More changes coming?
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- January
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Journal News reporter Harold Gutmann had a story today’s paper about 13 cost-cutting measures that the New York State Public High School Athletic Association will be discussing at a meeting this weekend in Binghamton.
Among the issues:
– Cutting football from five classes to four – Restricting out-of-state travel to only bordering states – Using more centralized locations for state tournaments – Cutting the maximum number of scrimmages in each sport – Reducing the number of tournaments in each sportThe full list is available if you click on the story. I posted the list last week, much of which was met with harsh resentment. These will all be voted on this weekend, with each of the state’s 11 sections receiving two votes per proposal.
Harold spoke with Section 1 executive director Jennifer Simmons on Tuesday and she disclosed how the section would use its two votes for most proposals. She said her and the other Section 1 rep, Bronxville AD Karen Peterson, will vote against the out-of-state travel idea. There needs only to be a simple majority for a vote to pass.
In football, Section 1 has already adopted a plan to cut one regular season game out of its schedule. Basketball, and several other sports, will go from 20 games to 18 next season. And leagues in basketball will be based strictly by geography.
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Cutting one regular season game is absolutely ridiculous. Football in new york is behind the rest of the country in games played allready, this is only going to be a further set back. No one is taking kids into consideration here. I dont see how one football game can save that much money. This just seems like a terrible idea to me.
THE GOAL IS TO KEEP KIDS OCUPIED , WE ARE FORGETTING THAT SPORTS IS WHAT IS KEEPING SOME OF THESE KIDS FROM GETTING INTO TROUBLE , THESE KIDS ARE OUR FUTURE LETS NOT TAKE THE GAME AWAY .
Few questions for you Kevin:
1) You said the 11 sections are meeting does this mean that the Long Island schools will be joining the rest of the state for football?
2)The cutting of the classifications, what schools are going to be changing classifications based on this?
3) What will be the proposed locations for the state tournament games if they are more centrally located?
Geography based leagues are a terrible idea. Tuckahoe is a 10 minute walk away from Mount Vernon and a 5 min drive from New Ro. How can you put them in a league together? And the seedings are going to be all messed up because of small school that will have tough leagues.
football junkee
Great point. This whole thing is short sighted – penny wize and pound foolish.
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Absolutely. I see other states with 14 to 15 games played by season’s end, and NY is looking to cut back?
The travel restriction to only bordering states is ridiculous, a basketball team cannot travel 2 hours to Rhode Island but they can drive 6 to 8 hours to Buffalo. Utterly assinine.
I’ll never forget that I only got to play 8 games my senior year of football. I’ve never met anyone from outside section 1 and upstate new york who got so few, people from Rhode Island and Mass. get to play 10, so the weather excuse is bogus. The main reason we lag behind the rest of the country in football is that we play fewer games, and it robs all the kids, both the elite and the practice squad, from getting to play the game they love as much as they should be able to.
It’s also the reason that you see the same teams winning every year. A rising senior at Dobbs Ferry, if they’ve been on varsity since sophomore year, has played (or practiced for) 26 games, while a kid in the same situation at Ardsley might have played 18. Of course they’re gonna be better football players.
I say, scrap the state tournament, let all of our kids play 10-11 games, and have a downstate title with Long Island and Section 9 (and the city if they want in). While at it, you can save all the money from hotels and travel and facility rental necessary to pit, say, Croton vs. a team from Buffalo in the Carrier Dome. Then let the kids keep their game, instead of making thousands of athletes sacrifice so that the 1% who play on elite teams can chase a meaningless title (it’s not the whole state, and it’s an upstate tourney that we don’t belong in).
The State of New York is the Highest taxed State in the Country, which is one the reason for the stupid panic that is being shown here by the people who make the choices for us, Empire games, County Ctr, cutting games in most sports Ect Ect. The year after I graduated High School Sec 1 in football finally had playoffs,I still feel like we missed out. Leave the kids alone figure out other ways to save a penny!!!!
Tuckahoe Won’t be in a league with MV or NewRo
Tuckahoe will be in a league with Bxville, Eastchester, Pelham, and Edgemont.
Haldane really gets screwed, tehy will be with Peekskill and ossining.
Yes class C Haldane with AA Ossining, in most sports besides football. Hoops, Soccer, Baseball, softball, volleyball, i Smell Blowouts
Looks like Pelham is going to rack up some league titles…Basketball, baseball, softball, field hockey, volleyball, boys lacrosse, girls soccer…..
That’s too bad, I was looking forward to the Pelham-Mount Vernon game next year, that would have been a great game.
This is ridiculous. Football is just about the only pure sport left in high school athletics meaning the only place the kids get to play is at the high school. There is no AAU/travel team league for football. There is AAU basketball, soccer, baseball, etc. Those kids are playing all year round just about with all the AAU teams. Why take even more away from the kids that play football? Not right. The kids should not suffer.
This is another example of what happens when our “leaders’ are not in the trenches!
Terrible decision making!!!!