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Georgia Athletic Directors Association Newsletter
Vol. 3 No. 3October 2011
Greetings!

Bob Stinchcomb

Thank you for subscribing to our GADA Newsletter. We look forward to hearing from you with ideas that will move our profession forward and help others. Our newsletter will have articles from our state, section and nation. Please take a moment to read through it and see what other ADs are dealing with in sport.

 

The goal for GADA is to assist you in dealing with new innovative ideas. Those of you who were able to attend the GADA Conference in Savannah know how busy we are trying to assist your endeavors in athletics. You are the heart of your school's athletic program. Thank you for what you do for the students throughout our state.

 

Bob Stinchcomb, CMAA

Athletic Director

Darlington School

Rome, Georgia

2011-12 GADA Hall of Fame Nominations
Deadline for nominations is November 1, 2011
hofcup Please follow the links below to download nomination forms for the 2011-12 GADA Hall of Fame. 

Click here to download the Nomination form in MS Word format.

Click here to download the nomination form in PDF format.

The 2011-12 Hall of Fame presentations will be made during the Annual Conference held at the Desoto Hilton in Savannah, GA March 24-27, 2012. 
 
Richmond County transfer students barred from playing sports
By Tracey McManus - Augusta Chronicle

The Butts brothers transferred out of Hephzibah High School after the first day of classes because they were unhappy with the academics, but that's not what it looked like to the state of Georgia.

 

As soon as they switched to Lucy C. Laney High School for their senior year, Zhamarcus Butts signed up for Laney's football team while his brother, Damario, tried out for basketball.

 

Because they live in Hephzibah and transferred to Laney using school choice, an option that allows students to switch out of Needs Improvement schools no matter where they live, the move makes them ineligible to play sports in Richmond County. 

 

In Georgia, students who transfer high schools solely for academic reasons still get tangled in a Georgia High School Association regulation meant to keep schools from recruiting students for sports.

 

The rule only allows transfers to play if they move to the new school's attendance zone, and it doesn't take into account students transferring for academics. Read more...

How Sports Help High Schools
Jay Mathews - Washington Post

Education writers rarely examine high school sports, but something is happening there that might help pull our schools out of the doldrums.

 

In the last school year, a new national survey found, 7,667,955 boys and girls took part in high school sports. This is 55.5 percent of all students, according to the report from the National Federation of State High School Associations, and the 22nd straight year that participation had increased.

 

Despite two major recessions and numerous threats to cut athletic budgets to save academics, high schools have found ways not only to keep sports alive but increase the number of students playing. We have data indicating sports and other extracurricular activities do better than academic classes in teaching leadership, teamwork, time management and other skills crucial for success in the workplace.

 

Coaches may be the only faculty members still allowed by our culture and educational practice to get tough with students not making the proper effort. They have the advantage of teaching what are essentially elective non-credit courses. They can insist on standards of behavior that classroom teachers often cannot enforce because the stakes of dismissing or letting students drop their courses are too high.

 

I thought about this as I watched for the first time in many years my high school's football team, the Knights of Hillsdale High, in San Mateo, Calif. It was an exciting, high-scoring game, even though we lost 49-35 to a team of behemoths from Mountain View. I understood why that sport is still number one for boys. Last year it had 1,108,441 participants, almost twice as many as number two track and field, which draws 579,000 students. Read more... 

  

GA Tech AD Dan Radakovich to speak at 2012 Annual Conference
2011-12 GADA Annual Conference
We're proud to announce the addition of GA Tech Athletic Director Dan Radakovich to our honor list of speakers for the upcoming annual conference.

Mark your calendar for March 24-27, 2012 and make plans to join us in Savannah at the Desoto Hilton Hotel.

 
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Texas School Cancels Game, Citing Mexican Cartel Threat
By Michael Popke - Athletic Business Managing Editor
There will be no Friday night lights in Portland, Texas, this week.

Administrators at Gregory-Portland High School, located near Corpus Christi along the east side of the state's southern tip, called off the game earlier this week fearing the potential for violence related to Mexican drug cartels. G-P's scheduled opponent, Mexico's Monterrey Tech, backed out of a game with Stony Point High School in Round Rock, Texas, on Sept. 9, claiming that an anonymous caller (possibly a member of a Mexican cartel, authorities said) demanded $30,000 for the team to cross the American border.

"Due to reports of potential violence in Mexico and in the interest of safety for all parties, Gregory-Portland ISD is cancelling its varsity football game with Monterrey Tech on Friday night, September 23rd," read a short press release issued Tuesday by the school.

G-P administrators decided to be proactive, not wanting to endanger Monterrey players and staff. Recurring media reports about the school's situation and the violence in Monterrey fueled by rival drug-trafficking gangs weighed heavily in the decision, according to the Corpus Christi Caller Times. "We began to see that Monterrey Tech was flying to games instead of busing to games, as they did before," Paul Clore, superintendent of Gregory-Portland Independent School District, told the paper. "That began to suggest to us that maybe they knew more than we did about the threat level. So we just decided to err on the side of safety." Read more...
Title IX gender quotas may hurt high school sports next
By By H. Clay McEldowney - NJ Star-Ledger
Fall sports season is in full swing for New Jersey high schools. But for many students, this may be the last year they play if supporters of Title IX gender quotas get their way in American high schools.

