Hoopability in Student Clubs

Student Short AND Tall 'Second Fiddle'

Student Short AND Tall clubs occupy a modest role -- Second Fiddle. First, varsity and junior varsity rosters claim the cream of campus tallness. This cuts the availability of hoopability in players of a height unit or more to few and far between. Second Fiddle squads -- collegiate and high school clubs -- can rarely command the full five units of evenly distributed tallness allowance.
These Second Fiddle clubs, however, fill a campus niche. As a complementary addition (non-competing athletic activity), they open a door to organized practices and games for ordinary-height enthusiasts and their medium-tall classmates. Interest increases as the students bravely meet outside recreation opponents that reach deep into the allowed five-unit tallness
Nonetheless, Short AND Tall assures that a campus club never opposes overall tallness, a "tall team." Likewise, whenever another campus is the rival, the five-unit safety net protects both student clubs.

7 Steps for Campus Club Short AND Tall

A collegiate or high school club team is an ideal user of Short AND Tall. This suggests steps for a club.

STEP 1 FORM CLUB

Start a campus club with about a dozen members. These founders, while intending to play on their squad of up to 10 players, will also strive to recruit at least 50 prospects of random heights to widen "availability" for selection.

STEP 2 SQUAD

The squad will combine abilities and tallness. Judge males who stand taller than 72 inches and women above 66 3/4 inches at four marks on a wall for "units" 1, 2, 3 or 4. Players beneath the tallness minimum, which is the top of the lowest of the four marks, are judged zero units. This method is featured in The 10-Minute Game demonstration. While a squad may have fewer than 10 players, the format size is a standard 10. This formatting requires a V for vacancy on the Game List at each reduction from 10 players.

STEP 3 TALLNESS

Sharing in Short AND Tall's even distribution of the tallness advantage is far from automatic. In population height ranges, tallness clusters mostly with people who are only "just tall" - one unit. Campus recruiters especially face an ironic challenge. They play Second Fiddle to the basketball varsity and junior varsity. Only a very few students of one-unit or two-units may be found, or the taller candidates may lack hoopability. An "under-sized" campus squad, even with no tallness units, is nonetheless valid. The team enjoys a safety net, assured by Short AND Tall that no opponent may exceed the uniform five units. They never face a "tall team."

STEP 4 CHALLENGE

Invite a handy rival to organize a club and squad and to hold practices. Schedule a game of Short AND Tall.

STEP 5 PRE-GAME

On the court, line up the rival squads by units (tallness facing tallness). Affirm validity of tallness. Exchange "high fives." Option: exchange Game Lists.

STEP 6 HALFTIME

Where a "vacancy" was required to meet the necessary format of 10, make payment at halftime with a pair of free throws for each V on the Game List.

STEP 7 2ND HALF

All game-non-starters are automatically on their second-half opening lineup. The five game starters may then re-enter one substitution at a time.

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