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Mary the committee was very disappointed with the Columbia coaches not showing up for such important meeting. Some of us gave up a whole day traveling and working on the committee to get this right. We did look at the players nominated and some committee members did play Irmo, Dutch Fork and White Knoll during the season. I agree, when we have coaches from the Region IV and V it makes it much easier to compare a forward from Dutch Fork and one from Wando for example. I agree that some players were left off the all state roster – but not just from Columbia. I know of one player that was not even nominated from our Region and should have been on the all state team.
I think we as coaches have the obligation to nominate these players; we have the obligation to attend this meeting to carefully select the best players that were nominated. We also have the obligation to go back to our teams or our players and tell them why they did or did not make the all state team. I shared this with my committee and I thought we worked very hard to make sure we spend some time on this. The committee took two hours to look at each player. We discussed and compared players. We looked at stats, we looked at previous accomplishments, how they impacted each team, what was the competition they played against, compared players from one team to another. But you are right, had we had some coaches from Columbia the votes at the end to select a player might have turned out much different.