UIL Legislative Council Meeting Results

[ModeratorMike]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUSTIN, TX— The University Interscholastic League Legislative Council met Sunday and Monday to make decisions on proposed rule changes in UIL academics, athletics, music and policy.

In music, the Legislative Council approved adding State Chamber Music and Military Marching Band as sanctioned UIL contests. These two activities were added as pilot contests, with Military Marching Band beginning in 2020 and State Chamber Music beginning in 2022.

In athletics, the Council approved the amendment to prohibit student-athletes who have been found to have changed schools for athletic purposes from competing against a varsity team without approval of the UIL Athletic Director.

In policy, the Legislative Council passed an amendment to expand the jurisdiction of the UIL State Executive Committee (SEC) to investigate schools with an inordinate number of Previous Athletic Participation Forms (PAPF) for new students. The council also approved a proposal to provide a penalty the SEC could impose on a UIL District Executive Committee (DEC) or Music Region Executive Committee when acting in a manner inconsistent with the rules of the UIL Constitution and Contest Rules. The Legislative Council approved an amendment that would update requirements for filing a Previous Athletic Participation Form (PAPF) and mandate completion of the New Student Eligibility Questionnaire prior to participation at any level at a new school.

All rule changes approved during this meeting can be found on the UIL website: Click Here

A video recap can be viewed here:

Public Forum: Click Here

General Session: Click here

The Commissioner of Education must approve all rule changes passed by the Legislative Council before they take effect.

 

[Dale Miller]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUSTIN, TX— The University Interscholastic League Legislative Council met Sunday and Monday

In athletics, the Council approved the amendment to prohibit student-athletes who have been found to have changed schools for athletic purposes from competing against a varsity team without approval of the UIL Athletic Director.

That could be a fairly broad interpretation. If an extraordinary athlete from a lower class wanted to transfer to a higher class school to draw college attention, this would apply.

 

[ModeratorMike]

That could be a fairly broad interpretation. If an extraordinary athlete from a lower class wanted to transfer to a higher class school to draw college attention, this would apply.

The rule only applies to students who had already been found to have changed schools for athletic purposes, and are already ineligible to play varsity sports. They could, then, play JV sports. This rule says that if their JV team plays against a varsity team, the student-athlete in question would not be able to play in that game unless the UIL Athletic Director approved it.

 

[dammitbobby]

This seems like a solution in search of a problem, no? I'm not sure what advantage/benefit the student athlete gets from being on subvarsity and playing a varsity team?

 

[daniel.cates]

This seems like a solution in search of a problem, no? I'm not sure what advantage/benefit the student athlete gets from being on subvarsity and playing a varsity team?

This keeps a Varsity team declaring themselves a "JV" and playing a full schedule up until district with the ineligible player or players, and then just playing the varsity-eligible players in the district games as to not have to forfeit. This is happening in our district this very season.

 

[Coach Cooley]

This is to keep Varsity Teams from playing ineligible players against JV or non-UIL Varsity opponents. Was an old loop-hole coaches would use to play their transfers.