IanMackaye
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Bullcrap.
From page 51 of the TSSAA By-Laws:
TSSAA SPORTS CALENDAR
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Q. A coach has a weight lifting program at school during off-season and in the time permitted by the sports
calendar. The program is open to both players and non-players. Is this a violation?
A. No, provided activities are limited to weight lifting, and provided no player is required to attend.
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Q. Can a coach have a conditioning program in the off season, provided it is not during the Dead Period?
A. Yes, provided it is a program that would benefit all students and is open to all players and non-players.
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OR is a girls basketball and soccer school first so she always had to take second pick of the athletes.
What was the last OR team in any girls' sport to win a state championship?
Summer Workouts and Conditioning
in Class 5A & Class 6A
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I see your point, HTV, and I don't really object to it in most ways. And I understand, believe me, that the player's actions speak loudly and clearly about what he wants to do. If football really matters to him, he'll be there and not at AAU tournaments.
However, you're intimating (I think) that it's perfectly valid for a football coach or a coach in any other sport to hold it against an athlete for not attending summer conditioning, which the TSSAA has explicitly said cannot be mandatory.
If it is mandatory, then the coach can exact a penalty for not attending, exactly as he can during the season.
If it's not mandatory, then the coach can't exact a penalty for not attending (such as if the player is at a Governor's School or takes a trip to Europe or goes on a mission or just spends time out of town).
It's a hard line to balance, and many don't do a good job with it. Some are too loose and therefore don't do the work they need to do. Others are too tough and therefore skirt the rules and risk overcooking their teams, which definitely happens.
Coaches have to remember that some TSSAA rules actually make sense, and this is one of them. If it's voluntary, it really has to be voluntary. And in the best programs, that word "voluntary" actually means something: the kids come because they want to be there.