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A little different perspective here, but from the point of view of being on the field... The atmosphere at Belfry this year was very good. Really like the set-up of the stadium and the intensity of the crowd. Everyone there seemed to be focused on the game. Corbin (I guess since it was Pigskin) was a great atmosphere too. A playoff game at Trinity though would have to top the list. Have heard Putnam at Ashland is right there with the best...and hope to find out in person soon!

There is a BIG difference with Pikeville (and any OTHER independent public school) playing with kids outside their drawn boundaries than happens with private schools.

Wow! That's a HUGE run of bad luck in just about EVERY class...but I always thought the head guy there does a great job IN SPITE OF the many obstacles he has. Hope to get over to see many of them go at it in Frankfort later.

A college coach I trust told me one time that while the talent in Fla. is unbelievable, the high school COACHING leaves a lot to be desired. Stated that GEORGIA in comparison though has VERY well-trained and fundamentally-sound football players. Probably not by coincidence, Georgia recently began paying their football coaches almost as well as TEXAS -- who has by far the best-compensated coaches. His thinking was that the increase in pay pulled the BEST coaches out of Florida up to Georgia. Incidentally, he also told me he thought KENTUCKY coaches probably do a better job coaching than just about anywhere in that he felt we got more out of our players' talent (both in developing their fundamentals and in being sound in our schemes) than coaches in states with lots more talent. Maybe this has been proven out with the recent results of the Ky.-Tenn. All-Star games. Again, these aren't my opinions; they're his...but a pretty good compliment for what's going on in this state in football I thought from someone impartial (they coach at an out-of-state D-1 school).

John Cole was (is) a VERY good football player -- and his coach does a good job highlighting his skills in the system he runs. Deaton was one of the best "all-around" qb's we saw last year -- that's high praise considering the others I'd put in that category were Diehl of NewCath and Pugh of Paintsville (probably the best "runner" we saw considering RB's, QB's, receivers, etc.). Add in Olinger from Hazard to those 3, and you can see that the qb position in single-A on the "eastern" side of the state was LOADED last year. Thankfully for us, TWO of those 4 will have graduated next year!

Don't get much state-wide wrestling news where I am now and have a few kids from my old place I think could have a great year this year (Martinko, Wenninger specifically). Anybody know how they're doing?

If so, Pikeville Football program would like to purchase one to do some 'rasslin during our football indoor conditioining program. Thanks...please contact me at PHS or send a private message if you have anything or know anyone that would. Mike Jackson Head Football Coach Pikeville HS

This thread's heading for "pulled-sville." We'd better get it back on the topic. Sorry part of my post was mis-read to be a dig at the Privates. I do NOT want to be a part of that debate...on either side. ...now, back to talking about something much more substantive: Single-A football in 2006.

I'm simply repeating what was said to me MANY times by T/X supporters while I was coach at a high school near to them when I asked them why they would be sending letters to some of our middle school football players. (And T and X, with the enrollment numbers they have, wouldn't seem to be hurting to "pay the bills" themselves...yet that IS the argument made for needing to attract students outside the ones simply in the parochial feeder system.) And, I'm also repeating a comment that's been made on here MANY times by T/X backers...that what some would call 'recruiting' is just them doing what is necessary to "pay their bills." (Notice, I was as careful not to call what Holy Cross or any other private school does "recruiting" as they are when noting what they "have to do" to be a viable school). If that's not the case at LCA, I'm sorry if I inadvertantly lumped them in with all those other private school people that have used that rationale in the past. Must be a unique situation along with LexCath. But that DOES beg the question...if LCA does NOT "have" to go out themselves and pro-actively "attract" students to their school, do they put ads in the paper? Do they have "open houses" and send out invitations to specific kids in the area? Do their supporters ever try to talk kids into attending there rather than the public school they're districted to? I'm truly asking out of ignorance of the situation in Lex. I know pretty well what they do in private schools in Louisville after coaching there a while, but Lex must be a different case. (sorry if my original post caused someone to get the thread off topic some...I did NOT mean for it to happen that way!)

Part of it is that many (most?) of the D-II (and go ahead and lump in the NAIA schools with the D-II's; they're similar in almost every way) and almost ALL of the D-III schools are "private" so their overall price tags are higher ($15K a year and up as opposed to a state school being around $6-8K a year and up). I think the point is that FULL-Football-Scholarships are very rare at the D-II level -- you may only get 1/4 of the full cost paid for with football money. Couple that with the fact that they more often cost a lot more than a state school you'd better have some money OTHER THAN what you're given in football money to be able to afford it. Additionally, at the D-III level, almost all of these schools are more academically selective than most other schools. Thus, they have an overall philosophy to use institutional funds only for ACADEMIC scholarships as opposed to athletic ones.

