An Editorial Comment

• The Luck kids were ready to take on the private school, McDonell Catholic School on Saturday, the game was scheduled to be played at Chippewa Falls High.  This was the Sectional Championship game, and traditionally these games are played on a neutral court.  In this case, the game was played at Chippewa Falls High School, less that 500 feet from McDonell.  Neutral?
• The WIAA sets up the tournaments in Divisions based on the size of the school.  For a small town like Luck, the students come from the surrounding village, township & rural area.  Enrollment is whatever the population provides for.  For the private Catholic school of McDonell, enrollment is controlled and students can be recruited & come from anywhere that the parents are willing to enroll them.  Fair?
• McDonell has had a great basketball team for the last several years, this will be the 4th or 5th consecutive trip to state.  What does that say about the fairness of this system when one school dominates over all the schools in this division?  Fair? 
• Seeding for the tournament is done about a week before the regular season ends, seeding controls home court advantage until Sectionals.  The McDonell coach was quoted in saying that he made sure that they got a good seed so they would have this advantage.  Fair?
• All I want is for this to be fair for the kids.  Maybe the private schools should have to play in a division higher to even the score?  But money talks so I'm sure this will never change.
• And so it goes.