rules like many of the schsl rules work perfectly with only one sport, football. fball is the only non year round sport. all of the other sports play year round on some level. that being said, the purpose of the rule is to prevent a coach/team from gaining an unfair advantage. how an unfair advantage is gained by practicing on northwestern or feeder schools' fields is beyond me. the rule also states that no more than 8 can be on the team that were rostered last year and only 6 were. as to other players being ineligible, the rule says any player who participates in an illegal practice is ineligible and makes no reference to where he attends school. as for the gilbert girls, just because the league made a bad decision to bar the girls from post season play does not mean the same bad decision should be made again. if the purpose of the rules is to promote fairness and good sportsmanship, how is that purpose met when kids, who did not break any laws or hurt anyone or engage in otherwise boorish behavior, are kept from playing? school district said it was ok, school said it was ok, coach said it was ok, but now u cant play! give me a #@%^*** break. last fall blythewood was not allowed to defend it s football championship bec of a decision a coach made and he was not even the coach this fall. as forrest gump's mother said," stupid is as stupid does." let em play.