One of THREE or FOUR ways: 1) the kid is a phenom -- like LeBron James or Tim Couch. They play so far above everyone else their own age that they break records or seem like "men among boys" so they get media from all over converging to document "a story." Sometimes, a respected alumnus of a college lives in a particular place where this phenom exists and they call the college to let them know he's there. Colleges (and in the case of basketball and baseball, the pros) hear about these kids and go see them. 2) the kid's COACH makes highlight tapes of the kid, assembles these onto MANY tapes along with a full game or two featuring the kid, writes a letter on his behalf (including why he'd be an asset to the school beyond what's seen on the tape), and sends them to as many schools as possible to let them see the recruit with their own eyes. The coach may also make direct phone calls to the college coaches to follow up on the kid, make sure they got the tape, and -- importantly -- make sure they actually LOOKED at the tape (many colleges, I've found, will just let one of their Graduate Assistants look at each tape that comes in on any kid they don't already know about and assess whether or not the tape should get passed on to a "real" assistant). 3) the kid may hire a RECRUITING SERVICE -- sort of analagous to AN AGENT for a HS kid. Their costs range from about $300 to over $3,000 and the services they provide ranges from simply sending out an email to a long list of colleges (might get looked at by a coach, might not) to doing the tape/phone calls thing the player's coach should be doing. ** If I were a kid today, I'd be VERY careful and do my homework before hiring someone. I'd ask for REFERENCES from previous athletes he's represented with similar size, stats, etc. and actually TALK to a few kids that used that service and his parents about quality of the services they received. Even if a kid didn't get the full-ride they wanted (and very, VERY few do!), if the service worked hard for the kid, they'll usually tell you so and not hold against the service the fact that the result wasn't exactly what was wanted. 4) If they're not a 'phenom,' they have a coach that doesn't feel like he has to go above and beyond for his players, and he can't afford a service, the kid can STILL do the work on his own. a) BEFORE JUNIOR YEAR: Work his BUTT off in his off-season getting his weaknesses improved and making his strengths even better (hopefully, his school has a good comprehensive, year-round training program...if not it may be worth it to invest what money he and his family can scrape up and sign up with a training center like Velocity sports or the HIT Center -- usually, there's several of these located in the major metro areas of the state, Cincinnati, Evansville, etc.). Hopefully you won't have to pay an outside trainer and this exists for FREE at your school by a qualified coach...either way, the program MUST be comprehensive -- it must work on SKILLS and TECHNIQUES specific to their position, it must develop SPEED, AGILITY, COORDINATION, QUICKNESS, and EXPLOSIVENESS along with STRENGTH (not enough just to go "bulk up" in the weight room doing "bodybuilder" workouts if you really want to be a good FOOTBALL player). If your high school program just does those things, I'd recommend going to a CERTIFIED SPORT and CONDITIONING SPECIALIST in addition to what you do at your school. This may seem like a lot of serious work for a "game"...and it is! But remember, you're talking about wanting some college to INVEST up to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS on you over a 5-year period...they're approaching it SERIOUSLY...you'd better too! b) JUNIOR SEASON: have a GREAT junior season on the field. This is the KEY for getting recruited by scholarship-giving schools. If you're only good during your SENIOR year, it's almost too late! The colleges get their "top recruits" boards done in the summer after their camps and it's hard to break onto this board after it's done. c) WINTER AFTER JUNIOR SEASON (might be best to WAIT until after the National Signing Date for that year's seniors so you don't get "mixed in" with them): make his own HIGHLIGHT TAPE of his 5-10 best plays from his Soph. and Jr. seasons and his best full game or 2. His school media center might have the equipment and expertise to help him with this. If not, again, it might be worth it to invest in going to a Video Editing business to make it. Would need to get copies of all his games and take the time to pluck out his best plays. MAKE SURE THE COPIES ARE OF GOOD QUALITY!!! Try to do them DIGITALLY as opposed to just copying a VHS over and over...colleges get REALLY upset when they get a tape they can't see well. d) WINTER AND SPRING OF JUNIOR YEAR: work specifically on getting ready for COMBINES (in addition to what your coach asks you to do for football training). Get that FORTY TIME down to as absolutely FAST as you can -- and get as BIG and THICK as you can get while still getting faster. Doesn't matter if you rush for 2,000 yds a year in HS; if you're just a good, tough back who overcomes a lack of speed or size with your toughness, the colleges will NOT care! They want SIZE and/or SPEED (preferably, BOTH). And that's EVERY position. Find out what they are and TRAIN on the SPECIFIC drills being done to measure QUICKNESS. Most use a basic "pro-shuttle-run" but some use variations. Either way, you CAN improve your time by DOING these drills...and there are "tricks" to doing them that will cut your time down (the HIT Centers and Velocity--and hopefully your own coach!