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We must keep in mind that every enhancement of the 8-player experience invites more conversions from the 11-player to 8-player game . . .
When rushed into early and intense specialization in a single sport, youth may not be ready for the rigors of that sport.
There is a similar art to leading modern day interscholastic athletics, where the top task is simultaneously to protect and promote school sports.
The Big Ten Conference likes to say it "appreciates" high school football within its footprint; but the evidence is otherwise.
What is much more often true is that specialization in a sport that is too early and too intense stunts a young person’s physical literacy . . .
The vulgar, victimizing language we heard from a presidential candidate in a ten-year-old recording is NOT “locker room talk.”
From the Director is the official MHSAA Blog which will touch on pertinent school sports topics periodically throughout the school year from various MHSAA Staff.