The OSSAA governs them and stages championships; it does not celebrate them, promote them, keep records of them or make them easy to cover. Somebody needs to.
In Oklahoma, homeschooling is on equal footing with public and private per our State Constitution, yet their sports teams are kept out of any kind of championship. Right now the OKC Broncos are most excellent and ranked via Max Preps ahead of many traditionally ranked OK High School teams. These kids deserve a shot to play for it all.
Spot on, Clay. That's why covering HS sports in Oklahoma will always be secondary. Sorry for the pun. I offered my services to them to do this very thing a number of years ago. They were not interested. OSSAA is run by ex-coaches and administrators for coaches and administrators who don't have a concept of marketing or communications or publicity, etc. It is run by those people for coaches and administrators, not for players and the public, unfortunately.
In Oklahoma, homeschooling is on equal footing with public and private per our State Constitution, yet their sports teams are kept out of any kind of championship. Right now the OKC Broncos are most excellent and ranked via Max Preps ahead of many traditionally ranked OK High School teams. These kids deserve a shot to play for it all.
Spot on, Clay. That's why covering HS sports in Oklahoma will always be secondary. Sorry for the pun. I offered my services to them to do this very thing a number of years ago. They were not interested. OSSAA is run by ex-coaches and administrators for coaches and administrators who don't have a concept of marketing or communications or publicity, etc. It is run by those people for coaches and administrators, not for players and the public, unfortunately.