveland played without their HC. Let's not act like everything went off without a hitch. 

Fight not looking too good now, CIF just canceled any football playoffs. There are some teams around here going renegade now though

A couple of smaller sized private schools faced off this past weekend in southern California, a lot of coaches are waiting to see what the punishment is and if the juice will end up being worth the squeeze. 

FWIW, there have been a number of private leagues starting up around here as well.

Yeah, except these two schools don't have any sway- they are division 13 schools with no more than a couple hundred kids. They arent the schools with money or the ears of anyone in power to unite the cause.


I dont know how dividing Private from Public for the playoffs out here in southern California would play out. For every 'big time recruiting powerhouse' private school out here, there are about a dozen more small time just scraping by private schools, or small private schools who arent trying to be an athletic power. And to be fair, the top line public schools 'bend the rules' out here as much as most privates in regards to recruiting, poaching, etc.

I think youd just be creating more bureaucracy and more divisions (which CIF loves). Plus, most of those smaller privates would enjoy just playing other privates in the playoffs. I've coached at a few, its not easy when you take your team of 20 regular kids who just want to play ball, against a big public school who has 80+ on the roster, but gets bumped down a division because of recent struggles.