Maury County Girl's Basketball

[ksgovols]

I agree. Before you demand to have what the boys have, make sure you're working as hard as the boys are working. Building a program and a fan base doesn't happen over night.

[bigmoney128]

Federal law does not say a thing about hard work for equal facilities.

 

If the parents and boosters raise the money for it, that's one thing BUT if the county is paying for it, THEN Title IX says you have to provide adequate facilities. As well as equal number of sports.

[ksgovols]

Agreed. I guess I haven't seen anything from our county once the original facilities were built.

 

What I did see was a bunch of softball parents taking pictures when the baseball parents were improving the baseball facilities. They cried Title IX too, only to find out that the baseball team was raising it's own money and providing it's own labor to improve the minimum that the county built. The football team will hold a fundraiser for field improvements and the soccer teams stay away in droves, but they want equal access to the field. All the amenities with none of the work. The boys basketball team has a huge fundraiser that brings in a lot of money to the program and the girls team whines about it. I'm all about giving every team the same sort of facilities to play and practice on. After that, improvements and hard work by the individual teams should go to those teams. Our school board, in their ultimate wisdom, is going to vote on whether all the fundraisers should go into a general athletic fund and dispersed evenly. A socialistic state if you will. The opposite affect will take place. The programs that have been raising all the money for themselves won't feel nearly as inclined to raise money for the whole and those programs that have been doing the minimum, will continue doing the minimum with the net effect of bringing all the programs down to their level.

 

Richland swapped the starting times for the girls and boys games. Only team in the state to do it that I know of. What did that accomplish other than hard feelings?

[poogy1]

Agreed. I guess I haven't seen anything from our county once the original facilities were built.

 

What I did see was a bunch of softball parents taking pictures when the baseball parents were improving the baseball facilities. They cried Title IX too, only to find out that the baseball team was raising it's own money and providing it's own labor to improve the minimum that the county built. The football team will hold a fundraiser for field improvements and the soccer teams stay away in droves, but they want equal access to the field. All the amenities with none of the work. The boys basketball team has a huge fundraiser that brings in a lot of money to the program and the girls team whines about it. I'm all about giving every team the same sort of facilities to play and practice on. After that, improvements and hard work by the individual teams should go to those teams. Our school board, in their ultimate wisdom, is going to vote on whether all the fundraisers should go into a general athletic fund and dispersed evenly. A socialistic state if you will. The opposite affect will take place. The programs that have been raising all the money for themselves won't feel nearly as inclined to raise money for the whole and those programs that have been doing the minimum, will continue doing the minimum with the net effect of bringing all the programs down to their level.

 

Richland swapped the starting times for the girls and boys games. Only team in the state to do it that I know of. What did that accomplish other than hard feelings?

 

Who had the hard feelings?

[thenomad]

I don't think ksgovols understands what I meant. I was talking about the community getting behind these programs. Cheer them on, talk them up instead of down. These girls don't play because they get made fun of by classmates. No one wants to support a loser, which in turns means players don't want to play. I know ever school has athletes. These athletes should play as many sports as possible. This helps the school and also decreases the potential for burn out!!

[ksgovols]

No, terrapinbranch is the one that said that Mt. Pleasant should do what Richland did and threaten Title IX lawsuits.

 

The hard feelings, poogy, were evident in the thread at the time, back during basketball season.

 

I'm in agreement with thenomad. Community support and hard work is what it's going to take. Not a Title IX lawsuit. That won't gain them respect at school or in the community and will hinder more than help.