We have problems that need addressing in school sports; but no matter how high our mountains sometimes seem, they are – in the overall scheme of things – high class problems.
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If you have ever wondered why MHSAA member schools have adopted rules that tend to temper the hype of high school sports, then current events in college sports . . . provide your answer.
Since the national media descended on our state to cover the loss of one of the more prominent of many thousands of Michigan’s precious students, I’ve been reminding people to consider also . . .
During March, the month of “one and done” in school and college sports tournaments, it’s very easy to think of games as life and death moments. So it’s timely, I think, to provide a little perspective.
Occasionally the same media who complain that things have gone over the top will complain that we down here in the trenches are too conservative in our philosophies or too restrictive in our policies.
Any student who feasts on most of that menu will be ready for life – ready for life’s ups and downs and all the changes the future will surely bring.
As I prepared to lead a group of people of a national school sports organization through a weekend strategic planning session out of state recently, I was challenged to check again my own answers to questions like these:
An appropriate analysis of what’s happening in the world of education would ask why it is that students in foreign secondary schools are seeking in record numbers to attend U.S. high schools . . .
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.