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Show A SPORTS EDITORIAL CONFLICT OF INTERESTS Sports fans of the southern Utah area, particularly particu-larly those who follow the College of Southern Utah as well as high school sports in the area will find il a little difficult this season, owing, to an unwilling ness of high schools in the area to cooperale in scheduling sche-duling problems. First of those problems crops up this week end when the College of Southern Utah Thunderbirds arc slated to meet. Western New Mexico Friday evening at 8 p. m. in the CSU Memorial Fieldhouse. Scheduled Schedul-ed on the same date at the same time in the Cedat High School gymnasium is a Region Fight contest flitting the Cedar High School Redmen against the Kanab Cowboys. FITorts to resolve this problem have been taken by CSU and by Cedar High School, but they have found an unwillingness on the part of other high schools in the area to cooperale. We do not advocate that the college should completely com-pletely dominate the sports scene nor the best evenings even-ings for play, but we do feel that the College schedule problem is several limes greater than that of the high schools that are willing to cooperate with changes to avoid such conflicts. Efforts have been made to ask participating high schools to change their scheduled dates from the conflicting Friday evening to either Thursday or Saturday evening. So far they have met with rebuffs from the high schools who express an unwillingness to move to either of the two dates. One of the reasons given for the refusal to change is not from the high school involved but from other high schools who object to the fact that the coaches from Cedar and Kanab, for instance, would have an opportunity 1o "scout" them, owing to the change. What small potaloes that is, and what incon-sideration incon-sideration it is on the part of the high schools in our area who are virtually served by Ihe college nearly as much as is Cedar City. Take a look at this week end's games for instance. in-stance. Kanab is unwilling 1o move. Western New-Mexico New-Mexico is scheduled against CSU and will travel Sa-turdaay Sa-turdaay on to Salt Lake City where they will meet Westminster. It is virtually impossible to change that schedule. So what has happened is that CSU is asking Western West-ern to move the game back to 9 p. m. and the High Schools will move their game to 7 p. m. In different differ-ent gymnasiums, of course, This is still impractical for Western as the 9 p. m. game delays their potential poten-tial sleeping time and hinders their efforts in a newly new-ly formed conference with a 2G5 mile road trip facing fac-ing them the next day. This problem arises Ihree times during the month of January in basketball schedules and it is really childish to think that our high schools in the area are unwilling to cooperate in the interest of the two schools and in the interest particularly of the fans Wouldn't it be sad in a community our size and the entire southern Utah area if we couldn't find enough cooperation to change a basketball game one night, either way, to accommodate those who support the sport? If the change in dates involved a double header for high schools on that particular weekend the case would be stronger for the high schools but none of the three conflicts involve that problem. What a sad case it is and we believe that it is the high schools who should gain the wrath of the fans, not the college. After all there is a difference in miles to travel of from 50 miles for the high schools to 1000 miles for the college teams participating. Should the conflict result in games being played at the same time in Cedar City our support will go to the college. The problem is too small for high schools, making it a small administration and athletic leadership leader-ship that doesn't deserve the fans' support. |