MAIS 2015-16 realignment released...

[Maroon Eagle]

Link

 

[dawgstudent]

Congrats to Jackson Prep or JA for winning the football championship.

 

[aTotal360]

Who is "Delta Str"? Is that North Delta in Batesville? If not, what happened to the North Delta Green Wave? Is the 1A Tunica, TIL? I thought they were a much bigger school? Did the influx money in that county make the public schools better? Looks like Winston Academy has gone from 1A to 3A in 15 years...thanks Hud.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Initial thoughts:

1. Four classifications: AAAA, AAA, AA, A - Jackson's three schools in AAAA are in three different districts.
2. Nearly all the schools in that play 8-man football are in the new-style Class A. There are three AA schools that will be playing 8-man. (they are current old-style A schools - Franklin, Tallulah, and Christian Collegiate).
2. University Academy of Central Louisiana makes the jump from old-style Class A to AAAA, division II.
3. Winona Christian, Canton, Tri-County, Wayne, Oak Hill, Prairie View, Amite, Prentiss Christian, River Oaks, and Glenbrook move down from old-style AA to new AA (which can be thought of as the currently larger Class A schools).
4. Briarfield, Tunica, Deer Creek, and DeSoto are the only new-style Class A schools that will be playing 11-man football.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Delta Str is Delta Streets Academy out of Greenwood. This year was their first year playing 8-man football.

Tunica is indeed TIL. They've mostly been a Class A school.

MAIS re-did their classifications some. The 15th through 38th largest schools are in their new AAA.

 

[Faustdog]

I'd love to hear the story of why someone in Greenwood thought they needed another academy. I'm sure there were no hurt feelings or politics whatsoever involved in that .

 

[ArcherSPS]

It's actually a church run school for underprivileged kids. Learn the whole story before you post.

 

[Faustdog]

That's why I posted, to get the whole story. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Shmuley]

Apparently no politics or hurt feelings were involved.

 

[Faustdog]

Yeah, I guess it makes sense to start a new school rather than just fund scholarships to Pillow.

 

[Hammer Down]

Yeah, I guess it makes sense to start a new school rather than just fund scholarships to Pillow.

That school (DSA) was not started just to give away free money.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Tunica changed to TA from TIL in 2009. The school has grown but is still not as big enough for 2A

 

[johnson86-1]

Yeah, I guess it makes sense to start a new school rather than just fund scholarships to Pillow.

Not that Pillow is expensive for a private school, but I'm guessing they spend half the amount per pupil that it would cost to send them to Pillow. The workers their are virtually volunteers and they get a lot of in kind support from the community that couldn't/wouldn't be matched in monetary donations.

 

[Todd4State]

Initial thoughts:

1. Four classifications: AAAA, AAA, AA, A - Jackson's three schools in AAAA are in three different districts.
2. Nearly all the schools in that play 8-man football are in the new-style Class A. There are three AA schools that will be playing 8-man. (they are current old-style A schools - Franklin, Tallulah, and Christian Collegiate).
2. University Academy of Central Louisiana makes the jump from old-style Class A to AAAA, division II.
3. Winona Christian, Canton, Tri-County, Wayne, Oak Hill, Prairie View, Amite, Prentiss Christian, River Oaks, and Glenbrook move down from old-style AA to new AA (which can be thought of as the currently larger Class A schools).
4. Briarfield, Tunica, Deer Creek, and DeSoto are the only new-style Class A schools that will be playing 11-man football.

How is AAAA going to do the playoffs with three districts?

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I don't know. A variation of the old NFL playoff process with the three divisions in the NFC & AFC come to mind. Another, and perhaps a more likely scenario, district winners will have the top three seeds (with them being sorted by power points) and other participants are determined by power points.

I would not be surprised if it was decided that all AAAA teams would have to participate in football playoffs since it'd be only one extra round.

 

[patdog]

They may as well just make a rule that JP, JA, MRA and PCS will be the playoff teams every year.