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I came across this in the fall IHSBCA newsletter, anyone hear anymore about this?

For the upcoming 2009 season, coaches could see a marked change in the way their team gets seeded for sectional contests. The Illinois Athletic Directors Association and the IHSA advisory committee are looking into the possibility of replacing the traditional seed-ing meeting with an on-line seeding format.

Essentially, on-line seeding would begin with each coach completing an on-line form de-scribing his team’s season. Next, based on the criteria set up by the IHSA and the coaches’ comments on the on-line form, voting would be done on the computer by the coaches. Naturally, the biggest change from previous years would be the loss of the face-to-face interaction and discussion that takes place at sectional meetings. Many coaches fear that this new format will make it easier for unethical coaches to rank teams unfairly because they can “hide behind a computer screen.”

Dave Gannaway, the new IHSA administrator for baseball, doesn’t feel this is such a major issue, however, if coaches are doing their job the right way. “Coaches shouldn’t have to meet face-to-face,” he commented, “if they are being honest and true. I think 95% of our coaches will do it effectively, and the ones that don’t, are probably the ones that aren’t being fair in the meetings we have now, anyway.”

The IHSA actually experimented with this type of format two years ago when some basketball, s****r, and volleyball sectionals seeded teams by fax rather than during a meeting.
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If they follow the same format as basketball then the seeding meetings will be online. Also if they do the same as hoops, each team will be seeded in a pre-determined geographic regional instead of your opponent being determined based on sectional seeding.

Anyone else not like the fact that two or three really good teams could be in your regional while some weaker teams could play each other in another one?
I will miss getting to sit down and see some of the coaches in our regional, but we ran into a big problem last year. We had a game in Richmond and a seeding meeting in Dixon on the same night. Those are 100 miles apart. The game went until 7 and the meeting started at 7:30. All of our assistants and lower level coaches had games also that night, so we couldn't get to the meeting.
This change makes sense to me in that regard. I would hope that our coaches would be ethical enough to vote appropriately.

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