The recent journey of school sports has had some “detours and adjustments,” to be sure – the change of seasons and the failing economy the two most obvious.
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This is election season, and we’ll hear political commentators talk a lot about the need for candidates to “stay on message.” That’s probably good advice for those of us involved in school sports.
We’ve seen traditional mail be replaced by email, and we now may be watching texting, tweeting and Facebook replace email.
If we merely whisper our beliefs, not much will be made of the mistakes we make. But neither will much become of our message.
On a recent trip I became annoyed that I couldn’t find a morning newspaper in the hotel, when my son said, “Don’t sweat it; today’s paper has only yesterday’s news.”
As I have prepared for October’s Update Meetings at seven sites across Michigan, I returned for guidance to the following words that were actually handed out at the 2007 meetings, titled “From Contradictions to Consensus”:
We appreciate that the soul of high school sports is in local communities and their cross-town or cross-county rivalries.
Tomorrow may be just the first day of autumn, but we are already far into the fall season of school sports in Michigan. Here are some early observations:
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.