Cha-cha-cha Changes...

joemktg posted:

As alluded to in an earlier post, changes to conferences/districts coming next year:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...240767&tid=ss_tw

In NoVa, the big change is to the old Concorde: exit Robinson and Herndon, and enter Madison (Madison issued an appeal and was turned down). It will look like this: Centreville, Chantilly, Madison, Oakton, Westfield. Robinson switches over to the Patriot, and Herndon joins the Liberty.

Yet something else in the works: House bill 965, which blows up the one school, one vote concept:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...amp;tid=ss_tw-bottom

 

I like adding Madison into the same conference/district as Chantilly and Oakton. Last year in the pre-season, I said the state champ would come out of this conference/district and will make the same pre-season prediction for this year given that it will now include both the defending champs and two-time state runner-ups. 

Don't know where HB965 is in the legislative pipeline, but it makes sense. The larger schools should have more weight to their vote: more students, more spending, more fundraising, more everything. Makes little sense for a school with 300 students to have an equal vote with a school that has 2500 students.

joemktg posted:

Don't know where HB965 is in the legislative pipeline, but it makes sense. The larger schools should have more weight to their vote: more students, more spending, more fundraising, more everything. Makes little sense for a school with 300 students to have an equal vote with a school that has 2500 students.

It makes even less sense for a handful of schools to be able to dictate policy for the rest, which is what this bill would cause.

I have a question.

Why must there be only one organization running high school sports?

Why not allow private associations to form?  They could each offer their own programs and schools could sign up for (and presumably pass along a management fee to) the association of their own choice.

It's kind of why, at the collegiate level, there is an NAIA.  The difference is that for some reason, the state legislature got involved in this when, to my thinking, we don't need them meddling.

The big advantage would be that the associations would have to figure out how best to serve their constituents, or else face extinction.  That would result in a service-oriented attitude, instead of all of us feeling like decisions get made and forced on us without our viewpoints ever being valued.

Matt13 posted:

joemktg posted:

Don't know where HB965 is in the legislative pipeline, but it makes sense. The larger schools should have more weight to their vote: more students, more spending, more fundraising, more everything. Makes little sense for a school with 300 students to have an equal vote with a school that has 2500 students.

It makes even less sense for a handful of schools to be able to dictate policy for the rest, which is what this bill would cause.

Kinda like how the federal voting process is weighted towards the populous states?????

The "handful of schools" are actually about 150 some odd strong, and represent somewhere around 80% of the student population in the State of Virginia.

It makes far less sense that a "handful" of small schools has upset the applecart so much as to dictate a complete reorganization of an entire state.  The big schools were just fine the way they were. ie...Tidewater, Richmond, and NoVa and surrounding areas.

Midlo Dad posted:

I have a question.

Why must there be only one organization running high school sports?

Why not allow private associations to form?  They could each offer their own programs and schools could sign up for (and presumably pass along a management fee to) the association of their own choice.

It's kind of why, at the collegiate level, there is an NAIA.  The difference is that for some reason, the state legislature got involved in this when, to my thinking, we don't need them meddling.

The big advantage would be that the associations would have to figure out how best to serve their constituents, or else face extinction.  That would result in a service-oriented attitude, instead of all of us feeling like decisions get made and forced on us without our viewpoints ever being valued.

Won't happen: it makes too much sense.