Congrats to Scott County Central

[mohsbballfan]

With districts beginning tomorrow, I'd like to congratulate Scott County Central on being the first district champion in the state. They clinched it way back in December when the people at MSHSAA, who get paid to organize high school sports, decided to just copy and paste the boys districts over to the girls and create several districts across all classes with unbalanced numbers of teams on the girls side, including Scott County Central's one-team district. Good work MSHSAA, way to not be sexist and give the girls equal consideration. Maybe next year they'll actually do their job.

Note- Nothing against SCC, I haven't even seen them play in years.

 

[AC100]

Willard has a district with just 2 other teams and they are the number 1 class 5 team.

 

[PCole]

With districts beginning tomorrow, I'd like to congratulate Scott County Central on being the first district champion in the state. They clinched it way back in December when the people at MSHSAA, who get paid to organize high school sports, decided to just copy and paste the boys districts over to the girls and create several districts across all classes with unbalanced numbers of teams on the girls side, including Scott County Central's one-team district. Good work MSHSAA, way to not be sexist and give the girls equal consideration. Maybe next year they'll actually do their job.

Note- Nothing against SCC, I haven't even seen them play in years.

I have a solution for your rant: Drive down to the Bootheel, which is where the biggest part of your problem is, and force all the schools that don't offer girls basketball to begin offering it. Problem solved. God that was easy.

 

[BlindSide20]

With districts beginning tomorrow, I'd like to congratulate Scott County Central on being the first district champion in the state. They clinched it way back in December when the people at MSHSAA, who get paid to organize high school sports, decided to just copy and paste the boys districts over to the girls and create several districts across all classes with unbalanced numbers of teams on the girls side, including Scott County Central's one-team district. Good work MSHSAA, way to not be sexist and give the girls equal consideration. Maybe next year they'll actually do their job.

Note- Nothing against SCC, I haven't even seen them play in years.

And don't forget, they needed an extra month to do it.

 

[mohsbballfan]

I have a solution for your rant: Drive down to the Bootheel, which is where the biggest part of your problem is, and force all the schools that don't offer girls basketball to begin offering it. Problem solved. God that was easy.

Since you're wanting to be an apologist and excuse maker for a clearly horrendous job performance by MSHSAA, I have to debunk that lame excuse for what they did. Look at this map. A child could look at this map and figure out a better solution to the southeast area of the state in class 1. Just combine districts 1 and 2 and then add the northernmost district 3 team to it. That makes a 4-team district and a 5-team district in the southeast. Then the rest of the state is littered with teams and districts right on top of each other, so you move some teams around and get your 16 districts. There are no excuses for how MSHSAA did the girls districts, just pure laziness, sexism, and disrespect.

 

[Veer2Eternity]

Since you're wanting to be an apologist and excuse maker for a clearly horrendous job performance by MSHSAA, I have to debunk that lame excuse for what they did. Look at this map. A child could look at this map and figure out a better solution to the southeast area of the state in class 1. Just combine districts 1 and 2 and then add the northernmost district 3 team to it. That makes a 4-team district and a 5-team district in the southeast. Then rest of the state is littered with teams and districts right on top of each other, so you move some teams around and get your 16 districts. There are no excuses for how MSHSAA did the girls districts, just pure laziness, sexism, and disrespect.

2 years ago they had those 1 or 2 team districts and then in the West had some 9 team districts right beside 7 team districts.

 

[PCole]

Since you're wanting to be an apologist and excuse maker for a clearly horrendous job performance by MSHSAA, I have to debunk that lame excuse for what they did. Look at this map. A child could look at this map and figure out a better solution to the southeast area of the state in class 1. Just combine districts 1 and 2 and then add the northernmost district 3 team to it. That makes a 4-team district and a 5-team district in the southeast. Then the rest of the state is littered with teams and districts right on top of each other, so you move some teams around and get your 16 districts. There are no excuses for how MSHSAA did the girls districts, just pure laziness, sexism, and disrespect.

