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Blythewood High School is the defending Class 3A football champion in South Carolina, but the Bengals won't be repeating as state champs in 2007. The reason? The school has been banned from the playoffs for holding practices in pads during the spring.It strikes me as a rather stupid rule: the players were allowed to wear helmets and shoulder pads, but the school has been disciplined because the players were photographed in a local newspaper practicing while wearing hip and thigh pads.
And this part of the rule is even more stupid: The individual players who participated in the practice are now banned from playing high school football. I can understand disciplining the coach and the school, but the players? Show me a teenager who refuses to practice wearing whatever his coach tells him to wear, and I'll show you a teenager who's not going to get very far in high school football.
At the same time, there's an alarming trend in high school football (and even more so in basketball) of top teams ignoring rules that they deem inconvenient. I'm glad to know South Carolina enforces its rules, even if this one seems a little over the top.
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