We live in a world now where when we go get on a plane you just about have to strip down to your underwear to get on a plane. Just to go to a high school sporting event you have to empty your pockets and go through a detector. The Boston Marathon has shown us once again why we have to do these things.
High schools do any and every thing they can to create income in order to provide players in any sport with new uniforms where possible and equipment on a yearly basis. This spring the athletic directors decided that a good way to bring in more income was to play both the JV and Varsity in the same location the same day. I think if you ask any school whether their income has gone up from this they will tell you it has. Not only the ticket sales but the hot dog stand has had a better year than those of the past because people will stay from one game to the next.
JV Softball and baseball plays starting at 4.30 and are suppose top be finished by 6:15. How do you stop a game in the last ending with the home team losing without a chance to get their last bat. About 50% of the time the JV baseball doesn't make the 6:15 dead line. A week ago the Rocky Mount at Nash central varsity baseball game didn't start until 7:35.
Once the JV game is complete the field is raked and the batters box repainted. If you are really good at it you might get that done in 40 minutes. Then both teams get infield practice and if it is done properly each team gets 10 minutes for that practice. The meeting at home plate and then the lineups and National Anthem. Not many games this year have started by 7pm.
A normal high school baseball game takes about and hour and forty five minutes. You get a game when the pitchers walk eight or nine and it take two and a half hours to complete. When that happens you are pushing 10pm on a school night and one team has to drive home. it is really good that 22 miles is the longest conference road trip for any team in the Big East.
I think next year we need to start the JV games at 4pm. One reason when they moved them to 4:30 so kids would not need to get out of school before the end of the day in order to get to the game. Every consequence in life in order to fix one problem in many cases creates another. We need to be able to honestly answer this question. Where do we hold back our children's education? Letting them get out of class early to go to a 4:30 game or making them wait until 10pm to go home and go to bed in order to go back to school the next day. Neither answer is perfect? Which would you choose?
Thursday, May 2, 2013
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