Rather than consider this as a huge disruption, we are choosing to look at this as an opportunity to review how and when we do things, both regular season and MHSAA tournaments.
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The lure of participation for adolescents is that competitive school sports is difficult fun.
At the end of each school year the MHSAA asks its member high schools to report what sports they officially sponsored on a competitive interscholastic basis and how many students participated.
We have reached the point where 46 percent of the schools which sponsor football qualify for the Football Playoffs . . .
It appears that everyone is talking about where the championship rounds of the (MHSAA) basketball tournaments should be played.
It’s complicated and it would be contentious, but a winter sports schedule that ended every MHSAA winter tournament two weeks earlier would remedy many problems.
The proposal is seriously flawed, and by circumventing the MHSAA Football Committee, its proponents assure it is fatally flawed.
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.