Lawmakers looking to do away with South Carolina High School League

[Yappi]

South Carolina lawmakers are looking to do away with the South Carolina High School League and replace it with a new association of 11 officials appointed by state politicians.

The SCHSL, which governs high school sports in the state, would be replaced with a new association, the South Carolina High School Athletic Association.

Scott Earley, the executive director of the South Carolina Athletic Coaches Association, backs the current governing group. He said the lawmakers making this decision “have no idea how to run high school athletics.”

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[Sykotyk]

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Leave it to them to create a government organization that can't take any administrators that actually deal with the topic being decided.

As stated, though, they're not hoping it passes. They just want to scare the SCHSL into bending to their will before they're stuck running a high school sports league as a state agency.

Also, South Carolina has a private school association: the SCISA. Which aren't members of the SCHSL. Wondering if this monstrosity got passed if it would force the SCISA and SCHSL schools to play under one organization.

Small government, huh?

 

[Winnie Pooh]

South Carolina is ranked 43rd nationally in overall quality of education and 48th in healthcare quality. Maybe lawmakers ought to worry about those issues before getting in the business of high school sports administration.

 

[Omega]

South Carolina is ranked 43rd nationally in overall quality of education and 48th in healthcare quality. Maybe lawmakers ought to worry about those issues before getting in the business of high school sports administration.

Agree. Politicians value power and control before anything else.

South Carolina has growing dissatisfaction in its high school sports like other states. Issues of transfers, recruiting, competitive balance and pay for play plus the growing phenomenon of sports oriented charter schools.

If the schools themselves cannot agree on how to fix issues, it creates a power vacuum the legislature is happy to fill. West Virginia has legislative reform in the works also. The problems facing college sports will soon hit the high schools as courts will rule HS athletes and their parents have a right to be compensated for NIL.