kissinger

If you are going to whine about the 57th, be accurate. David is part of a 4 team district.

There's also another reason. Ever had to sit while a game was delayed due to a broken backboard, bent rim, etc. It has happened numerous times and most high schools don't exactly have a spare laying around.

Coaches should be walking on egg shells. For too long, many of the high profile coaches in this state have thought the high school show was about them. Officials have (rightfully so) decided its time to remind them that it is about neither of them, but it about the players. A coach ranting and raving, stomping and hollering during a game doesn't help in the least. It only serves to distract the officials and to interrupt the flow of the players. The best coaching, IMO, is done in practice and during time outs and half times.

Couldn't be further from the truth. Insight paid a very minimal fee ($15000 according to the Board of Control recorded minutes I asked to see) for the rights to do the four football games, AND the finals of the boys and girls basketball tournament. That's less than $3000 per game for the six games to the KHSAA so that certainly has nothing to do with attendance. Statistics show that live TV DOES in fact hurt attendance, but not as much as people have thought over the years. Think about the weather this year at the football finals.... Also, though, unless it is U of L, Kansas, North Carolina, etc., how often is Rupp really full? That's because you can see nearly every game on some type of live TV. The losing money hand over fist is probably true, but not because of the KHSAA. The costs of renting satellite trucks, camera crews, technical crews (it took 12 paid individuals this year just to do the scoreboard video and that wasn't even on TV, so you can imagine how many more people are needed for TV) is much greater than the costs involved with a minimal rights fee. It's just an expensive proposition and Insight made an early business decision (coincidentally right after the introduction of Proposal 20 to split the association) to not broadcast this year in any of the three tournaments. Probably felt that it would be a tough sell but who knows. As for going up every year, the original contract when Insight announced it last year, fixed the fee at 15 for three years. Insight made a business decision, this one just turned out not to be the best one.

What does this have to do with money and the KHSAA? It's the member schools that voted on the decision. Is this a statement against the schools and their emphasis on money? For my two cents worth, the KHSAA office may have done TOO MUCH to expand baseball. It now goes into the third week of June, a full week for a series of tournament games, an 8 team state. I think the office has done too much, but if not, they certainly have expanded baseball noteriety. But if you are talking about the schools, I tend to agree. You only have to look at the typical (not the great ones, but the typical), fall maintenance program and funding provided to baseball fields to see that they emphasize other sports a lot more.