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UHSAA proposal for reducing the number of contests

Perhaps you could reduce baseball a little more since many of these kids play in summer leagues. Baseball doesn't get much attendance because it isn't that fun to watch. Also, please get rid of cross country all together.

Lets get rid of all sports...turn them all over to club and corporate sponsors...like in other countries and start really focusing in on education and while we are at it let make sure we get rid of music, math,drama etc...because no one comes to watch those events..either...put it to the communities not by 15 people that really wish they could be fishing..

Don't mess with cross country. It's the one sport that where kids particpate for the right reasons. If the UHSAA had any integrity in this area, they would start with football and start with endownment games. But they're not going to give up anything.

Reducing the baseball season from 22 games to 20 is ridiculous. The schools in Vegas currently play a 35 game schedule which is a meaningful baseball season. Cutting the season by two games would be pointless for the fans and players to even get excited about. Plus more baseball kids would focus more on club ball and eventually the baseball season would disappear.

try to reduce football and watch the up roar

x-country because it is the sport that Utah actually does best at the national level. Let's focus more on basketball because Utah has produced so many NBA players lately...

The person who said lets get rid of all sports. If you get rid of all sports then good luck funding alot of your programs. If you notice the sport that cost the most to do football also brings in more money then what you are interested in donating to your local high school. So why don't we get rid of school in general then. Yeah we all know how community teams are ran dad coaches his kids team and he is the star. We already have youth programs in most communities. Also I would agree that they need to reduce baseball games to 16 just because those kids play a ton in the summer and even in some places the fall.

Club sports with corporate sponsors is NOT the way to go. There are some sports that operate on a 50,000 budget and it would be impossible to function.

Cross country is a sport that all can participate in. It has fewer injuries than football or basketball and less liability. The contests are very few as it is. It makes more sense to not cut sports at all as they help students in more ways than just academics.

Once again picking on the lower classifications. Who cares right? I am sick of the sports in this state, cutting games????!!! Are you serious. Is cutting 2 games really going to help?? They need to add more games if anything! Go to geographical regions for the season and then enrollment numbers for the state tourneys! Easy soloution!

What a joke other states are letting kids play and Utah wants to stop them from playing. In some states they play 40 basketball games and you want to only allow them to play 18. LET THE KIDS PLAY!!!
And you wonder why kids get recruited off of playing the dreaded AAU Ball!

Every sport should be reduced more, and more needs to be done to limit offseason competition. Kids who play sports these days don't have a life.

Football and basketball are the only two sports that really make money, that is why they don't reduce those.

You don't need to reduce the number of baseball games. You could actually increase them and solve another problem. We all know baseball is the only sport you can participate in while taking a nap. Solve the high school sleep deprivation issue at the same time!!

LOL! Speech is being cut. When has Speech been a sport. If Speech is a sport, then what about the Chess Club?

Why would 4A-5A get more opportunities to play more games than the smaller schools? Because it is closer? Excuse me if I am wrong, but gas is gas and time out of school is time out of school. So if you penalize one group, it should be the same for ALL groups. Heaven forbid that the precious 4A/5A schools get to follow the same rules as everyone else for once!

why is basketball not being cut in the 4A/5A. At my school i'm the wrestling coach and the basketball team misses more school than the wrestling team. @0 minutes here and 30 minutes here adds up plus in wrestling we duel our region teams once, in basketball they do it twice and we have a 8 team region. All in all its wrong

Just because you could care less about baseball doesn't mean that you just get rid of it! There are MANY kids out there that LOVE the game and go to school soley because of it. We don't ask you to come to the games so stay away and don't worry about missing out on your "Sleep" Get a clue and learn a little about the game I am sure that you will come to understand just how interesting every piece of that game can be. And actually, I don't play baseball, I just love watching it!

I think we should reduce the number of day I have to work.

We need to limit the number of kids in a family. This will increase the per student spending and save our sports. I think every family should be allowed one child, two if the pay extra. That will also reduce class sizes. China is so smart