Which team sport is the most “fair”?
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Anonymous
One of my kids is tall for her age. One is short. I really don't think it was harder for the taller one to learn basic motor skills than the shorter one. They both put in a lot of work, but honestly the taller one has the benefit of having longer limbs and therefore a longer fulcrum for all rotational strength, which makes many sports movements stronger. Plus coaches look at her and think "tall = good." It's the shorter kid who has to work much harder to prove herself. |
Anonymous
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? Those Potomac kids' parents have to pay property taxes to support public schools even though they don't even attend public schools. You gladly take their taxes money, and want to keep them out at the same time. What a hypocrite.... |
Anonymous
They don't pay taxes to fund our city pool. |
Anonymous
I see what you are saying, maybe you are challenged. |
Anonymous
Which actually doesn’t translate to boat speed! I row a single now and easily beat men who can kill me on the erg, because in a boat power is meaningless unless applied correctly and in unison with your crew. Seat racing can find that out - two boats race, pull together and two rowers swap, race again, swap again. You can do it in a way that the rowers are never sure who is being tested so they all pull as if it’s their own butt on the line each time. I don’t know that most high school crews take the time (and anguish) to do it, though. |
Anonymous
Former coxswain and crew coach here - you said you row a single but can beat people because boat power is meaningless unless applied in unison...but starting the argument with you in a single doesn't quite work, you know? I mean, I get what you are saying, because the catch and drive of the oar matter so much, as does timing in the bigger boats. |
Anonymous
My high school's football team had something akin to that. It was a skills-based tryout, so you would go one on one against a defender, whoever was better at going against the defender would get the spot. Players that lost out had an opportunity to go one on one against the winner. If they won head on, they would start both on defense and offense. Other players could also go one on one. Some were qualified starters for multiple positions, especially on the line. My buddy was nose guard. The McD's Owner Daddy Boy, big in the booster club, wanted to try out for half back. He tried to stiff arm my buddy, who tackled him and broke his arm during the position-based tryouts. They wanted to win also. |
Anonymous
I’ve never seen a HS rowing team seat races properly, and even at the collegiate and national team level seat races are influenced by the coaches’ whims and favoritism that conveniently never put everyone in the right combinations or have an unfavored person held back until the water is choppy or the wind picks up. I can think of people on the U.S. team in recent cycles who were boated based on erg scores and perceived vibes on the water. And I can think of other b and c boats where all of the seat racing on the world couldn’t put together a fast boat because the coaches couldn’t translate fast erg scores at camps to a boat that worked well together. So my vote is rowing=unfair sport pretending to be fair sport. |
Anonymous
Really, Coach? I think you know exactly what I am implying but, like a good cox, you like to have the last word. Technique matters. If you can’t channel your power, if you check your run, if your blades go in at different times, all the muscle in the world won’t help you. I am not strong anymore, but I am still a fine rower, so I beat the scullers who ignore skill and try to just muscle their way down the river. That is true in a single or an eight or anywhere in between. |
Anonymous
 you got me there.
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