All-area team complaints: How do you respond?

Seriously, guys, show some respect.

 

If you're going to have an act on here, like many others, the only bar you have to clear is to occasionally be entertaining. Try harder.

 

Or show us your boobs.

 

Or get a fucking haircut.

 

Sometimes when I'm baking the cookies, I add an extra splash of vanilla for that subliminal burst of flavor.

 

What about the holder and long snapper? They work just as hard. </stirring pot>

 

Weak sauce on his part. Injuries happen, at this case (as is it most of the time) at an unfortunate time. Don't know of any metric or program that can project how well an injured athlete would have done if healthy. It's too bad it happened, but life just sucks sometimes.

 

We cover 15 schools, 13 of which have football. Everyone has basketball, volleyball, track, baseball and softball, many have wrestling, and a few have soccer, tennis and swimming.
We don't make any all-area teams. I've worked at this paper since October 1998 and we've never done it.
Our conferences have their own, the coaches and The AP writers pick their own district teams, and The AP handles the all-state stuff.
Several years ago, one of my co-workers caught some flak for writing a column detailing how one of the conferences picks its football players. Basically, the best team gets X amount of players, with the second-best team getting a few less, and on down the line. He wrote it should be based more on merit so the list didn't end up with two or three first-team players at the same position.

 

I've seen that, it's a chicken-shit way to handle all-conference teams. The coaches can't be adult enough to do a meeting/voting and let it sort itself out, so they just say Podunk gets 8 all-conference spots and the coach can pick them. Complete chicken-shit.

 

No, I think people are saying if you're going to say things so completely shit-stained idiotic, like "preemptive strike" is an element to self-defense, no one will take you seriously or think you're anything but a poor attempt at trolling.

 

B-Wip, he's trolling you. Don't encourage him.

 

My newspaper chooses its own all-star teams. But we also publish the coaches' lists, and I suspect most reporters use them at least for background.

I discovered this fall that not all coaches' teams are created equal. For example, boys soccer ranks players for both the conference and county lists. Girls soccer does not, using a similar system to what fossywriter8 describes. (I think the county tournament finalists get extra kids, but I don't remember the rest.) Football does something else, and I think there were three different all-star teams.