Pennsylvania Two-Thirds of the Way to a Shorter High School Football Season

by Jeff Fisher
Pennsylvania High School Football Huddle

Pennsylvania is one-step away from shortening the high school football season from 16 to 15 weeks.

Late last week, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association passed on a second-reading a new rule that would eliminate a week for the 2012 season.  The new rule must pass one more vote in December before it will take effect.

Earlier this year on the National High School Coaches Association's NHSCA Sports Hour, I spoke with PIAA Executive Director Brad Cashman, who will be retiring at the end of this school year, about the change.

Cashman told me that one of his main goals in his final year as the head of the PIAA is to make sure that the season is shortened.

Click here to listen to that interview and learn why Cashman believes a shorter season is a good thing.