10/24/22 Booster Club Meeting?

    Last night we had a booster club meeting and I thought there were several interesting points, some of which I brought up.  First off, our boys have qualified for the playoffs, like for the first time in 23 years, if I remember correctly.  While talking to a coworker, she mentioned their school had just qualified and they had shirts out to celebrate the occasion.  Well, I want to celebrate the occasion too.  It was the first thing I brought up as soon as the meeting got underway.  This became the focus of the meeting, which I am glad because it will be a really cool memento of what they accomplished this year.  Of course, I am hoping this is a new direction the school is taking and not just a rare thing that happened once in time.

    The next thing I just felt needed to be brought up is the use of charter buses.  If the boys manage to win a local game or two, then the distance to a competitor might grow in distance.  Do the boys get a charter bus to travel in comfort?  I like how it looks in the movies, when the team gets off these big fancy buses in a whole new world.  There was a lot of back and forth as to who pays for these buses, but at least the booster club got the conversation going with the coaching staff and they were going to reach out to the school district, if possibly they pay for this, we are after all, going out and representing AISD.  

    These were two exciting new points of conversation, which was followed by the normal "what are we feeding the kids this week?"  Wendys was chosen, and it sounded fine, but then there was a weird little detour in which we ended up giving a box of bananas to the other team at the last game.  The lady that gave them was touched that the boys acted all excited, like they don't normally get food like our boys do.  We feed them before they go play, give them fruit during the half and then have pizzas usually at the end of the game back by the lockers.  The ladies were all touched by the "starving children" from the last school, that they started talking about taking a box of food out at the coin flip to give the other team, I quickly raised my hand and said, "that is a horrible idea!"  These boys are fixing to go to war against each other, they may be insulted by the idea of food, they may think it's laced with something, food has no business on the field of battle.  I told them it's fine to share some food, but do it discretely, maybe share the idea with the coaching staff of the other school, see if they are receptive to the idea.  

    The school we faced last week is a sad place, judging by the fact that there were maybe 13 sets of people/parents sitting in the stands, with a band that had maybe 20-30 kids, and the team hasn't won a game in the last 3-4 years.  Not all opponents are the same, we could lose this week and then our charity will look a little silly, so we need to make sure it is coming from a good place if this is what we are going to do.