The plan goes beyond the avoidance of ejections or violations to discuss what behavior is expected of players, coaches and fans. At the high school level, there is no reason to tolerate anything but good sportsmanship.

They're going to have to forfeit some games. I've spoken to the (Hammond) central office and I'm waiting on a letter to explain everything.

It's a forgone conclusion that they'll vote yes.

It was a good discussion, but in the end, I think the general sentiment was that there was not enough data or support on which to defend that kind of thing.

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Nobody on the board spoke that they were for it, necessarily, but they spoke of concern of having a basis upon which to make this kind of a change.