[awsumbill_68]

I went thru the DQ list for 10-11 and after about half I gave up counting. I had 74 football, 251 soccer, 56 baseball, 44 basketball. Soccer does include girls but it appears to be the major problem.

I dont normally post of the football page because Im primarily a soccer fan but i found this subject very interesting. I feel your pain about kids being dq'd for 2 games and it being such a big deal because of the length of season compared to soccer and basketball. KHSAA has thrown all commonsense out on this subject. It used to be dq's were based on the severity of the dq. If you understand the rules of soccer and many of you do I'm sure, you can understand why soccer has so many players on the DQ list. I saw a player red carded this year for a simple foul, soley for being the last defender and in the refs opinion he took a goal scoring oppurtunity away from the opposing team. This is the equivalent of a defensive pass interference call in football. Can anyone imagine any football player being DQ'd for two games for a pass interference call? Happens in soccer. Two yellow cards get you D'd for two games, this is the equivalency of fouling out in basketball, can you imagine a basketball player having to sit out two games for fouling out? happens in soccer. I'm not going to tell you there is never any chippiness on the field...it too is a contact sport it happens. The rules need to be upped for fighting and clear conduct condusive to starting fights...but they need to put commonsense back into who and how long they must sit out. :Cheerlead