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Originally Posted by BoomerSooner
I don't know if this was done across all of Oklahoma, but this was actually changed up at my school and the other local schools when I was in high school. We always played after the girls until my junior year, at which point we alternated the order of the games. The issue was that the girls games were so poorly attended that there was fear that someone might perceive the girls followed by boys scheduling to be evidence of an inequity between genders and thus a Title IX issue. I think part of the issue was that the gate was actually divided between the boys and girls programs depending on when the tickets were bought.
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Interesting. I called 4A/5A/6A in the OKC metro from 2007-09. Never once saw a boys game go first, though I did hear people talk about the perception of sexism that never letting the girls play last created. Who knows, maybe after I left the movement gained some traction, but it sure didn't while I was there.