I was sad to hear that Bloomfield Hills Andover made the
decision to end its football program yesterday after only a few players came to
practice on Monday.
But here’s a modest proposal for the small handful of
players that were still invested in the Baron Football squad:
It’s not right to tell the several players that still wanted
to have the opportunity to play on Friday night’s that they can no longer do so.
With both Andover and Lahser set to merge at the beginning of the 2013 season,
why not give the remaining Andover players the choice to play just a couple of
miles down the road at Lahser a year earlier?
The option should be left to the athletes, especially the
seniors, if they want to continue the season on a football team, even if it’s
not playing for Andover, and not taken out of their hands because of
unfortunate circumstances.
Now the chances of this suggestion happening are pretty slim
because the season is already well under way and if the players would be
allowed to play at Lahser, then in all likelihood, the Knights would be forced
to play up in Division 1 rather than Division 2 due to the total enrollment
between the two schools.
The decision to shut the program down was obviously a hard
decision to make, but it was the right one for Andover to make in terms of
player safety in my mind. Andover athletic director R.J. Guizzetti and the
entire coaching staff made the only decision that they could. To continue a
season with just 12 players on the roster on a week-to-week basis wouldn’t be
fair to those players to risk injury every single week because of how often
they would be on the field.
I understand that the idea to allow the players to suit up
for Lahser is unlikely for a number of reasons, but it should be something
that should at least be considered.
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