I don't blame Johnson Central for trying to move down a class because of gas prices. Their closest district opponent is 30 miles away, with Bryan Station, Montgomery County, and Woodford County each being over 2 hours away.

Is this the official list for next two seasons? I was told by one of their coaches that Murray would be going back to 1A in 09-10. I think they were the smallest of the 2A schools. But, any enrollment changes might be reflected up and down the line and the cutoff simply remaining at their spot. Anybody know, please confirm.

I still wish they would go to the 5 class system...With 223 competing teams, you could have 48 teams in each of the smaller classes and then the 32 biggest in the 5a class, since that's where the biggest disparity in size is... That would be 6 teams in each of the 8 districts and 4 teams in each of the 8 districts in the 5a class... I think it would also make sense to allow teams to play down or up 1 class only... In other words, just say for example, the # 300 was used... Any team with under 300 students would have the option to play in 1a, even if they weren't 1 of the 48 smaller schools... At the same time, any team, who would be classified as 1 of the smaller 48 schools, could opt to play up to 2a... You could use different #s for the middle and upper classes, such as 500 or 700... The actual # would have to be figured in beforehand... I also believe the privates should have to factor in at 1.5%, much like Tn uses, except they use a 1.75% factor...

 

I thought they had changed a few years ago to counting only the male population. I think if they are going by male population only then they don't need to add a factor. But if they go by total enrollment, the all boy schools should be factored by 2.

I don't blame Johnson Central for trying to move down a class because of gas prices. Their closest district opponent is 30 miles away, with Bryan Station, Montgomery County, and Woodford County each being over 2 hours away.

 

Bryan Station isn't on their schedule, Ashland replaced them.

I don't blame Johnson Central for trying to move down a class because of gas prices. Their closest district opponent is 30 miles away, with Bryan Station, Montgomery County, and Woodford County each being over 2 hours away.

 

I think fuel costs may force the KHSAA to rethink how everything is done. I only have two points of reference on this. 1) How things are done here and now. and 2) How they were done 30 years ago in Ohio when I was in HS.

 

We all know how things are done here and now. I don't know if Ohio is still the same or not, but when I was in school, it was all done geographically by conference. There were 9 teams in our conference, so you played 8 conference and 2 nonconfernce games. There were A, AA, and AAA (AAA was the largest when I was in school) schools in the conference. In the very large population areas they would try to put schools with similar enrollments in the same conference. There was a fairly complex system where the playoffs were determined by points. An A team got more points for beating a AAA etc.

 

It created incredible rivalries and attendence during the regular season.

 

For example, a good conference in our area would be Anderson, Boyle, Casey, Danville, Frankfort, Franklin County, Garrard, Lincoln, and Mercer. There are probably better combinations I'm just throwing one out.

 

Another good one could include Pulaski, Somerset, SW, N & S Laurel, plus a few others.

I think fuel costs may force the KHSAA to rethink how everything is done. I only have two points of reference on this. 1) How things are done here and now. and 2) How they were done 30 years ago in Ohio when I was in HS.

 

We all know how things are done here and now. I don't know if Ohio is still the same or not, but when I was in school, it was all done geographically by conference. There were 9 teams in our conference, so you played 8 conference and 2 nonconfernce games. There were A, AA, and AAA (AAA was the largest when I was in school) schools in the conference. In the very large population areas they would try to put schools with similar enrollments in the same conference. There was a fairly complex system where the playoffs were determined by points. An A team got more points for beating a AAA etc.

 

It created incredible rivalries and attendence during the regular season.

 

For example, a good conference in our area would be Anderson, Boyle, Casey, Danville, Frankfort, Franklin County, Garrard, Lincoln, and Mercer. There are probably better combinations I'm just throwing one out.

 

Another good one could include Pulaski, Somerset, SW, N & S Laurel, plus a few others.

 

This would be a great idea and would help with a lot of high travel costs that schools have.