Hey Fry, an IHSAA update!



Going to games throughout the past several years, I feel like I have more than paid his salary. It's pretty sad when a team goes to state and fans stay home because they can't afford to go to the games. It would cost over $100 for tickets alone for me to take my family to a game.
 


It's about $14 per ticket for next week's championship games.

One ticket gets you into 8 player, A, 1A and 4A champ games on Thursday.

$14 gets you two games Friday early...2A and 3A.

Then they kick you out and you have to buy another $14 ticket to view the later 5A game
 


I hate the IAHSAA. It’s a mafia racket and there’s no way a private corporation should be in charge of HS sports, ever. I like a couple of the employees I’ve interacted with but it’s a straight up organized crime group.

You know who decides how much Tom Keating makes from parents paying to watch their kids play sports at public schools in public buildings coached by public employees driven there in publicly-owned buses?

Tom Keating does.

Eff the IAHSAA. My kid graduating and never having to give them a dime ever again is the best thing ever. I go watch track and XC meets and baseball games because I love my son’s former teammates and coaches but those are free. My days of watching football, basketball, and anything postseason are over and I don’t feel bad about it.

That’s how I really feel.
 


Seth53 said:
It's about $14 per ticket for next week's championship games.

One ticket gets you into 8 player, A, 1A and 4A champ games on Thursday.

$14 gets you two games Friday early...2A and 3A.

Then they kick you out and you have to buy another $14 ticket to view the later 5A game
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And they know that if you have a kid at state track in more than one event, most likely those events are on different days. A kid running the 1600 or 3200 probably isn’t in the 200. So guess how many tickets you have to buy if your son or daughter runs on 3 different days?

And do we think they added a football playoff round because there were too many good teams being left out? Nope. They just have terrible teams play the likely state champs right away so they can double their blood money. There’s nothing more absurd than a 4-4 football team getting “Playoff Qualifier” t-shirts made.

Sorry, I’ll shut up now. My button on the topic is easily pushed.
 


Fryowa said:
And they know that if you have a kid at state track in more than one event, most likely those events are on different days. A kid running the 1600 or 3200 probably isn’t in the 200. So guess how many tickets you have to buy if your son or daughter runs on 3 different days?

And do we think they added a football playoff round because there were too many good teams being left out? Nope. They just have terrible teams play the likely state champs right away so they can double their blood money. There’s nothing more absurd than a 4-4 football team getting “Playoff Qualifier” t-shirts made.

Sorry, I’ll shut up now. My button on the topic is easily pushed.
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To wit, my hometown Hampton Bulldogs finished 4-4 then actually hosted a first round playoff game, which they somehow won. But then they got run over by Osage the next round. Embarrassing
 




I remember our hs was playing cedar falls when I was at Xavier in Cedar Rapids. I only went to watch as I didn’t play. CF was all set up with their turf shoes while the players that never played on it had to wear their normal everyday tennis shoes. I’m not sure if it’s still that way. But it definitely made it a disadvantage. CF was good that season but they 50 pointed Xavier, who wasn’t that bad, by the 3rd quarter. Was rough to watch the guys struggle to maintain footing. Hope it’s different today. Idk how they would change it other than maybe supplying them or the players purchasing themselves.
 


HawkeyeHypnosis said:
I remember our hs was playing cedar falls when I was at Xavier in Cedar Rapids. I only went to watch as I didn’t play. CF was all set up with their turf shoes while the players that never played on it had to wear their normal everyday tennis shoes. I’m not sure if it’s still that way. But it definitely made it a disadvantage. CF was good that season but they 50 pointed Xavier, who wasn’t that bad, by the 3rd quarter. Was rough to watch the guys struggle to maintain footing. Hope it’s different today. Idk how they would change it other than maybe supplying them or the players purchasing themselves.
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We need to do what Illinois does.

In Illinois if you’re a parochial school you have 2 choices…play up a class or join the parochial school class.

Public schools playing against Dowling money is a farce
 


Fryowa said:
We need to do what Illinois does.

In Illinois if you’re a parochial school you have 2 choices…play up a class or join the parochial school class.

Public schools playing against Dowling money is a farce
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It just really seemed to be a huge advantage to have the correct shoes, obviously. I couldn’t believe they were told to just wear their usual tennis shoes. You could see the players ankles having very little support even if taped. I can’t remember correctly, it’s been too long, but I believe CF may have won it all that year
 


Fryowa said:
We need to do what Illinois does.

In Illinois if you’re a parochial school you have 2 choices…play up a class or join the parochial school class.

Public schools playing against Dowling money is a farce
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7 classes, 6 parochial schools in the finals. You can't tell me the playing field is level.
 


99topdawg said:
7 classes, 6 parochial schools in the finals. You can't tell me the playing field is level.
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Nope. Seeing RSM forfeit games this year and not make the playoffs due to numbers was somewhat satisfying. I mean it sucks for the kids, but they’ve been on the gravy train long enough. Had a couple kids “commuting” from Sgt Bluff last year. Now try and convince me they paid tuition.
 


HawkeyeHypnosis said:
It just really seemed to be a huge advantage to have the correct shoes, obviously. I couldn’t believe they were told to just wear their usual tennis shoes. You could see the players ankles having very little support even if taped. I can’t remember correctly, it’s been too long, but I believe CF may have won it all that year
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They have gobs of money to hire full time professional coaches and college level facilities, and they don’t have districting boundaries. The people saying public kids can open enroll so that’s not an argument are idiots. How many public school parents can afford to do that?

I also know from personal experience and relationships that if you’re an elite athlete you’re going to get tuition waived. I can name several names up in my part of the state where basketball is king.
 


Fryowa said:
They have gobs of money to hire full time professional coaches and college level facilities, and they don’t have districting boundaries. The people saying public kids can open enroll so that’s not an argument are idiots. How many public school parents can afford to do that?

I also know from personal experience and relationships that if you’re an elite athlete you’re going to get tuition waived. I can name several names up in my part of the state where basketball is king.
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Yeah I can see that happening for sure.
 


Fryowa said:
We need to do what Illinois does.

In Illinois if you’re a parochial school you have 2 choices…play up a class or join the parochial school class.

Public schools playing against Dowling money is a farce
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In iowa...

Regina
Xavier
Dowling
Bishop Heelan
Assumption
Newman
Walhlert
Gehlen


I could go on. They all have decided advantages.
 




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