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From an email sent Thursday afternoon to Massachusetts basketball officials by the MIAA: Earlier today, MSBOA President Bruce Edwards called MIAA President Jim Peters to request an extension of the basketball officials' enrollment deadline. While making the request, President Edwards assured his full support for the enrollment of all IAABO Boards, if MIAA extended the deadline. The agreement between the two presidents acknowledges that officials will remain for the post game handshake ceremony throughout the MIAA tournament, unless it is determined by the officials or site manager that the end-of-game circumstances suggest that the officials should be excused from that ceremony. Our earlier pledge to create a positive relationship with MSBOA causes us to extend the MIAA deadline to this Sunday (2/17), as requested by President Edwards. |
From IAABO President
This message below was sent to members of one of the IAABO boards in Western MA..Note the comment from Peter Carroll.
I wonder if all the MSBOA and IAABO guys who last week were calling me a scab for registering with the state are now not going to register themselves? They were very concerned about safety and liability? Do you think they will still not register as their "concerns" still have not been met... IAABO Board #44 Faithful Board #44 members, After literally months and many, many hours of work on the phone, by -e-mail, and in person, the executive board of IAABO Board #44 has agreed with the MIAA initiatives for safety and security for our members and the process of enrolling our members for consideration for this years' state tournament has begun as we speak. IAABO International President Peter Carroll and I talked for quite some time on the phone today and his message is VERY clear: We have the responsibility to service the schools that we work at; enroll in the MIAA tournament and work in the games. He and other IAABO executives will work out the details of our issues after the season in preparation for next year. In a nutshell, the game/site administrator will be on the court with us, at our side, with direct and immediate access to police or security in case we need them. We can and should leave the floor if directed by the administrator or police/security officer. We should then work directly with the administrator to complete the MIAA form required for when we leave a game prior to the post game handshake. Otherwise, we will stand with the game administrator next to us and observe the post game handshake. |
Bumping this (which was just one of several threads on this issue) because I ran across this on another board: http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/arti...2600274820.txt
I guess in some states a few of the ceremonial handshakes have gone awry. So now they're NOT requiring them. Go figure. |
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