It's really to see what we agree on. Tell us why each will or will not work ?
I'm not sure of that for football. We have 67 1a teams now. If the go to football only realignment then we will have 64 teams.
with 7 classes that would not happen. The cut line for 1a would be somewhere in the high 300s, right around 400. 515 would be in the 2a class with a cutoff around 620.
Schools with 670 are in 1a now
How you figure?
Me and my AD was just talking about this yesterday..... It wasn't fair that football got split classifications, but baseball had to play a straight 1a school with no split, that could have been a lot bigger in numbers....
This is what TN does for a example. They go to 6a for football only. Your conference might change for other sports. They just had a new cycle for sports.
There are a number of questions that still have to be answered. IMO, playoffs are too long now and need to be shortened by a week. This also reduces overlap with basketball. In some states, the lower classes have smaller brackets due to fewer qualifiers. Obviously, if we take out the non-football-playing schools that ADM number could change. There is also talk that you could be 1 class in say Football and another class in Basketball or Baseball b/c there are obviously more schools with those sports. 7 may not be perfect, but it's better than the 4 we have now, and the proposal that will be voted on allows for additional classes as our state continues to grow. I think I read that we have a larger population than Alabama, GA, SC, and Virginia. Those states have 7a, 6a, and 5a. Thus, it only makes sense that a state with a larger population and more schools would want to create ADM equity by creating more classes.
Sorry BK but this train of thought is what got us where we are now. In order to evoke change we need to create equity among all the sports which in turn could help create more unity among the various different coaches' associations. It was crucial that both the football coaches association and the basketball coaches association sent in very very similar proposals both asking for at least 7 classes with the room to create 8 or more as the state continues to grow.
Well I don't think I'd be able to explain to you .
I don't think they could do that with their idea...it's not just to go to 7, it's to add a bylaw that you can't have more than 64 in a single classification. So even if football was classed separately, there couldn't be more than 64 in the smallest class.
I agree BK football needs to be at 6 other sports don’t. There is absolutely no way for a sport like wrestling that we like you could have 6 classes. Sports like that need to stay at 4 and other sports to.
But it isn't needed in the other sports.
Do you not see a problem with 2A being 400-800 thats double the school size? Want work just a little unfair.
The article I read basically said conferences are done if this happens. You'd have regions or districts, similar to how GA, SC, and TN do it. The cap of 64 makes sense, then, because any more than that and you get away from having 8 regions. 8 regions means no more advanced math to seed the playoffs.
I'd be fine with four rounds in the 1A playoffs if 1A was just schools under 400 or so. Those size schools are the ones with wrestling and basketball teams waiting on those kids the most, anyway.