The CIF-Southern Section Council, the section’s rules-making body, meets Wednesday to take on a few interesting proposals.
One would expand the number of teams in the CIF State girls volleyball playoffs in the regionals rounds. Instead of the current eight teams in divisions 1-5, the regionals would have 16-team brackets. An Open Division at the state level would be created, too (there is no Open Division in CIF-SS volleyball playoffs).
Another volleyball proposal would disallow tryouts for club volleyball to not occur during the high school volleyball season.
A volleyball proposal that was on the agenda and would have allowed sand volleyball to be played during the season of sport was pulled from the agenda Tuesday by the Trinity League which had created the proposal.
A propsoal that would increase the number of maximum baseball contests from 20 a season to 30 will be voted upon. The way baseball tournament participation is talliled as part of the part of the maximum allowable contests would change.
The are two proposals regarding the first practice date of football. One would fix those dates to Aug. 10 for teams that have Week 0 games and to Aug. 17 for teams that play their first games on Week 1. Another proposal would fix those dates to Aug. 3 for teams that have Week 0 games and Aug. 10 for teams that start in Week 1.
The Week 0/Aug. 3 proposal comes first on the agenda. If that passes, then the Week 0/Aug. 10 proposal dies. If Week 0/Aug. 3 is denied than the Week 0/Aug. 10 proposal goes to a vote. The CIF-SS Executive Committe, which advises the Council on proposals, supports the Week 0/Aug. 10 proposal but not the Week 0/Aug. 3 proposal.
