The task force concluded that counting minutes of contact during a practice or a week was not the best approach.
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Indeed, taking two small jumps when one giant leap is necessary is an ill-fated strategy.
This caused me to recall that some of the discarded policies of educational athletics are working their way back in fashion.
Simply put, these are schools where administrators are dedicated to creating a proper perspective of school-sponsored, student-centered sports, and spend time on this daily.
Now I’m being asked by interscholastic athletic administrators: “Yes, I hear the chatter, and I see the evidence and anecdotes; but what can I do?”
The stakes may be higher for decisions made away from the sport by coaches and officials than the decisions they make in the athletic arena.
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.