In Indiana, the IHSAA board passed our version of the Name Image and Likeness that allows college athletes to make money off of...them.
There are so many rules with it, it's very strict and narrow and any breaking of the rule makes you immediately ineligible for high school athletics.
I could care less.
What this post is about is the hypocrisy that follows us here in good ole Indiana.
Indiana is basketball.
It is THE basketball state.
But, smh...
A shot clock was voted down in the same meeting because we're a "traditional" state.
Yet, in the same meeting, this traditional state allowed for high school athletes to get paid for being an athletic, albeit making it real hard.
I used to be against the shot clock when I had teams that would make teams chase us.
But the last few years of being the chaser and watching my son play with a shot clock, and my experiences globally with young people using a shot clock and playing well, has changed me.
Follow me here.
We have people who are against class sports where each school is organized with other schools of its size and they're against the shot clock.
But...many of them to be supportive of the Success Factor rule.
You get so many points from winning in the post season, and if you do that within any two year window, you have to play up a class, we have four classes.
The support is funny to me.
"We're against class basketball because all schools, it's still just 5 on 5" which is such a lazy argument.
And "Just get better".
"We're for the Success Factor because we don't want teams dominating their sport" Good gosh. Where is the "Just get better" crowd now?
The Success Factor rule is one of the worst rules we have.
You're penalizing a school for being good.
You're penalizing classes who aren't often as good as those that won to play up against bigger schools.
It's not fair to those kids.
It's not fair to those schools.
And the largest class can continue to win and win and win with no class to go up to.
Yea, I rambled, I know.
Yes on Class Basketball, but slowly wondering if one class wasn't better. Again my perspective is changing.
Yes on a shot clock.
No on the Success Factor.
But, as always, a huge yes to Indiana High School Basketball.
There is no second best to us.
