Indiana Legislature Trying a Power Move to Take Over IHSAA

[tornado]

the IHSA equivalent in Indiana will possibly face a power move as the state government/legislature is trying to take over the private organization.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20090221/SPORTS/902210435/1004/SPORTS

could it happen here?? Do you guys want the likes of Blago running prep ball?

[SFP]

the IHSA equivalent in Indiana will possibly face a power move as the state government/legislature is trying to take over the private organization.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20090221/SPORTS/902210435/1004/SPORTS

could it happen here?? Do you guys want the likes of Blago running prep ball?

T it all depend on who is really running the organization. At least if it becomes insitutionalized there may be some accountability, right now just like the NCAA there is none.

[tornado]

I might disagree....as the association (IHSA) is run by the members themselves.

BUT the big difference between IHSA & NCAA is that at the college level, the money involved gives the big football schools a big advantage in leverage and power, and therefore control.

But at the high school level, no such money/revenue motivation exists to give the big schools more power.
In fact, the small school March Madness brings in as much people statewide and money as the big school tournament.
And there are no lucrative TV contracts.
So the power in IHSA is pretty evenly spread and maybe the little guys even have a little disproportionate sway,
.....although there is a little bit of bias against the private schools.

But do you think there'd be more accountability if the government runs it?
The government I know is mostly influenced by money, greed, and power-brokers....not by the people or anything fair.
The $$ that would be available to sway legislators would come predominately from wealthy communities like the Chicago 'burbs, and from the AAU and Nike people who'd have interests only in some schools, mainly the CPL and a few others.
IMO, the 85% of schools that are in smaller, downstate, and farming communities would be buried and forgotten if the legislature ran the organization.

I really wasn't kidding when I said there'd be people like Blago running the IHSA if the gov's took over.....that would be exactly what would happen..
big time, lifelong, pay-for-play politicians would run the IHSA the same way the Chicago city council runs, the same way age old Chicago politics works....the same way you get a senate seat from Blago.
I doubt the downstate people would like that.