Entries for December 2014

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The challenge is to balance the negative effects of an “arms war” in high school sports against driving students toward non-school programs. It’s the balance of too few vs. too many rules out of season.

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26
These late, scrambling and sometimes inadequately vetted enrollments are one of the many problems attendant to the increasing numbers of J-1 and F-1 visa students enrolling in Michigan each year.

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Posted in: Foreign Exchange
23
The most serious and legitimate complaint about the season-ending playoffs is the stress it has placed on conferences and the struggles many schools have in building nine-game regular-season schedules. 

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Posted in: Football
19
Appealing to personal integrity works with most coaches, but not all; so the issue of stacking festers, and it frustrates many coaches.

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16
He was especially adept – instinctively, not by any book of instruction – at being an athlete’s father.

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12
When I see advertisements that promote travel as an escape, I cannot agree. For me, travel is a change from the daily routine, but it’s hardly an escape.

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Posted in: Perspective
09
If it can be done without too much controversy and if it has the potential to increase crowds without increasing travel costs for schools and the MHSAA, then seeding may make sense.

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Posted in: Tournaments
05
There is a difference between solving problems and creating a future.

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