Minutes February 9, 2000
Meeting
1. The meeting started at 8:15. All schools were present except Momence and
Clifton Central.
2. The Athletic Directors reviewed the CAC
proposals concerning the SIFA. There
was little discussion on the proposals.
3. Mr. Colba of Tri Valley and Mr. Zeleznik of
LeRoy shared the current status of the ending of the LeRoy/Tri Valley football
coop. The Tri Valley board will have a
public meeting on March 13 and then a school board meeting in late March, where
a decision may be made. Both schools
have attended meetings with the Midstate Conference and both are waiting to see
the results of local and conference decisions, before making a decision on
future conference affiliations.
4. Mr. Mulvaney of Armstrong informed the
Athletic Directors that there would be a Superintendent's meeting of schools
who were sent letters concerning the Route 1 Conference next week. The feeling is that the Route 1 Conference
is a real possibility, depending on the actions at the SIFA meeting next
Wednesday.
5. The Athletic Directors felt that the
Sangamon Valley Conference should seriously consider the possibility of
reestablishing its own football conference in the 2001-2002 school year, should
there be negative fall out from the SIFA meeting. This would help save the Sangamon Valley Conference in other
sports besides football. The discussion
focused on two divisions as before-one large school and one small school. This would 6-6 in the year 2001-02 and would
either go to 6-7 (if Tri Valley started its own program) or the suggestion was
made to find another football school and invite them into the SVC to make two 7-team
divisions.
6. The Athletic Directors recommend to the
Principals that they be allowed to hold a meeting on Tuesday April 4 to discuss
the future of the Sangamon Valley Conference.
This would be probably after any decision was made by Tri Valley and
after the SIFA/Route 1 Conference discussions were clearer.
7. A discussion was held on the SVC regular
season schedule. Mr. Odgers of Watseka
made a motion, seconded by Leonard McKean, to change the regular season
schedule beginning in 2001-2002 to where every school plays each other, instead
of having divisions. The motion also
included the continuation of the conference tournaments. The motion failed on a 7-7 vote. The discussion on this motion included the
concerns that some schools never play each other and travel time by schools,
especially girls basketball that may traveling on Monday and Thursday
nights.
8. Mr. Zeleznik of LeRoy made a motion to
recommend to the Principals, seconded by Mr. Fanning of Milford, that the
Executive Secretary's salary be increased by $200 a year. The motion carried.
9. The Athletic Directors recommend to the
Principals that next year the conference does not issue passes to the
tournaments, but have a pass list of players, coaches, managers and
administrators similar to pass lists in regional tournaments.
10. Mr. Cowgill of Gibson City Melvin Sibley
discussed the "all tourney" team sponsored by WPXN during the Boy's
tournament. There was concern as to how
voting was done by the radio stations involved. The Athletic Directors agreed that the SVC should not sponsor an
all tourney team, but could not prevent the media from having one.
11. Considerable
discussion was held concerning the tournament next year and their format. Several suggestions were made concerning
sites, times and seeds. Sample
tournaments were passed out for each of the three conference tournaments. The Athletic Directors agreed to the new
format as presented with changes in sites.
The highlights (final copies with corrections will be sent soon)
included:
Volleyball: Having 3 sites (PBL, GCMS and Iroquois West)
for games on Tuesday and Wednesday, then using PBL and GCMS for games on
Thursday and PBL would host 6 games on Saturday. Changes also included, the addition a "championship losers
bracket" for those teams that lost in the second round. These changes would add one game to the
whole tournament, but not add any days.
Girl's basketball: Games #1-14 (there would not be a game 11
due to Rossville-Alvin not having girl's basketball) would be at the higher
seeds school. This means that games on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday would be at higher seeds. Games 15 and 16 on Wednesday and 19 and 20
on Friday would be at PBL (the sample shows them at GCMS, but PBL held the
consolation side this year.) Games 17,
18, 21 and 22 would be at GCMS on Friday and Saturday. This adds 1 game, but allows for the
tournament to be conducted with on less game on Saturday.
Boy's basketball: The plan is similar to the girls except
there would be a game 11 at the higher seed.
Games