PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- Action taken by the TSSAA Board of Control during its meeting June 3-5.
1. Approved Minutes of Last Meeting
2. Voted to allow state office to make the draw for the Regional and State Volleyball
Tournament
3. Approved Financial Report of the 2007 State Basketball Tournament Series
4. Approved Financial Report of the 2007 Wrestling Tournament Series
5. Approved the Financial Report of the 2007 Athletic Directors Conference
6. Approved the Financial Report of the 2007 Cheer Coaches Conference
7. Heard the Report of the District and Regional Coordinators
8. Heard the Sportsmanship Review of the 2006-2007 School Year.
Voted to require players and coaches ejected in soccer to sit out the next two
contests.
Voted that contests cannot be added to schedules for the purpose of avoiding players/coach
sitting out games for ejections.
9. Reviewed the suggested Budget for the 2007-2008 School Year
10. Voted to take no action on any change in our catastrophic insurance coverage.
11. In regards to Mt. Pleasant High School’s Proposal for a change in the Basketball
State Tournament Schedule, the Board instructed the staff to bring back any possible
changes to consider at the August Board meeting.
Voted to change the format for determining the brackets for the state basketball
tournaments. On the Sunday following the girls’ sectional games, the head coach
and an administrator from each school that has qualified for the state tournament
will be required to attend the draw. The boy’s state basketball tournament brackets
will be determined in the same manner on a date prior to their tournament. This
is the same format that was used prior to the current format in place at the present
time.
12. Approved the Request of Elliston Baptist Academy for Membership in TSSAA.
13. Voted to add a Mercy Rule in Basketball and Football.
In football, there is a mandated continuous clock when one team gets a 35-point
advantage over it’s opponent in the second half. The clock would only stop at the
end of the quarter, for timeouts, injuries, scores, and safety purposes. If the
margin falls below 35-points, regular timing procedures will take effect.
In basketball, there is a mandated continuous clock when one team gets a 35-point
advantage over it’s opponent in the fourth quarter. The clock would only stop for
shooting fouls, timeouts, injuries, and the administration of technical fouls.
The clock will continue to run for the remainder of the game, regardless if the
point differential gets closer than 35-points.
14. Approved Proposed Changes in the Dual Meet Wrestling Tournament
The Division II Dual Meet State Tournament will be held at Father Ryan High School,
along with an invitational tournament for smaller schools in Division II in wrestling.
The Class AAA and Class A/AA Dual Meet State Tournaments will be held at Clarksville
High School. Class AAA will continue to bring eight teams to the Dual Meet. Class
A/AA will increase the number of teams at the State Dual Meet from four to eight.
17. It was determined that Ketron Intermediate School meets the requirements to
participate in the Cooperative Program. Therefore, no action was required.
18. Voted to continue the Mr. Football and Mr./Miss Basketball Awards. Currently
neither award has a sponsor, as American General recently decided to discontinue
sponsoring the Mr. Football Awards. If no sponsor is found by the beginning of
the 2008-09 school year, then a fee of $100 per school will be assessed to all schools
that have football and basketball to help offset the costs of these awards.
19. Heard the Financial Aid Report
20. Denied the request of Faith Heritage Christian Academy for Membership in TSSAA
for the 2007-08 school year and instructed the school to bring back to next year’s
June meeting more specific information in regard to the sports they intend to have.
21. Approved the request of Southwind High School for Membership in TSSAA
22. Denied the proposal from Region 2 in Wrestling in regards to changing their
region alignment. The Board requested that Region 2 take the proposal back to the
Tennessee Wrestling Coaches’ Association for its consideration and bring it back
to the Board at the June 2008 meeting.
23. Approved the Bowling Substitution Rule. The rule is as follows:
1. When a substitution is made during a game, that substitute must complete the
remainder of the game. Two substitutions are permitted each game. The starting
player once removed cannot return to bowl for the remainder of the game.
2. The opposing coach must be notified of a substitution before the substitute bowler
throws his/her first ball. Failure to notify the opposing coach of a substitution
will result in a zero pin-fall for those balls thrown by the illegal substitute.
A substitute bowler cannot enter a game to shoot a spare unless the original bowler
is physically unable to complete the frame. If a bowler is substituted in the middle
of a frame that bowler cannot bowl again for the remainder of the match.
3. If the starting bowler completes at least 4 frames and is removed from competition
then that player receives the game score. However, if the starting bowler completes
less than 4 frames the substitute will be credited with the game score.
4. Substitutes will receive no additional practice throws on the competition lanes
prior to entering a game.
24. Heard proposal from Comcast/CSS and decided to not take any action at this
time until the staff could hold conversations with Sinclair Broadcasting and BlueCross/BlueShield
of Tennessee.
(E-mail Stan Crawley at wscrawley@earthlink.net)