Que Tucker has been named the new commissioner of the NCHSAA.
Also tabled but not approved is a men's basketball proposal to place teams by how each is ranked by Maxpreps within their respective seeds. This means a two seed would get positioned after the one seeds by taking the rankings produced by Maxpreps instead of won/loss or draws. This could be an improvement for football as well giving value to strength of schedule.
Also schools who have games on Time Warner will receive a small stipend. Not sure the amount but I think it was $500.
A summary of the meeting:
The NCHSAA Board of Directors just completed the Winter Meeting. The following is a summary of action items for your information/review:
1. Approved Que Tucker as the Commissioner of the NCHSAA, removing the “Interim” her position. This will be contracted as a 4-year term.
2. Officials’ registrations will increase $6 per sport. This will allow us to first-class mail all sport rule books and move to a new registration system
beginning May 1, 2016. More information about the new registration system will be sent once the design is finalized.
3. Tabled to the Spring Board of Directors Meeting instituting the G.S. 15A-173.2 statute from the General Assembly to allow the judicial “Certificate of Relief” review to be utilized as an appeal process for persons whose criminal record does not allow them to be eligible as an NCHSAA official.
4. Formally approved the following Regional Supervisors”
a. Keith Shields/Northwest Baseball
b. Mike Tester/Northwest Softball
c. Mike Parnell/Cape Fear Baseball
d. Billy Sebrell/Cape Fear Softball
e. Michael Nye/Jacksonville Baseball
f. Jack Embree/East Central Wrestling
g. Tim Sappenfield/West Central Wrestling
5. Set a committee to review post-season play (invitations to teams to participate in national tournaments) currently prohibited by NCHSAA bylaws.
6. Adjusted language in the Handbook relating to regular season television broadcasts.
7. Approved recommended language relative to physicals in rule 1.1.8: “in order to be eligible for practice or participation in interscholastic athletic contests, a player must receive a medical examination once every 395 days by a physician licensed to practice medicine, nurse practitioner or physician assistant and be cleared to play.” This provides additional time period to allow student to procure physical.The 10-day end-of-year Football skill development period extended from end of spring regular season play to the beginning of the exam dead period of each individual school/LEA.
8. Golf coaches now allowed two (2) coaches during matches/Playoffs.
9. Conferences may agree (must be in bylaws) to cap the 3rd game of JV Volleyball matches at 15 points instead of playing to 25. This aligns the JV’s 3rd game with the Varsity’s 5th game to 15 points.
10. Require two (2) licensed athletic trainers or certified 1st responders to be in attendance at all summer 7-on-7 football contests that have three (3) or more teams in attendance.
11. The 8-quarter rule in Football can now be used only once per week when we have game postponements. Board charged the NCHSAA staff to review the 8-quarter rule as a whole and make a recommendation(s) to the BOD for the Spring Meeting.
12. Approved the 2016-17 Playoff calendar.
13. Proposal from basketball coaches association to include the use of the MaxPreps rankings to seed teams within each of the tiers (number ones, twos, etc.) rather than using overall winning percentage—tabled by committee and this year will be looked at to see how this might have effected seeding for this season.
14. Approved provision of minimum stipend in the amount of $500 each to schools hosting live football (including season just completed) and $350 each to schools hosting live basketball games televised by Time Warner Cable SportsChannel.
15. Noted that total funds to member high schools included $1,446,622.02 distributed in 2014-15. The average since 2010 returned to NCHSAA membership has been $1.1 million annually.
16. Approved ejection report; total number is down by 52, all categories are down except for flagrant contact and leaving bench; total to date is 329, with 118 for fighting.
17. The Board had received requests from Cardinal Gibbons and Hickory High Schools for consideration in terms of classification, for Cardinal Gibbons to be placed in 4-A (Gibbons is currently 4-A but would be 3-A in new realignment model) and Hickory asking to be placed in 2-A, as it was the smallest 3-A school. The Board reviewed the information provided by the schools, since, according to the constitution, it does have the authority to place schools in classification based on a number of factors. It placed Gibbons in 4-A but denied the Hickory request.
