http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/house-votes-for-tighter-controls-for-fhsaa Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/house-votes-for-tighter-controls-for-fhsaa/comment-page-1#comment-200992 elijah bell Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:00:53 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=136239#comment-200992 Well it looks like the Florida Legislature and the FHSAA couldn't come up with a way to handle or manage the problems that arose over the last few years. Now I don't know if either tried very hard or not but it didn't happen. It looks like that both maybe were too hard headed and as it stands the Legislature won. Personally I don't think they know what a big job it is to conduct the business of athletics in the state of Florida. I also don't think the FHSAA was maybe open enough to change. So what will happen now is up in the air. You can't just let student athletics go and come at will and you also can't make rules that prohibit student athletics the opportunity to participate in an organization that is built on fairness. It will take a couple of things I believe to make this an opportunity to make it better for all those involved. One will be a leader who steps forward and re-evaluates what is best and fair for all potential athletes if Florida. Next will be an organization that works in partnership with the Legislature because they have now entered the picture as never before. There are thousands of student athletes in Florida and hundreds of schools and all will have to be considered when this is all comes together. Having been a teacher, parent and coach for over 30 years I know it won't be easy and everyone won't be happy all the time but anything less than a 100% effort by those involved would be a shame. Well it looks like the Florida Legislature and the FHSAA couldn’t come up with a way to handle or manage the problems that arose over the last few years. Now I don’t know if either tried very hard or not but it didn’t happen. It looks like that both maybe were too hard headed and as it stands the Legislature won. Personally I don’t think they know what a big job it is to conduct the business of athletics in the state of Florida. I also don’t think the FHSAA was maybe open enough to change. So what will happen now is up in the air. You can’t just let student athletics go and come at will and you also can’t make rules that prohibit student athletics the opportunity to participate in an organization that is built on fairness. It will take a couple of things I believe to make this an opportunity to make it better for all those involved. One will be a leader who steps forward and re-evaluates what is best and fair for all potential athletes if Florida. Next will be an organization that works in partnership with the Legislature because they have now entered the picture as never before. There are thousands of student athletes in Florida and hundreds of schools and all will have to be considered when this is all comes together. Having been a teacher, parent and coach for over 30 years I know it won’t be easy and everyone won’t be happy all the time but anything less than a 100% effort by those involved would be a shame.

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