AHSAA: Sundays not for football

Or the fact that Muslim students have to play football during the month of Ramadan. That's right. Practicing without any water. Man, this is giving me some bad memories.

 

The UIL in Texas also has a Sunday-free policy.

Section 900 (b) of the UIL constitution.

http://www.uil.utexas.edu/policy/constitution/academics/06_07sec900_902.pdf

 

So... its a day of worship... One of the boys basketball state champs was without three players for the finals because they are Seventh-Day Adventists and their class finals occured during the time they couldn't play due to their faith... but that's OK?
Most Jewish services take place between Friday and Saturday night, but missing them is OK?

Bull-fucking-shit. It's OK to Washburn because this is Ahbamma and only whut the Southern Baptists want matters.
His excuse was poor, just as yours is. It's OK because its the day for mainstream Christianity? It was poor reasoning.

 

JESUS LOOKS PISSED!

Seriously though ... I'll echo the idea that this guy chopped his own league with the reason he offered.
In Illinois, there aren't many Sunday games, but occasionally (once, maybe twice during basketball season) you'll see a game or two played on Sunday.
I don't know that I like the blanket "No Sunday games," but the state associations also need to enforce a mandatory rest day if Sunday's aren't automatically that day.

 

The game is not in Alabama, so what can they really do to stop Hoover? Make them forfeit? They're going to lose anyway.

 

Out of state games need AHSAA approval

 

Remove them from the state association for not playing by the AHSAA's rules.

Edit: I guess it's not a rule right now, but ...

 

Actually, they could declare them ineligible for the state playoffs, which would really grind Rush Propst's ass

 

I am all for no high school sports on a Sunday. Doesn't have to be for worship. Could be a day to catch up on homework or whatever. Just write in in the rulebook.

 

Absoflippinlutely

 

Sunday is a day of worship in Ohio too, I would think. And I would think there are places an Alabama team could worship on a Sunday in Cincinnati.

 

Seems like Tennessee, maybe Georgia, had a private school that didn't play on Fridays.
The school was one of the religions that forbid activities on Friday, but they played sports and all the games were either on Thursday and Saturday for football.
And during the week or on Saturday for basketball.
Seems like they didn't participate in the playoffs for football since the state association wouldn't bend on playoff games and for basketball they did play in the tournament, but the scheduled was fixed to let them not play on Friday.
If I remember, they went to the state hoops tournament, won unexpectedly, to advance to a Friday game and then either forfeited or the state association did something funky.
I can't recall.