Listening to his radio interview, I can't keep up with all his factual inaccuracies.
Ignazio:
This is low-stakes hashtag activism. Listening to Zunkel over the radio, one can hear the steam escaping from his ears.
This radio interview is so replete with error it is both comical and resembles fingernails scratching on a blackboard.
Zunkel's words are an implicit admission the multiplier and success factor are miserable failures. It is such a glaring admission of failure, he can not even bring himself to utter the qualifier "Catholic" when referring to private schools.
What is most disturbing about his appearance with the host on WRMJ is he unwittingly admits precisely what motivates his proposal: The desire to sweep away any Catholic school which presents a challenge to a public school in the playoffs.
At the 7:50 mark, Zunkel commits his most fatal error: Stumbling badly, he refers to "
these private schools," halts to correct himself and continues with "
excuse me, the non-public schools, but everybody knows what we mean by that."
Gee, does Zunkel mean "Catholic schools?"
At the 8:10 mark, Zunkel refers to "
going to a place where you have a really good chance of winning a state championship."
In uttering this waste, Zunkel reveals himself to possess a pathological fixation with winning and winning alone.
The very epicenter of the multiplier and success factor is rooted in winning and uncovers precisely how the attachment to winning has eclipsed the far greater virtues learned through high school athletics such as personal discipline, confidence building, cooperation, dignity, harmony, honor, integrity, loyalty, perseverance, purpose, respect, responsibility, unity and vision.
In concert with proposals such as this, largely pilfered from New Jersey's framework, the multiplier and success factor are exposed to be nothing more than state-sponsored strategies to tilt the field
further in favor of public schools.
I'd like Zunkel to furnish hard evidence to his hysterical conclusion "non-private" schools are witnessing consistency in the number of athletes competing in football in contrast to the "athlete-poor" public schools which he claims have experiencing a drop in the number of youths involved in public programs. This is utterly preposterous. He cites "concussions" as one factor leading to a drop off in the number of kids involved in football, but insists the alleged drop off only affects public schools.
Is Zunkel implying parents of children at a Catholic schools are
less concerned about the health and safety of their sons in comparison to the parents who send their kids to public schools?
The most comical portion of the interview is the part where an endless string of "statistics" are rattled off depicting the high success rate among Catholic schools in the playoffs and earning state titles.
These "statistics" are constantly waved like a bloody shirt to justify further IHSA policy changes.
The IHSA implemented two successive policies to prevent such aberrations from occurring, but they did persist and this has angered public schools and now inspires yet another new proposal.
I would actually have a bit of respect for any IHSA official, public school coach or administrator backing the multiplier or success factor if they would discard the tenth-rate platitudes and discontinue with the sermons about "fairness" when they roll out these policies or new proposals, and just admit they are looking to facilitate more public school titles.
This is a disgraceful way to begin a new job.
