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I also think a broader purpose of the league is to provide an organizing body that enables high schoolers (boys and girls) to play and enjoy the sport. Given the constraints and the conflicting interests, I see three possible solutions:
1. Define the league specifically as "open," with no gender ratios, but
a) encourage captains/coaches to be fair about playing their girls, not intentionally creating or exploiting mismatches, etc. (This is what we've done in the past.)
b) encourage captains/coaches to recruit girls from their own schools
c) teams are allowed but not required to compete with female pick-ups
2. Divide the league into an Open division and a Mixed division with a mandatory ratio (with girls spread across fewer teams, this ratio might even be 5:2 in some games), and allow teams to choose which division they will compete in.
3. Divide the league into an "open" division with teams from separate schools (who practice together during the week) and a "coed" division whose teams are chosen by a summer league-style draft.
My two cents,
Ben.
On 2/21/06, davelovesbikes@... <davelovesbikes@...
> wrote:
Here was my idea: At games we have a 6:1 minimum, teams can opt to go more than that.In order to assist the school without female students I take the top 10 girls from my program and assign 2 or 3 of them to each school that doesn't have any girls. Those 2 - 3 girls play with that same team all season.Here were my motivations for proposing this:1) To make the games more fun and fair. Most of the time when 2 teams meet and one has women and the other doesn't its a mismatch, maybe not the score, but for whomever is covering the girl.1a) The girls have a lot less fun because they rarely get in and when they do they get blown by or are stuck playing wing or something. They rarely get open, they rarely touch the disc. Now I admit there are the Katie Mercers and Morgans of the world who can rise above but they are few and far between. I think for most girls its a turn off. Its like making an 8 yr old do calculus or something.1b) For the teams playing their women anyway its a downer because it hurts their performance. If everybody had girls it'd make for a more fair playing field. I don't think anybody blames their girls but it just results in inequities and more frustration.2) Speaking of frustration one of my biggest motivations was to help out those poor bastards at single sex schools interact more girls their age. Being on the same field with the same girl a couple of times a spring just seems like a great opportunity to meet and impress chicks.3) It would be a way for the skills and knowledge of our school to be disseminated around the league. I was planning to farm out my top 10 girls who could help explain zone, etc to their team mates. They can all throw flicks and hammers and could probably be helpful demonstrating those as well.4) It would give my girls another 2 hours of playing time and allow them to meet boys they haven't known since middle school.I want this to be a fun league. I didn't want to take a vote at the meeting cause I don't force this on teams. Having stated my case I'd like to hear back from the schools without women, especially if they are still opposed. I'd like to know what concerns they have and if there's any way I can allay them.Dave
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