WIAA Rules

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, the governing body for high school sports, is a national joke.

It deserves all the ridicule it's receiving.

WIAA sportsmanship guidelines trend on Twitter. # https://t.co/H9sa5wlAIM #WIAAChantsX #WIAARules

— WBAY-TV 2 (@WBAY) January 13, 2016

WIAA rules seek to curb student chants such as "air ball" and "scoreboard"

Some of the rules are insane.

The following examples are cited as "inappropriate sportsmanship."

Cheers/Chants (Sportsmanship Infraction)

1. Booing of any kind
Disrespectful to officials, players, team. If errors in judgment are made, all are human and we must accept that. Individuals do the best to execute in a way they’ve been trained.

2. “Over-rated” chant
Directed in a taunting, disrespectful manner at opponents and their fans.

3. “Scoreboard” cheer
Directed in a taunting, disrespectful manner at opponents and their fans.

4. “Air ball” chant
Directed in a taunting, disrespectful manner at opponent.

5. “Nuts n’ Bolts...” chant
Directed in a disrespectful manner at an official and is inappropriate innuendo.

6. “You, You, You” chant
Directed in a taunting and disrespectful manner at an opponent.

7. “You can’t do that,” “fund-a-mentals,” “We can’t hear you,” “Warm up the bus” chants
Directed in a taunting and disrespectful manner at an opponent and/or their fans.

8. “Sieve, sieve, sieve” chant
Directed in a taunting and disrespectful manner at an opponent’s goal keeper.

9. “Nah, nah, hah, nah...hey-eyy goodbye” song; “Season’s Over” chant
Directed in a taunting and disrespectful manner at an opponent and their fans.

10. “Push it, push it, push it” chant
Directed in a disrespectful manner at an official and is inappropriate innuendo.

11. “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A” or any acronym of derogatory language or innuendo
Directed in a disrespectful and inappropriate manner disrespectful or at officials, opponents, etc.

12. Any chants/comments that are disrespectful to an opponent or official, including school mascot, school nickname, school population, opponent’s town or community or that is derogatory to an individual because of race, gender, creed, body type or ability
Directed in a disrespectful and inappropriate manner at officials, opponents or anyone.

13. Holding up papers or props during opponent introductions
Directed in a taunting and disrespectful manner at an opponent.

In other words, polite but subdued applause might be acceptable at a Wisconsin high school sporting event. However, if it's "directed in a disrespectful and inappropriate manner at officials, opponents or anyone," then it is forbidden under the WIAA rules.

Without question, the "U-S-A" chant should not be banned. If high school students are using it as an acronym of a derogatory statement rather than echoing the chant used to express pride in the "United States of America," then they're immature goofs and have managed to circumvent the rules. A ban on the "U-S-A" chant is going too far.

The WIAA's sportsmanship rules go too far.

Enough.

All supporters of Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association rules banning fun gather in solidarity with WIAA. pic.twitter.com/lvmTM7jgOE

— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) January 12, 2016

The mocking of the WIAA rules is amusing.

I'm sure there's much more to come.

Well-deserved.