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Six-man observer
That kicking deal with Benjamin is a great point to bring up. Those were the best two teams playing that night in D2. Benji and Newcastle.I could be mistaken, but the kicker who had a perfect (14 of 14 I believe it was) against Newcastle the year they played such a close game, was an exchange student. Those kicks were the difference in the final result of that game. I know of several schools who have hosted exchange students that wanted to play and made great kickers. In the playoffs that’s a huge weapon. I understand the new proposal on one hand, but also believe there are exchange kids who will be shafted by it. For instance, schools who don’t have enough for a JV team but have a foreign exchange student who wants to play a sport would miss out on that opportunity. I’ve seen schools where the kids went so far as to vote for homecoming king/queen or football hero/sweetheart and give it to foreign exchange kids because they knew it was something they wouldn’t experience back home, and that was really awesome. Like many rules, the small school’s impact is often overlooked in order to solve issues that happened at a bigger school.
Having foreign exchange kids play varsity sports I think violates the fairness aspect of play. It seems consistent to ban exchange students as it falls in line with denying transfers playing time on varsity, That being said I like the competition aspect and believe it should be more of a free for all and let the dang kids play. I’m more in line with that than a school being able to deny a transfer a right to play . The coach loosing a kid to another school and that coach having a say in if he plays or not seems unAmerican.