I CANNOT stress this enough, for the sake of your players, coaches and athletic directors, please take the time to vote for your Sectional teams, MVPs and coaches through the AIA before the nomination and voting process ends.

Also, the Arizona Interscholastic Association ended their relationship with the Arizona Republic and moved on with a multi-year agreement with MaxPreps.com.

The AIA and CBSSports.com signed a partnership agreement for the next five years, according to a recent press release. MaxPreps.com is now the Associations “Official Statistician and Digital Media Partner” and will give AIA member schools a single location to report game statistics.

I hope all high schools will now enter the next century and begin to record accurate stats and scores for your athletes and programs. I know a few coaches feel it is used as a “scouting” tool for other schools but, come on, this is not high science…other coaches know how good your players are already.

I also know it means assigning a parent, coach or volunteer the job of inputting stats after every game but you are putting your players at a disadvantage come All-State selection time if you don’t already use MaxPreps and college coaches are now using MaxPreps as a recruiting tool. “Google” a player’s name and school and MaxPreps usually comes up first.

According to the press release, MaxPreps.com provides schools with a publishing platform for managing and promoting their sports information. The platform includes mobile extensities that allow schools to keep their statistics in real time so a volunteer can input the stats while the game is happening.

“The AIA will use the data collected from the MaxPreps.com platform to power their online record book and to drive their statewide statistical leader boards at AIA365.com. Schools will be required to post their statistics to MaxPreps.com after each contest in order to be recognized as the official AIA stats for state and national recognition.”

In addition to statistical data, MaxPreps.com will provide AIA with rosters and feature stories that will feed the school specific pages of AIA365.com. AIA365.com will provide content to MaxPreps.com including schedules, results, power rankings, feature stories and more.

Lastly, the East Valley Tribune ran with a story about the problems with the power point system.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/varsityxtra/article_efb5704a-4e0a-11e1-b8b7-0019bb2963f4.html

I have been in contact with the engineer who discovered the problem and I am in agreement with him. Teams that play fewer power point games are at a disadvantage. Schools should never accept a schedule with fewer games than your opponents.

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