Going Co-crazy
In Prep-dog's previous post, I listed the volleyball teams formerly known as All-CIF. After a few weeks of ramming my snout against brick walls, it was nice to get my paws on the lists.
But the dog is not done snarling. For almost every division, there are Co-Players of the Year and Co-Coaches of the Year. It's Co-Irritating.
Can't the braintrust of this thing pick one Player of the Year and one Coach of the Year for each division? We don't have Co-Presidents of the United States, Vince Lombardi wasn't Co-Coach of the Green Bay Packers with someone else .... why do we have all this Co-craziness in the CIF?
Blame political correctness. Nobody wants to offend anyone. Give two people Player of the Year or three people Coach of the Year ... as long as everybody is smiling when they leave the meeting. It makes me sick.
Of course, none of this helped Redlands East Valley's Johnna Fouch and Krista Vansant, who both failed to attain any Co-Player of the Year love despite the Wildcats winning the section title. Blame their youth ... if there's one thing selectors of all-stars teams hate to do is glorify young players. But that's fuel for a different rant. I'm done for now.
When my plan to break away from the southern section happens for the Inland Empire, we will not have co-coach's co-players nor co-champs like CIF SS does. We will settle it on the field!
Each division has a Co-Coach and player of the year for one reason: To cover both the "A" and "AA" divisions under which the CIF-SS playoff system operates.