Major changes considered at latest UIL meeting but none of them passed

There were no major changes that came out of the recent UIL Standing Committee on Athletics meeting held in June.

The UIL considered three major changes that would have affected every school in the state but none of them passed.

One proposal was to add a shot clock for basketball games but that wasn’t approved.

Another proposal considered moving soccer from the spring and making it a fall sport but that didn’t pass either.

The likely deciding factor against it was field space.

Since football takes place in the fall and there are home games for varsity, JV and freshman teams, it would be hard to also schedule soccer matches at basically the same time.

In some cases, schools in a particular district share one main stadium, which would have made it that much harder to include soccer in the fall.

Another proposal considered was to prohibit freshmen athletes from participating in varsity sports, but that was also struck down likely because it’s not unusual for female athletes to be on the varsity squads their freshman year.

That proposal would have also hit the smaller classification schools hardest since they have a smaller talent pool to pull from.