By Don Seeley
dseeley@pottsmerc.com
ROYERSFORD — Chad Brubaker made a decision this past weekend he
didn’t really want to make, a decision he knew wouldn’t make a whole lot
of people happy … a decision he truly believed he had to make.
Not
long after Spring-Ford held off Ridley in last Friday night’s District
1-Class AAAA playoff game, and moments after school officials agreed to
move up the annual Thanksgiving morning game with Phoenixville, Brubaker
announced the Rams’ regular starters would not play tonight (7 p.m.)
against the Phantoms.
It wasn’t necessarily a surprising move, or
an unprecedented one for that matter, because the Rams have yet another
game — and a much bigger game in every sense of the word — on Saturday
afternoon when they travel to Pennridge in a district semifinal
showdown.
“We had to make some decisions that we knew may be
unpopular, but when everything is broken down we have to look at what is
best for our football program and the safety of our players,”
Spring-Ford’s third-year head coach explained. “There is a reason there
are no football tournaments on weekend, why we only play one game a
week.
“Our kids play 75-plus snaps a week, banging into other
players who are big and strong, too. We played 48 minutes of physical,
intense football at Ridley, and we’re going to have to play 48 minutes
of physical, intense football against Pennridge. Our varsity players
need time for their bodies to recover and rejuvenate. That’s why we
can’t justify playing them against Phoenixville, why only non-varsity
participants will play (tonight).”
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