Those hoping for tweaks to the MIAA Statewide Tournament should apparently wait yet one more 12 months.
On Tuesday morning the MIAA Tournament Management Committee introduced that there will probably be no adjustments to margin of victory or the ability rankings method used to find out state event seeding for the 2023-24 interscholastic athletic season.
At its June assembly the TMC will vote on whether or not or not event video games ought to be performed at impartial websites previous to the state semifinals as at the moment outlined.
“I disagree with waiting (to discuss tweaks) but I get it,” Wellesley athletic director and TMC member John Brown stated. “I think once we get to the spring season’s conclusion we should look at the two full years of data and see if we have to make adjustments. That’s what we said we would do. That’s what I would do. We will see if we do that.”
Back in June 2021, the Tournament Management Committee and Board of Directors each outlined a two-year window the place over the course of the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons the affiliation would gather knowledge from its tournaments earlier than making a call on any adjustments that will should be made to the event’s format or qualification strategies.
That two-year knowledge level, nevertheless, appeared to be kicked down the highway to 3 years on Tuesday.
“Anything can happen in one year. Anything can happen in two years. But if you get three to four more years of data then it shows an equal trend across the board,” Burlington athletic director and TMC chair Shaun Hart stated.
Brown, nevertheless, disagreed with the altering of the objective posts all through the course of the assembly.
“At one point we were told it was two years of data. Now it’s three years of data. It’s in the minutes from the June 2021 meeting,” Brown stated. “This is the first I’ve heard of needing three years of data. Where did that come from?”
There was no clear reply offered to Brown’s query. Once once more on the desk was additionally the dialogue of the return of the Division 1A Tournament which engulfed the boys ice hockey and baseball scene in Massachusetts earlier than they had been voted out previous to the inclusion of the statewide event within the fall of 2021.
In 2021, the MIAA Board of Directors, on behalf of a advice from the Blue Ribbon Commission and in session with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), introduced that there can be no Division 1A Tournaments till at the least 2025. The ruling was made on the time as a result of the tournaments led to inequity as a handful of choose groups abided by double elimination guidelines whereas different tournaments had been uniform in single elimination. They had been dubbed ‘elitist.’
On quite a few events Tuesday each Hart and Westboro athletic director Johanna DiCarlo made allusions to the truth that a Super Eight can not return in the interim attributable to a declaration from the OCR. When Brown requested if a authorized doc existed between the MIAA and the OCR that explicitly acknowledged that Super Eights would now not be integrated, Hart, DiCarlo, and Committee Liaison Sherry Bryant had been non-committal.
The Tournament Management Committee voted down a advice from the Wrestling Committee, 10-5, that might have added a fifth qualifier into the state event from sectionals. As at the moment constituted 4 people qualify from sectionals to states with one alternate within the occasion a student-athlete is unable to take part.
Source: www.bostonherald.com