Entries for February 2017

28

 It is because bad incidents are so very rare that they make news.

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Posted in: Sportsmanship
24
This is really the best time ever for school sports. It’s just a lot harder to operate today than 55 or 60 years ago.

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21

Transfers by students for athletic reasons is a chronic, nationwide, reputation-damaging nuisance for high school sports.

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Posted in: Transfers
17

“We need to move our focus from MHSAA tournaments to the regular season, to the 9- or 18-game regular season, and to the 100 to 200 practices that occur over three or four months of each season.”

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14

Without a policy prohibiting boys from displacing girls from teams and from the playing surface, athletic opportunities for girls would be in serious jeopardy . . .

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10

Leaders have to be concerned with two or more sides to most issues. They have to consider in advance both the seen and unseen aspects of the project.

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07

We trail the nation's most progressive states with respect to requirements to coach and a few other most progressive states with respect to requirements to officiate.

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03

Well-intentioned people have unrealistic expectations about this. They don't appreciate the amount of resources the MHSAA would have to put into making this thing fly.

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