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Originally posted by ChuckElias
There's nothing wrong with wanting a full gym. Who said there was? But I do think that there is something wrong with requiring girls and boys to play during the same season and then requiring an exact split of the "prime" nights. It just seems so low on the list of what should be the priorities of HS athletics. It's a little ridiculous to me.
My personal solution would be to have separate seasons. Let the girls have winter basketball, since they've gone to court to get it. The boys could play in the Fall. That way everyone can have fewer late school nights. If that's not good enough, you could even rotate the seasons. In even numbered years, boys play in the Fall and girls play in the winter. In odd numbered years, boys play in the winter and girls play in the Fall.
Chuck
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Maybe you want this debate to end by now, but I think it's an interesting one. First, the reason it ends up in court (and the reason the courts end up ruling in favor of these types of requirements) is because very little is done by most ADs to provide a bit of fairness. At our school, where the AD makes the effort, 12 of 20 boys' varsity soccer games start after 6 PM (under the lights), while 4 of 20 girls' varsity soccer games start after 6 PM (this is a much better balance than at many schools). Does the school's tax collecting group hit parents of boys with an electricity surcharge? Of course not. So why aren't things equal? Well, it's just the way things have always been done. And will continue to be until people in a position to change it do so, willingly or by court order.
Although it properly is low on the list of priorities, why can't this be taken care of at the same time as things higher on the list? Do we have to all agree on a list and work on them one at a time, in order?
Oh, and the day boys' high school basketball is played in the fall season won't be until after the day high school football is outlawed by the Supreme Court.