I'm neither an apologist nor excuse maker. Just a realist that understands that the association - through its member schools - wants to keep teams in the same district based on gender. Like I said, you tell the schools that don't offer girls basketball to start offering it and the problem will be solved. Sorry if that's too deep for you.

 

[AC100]

Most schools that don't offer girls basketball take that road because they don't have enough girls that want to play. Some small schools literally have to walk through the halls of the school and beg girls to play now.

 

[mohsbballfan]

I'm neither an apologist nor excuse maker. Just a realist that understands that the association - through its member schools - wants to keep teams in the same district based on gender. Like I said, you tell the schools that don't offer girls basketball to start offering it and the problem will be solved. Sorry if that's too deep for you.

It's not a matter of being deep, that is a very simple concept. The problem is that the girls districts are embarrassingly stupid with how MSHSAA currently does things. There are two solutions to this. One solution would be incredibly difficult, which is the addition of girls basketball programs at several schools, along with the hiring of coaches to run those programs, and in some cases that still isn't viable because there aren't enough girls to field a team. The other solution is for MSHSAA to take 15 minutes to group teams on the girls side. MSHSAA has the ability to implement one of those solutions immediately on their own with little to no effort. If you want to continue believing that the easier solution is create new programs and magically come up with girls to fill those teams then that's your right, but there's another solution that only requires the people paid to run high school sports in Missouri to do their jobs.

 

[kaskaskiakid]

Just playing the devil's advocate here, I think MSHSAA and most Class 1 schools are not interested in sending the girls teams to a different district than the boys team. Part of the reason is financial - sending 2 buses to 2 different locations.

I agree that a 1 team district is a joke.

 

[Ftballfan16]

Just playing the devil's advocate here, I think MSHSAA and most Class 1 schools are not interested in sending the girls teams to a different district than the boys team. Part of the reason is financial - sending 2 buses to 2 different locations.

I agree that a 1 team district is a joke.

Boys and Girls don’t play on the same night come District time anyway. Why would it matter if they were in different districts. There is no excuse for a 1 team district when it could have been easily avoided. Scott County is a district champ without playing a game. They will get a plaque even though they only won a few games all year and got beat by 100 points one game.

 

[PCole]

I have a better idea. The association should return to 4 classes, which is what they had before the 2002-03 season, when they went to 5 classes. Then, make Class 1 into 32 districts - again, what it was before 2002-03. You'd have more schools in Class 1 than since the association went to 5 classes (which I didn't like), and now 6 (which I hate). And you more than likely wouldn't have any 1-team or 2-team districts (which I also hate), regardless of how many SEMO schools don't offer girls basketball.

 

[BlindSide20]

Most schools that don't offer girls basketball take that road because they don't have enough girls that want to play. Some small schools literally have to walk through the halls of the school and beg girls to play now.

Now, you are having some Class 3 schools who are having to walk the halls and beg girls to play...

 

[AC100]

Now, you are having some Class 3 schools who are having to walk the halls and beg girls to play...

I worked with someone whose daughter played at a class 3 school here a few years ago. She said it was rare to have everyone at practice. Girls would skip all of the time but the coach couldn't do anything because any punishment would cause the girls to quit and they wouldn't have enough players. Compare that to many COC schools where if the girls play badly the coach will have a 5 am practice the next day and every girl shows up.

 

[BlindSide20]

I worked with someone whose daughter played at a class 3 school here a few years ago. She said it was rare to have everyone at practice. Girls would skip all of the time but the coach couldn't do anything because any punishment would cause the girls to quit and they wouldn't have enough players. Compare that to many COC schools where if the girls play badly the coach will have a 5 am practice the next day and every girl shows up.

Yep

 

[Eagles_Ball]

I worked with someone whose daughter played at a class 3 school here a few years ago. She said it was rare to have everyone at practice. Girls would skip all of the time but the coach couldn't do anything because any punishment would cause the girls to quit and they wouldn't have enough players. Compare that to many COC schools where if the girls play badly the coach will have a 5 am practice the next day and every girl shows up.

Good things happen when schools, communities, and parents actually support the athletics programs. Probably shouldn't be such an odd concept.