1 minute ago, Royals and Saints Fan said:

Totally agree, but surely it’s not true.

I hope not.  It is an unfunded mandate singling out cheerleaders, despicable. 

35 minutes ago, theguru said:

That is absolutely crazy, someone should be fired over that. 

 

29 minutes ago, Royals and Saints Fan said:

Totally agree, but surely it’s not true.

I will back up on half of it. I know the part of them having to pay for half of the bus is true. The coach in question and I have discussed that. I am unsure if they "have" to travel, or if they just do so as a matter of tradition and it's "expected." She is only in her 2nd or 3rd year at that school. 

It took me about 4 years in my current position to really get a grasp on what we "had" to do versus what I was being "told we had" to do. Sometimes people think things have to remain the same just so they can remain the same. 

7 minutes ago, cheercoachwes said:

 

I will back up on half of it. I know the part of them having to pay for half of the bus is true. The coach in question and I have discussed that. I am unsure if they "have" to travel, or if they just do so as a matter of tradition and it's "expected." She is only in her 2nd or 3rd year at that school. 

It took me about 4 years in my current position to really get a grasp on what we "had" to do versus what I was being "told we had" to do. Sometimes people think things have to remain the same just so they can remain the same. 

Moving forward when any of your powers that be talk about something I would stop them right away and ask them if that is a requirement or something that they would like to see happen.

1 hour ago, Royals and Saints Fan said:

SO Again, in these current times, the bands and cheerleaders DO NOT exist today to support basketball and football.  They are all competitive individually.  Be thankful that they take their own time to support their high school teams.  Both band and cheerleading are big time at many schools.  Cheerleading and band competitions are serious and well attended.  Do the basketball and football teams invest any or much of their time to support band and cheerleading competitions?  Uh, mostly not a chance.

I attended 8 ( I think) band competitions this year, and all of them the stands were packed the majority of the day. I will say that our (Mason) football team attended our home competition the last few years, and a handful from each sport went to a few comps.  

6 hours ago, theguru said:

Moving forward when any of your powers that be talk about something I would stop them right away and ask them if that is a requirement or something that they would like to see happen.

That was my mistake. I was following the guidance of one of my predecessors who had many years of experience. I assumed they knew, as opposed to verifying for myself. 

edited to add: Our administration is the most cheer-friendly administration I've worked with in my quarter-century of doing this.

Edited March 10, 20233 yr by cheercoachwes
To add additional context.

♥️ Pregame student and band turnout from Owensboro Catholic for their game with Sacred Heart in the Girls' Sweet 16. School of around 400 students. Close to a three hour drive. Roughly a third of your boys and girls  in the stands ...

That's just Aces! ♣️♦️♠️

? @KHSAA

According to GRC's Mike "Bear" Rogers, Cardinal Nation has 16 buses loaded up and headed west for their game today!

9 minutes ago, LCDAWGS19 said:

According to GRC's Mike "Bear" Rogers, Cardinal Nation has 16 buses loaded up and headed west for their game today!

Sixteen, I'd truly like to count them.

1 minute ago, 4 Quarters said:

Sixteen, I'd truly like to count them.

If you have Twitter, go to Ivan Rice's page.  He has 2 videos of them rolling down Broadway. I counted them... 16. 

2 minutes ago, LCDAWGS19 said:

If you have Twitter, go to Ivan Rice's page.  He has 2 videos of them rolling down Broadway. I counted them... 16. 

Ask, and thou shall receive!

 

3 minutes ago, LCDAWGS19 said:

If you have Twitter, go to Ivan Rice's page.  He has 2 videos of them rolling down Broadway. I counted them... 16. 

No twitter, if you counted them good enough for me.