Thoughts on New tournament proposal for boys and girls.

[Eagles_Ball]

I think the separation has more to do with some private schools getting moved up or down classes based solely on their boy's championship factor. By separating the two you have the opportunity to then have a private girl's basketball team be in a different class than the private boy's basketball team.

Why wouldn't you have that ability now?

 

[341A]

Why wouldn't you have that ability now?

You do. They mentioned that as an option even if they don't moving they timing of the season. Most voted in favor of this at the Sedalia meeting.

 

[341A]

traveling to Belle tonight?

Postponed to Friday.

 

[HoopsTournament]

There aren't enough officials in the suburban/large school areas. If boys and girls both play on Friday nights, not enough officials to go around. I suppose you could randomly put boys on Thursday and girls on Friday, but that messes with the T/F and M/R days off between games. Not a good situation.

Or you could play some games on Friday/Saturday. There are solutions that don't require changing the state tournament format.

And in my experience, the schedule is not a strict T/F or M/Th every week. There is a lot of variation and in the schedule and it gets disrupted by tournaments and/or weather, so playing other nights is only messing with people who are OCD.

 

[3Rfan]

That's the case in what I would assume is 80% of the schools in the state. Small schools (C1) typically play V girls followed by V boys on Tuesday and Friday. "JV" isn't really a thing, as a lot of schools play a "JH' schedule that includes 9th graders. This is probably more of a north MO thing than anywhere else for the C1 folks.

I don't what part of the state you're talking about but in the semo area I know of very few, if any, schools that play V girls before V boys on Tuesday and Friday on a regular basis and we have a lot of class 1 and 2 schools. I also don't know of any around here that include 9th graders in their junior high games. Junior high schedule is mostly played before high school starts and the small schools need 9th graders to play on their JV teams.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

I don't what part of the state you're talking about but in the semo area I know of very few, if any, schools that play V girls before V boys on Tuesday and Friday on a regular basis and we have a lot of class 1 and 2 schools. I also don't know of any around here that include 9th graders in their junior high games. Junior high schedule is mostly played before high school starts and the small schools need 9th graders to play on their JV teams.

I literally said in the post it’s North MO that does this. Which is where the posters are (if memory serves) that don’t like the change ideas.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

Or you could play some games on Friday/Saturday. There are solutions that don't require changing the state tournament format.

And in my experience, the schedule is not a strict T/F or M/Th every week. There is a lot of variation and in the schedule and it gets disrupted by tournaments and/or weather, so playing other nights is only messing with people who are OCD.

That’s simply not true. I coached boys basketball for 16 years. 15 of those at a C4 or C5 school. Other than tournament weeks (which are the same weeks throughout the state), we played maybe two games a year not on a Tuesday or Friday. The one yr I coached at a C1 school was in North MO, where we played V girls prior to V boys. And those were typically T/F games. As I stated before North MO is the anomaly in all of this.

 

[3Rfan]

I literally said in the post it’s North MO that does this. Which is where the posters are (if memory serves) that don’t like the change ideas.

What you said was this is probably a north Mo thing more than anywhere else. It most certainly ain't a thing around here and never has been as far as I know.

 

[HoopsTournament]

That’s simply not true. I coached boys basketball for 16 years. 15 of those at a C4 or C5 school. Other than tournament weeks (which are the same weeks throughout the state), we played maybe two games a year not on a Tuesday or Friday. The one yr I coached at a C1 school was in North MO, where we played V girls prior to V boys. And those were typically T/F games. As I stated before North MO is the anomaly in all of this.

Tournament weeks are not the same throughout the state. I see games on Monday and Thursday all the time throughout the schedule in the GRC. My point is that there are schools that are doing it. You call them an anomaly. I call them an example of how it can be done without blowing up the whole system if the concern is whether girls are able to play on Friday or not.