Mailings to Athletic Directors, Student Basketball

Athletic Director, Student Basketball:
This modified start-up illustrates the Short AND Tall benefit of natural lineups. Your intramurals are real-world population. Untrained and uncoached, they offer raw hoops potential apart from height. Their native proclivity exceeds by tens of times the equivalent source in those fewer heights whose availability is lessened by tallness.

With your guidance, an accompanying page enables the students to enjoy squad competition regardless of their individual heights.

Begin with a line marked on a wall at 72 inches for "tall." ­This represents a fact supported by scientific documentation - that 80% of U,S. men ages 18-24 measure under six feet in height.

Form 10-player squads named A and B. Each squad contains eight or more intramural players of heights under "tall" and, at most, one or two teammates higher than the "tall" mark. Hold matches A vs B. Compare player abilities. Choose an "all-comers" squad: eight or nine heights under "tall," and one or two above.

Assist the students in presenting their challenges (yellow page enclosed) to students of one or more nearby rival campuses. For later games, observe the complete Short AND Tall rules, detailed at www.hoopability.com.

Students:

The following steps enable you and your classmates, regardless of individual heights, to launch hoops team competition:

1. Mark "tall" at 72 inches on a wall. The complete

Short AND Tall rules, details at www.hoopability.com, are a guideline for this modified start-up

2. From your intramural league, form two 10-player squads, A and B. On each squad place at least eight players of heights from below the tall mark, and at most, one or two from above the mark.

3. Hold A vs B matches. Choose an "all-comers" squad: 8 heights under the tall mark, 2 above.

4. Deliver an all-comers" challenge (yellow page enclosed) to student club of one or more nearby rival campus.

5. Play inter-campus challenge game.

6. Organize club (age-gender).
a. Talk-it-up. Posters and flyers.
b. At least 25 members.
c. Club name.
d. Elect officers, appoint coach.

7. Adopt complete Short AND Tall rules
a. www.hoopability.com
b. Judge for Tallness Units (all members)
c Tallness allowance, five Units.
d. Practice squads, up to 10 teammates each\e. New "all comers" challenges.

CHALLENGE FORM

Our club _________________________________

challenges for a game of Hoops (Short AND Tall rules www.hoopability.com) a student club of our nearby rival:

________________________________________

Representing our club:________________________

                                          ________________________                                            ________________________

Present to rival. Mail copy of this challenge to:

Hoops

PO Box 113373 Stamford, CT 06911

Date___________

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