Iowa Girls Experimentation with two halves

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

To give a serious answer to an obviously unserious question, the governing bodies for Iowa high school athletics are the Iowa High School Athletic Association (boys) and the Iowa High School Girls Athletic Union (girls).

Have you ever known Padgett to be serious?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Have you ever known Padgett to be serious?

Negative Ghost Rider.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Negative Ghost Rider.

Had to look up 'ghost rider'. Which sense did you mean?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Had to look up 'ghost rider'. Which sense did you mean?

None of the above.

[amusedofficial]

A parent friend tells me that Mass. went from halves back to quarters last year, mostly based on eligibility for players to "swing" between JV and V -- with halves, if the JV kid came up and would play only garbage time, they'd be ineligible if they had seen action in both halves of the JV game which means the kid is penalized for being promising enough to get a taste of V action

The effect is positive for the big girls whose stamina takes a beating...with a judicious substitution, a good coach can get them two-plus minutes of rest with little impact on the court at the end of Q1 going into Q2 and at the end of Q3 going intno Q4

Originally Posted by amusedofficial

A parent friend tells me that Mass. went from halves back to quarters last year, mostly based on eligibility for players to "swing" between JV and V -- with halves, if the JV kid came up and would play only garbage time, they'd be ineligible if they had seen action in both halves of the JV game which means the kid is penalized for being promising enough to get a taste of V action

The effect is positive for the big girls whose stamina takes a beating...with a judicious substitution, a good coach can get them two-plus minutes of rest with little impact on the court at the end of Q1 going into Q2 and at the end of Q3 going intno Q4

Hmmmm, now that you bring that up, I think I'll have to see how the halves impact such eligibility because how many games a girl plays in has been determined by how many quarters of a game they played in. Could make for some interesting messes in the JV/V doubleheaders.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Hmmmm, now that you bring that up, I think I'll have to see how the halves impact such eligibility because how many games a girl plays in has been determined by how many quarters of a game they played in. Could make for some interesting messes in the JV/V doubleheaders.

States permitting the option of halves instead of quarters need to rewrite their participation rules so that players may participate in 3 halves in a day instead of 5 or 6 quarters.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

None of the above.

Ah, you omitted the comma. Makes more sense now.