I'm wanting to write an article (or a few) for my web site for April Fool's day, relating to athletics. I'm including short blurbs of 4 ideas I have, and would elaborate into 3-5 paragraphs for whichever one I choose to write. Please vote for which one you think would be most effective, or include your own ideas that I could use.
I'd be writing in the same style as The Onion - somewhat realistic, yet over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek. Going for humor, somewhat believable, and prompting some type of reaction.
- OHSAA adopts new amendment to grant private schools the ability to openly recruit and host open houses solely for athletic purposes in order to cut back on compliance costs, complaints, and headaches.
- Rivals.com recruiting analyst Dallas Jackson proposes legislation to local Congress representatives, requesting to make it legal for high school student-athletes to be implanted with chips to accurately monitor "game speed" along with other important recruiting metrics. Chips would only be implanted in "serious" division I prospects so as to limit unnecessary monitoring of unimportant student-athletes that are allowed on the roster just so the school can field a complete team, allowing scouts to watch the kids that colleges care about.
- NFHS (National Federation of State High School Associations) adopts basketball rule change, requiring a 24-second shot clock in all organized high school basketball contests. This rule change, which will take affect in the 2014-'15 season, stemmed from XBox's recent sponsorship of the nationwide Play60 campaign, adapting to the ever-shortening attention span of today's student-athletes, and therefore making the game more "video game-like" and allowing some wiggle room for complacency and defensive laziness.
- Ohio looks to pass bill during the Primary/Special Election on May 7, 2013, which would not only outlaw "Pay to Particpate" fees in high schools, but also eliminate the ability for coaches to hold tryouts. Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman cites low participation rates, declining self esteem, and the epidemic of childhood obesity as the primary motivators for getting this law through. It would undoubtedly get more students out of bad situations and into the guidance of highly trained and certified coaches. In order to compensate affected districts for lost yet necessary funds, Mayor Coleman proposes new training classes be required, annually, of any pupil activity permit holder in order to coach a high school sport. Said monies would be pooled and distributed to negatively-impacted schools on a proportionate basis.
Thoughts? If you have any other ideas you wouldn't mind me taking and running with, feel free to share.
I'm wanting to write an article (or a few) for my web site for April Fool's day, relating to athletics. I'm including short blurbs of 4 ideas I have, and would elaborate into 3-5 paragraphs for whichever one I choose to write. Please vote for which one you think would be most effective, or include your own ideas that I could use.