Mr. Mann,

I have to respectfully disagree with you on the common sense remark. Common sense would tell us that if there was a better plan out there to protect us from litigation, your words, not mine, then we should adopt that plan. As I showed in my ficticious example, the legal system, the one KSHSAA is supposedly protecting us from, will eat our lunch if anything happens.

Granted, I've pointed out that nothing has happened and some were quick to point out that something is better than nothing. Yet at the same time, when pressed to say, okay we'll adopt the best plan, they quickly point out that it's not in the best interest of the kids. You can't have it both ways. It cannot be an interest of "do it for the kids" and at the same time "don't overburden our coaches."

Having been on a coaching staff that has witnessed and been drug through the mud after a death in football, I know and empathize a little bit more than the average coach when litigation protection is spouted. I have seen first hand what it does to the individual, his family, his life. When you come out and claim protection of litigation and there's a better plan that has been submitted to the states but we opt to not follow that plan, we are giving little more than lip service. It's a little bit cumbersome for coaches. So what!

The decent plan is EASY to do. A kid comes in and weighs under the 1.5%. Big deal! Give him the appropriate amount of water to help him get to where he needs to be. There's nothing in the rules that say that you have to use the first weigh-in! If his weight bounces too much, that's exactly what the rule is designed to prohibit!

This is not rocket scientry people! Don't make it sound harder than it is. With a simple calculator and a designated date for checks, the decent plan can be easily done. Heck, from what I've read the checks don't even have to be done during official weigh ins. Am I correct in this? Please clarify.

As far as difficult and cumbersome to coaches - don't they keep grades for their classes? I've got 150 kids for English and able to keep up. Keeping tabs on weights for 50 kids for one weigh-in a week takes all of multiplying their weight last week and multiplying it by 98.5. The kids can't go below that weight. Heck, typing this paragraph took me longer than the process.