The number of classes isn't about the number of schools, it is about the size differences among the schools. Reducing the number of classes only exacerbates that problem.

 

WINNER!!!

4 classes would be perfect.

Reducing to 3 classes would have

3A Boys Enrollment with a spread of from over 1200 all the way down to just over 600.

2A Boys Enrollment with a spread of from over 600 all the way down to just over 350.

1A Boys Enrollment with a spread of from over 350 all the way down to just over 40.

 

In Football more than any other sport size/numbers matter. Having 6 classes is more about evening the numbers than trying to give away trophies to everyone.

How many state champions in 6 classes wouldn't of been champions in 4 classes and vice versa?

I think you guys have it wrong, needs to go the other directions and have 7 classes,

How many state champions in 6 classes wouldn't of been champions in 4 classes and vice versa?

 

2 per year!

I think you guys have it wrong, needs to go the other directions and have 7 classes,

 

I think KY is too small of a state to do 7 classes.......but I think this solves the competitiveness problem better than cutting to 4 classes.

 

What everyone wants is more competitive games, especially in the playoffs. As long as big disparities exist between school enrollments, the blowouts and lack of competitiveness will continue. Cutting classes only furthers the gap....it doesn't make things better. We already complain about 6a teams playing smaller teams and how it's unfair. You reduce the number of classes, that's going to happen more often in the playoffs. Who cares how many trophies we give out. You want to see better playoff games, you either make everyone get better (which isn't going to happen), or you further reduce the inequities of small school vs large school.

6A should be the 8 biggest schools that win all the time (Trinity, St. X, Male, Bowling Green etc.). 5A should be the smaller schools that win all the time (Belfry, Mayfield, Central, Beechwood etc.). Then divide everyone else into 4 classes. Make all the heavyweights play each other in the playoffs and you won't have the same teams winning every year. Plus you'll have some great playoff games. Then when it's time to realign, take the teams from 5A and 6A that are struggling and put them back into the lower 4 classes. Take the most successful teams from the lower 4 classes in that span and put them in 5A and 6A.

 

But no matter what system you have, it's going to be unfair for somebody. That's life.

Go with 8 classes. Whoever wants in the 8th class gets Supreme State Champion. then divide up other 7 classes.

5 is the answer in my opinion, but don't we usually do this thread in October?

2 per year!

 

He'll be here all week. Try the veal.

In High School Football there will always be blowouts...1st round or the Finals we have seen and will always see, blow outs. No amount of gerrymandering or rearranging is going to eliminate that.

 

Classes should be aligned in a way to make the playing field as even as possible, within reason. The easiest way to do that is to class teams based on the number of boys enrolled in the school. Kentucky has a large disparity in school sizes that play football but do not have a lot of schools compared to other states playing. The spread in enrollment sizes in Kentucky warrants 5 or 6 classes, it just looks bad when you look at the number of schools in each class.

Seems to me, the ones yelling the most are the ones with the least to lose.

I'm not sold on 6 either, but it's what we have. I personally like the stories of the smaller county schools that don't have 1,500 kids every year that make a run and get a chance at a State Championship. It's easy to say "get better" when you can recruit or have 400 to 500 new kids keep rolling in every year. That doesn't happen away from Louisville much.

 

Is 2 more trophies a year, everybody gets a trophy? Really???

Too many average coaches of too many average teams want six classes because it makes them look better than average.

 

I wish 6A was the top 16 teams with everyone getting in the playoffs and 1A was the bottom 16 teams with everyone getting in the playoffs.

Seems to me, the ones yelling the most are the ones with the least to lose.

I'm not sold on 6 either, but it's what we have. I personally like the stories of the smaller county schools that don't have 1,500 kids every year that make a run and get a chance at a State Championship. It's easy to say "get better" when you can recruit or have 400 to 500 new kids keep rolling in every year. That doesn't happen away from Louisville much.

 

Is 2 more trophies a year, everybody gets a trophy? Really???

 

Under six classes 2.7% of the teams win state championships. The "everybody gets a trophy" statement is absolute nonsense.