While it is true Highlands is not a large school, it is not tiny either. The KHSAA and their latest classification realignment has the Bluebirds as a 4A school out of six classes for football. Ludlow and Dayton are tiny schools. They are 1A schools.

 

Yes, and Highlands won in a single class that included schools with a much higher enrollment. If I'm understanding the argument, that really shouldn't happen. Right? Especially in back to back seasons

Yes, and Highlands won in a single class that included schools with a much higher enrollment. If I'm understanding the argument, that really shouldn't happen. Right? Especially in back to back seasons

 

Trust me, I am not for all this classification, and what not. We have at least two too many classes in football. I like the way basketball is done and baseball. Don't know much about the other sports. Sounds like we are in agreement on this point. I thought you were travelling down the well worn road of Highlands and their prowess on the gridiron, until they lose to someone bigger than them, and then the argument always turns to the size of the school they lost to. No biggie.

 

See same arguments on this board all the time when a team loses. It is either bad coaching, horrible officiating or sickness or injury to key players.

If you classify one classify all. The sacred cow that is basketball should not be exempted if all other sports are classified.

Classifying all would kill some sports. Not all sports are created equally...

Not sure how anyone could say classification would be bad for any sport. It's about participation and if going from four to six classes in football was good for participation, what would going to two or four for the other sports do? No, no one has said that going from four to six classes is the only reason for increased participation but it certainly had something to do with it.

 

I don't believe that if everyone else is doing something that it must be right. However, while others are taking it to another level (see OHSAA's proposal for classification) and our state just sits there and watches, it makes you wonder.

Don't want basketball to be classed. And my graduating class had 23. 180 students grades 1-12. Didn't have kindergarden back in the 50's

 

I'm not far behind you Gold. My graduating class had 43 students and we are the only high school in the county.

Trust me, I am not for all this classification, and what not. We have at least two too many classes in football. I like the way basketball is done and baseball. Don't know much about the other sports. Sounds like we are in agreement on this point. I thought you were traveling down the well worn road of Highlands and their prowess on the gridiron, until they lose to someone bigger than them, and then the argument always turns to the size of the school they lost to. No biggie.:lol:

 

See same arguments on this board all the time when a team loses. It is either bad coaching, horrible officiating or sickness or injury to key players.

 

Is it Feb. yet?

I know it will never happen again, but football needs to be 4 classes

I know it will never happen again' date=' but football needs to be 4 classes[/quote']

 

At most, and preferably three.

 

As someone noted right after the 2010 FB playoff blowouts, how would this state championship lineup have looked:

 

Mayfield vs. NewCath

Boyle County vs. Central

Highlands vs. Trinity

At most, and preferably three.

 

As someone noted right after the 2010 FB playoff blowouts, how would this state championship lineup have looked:

 

Mayfield vs. NewCath

Boyle County vs. Central

Highlands vs. Trinity

 

That would have been awesome!

Lexington Catholic, then a small school with enrollment around 400 won the boys state soccer titles in 1983 and 1984. Of course they added football since then and are now a mid sized school at 800+.

 

Classifying basketball is another argument for another time.

 

When St. Henry beat Lexington Christian Academy in the fall to win the girls state soccer championship, it was the first time since girls soccer began statewide in 1992 that a small school appeared in the state title game. And while that title game doesn't help my argument any, it's time for the KHSAA to classify soccer and volleyball.

 

St. Henry's win over Lexington Christian marked the first time a small school had appeared in the soccer final. It's also the first time a small school has appeared in the Final Four in the past decade.

 

In boys soccer, only once has a small school won the state title. That came in 1975 when Kentucky Country Day took the title. That was in a time when just a handful of schools fielded soccer teams. Since then, only one small school has appeared in a title game (St. Henry 1999). Only three times in the last decade has a small school even appeared in the state Final Four.

 

It's even worse in volleyball where no public school, let alone a small school, has ever appeared in the state finals. Volleyball has been a sanctioned KHSAA sport since 1979 but has only become a true statewide sport in the past decade.

 

The last under-500 enrollment school to play in the baseball finals was Beechwood in 2006, losing to Lexington Catholic in the finals. In 2005, Lexington Christian (422) won the state title. Before that, you have to go back 11 years to Corbin in 1994 to find an under-500 team to advance to the state finals.

 

Softball is the only fly in the ointment where under-500 Owensboro Catholic and right at 500 Reidland have recently won state titles.

 

The KHSAA has taken some heat for expanding football to six classes to give schools a more equitable shot at a state title. And they will never classify basketball because it would go against the tradition-rich and cash cow that is the Sweet Sixteen. However, it's time for them to classify volleyball and soccer as well as softball and baseball to give the smaller schools the same chance at a state title that the football schools are given.

 

I know this was discussed last year at a Board of Control meeting but I havent heard where anything came of it.

 

Thoughts?

 

And if you are against classification, please post the number of students in your graduating class at your high school.