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Originally posted by ChuckElias
Stan, the short answer to your question is no. Girls and boys rarely play games on the same floor on the same night. Because of a Title IX lawsuit, the schools are now required to schedule an equal number of games for the girls and the boys on the "preferred" nights of the week (viz., Tuesday and Friday). This means that the girls and boys almost never play at the same site.


Chuck

Well Chuck in Northern Illinois, there was an school district that got sued for not playing Girl's games on similar nights as the Boy's games. Because in Illinois, most girls games would be played on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and the occasion Saturday game. Boy's would almost always be played on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.

This school district got sued by the claim that Girls were playing on mostly school nights and would have to deal with going to school the next day. The Boy's would only have to deal with that one night a week for the most part and have days off from school after playing a Friday and Saturday. This was all based on Title IX.

This lawsuit changed the conference in which they are a member of. They started playing all games on both Boy's and Girl's games on the same nights within the conference. The Girl's would play first, the boy's next. And this influenced another conference that I worked, and they went to a similar format.

Officials hated it that had to do the girls games. Those games would be at 6:00 in the evening so they would have to be their much earlier than normal and no one would be there. But when the Boy's games started, the place would be packed. And supposibly they are going to switch it around this coming year. I think this might change or their might be some kind of compromise after this year. But we will see.

Peace