Athletic Directors Minutes
1. A Discussion was
held on the Girl’s
Basketball Tourney. A timeline is
online for schools to get information to John Overstreet. The Brackets/pairings also
are online and will be updated Wednesday December 20th.
2. A Discussion was
held on the Boy’s
Basketball Tourney. A timeline is online for schools to get information to John
Overstreet. The Brackets/pairings also
are online and will be updated Wednesday January 24th.
3. A Discussion was
held on Scholastic Bowl.
4. Watseka was
selected as the site for the 2007 track meet.
The meet will be held on Tuesday May 8 beginning at
5. A Discussion of
the IHSA policy that allows the filming of games by non
competing schools was held. It is the unanimous
recommendation of the Athletic Directors not to allow this. It is the belief that schools own the rights
to game at their location and can prevent filming by individuals or schools who
are not related to the schools playing that night. A formal by-law will be presented to the Principals
at the February 2007 meeting.
6. A Discussion was
held on prelim football games on Friday night before the varsity game and the
effect on timetables, length of the night and the ability to get officials to
do the games. Other considerations to as
why games were moved to Friday was to allow for one less night set up and
workers and supervision.
The Athletic Directors will survey their coaches to get
feedback on the issue. The options are
to keep the by-laws as is—play the game on Friday night unless moved by mutual
consent or change the by-law to play the game on Thursday night unless moved by
mutual consent.
The other issue discussed was the site of the sophomore game
on Monday night. The current by-law
plays the game at the same site of the varsity game. This was done due to using less paint and confusion
of where games were. The question was
raised at the meeting of the wear and tear on fields if you played 2 games on Friday
then JFL on Saturday and another one on Monday.
Athletic Directors will also survey their coaches and administrator on
this question.
7. A review of future
2008-09 and 2009-10 dates and
schedules was held. A few dates were
added to the original list. Schedules
for those years will be developed between now and the February 2007 meeting.
The idea discussed to move the volleyball tournament to just
Thursday and Saturday will not work due to the play in games—see 2006 brackets
matches 1, 3 and 6.
A brief discussion was held on the possibility of hiring an
assignor for SVC basketball games. There
was no interest in doing this due to the differences in hiring of officials by
schools.
8. A Discussion
“sophomore” games versus “junior varsity” games was held—see current sample bylaw. This discussion was held concerning
volleyball, basketball, baseball and softball.
The options are to leave as is and not allow juniors to play in the
prelim games, allow juniors to play upon mutual consent, to allow a certain
number of juniors or to allow as many juniors as a school wants to play. Please survey your coaches and
administrators. This will be discussed
at the February 2007 Principals’ meeting.
9. The winter 2006-07 schedules
were updated.
10. The spring 2007 schedules
will be reviewed at the February 2007 meeting.
11. The meeting adjourned at