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Old Sat Dec 29, 2007, 08:35pm
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I had a funny one happen last week with the 5-6 tournament playoffs. A loose ball is going all over the court, with about half the players going down on the court, finally A1 gets control of the ball and is sitting on her rear trying to pass, a close opponent B1 gets bumped by his own teammate so hard from behind that B1 falls completely on A1 and the ball knocking the wind out of the A1, looked like a tackle, I called a push on B1, but it was totally B2's fault for knocking B1 into A1. Was that right?
The problem is letting Boys and girls play together. That seems to cause alot of problems!
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Old Sun Dec 30, 2007, 12:19am
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The problem is letting Boys and girls play together. That seems to cause alot of problems!
Know wonder they were piling on top of each other. Did you have any illegal use of hands?
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Old Sun Dec 30, 2007, 12:36am
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Now I'm starting to understand why they don't let boys and girls mix teams at the high school level!
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Old Sun Dec 30, 2007, 01:55am
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Now I'm starting to understand why they don't let boys and girls mix teams at the high school level!
But they'll let the wrestle each other. Where's the logic in that?
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Old Sun Dec 30, 2007, 10:41am
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But they'll let the wrestle each other. Where's the logic in that?
In some states, in some schools, anti-discrimination lawsuits have allowed boys to play on girls field hockey teams, where boys field hockey is not available. This has led to questions about the fairness of school field hockey teams with many boys, playing schools with all girls field hockey teams. Teenage boys, with testosterone flowing, are usually bigger, stronger, and faster than teenage girls.

Has Title IX, and anti-discrimination, gone too far? Due to limited funding, will "minor" high school sports dissappear like some "minor" college sports, men's gymnastics, men's wrestling, etc. Here in New England, Providence College was forced to eliminate its very successful men's baseball program to satisfy the Title IX provision of equal funding for men's and women's sports.

Both my daughters have benifited from Title IX funding in both high school, and college sports. Opportunities were made available to them that were not made available to females back when I was in high school, and college, but when field hockey teams with boys win state championships, and colleges like Providence have to eliminate men's sports, has the fairness "pendulum" swung too far in one direction?
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Old Sun Dec 30, 2007, 10:48am
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In some states, in some schools, anti-discrimination lawsuits have allowed boys to play on girls field hockey teams, where boys field hockey is not available.
Yup, I saw that commercial too.
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Old Sun Dec 30, 2007, 11:14am
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Yup, I saw that commercial too.
Jurassic Referee: What commercial are you refering to? I became aware of this situation when attending a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), the governing body for high school sports here in Connecticut, conference on the legal issues surrounding high school sports eligibility here in Connecticut. We were warned that more and more legal challanges were going to be made in the future that would change the "traditional" idea of high school sports, and that the CIAC, with its limted legal funding, was not going to fight every battle, but would "pick and choose" which battles to fight regarding high school sports eligibility.
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Old Mon Dec 31, 2007, 07:39am
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Has Title IX, and anti-discrimination, gone too far? Due to limited funding, will "minor" high school sports dissappear like some "minor" college sports, men's gymnastics, men's wrestling, etc. Here in New England, Providence College was forced to eliminate its very successful men's baseball program to satisfy the Title IX provision of equal funding for men's and women's sports.
Here in VA, James Madison University has suffered a similar fate - the elimination of many of their very successful sports programs due to the "equal funding rule." We HAVE gone too far.
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