southsider2k5 Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x1868849053/K...game-handshakes LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky's athletic sanctioning body has ordered high schools not to conduct postgame handshakes in all sports following more than two dozen physical confrontations the past three years. Tuesday's directive from Kentucky High School Athletic Association Commissioner Julian Tackett posted on its web site didn't mention specific fights or conflicts but said several fall sports have had postgame incidents. The organization says it's "disappointing" to take such action but that it became necessary because of occurrences statewide and nationally. KHSAA has also instructed game officials to immediately leave facilities after contests or risk being penalized. Teams can choose to ignore the order. Schools that can conduct handshakes must supervise the activity and report any incidents to KHSAA. Member schools or coaches that engage in unsportsmanlike behavior will be fined and penalized. "It stops short of being a rule but it says that if you choose to do it, you'd better be able to manage it," Tackett said Tuesday evening. "There's no penalty for doing it, but If you don't do it right, you're going to held accountable." The commissioner said all sports have had problems over the years but cited a fight between volleyball players this fall as one example of what's happening. With the state football playoffs just around the corner and the possibility of players shaking hands after an emotionally-charged elimination game, the directive was implemented to make schools take responsibility for conduct or not performing a ritual of sportsmanship. "If you have 75 players shaking hands," Tackett said, "you'd better watch what's going on." Marty Hickman, executive director of the Illinois High School Association, said the postgame handshake is a "valuable tradition that helps provide perspective to participants that the value of participation is more important than the outcome of the event. "We have no doubt that our young people, coaches, and officials have the integrity and maturity necessary to carry on this practice," Hickman said in a statement issued Wednesday morning. Read more: http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x1868849053/K...s#ixzz2hFUoMq2m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I'd start suspending players and coaches before eliminating the practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 (edited) QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 9, 2013 -> 09:35 PM) I'd start suspending players and coaches before eliminating the practice. Exactly. The spoiled brats who lose and can't congratulate the opponents properly should be denied the right to participate anymore. And any winners who can't shake hands with the losers and tell them "good game" ... same to them. Edited October 10, 2013 by greg775 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) Exactly. The spoiled brats who lose and can't congratulate the opponents properly should be denied the right to participate anymore. And any winners who can't shake hands with the losers and tell them "good game" ... same to them. So if this happens so often that you'd lose a large fraction of the league, you just sold me on this being a better idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 We won an eighth grade soccer game a couple years ago where the opposing team felt the officials were cheating to help my team. After the game, after they finished yelling obscenities at the officials, they walked off the field and onto their bus. I kept my guys on the pitch and we watched them leave while I explained that they lost because they were undisciplined. Every call against them was blamed on the refs. The kids could play the sloppiest, dirtiest, soccer and the coaches and parents would blame the officials. So the kids played dirty, sloppy, out of control soccer and we kicked their ass, by a goal, scored in the final minutes, on a penalty kick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 People should probably stop taking children's sports so seriously. But then how would they live out their own failed dreams?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 08:31 AM) People should probably stop taking children's sports so seriously. But then how would they live out their own failed dreams?! Well I do it with video games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingandalongonetoleft Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Classy Kentuckians keep getting classier. I think a large asteroid hurtling though space would be doing everyone and everything an enormous favor if it hit this planet head on. It's so long overdue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 06:59 AM) Classy Kentuckians keep getting classier. I think a large asteroid hurtling though space would be doing everyone and everything an enormous favor if it hit this planet head on. It's so long overdue. Umm... Ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingandalongonetoleft Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 08:06 AM) Umm... Ok Every new day you hear or read about idiots outdoing the previous day's idiots- and with remarkable ease. Things that once not too long ago would have been considered unacceptable quietly continue to become the acceptable way of life. It has everything to do with society catering to the weakest link. That Kentucky is stopping handshakes after HS games is not going to stop the world from turning by itself, but it's just another in a long, long line of disturbing absurdities. I'm 26- I can only imagine how some people twice my age feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 08:25 PM) Every new day you hear or read about idiots outdoing the previous day's idiots- and with remarkable ease. Things that once not too long ago would have been considered unacceptable quietly continue to become the acceptable way of life. It has everything to do with society catering to the weakest link. That Kentucky is stopping handshakes after HS games is not going to stop the world from turning by itself, but it's just another in a long, long line of disturbing absurdities. I'm 26- I can only imagine how some people twice my age feel. Well said. I'm pretty sure the world is going to end by us destroying ourselves. It's pretty obvious. The environment we're ruining; the workplace going to hell since this recession started (nobody making any money anymore except the top of the top in the work chain), the court system designed to protect the killers, the general rudeness in society started on the anonymous Internet, carrying over to real life. I'd assume it's going to happen with a renegade country tossing a bomb or doing something stupid and getting blown off the map to kick things off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexSoxFan#1 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 (edited) WTF on the last two posts. There was a time human sacrifice was acceptable, people were thrown to the lions or had to fight to the death for sport. Towns had to have walls to keep muderous invaders away. Beheadings/hangings/torture were a public spectacle. Thousands of people would be impaled and left out in the open to intimidate the enemy. As a whole, we've become less violent, not more... Oh but a few sore losers in Kentucky is the sign of the apocolypse! Edited October 13, 2013 by MexSoxFan#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 03:16 AM) WTF on the last two posts. There was a time human sacrifice was acceptable, people were thrown to the lions or had to fight to the death for sport. Towns had to have walls to keep muderous invaders away. Beheadings/hangings/torture were a public spectacle. Thousands of people would be impaled and left out in the open to intimidate the enemy. As a whole, we've become less violent, not more... Oh but a few sore losers in Kentucky is the sign of the apocolypse! I just think this is another example of "me first" America, is all. Everybody thinks they are so great and their kids are so great that they shouldn't have to lose a game. I remember one time in grade school, our all white team lost a game to an all black team in the title game of some tournament in inner city Chicago. Everybody thought our bus would get stoned, etc. We lost the game and I remember the handshake line more than the game. It was a great game and lots of handshakes and hugs between the two teams' players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 11:59 PM) I just think this is another example of "me first" America, is all. Everybody thinks they are so great and their kids are so great that they shouldn't have to lose a game. I remember one time in grade school, our all white team lost a game to an all black team in the title game of some tournament in inner city Chicago. Everybody thought our bus would get stoned, etc. We lost the game and I remember the handshake line more than the game. It was a great game and lots of handshakes and hugs between the two teams' players. You love Ozzie and half the GOP and are complaining about "me first"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowand44 Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 02:25 PM) Every new day you hear or read about idiots outdoing the previous day's idiots- and with remarkable ease. Things that once not too long ago would have been considered unacceptable quietly continue to become the acceptable way of life. It has everything to do with society catering to the weakest link. That Kentucky is stopping handshakes after HS games is not going to stop the world from turning by itself, but it's just another in a long, long line of disturbing absurdities. I'm 26- I can only imagine how some people twice my age feel. You sound like a blast to be around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Ok Dems and Reps in Washington, the game is over, shake hands . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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