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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 05:15am
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I have highlighted the ones in red that I don't think are necessarily inappropriate.
Let me ask you why you don't believe those specific ones are inappropriate? Is it because you believe that they are positive and friendly? Are they good ways to treat a competing student athlete? Do you believe that an athletic contest provides an environment in which it is okay to jeer and mock your fellow citizens and neighbors simply because they are with the opposing side or are serving as a neutral adjudicator?

Perhaps your view of the Oregon policy is clouded by what has long been accepted in sports and not formed by asking yourself if this is an appropriate way to treat other members of our society.

If the OHAA wants to foster more friendly atmosphere instead of an antagonistic one, I have no problem with that.

For those who will argue that they have gone overboard and are banning a bit of harmless fun, ask yourself why we should feel the need to derive joy from the misfortune of others? Isn't it enough to simply relish in the positive actions and successes of those we favor?
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 08:46am
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Hey, I would be in violation of the newspaper "rule"! I read mine during the introductions when I go watch the games, because that is the BORING part of the game! I'm really there for the action and to see how my brothers and sisters of the stripes manage that action.
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 09:19am
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Hey, I would be in violation of the newspaper "rule"! I read mine during the introductions when I go watch the games, because that is the BORING part of the game! I'm really there for the action and to see how my brothers and sisters of the stripes manage that action.
I read mine during staff meetings. Is that the reason I didn't get a bonus on my last appraisal?
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 12:15pm
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I read mine during staff meetings. Is that the reason I didn't get a bonus on my last appraisal?
Probably...depends on the headline the boss saw!
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 04:21pm
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Hey, I would be in violation of the newspaper "rule"! I read mine during the introductions when I go watch the games, because that is the BORING part of the game!
I read "Chicks and Ammo" (credit to Robin Williams). BTW - when I was in HS (back in the dark ages) and an opponent was going to shoot a FT, we would chant "SEE THAT BASKET, SEE THAT BALL, C'MON STUPID, HIT THE WALL". We were never chastised for it or anything else. Sometimes we would get really nasty, especially during playoffs.
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 04:27pm
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I read "Chicks and Ammo" (credit to Robin Williams). BTW - when I was in HS (back in the dark ages) and an opponent was going to shoot a FT, we would chant "SEE THAT BASKET, SEE THAT BALL, C'MON STUPID, HIT THE WALL". We were never chastised for it or anything else. Sometimes we would get really nasty, especially during playoffs.
Now if I heard this, I would miss because I would be laughing so hard. On a side note, I didn't play basketball in high school, I played soccer.

I always had the opposing fans riding me because I usually marked (defended for you basketball only people) their best player. The more they booed and yelled at me, the harder and better it made me play, I loved it and fed off of it. One time I tackled a teams best player (legally) right in front of the student body, they screamed bloody murder to no avail, I got up and took a bow. They really loved me after that.
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 04:37pm
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Did a game last season - Girl's Varsity - where the home team fans in the first half chanted "Bounce, bounce, bounce" every time the point guard dribbled the ball, and screamed "Whoaaaaaaaaaaa" every time the "star" player had the ball in her hands, ala the "Cameron Crazies"...as the AD was letting us into the locker room at half, he told us he would "take care of that stuff"!! I asked him "Why?" and he felt that it was not "proper sporting behavior". So he made them stop.

Whatever.
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 05:59pm
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Did a game last season - Girl's Varsity - where the home team fans in the first half chanted "Bounce, bounce, bounce" every time the point guard dribbled the ball, and screamed "Whoaaaaaaaaaaa" every time the "star" player had the ball in her hands, ala the "Cameron Crazies"...as the AD was letting us into the locker room at half, he told us he would "take care of that stuff"!! I asked him "Why?" and he felt that it was not "proper sporting behavior". So he made them stop.

Whatever.
Agreed. I don't see anything wrong with this. We did the, "Bounce, bounce, bounce, pass, pass, shot!" thing in high school as well as the old favorite, "Air ball!! Air ball!!"

We also used to yell, "Boring... boring... boring!" Unfortunately that was at our own team because we had Norman Dale for a head coach.

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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 06:32pm
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Agreed. I don't see anything wrong with this. We did the, "Bounce, bounce, bounce, pass, pass, shot!" thing in high school as well as the old favorite, "Air ball!! Air ball!!"

We also used to yell, "Boring... boring... boring!" Unfortunately that was at our own team because we had Norman Dale for a head coach.

And Nebraska basketball fans would chant that back in the Moe Iba days. Ahhh...the days gone by....
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Old Fri Mar 06, 2009, 12:05pm
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And this from the board's harshest critic of political correctness!
Obviously we disagree but please don't make my decisions for me.

You think this is a politically correct issue whereas I think it is trying to teach "the right thing."

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Old Fri Mar 06, 2009, 02:12pm
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" . . . Why can't the school, teacher, coach and/or parent decide this for themselves, considering they have the direct contact with the sudent and the behavior, . . . "
What seems to be lost here is a definition of WHO the OSAA is:

The OSAA is made up of representative educators, superintendents, principals, coaches, teachers, and school board members.

The "OSAA" does not establish rules they are simply the independent organization that keeps the voluntary member schools in line.

It would be my view that the new "sportsmanship rules" were established by the exact people that you have mentioned in your post.

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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 10:28am
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For those who will argue that they have gone overboard and are banning a bit of harmless fun, ask yourself why we should feel the need to derive joy from the misfortune of others? Isn't it enough to simply relish in the positive actions and successes of those we favor?

How is turning your back or "reading" the paper during introductions deriving joy from the misfortune of others?
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 10:30am
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How is turning your back or "reading" the paper during introductions deriving joy from the misfortune of others?
It's not. It's a dumb policy with non-athletes trying to exert their ideal into a place where it doesn't belong.
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 10:32am
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It's not. It's a dumb policy with non-athletes trying to exert their ideal into a place where it doesn't belong.
I absolutely agree with you. I was asking Nevada though as he seems to be on his high horse about this one
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Old Thu Mar 05, 2009, 01:21pm
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Wreck (oo, not a very good nickname!) -- I suppose they conjectured that these things were "provocations" even if in themselves they may not be all that bad. But it does seem way, way over the top.

I'd rather see them find ways to ENcourage positive cheering and appropriate behavior, rather than just stomp down hard on the bad stuff, or what they see as bad stuff.

I agree that I'm not sure how prohibiting the things you listed will help prevent the kinds of incidents you referred to. Those were indeed ugly and had little to do with turning backs. holding newspapers, etc.
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