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DISTRICT 9 FOOTBALL QUESTION & ANSWER |
| New for this season, D9Sports.com Co-Editor Chris Rossetti is asking for your questions concerning District 9 football. E-mail Chris your questions and each Wednesday he will pick the best ones of the week and answer them below. To e-mail a question send it to D9Sportsquestion@hotmail.com. You must include your first and last name and a hometown in order to have your question answered. |
| E-mail your question |
| Q: Before
we get started, I am getting a lot of unsigned e-mails. Plain and simple. We will not run your question if you
don't give us a first and last name and a hometown. Now onto the question:
We
all know about the difference conferences within the District 9 (District 9 League, AML, KSAC, etc).
However, I've never seen any news or events about who has authority over each Conference. My question is Is
there an authority figure for each conference within the District 9, or are the conference denominations
understood between each team participating in them? –George Pierce, State College |
| A: George, each conference may be a little different but the structure in all of them is pretty much the same. Either the principals (in most cases) or the athletic directors (possibly in a couple of cases) work as a more or less democratic body. They elect officers including a president and then vote on things concerning the conference. An example, in the KSAC, the vote that was taken last year to expand the conference in football to include Brookville and Punxsutawney was taken, I believe, at the principal level. For those wonder why it is the principals and not the athletic directors in charge most of the time that is because the PIAA sees the principals as the head of the school's athletic departments (for lack of a better way of putting it). |
| Q: Do
point(s) after touchdowns count as official yardage for receiving and rushing? |
| A: No. Official yardage for receiving, rushing and passing DO NOT include yards gained or lost on PATs. Likewise, defensive stats don't count during PATs. You cannot have a tackle during a PAT and an intercepted pass on a 2-point conversion doesn't count as an interception. Many teams stats people make this mistake honestly. Along those lines, but in a different light, in high school football sacks are counted against a quarterbacks rushing totals (and therefore the team rushing totals) the same as in the college game but different from the NFL where sacks are counted against the TEAM passing totals but not the quarterback passing totals. This is why in high school and college you see quarterbacks who a lot of times have large negative yardage in rushing. |
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