Blog: From the Director

Officials know what it means to have a partner, and to have his or her back in good times and bad.

The lure of participation for adolescents is that competitive school sports is difficult fun.

These topics were brought into focus by making time for the MHSAA staff and Representative Council to pause from the frenetic pace of everyday duties ...

Where MHSAA championships are staged is not inconsequential, but it is infinitely less important than how interscholastic athletic programs ...

At the end of each school year the MHSAA asks its member high schools to report what sports they officially sponsored on a competitive interscholastic basis and how many students participated. 

It could have been easier had the MHSAA outsourced coaches education to an online provider; but too much would have been missed. 

We have reached the point where 46 percent of the schools which sponsor football qualify for the Football Playoffs ...

It appears that everyone is talking about where the championship rounds of the Michigan High School Athletic Association basketball tournaments should be played.

The NFHS doesn’t publish the most fair rules. On purpose.

The 2017 8-Player Football Playoffs will be conducted over four weeks in two divisions of 16 teams each ...

It goes almost without saying that nearly all of the Council members participated in competitive school sports and are the parents of participants in interscholastic athletics.

People most often learn more from their mistakes than their successes. Failure leads to more useful reflection than success.

In an era where high school sports coverage is at its lowest point in state history, a new team will continue to spotlight the life lessons school sports teach our children.

The vast majority of daily activities of Michigan High School Athletic Association staff revolve around communicating the meaning of educational athletics. That’s why we do most of what we do.

The proposal is seriously flawed, and by circumventing the MHSAA Football Committee, its proponents assure it is fatally flawed.

The culture that contributes to this is created in youth programs, starting even before students reach high school.

This helped save football in some schools and helped return the game of football to other schools.

This is no criticism of KPI Rankings per se ... but it’s not the right thing to do for our statewide high school basketball tournaments.

Calendar changes, if any, will be membership driven and may take more than 18 months to finalize.

It is because bad incidents are so very rare that they make news.