The official start dates for high school football teams scheduled to commence the 2020 season on Week 0 will be delayed at least one week, NJSIAA Chief Operating Officer Colleen Maguire confirmed Sunday in an email to USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey.
"At a meeting of the football leagues and conferences (the NJSIAA Leagues and Conferences Committee, Jack (NJSIAA assistant director Jack DuBois, who oversees football for the NJSIAA) confirmed that regular season practices will not begin on Aug. 3.
"Therefore, anyone scheduled to play Week 0 will need to either reschedule or cancel their game,'' Maguire said.
Steve Tober of sidelinechatter.com first reported the delay to the start of the season on Saturday night.
While he did not have a definitive number, New Jersey Football Coaches Association Commissioner John Jacob said a "good portion'' of teams were scheduled to play Week 0.
Last fall, only 58 Week 1 games involved teams making their season debuts. In four of those, both teams were fresh off preseason.
There were 15 games involving 21 New Jersey high schools in Week 00 last fall, prior to Labor Day.
Don Bosco was one of the teams scheduled to play a Week 0 game, on Aug. 28 against Archbishop Hoban in Akron, Ohio, but had already canceled that game last month, coach Dan Sabella said.
The only game involving Shore Conference teams scheduled for Week 0 was Neptune vs. Red Bank Catholic at Rutgers University's SHI Stadium.
With teams no longer being allowed to start official practices on Aug. 3 or play season-openers on Aug. 28, the earliest gridiron squads will be able to commence practice is Aug. 10 and the earliest they will be able to play games is Sept. 3-5, Jacob said.
Those dates for the start of the season are subject to change as the NJSIAA’s COVID-19 Medical Advisory Task Force and COVID-19 Sports Advisory Task Force have yet to make return-to-play decisions regarding the upcoming academic year beyond releasing Phase I guidelines for conditioning and sports-specific drills, which can commence on July 13.
“The most important takeaway from all of this is we have to continue to remain to be flexible and look at this July 13 benchmark as an opportunity to be with our players and have our players together in some form of a structured team workout,” Jacob said.
“The task forces' primary intention with Phase I was to get the kids together in a structured environment with their coaches,” said Jacob, who praised the NJSIAA's task forces for having the best interest of student-athletes and coaches at heart.
The medical advisory task force includes Dr. Damion Martins, team physician and director of Internal Medicine for the New York Jets, who is also a member of the NFL COVID Task Force.
Jacob said he will address the latest schedule change during Monday’s NJFCA general membership and executive committee meeting.
“Obviously,” Jacob said, “the more information that coaches have, the better prepared they can be with regards to mapping out their preseason.”
“Until we are told otherwise, we as coaches need to be flexible because of how fluid the situation is."
Jane Havsy and Nick Gantaifis contributed to this report.
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