6 hours ago, Jumper_Dad said:

1 What is the purpose of cutting it to just four to six teams per class? Would you like college football to go back to just 4 teams in the playoffs too? 

2 Everyone's fascination with how Ohio does things, does not mean their way is right for Kentucky. Ohio has over 700 high school football teams according to OHSAA. That is three times as many as Kentucky. What's good for them doesn't necessarily mean it's good for us.

3 I know "some" small schools can compete up, but there is a reason teams are divided by enrollment size. The small teams that can be competitive week in and week out against much larger schools are the exception not the rule.

So back to my original question, if Kentucky completely enacted what you'd like to see, what are you hoping would come out of it?

1- You threw out the fact that even cutting it to an 8 team per class would result in blowouts, because, there are, in fact blow outs in the current 3rd, 4th and even state championship game(s). To which I acknowledged the pink elephant in the room seemingly every year, every class that if we are really being honest with ourselves? There's really less than 8 per class that have a legit shot at winning it all (in each class). Assuming that's what you meant by stating (and, TRUE) that there are even blowouts in the aforementioned later rounds? You know what's said about assuming- can be a slippery slope, but I'm not sure of any other way to interpret that.

FURTHERMORE, there are 136 Division 1 FBS Football programs that compete for 12 Playoff spots (as you know & am guessing you are in favor of, as am I) that represent 8% of the total, vying population. 

Conversely, we have 223 football playing schools in Kentucky, with six classes.

• IF we took 8 teams per? 20% IF we just took 6 teams PER class to the playoffs? That's 16%. Literally DOUBLE the chances of those in D1 FBS.  Knock it on down to 4 teams per? Slightly under 11% (10.7%)...yet STILL better than that of FBS D1.

For comparisons sake? FCS D1 has 129 football playing programs and now take 24 teams (18%). NCAA Division II has 161 football playing schools and have a 32 team playoff (1st time this year) & that's 20%. NCAA Division III has 241 playing school & a 40 team playoff (17%). NAIA has 94 playing schools and a 20 team playoff (21%).

So, as you can see....percentage wise...the 4-8 team playoff/per class isn't that wild of an idea. All three scenarios fit in the range of all collegiate level models.

2- So what if it's Ohio? If anything, due to the fact they have 3 times + the amount of schools playing, I'd argue (without being THAT well versed in the goings on of OHS Football) that they'd probably need to adopt ours & we need to adopt theirs

3- It's more than SOME, hsratings.com (calpreps) current Top 110 (roughly top half of our KY schools) by class.

6A- 25 (22%)

5A- 23 (21%)

4A- 21 (18%)

3A- 17 (17%)

2A- 15 (14%)

1A- 9 (8%)

Top 50- 6A (13), 5A (12), 4A (9), 3A (6), 2A (6), 1A (4)

Top 25- 6A (6), 5A (7), 4A (8), 3A (2), 2A (4), 1A (0)

Top 10- 6A (4), 5A (1), 4A (4), 3A (1), 2A (1), 1A (0)

Those ranges when thinking "bigger the school, bigger the football program" is small & when comparing "6A vs The World (1A-5A)" is ZERO when holding the majority of the Top spots in the various ranges (Top 10, 25, 50, etc). And in some cases they are single handidly tied with the # of spots (with 4A in the Top 10) & less than (5A in Top 25).

As for metro areas like Lou/Jeff Co and NKY where there is more, if not most of the discrepancy b/t big-small ? They'd sort it out, much like, wait for it....Ohio (Dang it!) does with " So and So Conference Big", "so and so conference small". Also, the conferences individually set the number of games that have to be played "IN CONFERENCE".

To Your Original question? See my original post. Right now? We have districts (many more than not), regions (all), classes (all) where....imagine Alabama, WKU, EKU, Georgetown, Campbellsville & Lindsey Wilson are competing for the same trophy.

Does clearing house of career-type employees of the KHSAA count as a change to Kentucky high school football? That organization is the same people trained by the same people trained by the same people so it comes as no surprise that they lack the ability to embrace divergent thinking and they never really pursue much in the way of new or creative ideas. Furthermore, most of the senior staff members walk around with an I'm always right attitude and approach anyone with a new idea with a smarmy 'oh bless your heart' kind of response. If we want to look for progress forward for Kentucky high school football then its best to cut off the pompous and close-minded head of the snake in Lexington and reset the checker board.