[They tried.
Applaud the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association for coming up with a plan for attempting to rejuvenate interest in the sagging boys state tournament.
Last month, after a treacherous and ultimately unfulfilling journey, the Indiana High School Athletic Association Executive
Board rejected a compromise plan to alter the tournament.
It was a one-sided compromise - at least from the IBCA's perspective. The IHSAA took a plan to the principals that made the largest class one of 64 schools, with four-team sectionals, and then divided the other three classes into equal parts. The plan was unanimously repudiated by the Executive Board. Straw polling from the schools was awful. Only 23 percent supported it.]
Gary Post-Trib
Applaud the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association for coming up with a plan for attempting to rejuvenate interest in the sagging boys state tournament.
Last month, after a treacherous and ultimately unfulfilling journey, the Indiana High School Athletic Association Executive
Board rejected a compromise plan to alter the tournament.
It was a one-sided compromise - at least from the IBCA's perspective. The IHSAA took a plan to the principals that made the largest class one of 64 schools, with four-team sectionals, and then divided the other three classes into equal parts. The plan was unanimously repudiated by the Executive Board. Straw polling from the schools was awful. Only 23 percent supported it.]
Gary Post-Trib
