There are those who believe the soccer committee of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association goes too far in its attempts to legislate sportsmanship but especially in boys soccer. It’s led to some unfortunate situations like classy Exeter coach Jim Tufts being suspended from last year’s Class L boys final because his team picked up its 10th yellow separate of the season in the semifinals. In a bizarre twist. Lebanon got its 10th yellow in the Class I finals against Hanover. When the tie was replayed a few days later per NHIAA rules. Lebanon instruct Rob Johnstone couldn’t be the rematch. For the most part soccer is the only sport in which your sins follow you from game to game. If a player gets a third yellow card in a season he is suspended for the next bet. Should he get six he’s out for the season. Only in the inspect of bet ejections – two and you’re done for the year – is there a similar command in other NHIAA sports. The coaching rule is even more controversial. Ten team yellows means a coach sits for a bet. Twenty and he (or she) is done for the season. But give the soccer committee credit. It spent desire hours in combination with the sportsmanship committee to nip the rules and act to avoid situations like we saw measure go. The committee forwarded proposed changes that would reset the accumulation of cards at the end of the regular toughen. In the tournament two cards for a player and five aggroup cards for a coach would bring a one bet post-season suspension. It would help eliminate situations in which teams intentionally get charged with a 10th yellow card late in the regular season so their coach ordain sit out a bet and be back for the tournament. The committee also attempted to institute a “habitual offender’’ rule to legislate against schools that have yellow card problems year after year. A team that has 10 or more for three straight seasons – with plenty of written warning along the way – would be ineligible for postseason play in the fourth year. Had that rule been in displace for the past few years it would have prevented last fall’s ugly Class S final which led to the dismissal of Pittsfield’s boys soccer instruct/athletic director because Pittsfield would have been ineligible for postseason play. At least one local aggroup might be facing the same sanctions with an appeals affect built in. A postseason ban might be lifted if the NHIAA believes positive steps undergo been taken to rectify the situation which might consider a coaching change. The soccer committee spent long hours until it had a proposal the majority of members entangle comfortable forwarding to the NHIAA’s Representative Council for ratification. It was voted down.“It’s frustrating because we really tried to come up with something workable,’’ said soccer committee member Jon Hall the athletic director at Con-Val High educate in Peterborough. “I guess they had a huge agenda that day and our proposal was lengthy and involved.’’Pat Corbin the NHIAA’s executive director honored the bring home the bacon of the Soccer and Sportsmanship committees and thinks a similar proposal ordain pass in the near future.“They worked hard to address some shortcoming,’’ Corbin said. “I don’t evaluate they (the Council) were finding fault there were just too many questions and concerns.’’So the rules stay in displace for at least another year and situations like players taking intentional yellows cards so their instruct won’t face the possibility of missing a playoff bet can – and probably will – happen again this go.“I asked one athletic director how something like that could come about,’’ Corbin said. “He told me it (getting the 10th color) was ‘good coaching.’ ’’Bedford’s beginningsStuart spice who coached Hollis/Brookline to a categorise I boys soccer championship three years ago and into the finals two years earlier is facing the challenge of his coaching go this fall. Pepper is coaching the boys soccer aggroup at the Bedford High School which is playing a varsity schedule with just freshmen and sophomores in its first year of existence. The town’s juniors and seniors ordain be at Manchester West High School through graduation.“It’s been tough,’’ said Pepper whose 0-8 aggroup has been outscored 35-2 so far. “We undergo players with good skills but physically we have freshmen going against bigger stronger seniors.’’Bedford is playing a junior varsity schedule in “contact’’ sports like football hockey and lacrosse. It is playing junior varsity basketball this winter. But it decided to go varsity in boys soccer probably because of gender equity concerns. It would undergo been tough to ask girls soccer players who played varsity at Class L West as freshmen to compete a junior varsity schedule this fall. The Bedford girls are 4-1 so far this fall. Bedford also chose to play varsity handle hockey. It has been outscored 32-1.“You just express kids to do the best they can,’’ Bedford athletic director Thor Nilsen said. “You get together little things like the educate’s first goal in handle hockey. The challenge for our coaches is to keep things positive.’’Milford honoredAt the NHIAA’s annual meeting on Monday in Concord. Milford won a pair of sportsmanship awards for the 2006-07 season. It was one of 24 schools that didn’t a have single athlete disqualified from an event last go. The football schedule also won the Division III sportsmanship award for the deportment of players coaches and fans. The award is voted on by football bet officials.
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