Another playoff scenario, another possible UIL flub

In the past week, I found myself doing something that I rarely ever do. I defended the University Interscholastic League (UIL), the governing body of Texas High School sports.

The UIL was under fire from Yahoo! Sports High School blog Prep Rally for having Class 3A's No. 1 girls basketball team, Kennedale, travel to Lubbock for a regional tournament where it played a team from Lubbock and a team from Abilene.

The boys basketball regional tournament's begin this weekend, and Region I, the region in which Kennedale plays, is again on the hot seat. This time, however, the UIL has time to make the right call, as first suggested by CBS 11's Bill Jones (@cbsdollarbill) on Twitter.

The Region I tournament is scheduled for Snyder on Friday and Saturday. Snyder is in West Texas. The problem? All four teams who've qualified for the tournament are teams from the Dallas/Fort Worth area (Denton Ryan, FW Arlington Heights, Trimble Tech and The Colony).

We'll let Mr. Jones take it from here (via Twitter)

With budget crisis & $3.50 gallon gas, UIL has got to call audible and not force 4 DFW class 4A hoops teams to travel 250 miles to regional

 He couldn't be more right. The UIL has had plenty of things they've messed up in the past. The time is still there, let's make the right call.

No schools should have to face a 250-mile trip out West when all four of the schools are within a 50 mile radius of one another.

There are gyms, nice gyms, all over the D/FW Metroplex that could be called into action for this.

Come on UIL, let's do the right thing here, and save some face for some of your other flubs.