It's time for classing.

If we do it, it will never be the same.

After seeing today that Georgetown from Brown Co, Ohio made it to the state championship game, there needs to be a class system.

 

Georgetown 27-0 will go into the state title game against a prep school that has a school enrollment under 80. G-Town would have never sniffed this far in the tournament if they had to play a large city school.

 

Nothing wrong with your state banner, saying, Division 4, 4A or whatever it might be called. You are still State Champs.

The Boy's Sweet 16 pays all the bills and salaries for the KHSAA.

 

And being a coach of a non-revenue sport, this is important to me. Thanks to the $$ earned at the Boys Sweet 16, we are able to do things that we would otherwise not be able to do.

 

It's called TRADITION.

If we do it, it will never be the same.

After seeing the same dozen large schools dominate the finals, that may be a good thing.

 

LBBC made a good point. If you go to four classes, the number of kids who can say they were a state champion in Kentucky goes from 0.5% to 1.5%. It's not like everyone is getting a trophy.

 

I'm like westsider and think two classes is enough.

The Boy's Sweet 16 pays all the bills and salaries for the KHSAA.

 

Sounds like a great reason FOR classed basketball!!

University Heights, Paintsville, and a 2A Lexington Catholic all had runs in the 90's in the Sweet Sixteen. Clay County was in 3 of 4 state title games in the late 80's as a 2 or 3A school. Paintsville had J.R. Vanhoose and Todd Tackett, Catholic had Shawn Fields and David Graves, Clay Co. had a guy named Richie Farmer. Non 4A schools have historically had success in the Sweet Sixteen.

 

ANY team can make a run in the Sweet Sixteen if they have a star or two, a few solid role players, and a little luck no matter the class.

Thread after thread after thread on the same subject and the results are always the same.

It's time for classing.

 

 

There's 49 other states that class, anyone that doesn't like the current system is free to pull up the tent stakes and water your championship down to death. It's a free country. I root for the under-dog every year down state. You win some, you lose some....life goes on.

University Heights, Paintsville, and a 2A Lexington Catholic all had runs in the 90's in the Sweet Sixteen. Clay County was in 3 of 4 state title games in the late 80's as a 2 or 3A school. Paintsville had J.R. Vanhoose and Todd Tackett, Catholic had Shawn Fields and David Graves, Clay Co. had a guy named Richie Farmer. Non 4A schools have historically had success in the Sweet Sixteen.

 

ANY team can make a run in the Sweet Sixteen if they have a star or two, a few solid role players, and a little luck no matter the class.

 

 

:thumb: Basketball is a sport where you can compete with "THE BIG MONSTER SCHOOLS" with good coaching and dedicating yourself.

:thumb: Basketball is a sport where you can compete with "THE BIG MONSTER SCHOOLS" with good coaching and dedicating yourself.

Really? Name a class 1A or 2A school that does this every year? Name one that advances to the Sweet 16 more than three times every 12 years. Dedicating yourself and hard work does not play a big factor in a small school being able to compete year after year and making more than one trip to Rupp every 10-15 or 20 years.

After seeing the same dozen large schools dominate the finals, that may be a good thing.

 

LBBC made a good point. If you go to four classes, the number of kids who can say they were a state champion in Kentucky goes from 0.5% to 1.5%. It's not like everyone is getting a trophy.

 

I'm like westsider and think two classes is enough.

 

But how long will it take for the losing schools to complain about having only two divisions? You already have complaining about some schools being too big to play in the All "A" Classic......

Really? Name a class 1A or 2A school that does this every year? Name one that advances to the Sweet 16 more than three times every 12 years. Dedicating yourself and hard work does not play a big factor in a small school being able to compete year after year and making more than one trip to Rupp every 10-15 or 20 years.

 

 

OK then just go ahead and give every kid in the state of KY that plays basketball a ring and tell them how great they are. Then I guess they will be prepared for the real world after high school. Does any one single "big" school dominate this tourney every year? I think what Warren Central has done the past 6 years is very impressive and they have "1 possibly 2 championships in that time". The fact of the matter is YOU WILL NOT CHANGE THE COMMONWEALTH'S "SWEET SIXTEEN".

If you class basketball with a correct cutoff line, the All-A will cease to exist and the arguement will be moot.

Really? Name a class 1A or 2A school that does this every year? Name one that advances to the Sweet 16 more than three times every 12 years. Dedicating yourself and hard work does not play a big factor in a small school being able to compete year after year and making more than one trip to Rupp every 10-15 or 20 years.

Hey 3 years out of 12 aint bad.