Marquette Sports Law Review Volume 14 Article 5 Issue 2 Spring A Game Plan to Conserve the Interscholastic Athletic Environment after LeBron James Kevin P. Braig Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw Part of the Entertainment and Sports Law Commons Repository Citation Kevin P. Braig, A Game Plan to Conserve the Interscholastic Athletic Environment after LeBron James, 14 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 343 (2004) Available at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw/vol14/iss2/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A GAME PLAN TO CONSERVE THE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ENVIRONMENT AFTER LEBRON JAMES KEVIN P. BRAIG Our sports are liturgies-but do not have dogmatic creeds. There is no long bill of doctrines all of us recite. We bring the hungers of our spirits, and many of them, not all, are filled-filled with a beauty, ex- cellence, and grace few other institutions now afford. Our sports need to be reformed-Ecclesia semper reformanda. Let not too much be claimed for them. But what they do superbly needs our thanks, our watchfulness, our intellect, and our acerbic love.' I. INTRODUCTION For decades, the community of high schools in the Ohio High School Ath- letic Association (OHSAA) has sought to regulate interscholastic athletics by prohibiting external influences upon students that are potentially inconsistent with the educational and community values of athletic participation. Tradi- tionally, the recruiting of a student for athletic purposes has been the primary influence that the OHSAA membership has sought to combat.