Last November, the Washington, D.C.-based National Women's Law Center filed federal complaints against 12 school districts. The charge? Because the gender balance of male and female athletes did not exactly mirror the overall population of the student body, the school districts were discriminating. This numbers game assumed that boys and girls have identical interests in identical numbers.

The following spring and summer, officials at more than 300 high schools in Washington, Oregon and Idaho received the same 600-plus-page anonymous complaint filed against them with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. Each complaint said the numbers don't balance. They want to enact a strict system of quotas - consequences be damned.

With few options to address those complainants, schools must make the numbers work. They will have little choice but to eliminate male teams or significantly slash their rosters. As many as 1.3 million male high school athletes nationwide could be permanently sidelined - although that would not create any opportunities for female high school athletes.

Already, hundreds of men's college programs have ended because of the gender quota system. In New Jersey, even champions aren't immune. Former Rutgers swimmer and coach Sean Smith bluntly noted: "Rather than providing more opportunities for women, I think (Title IX) is more often used as a scapegoat for athletic departments. ... It will be the death of men's Olympic sports on the collegiate level if its application is not changed drastically." Read more...
Athletic Director Checklist/Reminders for October
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  1.  Acquire and bills weekly.
  2. Prepare winter sports gym and facility use schedules for practices and contests.
  3. Advise winter sports coaches of rules clinics and online GHSA clinics.
  4. Complete coaching contracts (if applicable).
  5. Inform and schedule event security.
  6. Have completed officials and referee's contracts. Review schedule of games and matches (just to make sure).
  7. Attend weekly administrative meetings.
  8. Update athletic website of current fall sports pictures, articles, statistics and results.
  9. Attend ALL faculty meetings.
  10. Assist in ways of promoting upcoming athletic events.
  11. Make a plan for dealing with all items in Lost and Found. This can include items from events, locker rooms, etc.
  12. Have scheduled and send out agenda for upcoming Athletic Department meetings.
  13. Complete rosters and have sent all to region secretaries and GHSA for region and state tournament games and events.
  14. Review all region and contest tie-breaking procedures.
  15. Order all letter awards and pictures as needed for fall post season award banquets.
  16. Disseminate all state tournament information to coaches.
  17. Attend contests and practices at least once a week for all fall sports.
  18. Bill (if necessary) and thank all advertisers for sports program support.
  19. Check state tournament dates for fall sports. Make hotel reservations and meal accommodations.
  20. Double check transportation dates, pick up and game times for remainder of fall sports events.
  21. Schedule end of season coaches meeting for all fall sports.
  22. Schedule fall sports awards banquets.

Click here to download a print version of this list.

This should give you a start in your preparation for the month of October.

Good luck!

Jeff Beggs CMAA

Director of Athletics

Atlanta Public Schools 

NIAAA Fall LTC Webinars Announced

niaaaThe NIAAA is pleased to announce that the NIAAA will be webinar teaching LTC 501, 502, 504, 506, 508, 625 and 799 via the internet in the fall of 2011.   The athletic administrator will be able to view the course from the convenience of their home or office.  Administrators will also have the opportunity to pose live questions and the class can be divided into discussion groups with the capability of receiving reports from each groups.  What better way to take a class?  There will be no travel time and no travel costs (gas, meals or lodging).

For more information regarding the schedules and details of the webinars please go to www.niaaa.org or click HERE

 

We value your comments and feedback. We encourage you to submit articles and items of interest for the newsletter and the new website.

Sincerely,

Bob Stinchcomb, CMAA
Darlington School
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GADA Hall of Fame Nominations
Richmond County transfer students barred
How Sports Help High Schools
GA Tech AD Dan Radakovich to speak at conference
Texas School Cancels Game,
Title IX gender quotas may hurt high school sports
Checklist/Reminders for October
NIAAA Fall LTC Webinars Announced
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Football Coaches Ousted After Confrontations
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Football Coaches Ousted After Confrontations With Players
By Michael Popke - Athletic Business Managing Editor
Two Florida high school head football coaches have been fired after both of them - in separate incidents - were allegedly involved in physical confrontations with their own players.

Keith Byars, a former fullback and tight end for the Miami Dolphins, was dismissed from Boca Raton Community High School on Thursday for allegedly shoving quarterback Kevin Anderson in the chest with two hands during an outburst in the second quarter of the Bobcats' 26-19 loss to Jupiter High last week. The incident was caught on videotape. The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports that offensive coordinator Lewis Burnham will take over for Byars, who racked up a 14-11 record in his two-plus seasons at Boca Raton.

According to the paper: "Byars' dismissal had been rumored since his meeting with Boca Raton principal Geoff McKee on Tuesday evening, but the school wanted to handle the situation delicately because of concerns about tensions involving Byars' son and his teammates. Keith Byars II is the Bobcats' leading rusher this season." Read more...
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(John D. Martin, CAA, Athletic Director, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois) - At Adlai E. Stevenson High School, the head cheerleading and pom-pon coaches decided to join forces to promote school spirit. Starting slowly with arranged cheerleader and pom-pon exchanges, joint practices and social events, the coaches attempted to build a sense of unity within and between the two major spirit groups in the school. The squads were led to view themselves not as separate, but as teammates. The coaches worked to develop these teammates into true "spirit ambassadors" for the school. In 1997, we had nearly 100 athletes competing on four cheerleading and three pom-pon squads. Through the hard work of these dedicated coaches and their athletes, the concept of "school spirit" has a whole new meaning at our high school.

 

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