How many games would schools have played this spring? I'm glad it's in the summer.
That's one spring. How do other northern states do it? Why can't baseball start in April?
How many games would schools have played this spring? I'm glad it's in the summer.
I don't think the 3A schools are gonna be happy to win a state championship, get bumped up to 4A and then get their *** handed to them.
That's one spring. How do other northern states do it? Why can't baseball start in April?
I played 4A basketball and we had some teams that were pretty dang good. I remember during Winter Break against a few good 3A teams and absolutely go our ***** kicked. The gap between a good 3A and good 4A team is pretty negligible in everything but football.
Golf, soccer, track and baseball/softball all at the same time (plus tennis, for those who offer it)? Good luck finding enough bodies if you aren't a 4A or high 3A school.
That's one spring. How do other northern states do it? Why can't baseball start in April?
Track can shorten their season to end in early May. A lot of small schools don't even have soccer or Tennis. Golf?
Except there were a bunch of issues just last spring for Midwestern states during spring season. Why does Iowa need to move baseball/softball to spring?
There are schools that have golf in the Bluegrass Conference. Yes, the Bluegrass.
As Kobe Bryant said AAU athletics is killing high school sportsLast year my son played baseball in the Open Baseball league in West Des Moines. They only had the numbers for 3 teams... Almost all of the other kids were playing in closed competitive leagues at 7 years old. It's a problem that's only getting worse. Don't even get me started on the financial side of privatized youth sports!
I like how Tennessee does it...no private schools allowed against public schools. It's so frustrating year after year to watch the State tournaments in most sports and see almost all classes ruled by private catholic schools. I'd imagine those catholic schools are greasing the wheels at the offices in Boone so it'll never happen. I would bet heavy on nothing ever changing.
A lot of kids don't want to spend their entire summer playing baseball. A lot of kids get summer jobs, go on long trips, play in leagues, or go to camps for other sports, hang out at the lake and chase girls, etc. A lot of the top athletes in our district stop playing baseball after 8th/9th grade due to those reasons.
How many states play H.S. baseball in the summer?
Track can shorten their season to end in early May. A lot of small schools don't even have soccer or Tennis. Golf?
True, but the top 3A teams would smoke over half of the 4A field. It's that top tier of 4A where there is a huge gap.
The new/incoming IHSAA director is the former A.D. at Xavier.
Here's another one... Why The #$%^ does Iowa start baseball in late may/early June when the rest of the country plays in the spring?
The new/incoming IHSAA director is the former A.D. at Xavier.
Then those kids don't have to go out for baseball or softball. You have your whole life to go to the lake, work, or chase girls. It's about priorities. There were several kids who quit summer sports to do those things when I was growing up and have later stated they wished they had stuck with it. I see a few dads living through their kids because of it.
Iowa is the only state that has summer baseball.
I always found it amazing how few kids were still playing by the time they were seniors.
In all seriousness though, the IHSAA needs to shorten the baseball and softball seasons. Softball especially needs to cap the number of games you can play, some teams play in tournaments every weekend.