Vote on # of Football Classes

[WoodyJr]

I can handle trying 5 classes

[3wishes]

I like the 6 class system, that is assuming 2 teams get in from each district and the season can start later.

[swamp thang]

Actually, I think we should go to three classes

[Goliath]

5 classes at most.

[ChiefSmoke]

If we use 6 classes to get out of the heat, I am for it. If not, we are wasting an opportunity. Having said that, I will support what the majority of the coaches want.

[FairFan]

I like the 4 class system.

[MountainThunder]

I can live with 5. I prefer 4. But 6 is too many IMHO.

[Powerhouse Cats]

I'm perfectly happy with 4 classes, but I think it would be interesting to try with 5 classes.

[OldCamelNewBird]

Anymore than 4 is too many in my opinion. Especially if 6 classes move into play, that means 6 state championships. So at that point, when someone tells you that they won state, it'd be like... so what... IMO

 

Also, I could see the situation of the same teams winning almost every year becoming much worse with an increase of classes. All that would be doing is giving two more teams an opportunity to potentially dominate the class, year after year. I don't totally disagree that the classes are getting kind of bunched, but I think that the way to answer that would be to distribute some of the teams into different classes with respect to how good their teams are year after year (instead of classifying the schools by size). Though I think it would be a good idea, I don't think any state would try it.

[50inarow]

Where is the choice for 1 class?

[PurpleHaze]

I voted to leave it!

[Thestepchild68]

I have an idea! How about we go to a 5 class system. The 5th Class would be made up of the Large 4A schools and Privates 3A or bigger in Jefferson and Fayette Counties. If you are less than 3A and private, you play up a class so O-Cath would play up into 3A. The rest of the schools that are left over are added up, divided by 4 and make up classes 1A-4A. The 5A class would be like a metro class where there are schools who have open enrollment and open districts. Let them recruit their areas and compete against one another. This would level the playing field for the County Schools.

[RockPride]

I like 5 classes, with the top class being a voluntary super class.

[goherd96]

Actually, I think we should go to three classes

 

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[WoodyJr]

Thank you for the responses & votes so far. It's interesting to see how relatively close it is between the 3 options listed - hope more folks vote so we can see if a more definitive opinion develops for BGPers.

 

 

Runfirst - We can't have 1 class in football b/c of the physical nature of the sport. Small schools cannot compete against bigger schools on a week-in, week-out basis (with a "few" exceptions - which don't change the basic issue) I hope no one thinks I'm saying Bball isn't physical, but competing in football is a completely different situation.

 

 

TheStepChild68 - Welcome to BGP, nice to see thoughtful, insightful comments without subtle (or overt) jabs at any other school or persons opinion - Hope you can maintain that & not be sucked into the vortex of insanity:cool:

 

Rockpride - They stopped allowing schools to choose to "play up" but perhaps a procedure could be set up to evaulate those requests. They do need to make sure other schools & districts aren't damaged by a move or that it upsets the competitive balance. An example could be a super successful program like Highlands playing in a lower class [i am NOT crticizing Highlands. I believe they would more likely ask to play up against the best competition they could]

 

 

Without having to label it such, I believe a 5 class setup would end up creating basically what the guys above were suggesting with the top class. I also posted somewhere else about the idea of using various criteria, such as a point system ("perhaps" counting open enrollment, scholarships, # of transfers[which includes publics], same sex schools counting as 1.5 students, etc.) which would bounce certain schools UP a class. This "could" be a way of cooling off the public/private firestorm? [i don't want to turn this into a public/private debate]

Interestingly, in NY HS boys basketball they have been discussing the exact idea of a "super" division for only the 12-15 schools that historically have dominated everyone else [those schools are the ones actually discussing it]. I know it's Bball but the idea is similar.

 

 

Cheers, Woody Jr