After months of deliberation by the Event Administration Committee on the the MIAA Soccer Committee’s proposal to revamp the season schedule, the action-item was voted down 15-1 on Wednesday.
It didn’t take lengthy for the decision to be introduced.
The proposal would have prolonged the autumn slate to include 11 common season video games, lower the quantity of groups qualifying for postseason play from 16 to eight per division, and pushed all event play till after Thanksgiving Day.
Whereas earlier TMC conferences have led to dialogue surrounding the proposal, Wednesday solely offered a vote with all members clearly determined.
“I polled our district, which consists of the Bay State League, Tri-Valley League, and Hockomock, and the vote from athletic administrators was 33 to 1 in opposition to,” Wellesley athletic director John Brown mentioned afterward.
The vote got here as minimal shock to those that had been monitoring the method. Event Administration Committee members, representing the assorted districts throughout the Commonwealth, had expressed issues in extending the soccer season and probably altering the sports activities calendar.
“There are elements we agree with however with out the MIAA altering the sports activities calendar it’s not one thing that will actually work,” Brown mentioned. “The season is simply too lengthy with it going effectively after Thanksgiving. It’s arduous sufficient for some groups to search out video games and keep numbers.”
The lone vote in favor of the proposal was Oakmont athletic director Eric Dawley.
Moreover, the TMC shot down a pair of unanimous proposals from the MIAA Basketball Committee. The primary would have altered the event format to carry Spherical of 8 video games at impartial websites.
As presently constituted, the upper seed maintains home-court benefit till the state semifinals. TMC director Shaun Hart mentioned how altering the format required additional dialogue as it will doubtless compel different sports activities to need to do the identical. The vote on the matter was 13-4 in opposition to. The TMC additionally voted down having a state assignor for officers starting with the Spherical of 8, 12-8 in opposition to.
One key motion merchandise authorised by the TMC was a 17-1 vote in favor of adopting replay for the ice hockey state championships on the TD Backyard. The evaluate might be initiated by on-ice officers, not by coaches’ problem. The transfer towards replay took place following final yr’s Division 1 state remaining during which St. John’s Prep received on a controversial purpose on the remaining buzzer.
The TMC authorised a change within the ice hockey event that implements a shootout within the state championship sport to find out a winner within the occasion of a tie after three time beyond regulation durations.