-- have people that have worked to break down exactly how you can "tweak" your technique to shave tenths of seconds off your time). I'm sure there's advice on the internet too if you do a Google search for the specific name of the drill or just search "football combine drills." e) SPRING JUNIOR YEAR: Get to as many COMBINES as you can so there's DOCUMENTATION other than your high school coach's word (which college coaches do NOT believe!) on how fast, tall, and heavy you are. The NCAA may be changing the rules on these where the college coaches can't be there in person...but they'll still probably look at the times that come out of them to verify you as somebody they should really be recruiting for a scholarship or someone that should just be asked to walk-on. f) SUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEAR: GET TO AS MANY COLLEGE SUMMER CAMPS AS POSSIBLE -- especially the "top 2 or 3" schools you like that have ACTUALLY SHOWN INTEREST IN YOU (BUT!!!! it doesn't matter if Miami is your #1 school but you're a 5'9 option QB...go to the camps of the schools where you're SURE you can play and they've somehow already let you KNOW you're a recruit for them!). Ask your HS coach what he thinks your real potential is...or call one of the colleges you sent your Jr. year tape and ask them to be brutally HONEST with you about where you can possibly play. And while at the camp(s), perform in a way that makes you STAND OUT from the others there at your position. They're only giving ONE or TWO scholarships at each position likely; if you're the FIFTH-BEST kid at your position at their camp, why would they go after you!? Oh yeah, and be COACHABLE while at their camp (do EXACTLY what they tell you to do technique-wise; say 'yes-sir, no-sir,' etc.); if there's someone else there at your position, at you're exactly EVEN athletically, but you're coachable and the other guy's a "prima donna" to their coaches -- they'll decide they'd much rather have someone open to COACHING around for 5 years than someone that thinks their way is best (but again, that's ONLY if you're EVEN athletcially...they'll take a "prima donna" with better talent every time -- despite what they say in public!). g) SENIOR YEAR: Have a GREAT senior season on the field. h) AFTER ABOUT HALF-WAY THROUGH SENIOR SEASON: Get ANOTHER highlight tape done to send out as an "update" on the one you sent out just after your Junior year. i) AFTER THE SEASON: be PERSISTENT. Write an update letter with any pertinent stats or accomplishments you made or any awards earned to ALL the schools that seem to have some interest in you (are at least sending letters). ** Be careful though, being "All-District" isn't all that impressive to a school -- they want ALL-STATE guys; if you point out you're "All-District" that may make them assume you WEREN'T All-State!. You might even make one more tape for just the primary schools recruiting you still to look at. If at the end of your senior season, you're not getting a lot of interest from schools, you need to send your tape out to MANY colleges and just hope ONE of them "bites." You never know, maybe all the schools in your state don't NEED someone at your position that year or they've already got numerous commitments from people at that position...sending a tape to a school OUT-OF-STATE might get someone interested with a NEED at your position that never would've heard from you otherwise. (Of course, ONLY do this if you think you would actually GO OUT-OF-STATE to college if that opportunity presented itself). ** Above all, before all of this, GET YOUR GRADES IN ORDER TO AT LEAST WHERE YOU'LL BE ELIGIBLE!!! Find out from your coach or the counseling dept. at your school or the NCAA website what is required for eligibility and GET TO WORK! 1) FRESHMAN and SOPHOMORE YEAR: make sure your GRADES in your "core classes" are as good as possible (ACTUALLY DO SOME HOMEWORK!!! STUDY AT HOME FOR TESTS!!!! ASK TEACHERS FOR HELP!!!). These are English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Humanities, Foreign Language. That A+ you got in PE will help your overall GPA, but when looking at your college eligibility status, they'll THROW IT OUT! They ONLY look at your "academic" grades when THEY figure out your GPA. 2) Get you ACT (or SAT) score as HIGH as possible. And contrary to popular belief, these tests do NOT test what you've "learned in HS" (except maybe for the MATH test and the GRAMMAR section of the English test). More than 65% of it is READING COMPREHENSION...they give you a passage and you must answer 8-10 questions based on it. It's probably a passage about NOTHING you actually learned in school. They're testing you to see how well AND HOW FAST you can FIND answers from new information. TIME is a factor -- and most people try to READ each passage then answer the questions -- this will KILL YOU! Answering these questions involves mastering a SKILL -- skimming for information and NOT wasting time on any one question. Just like a football skill, it CAN be improved. And you DON'T have to spend hundreds of dollars at a prep service. Get one of the big, thick ACT prep books at a bookstore. Read it's "hints." Then PRACTICE the practice tests it gives you OVER and OVER and OVER (you should have a SET-TIME to practice EACH WEEK!)...and do it in TIMED CONDITIONS! Start early in you Sophomore year, practice every week until you actually take it for real in your Junior year. Good luck.

WOAH! Way too much being said here about ONE person on this TEAM sport website... Best thing the Head Coach is doing is allowing good people around him to do what they do best and get out of their way. I've been in charge of the weight room for some of my teams in the past, but Michael Copley -- our strength coordinator -- is too talented and too dedicated not to be allowed to be in charge of doing what he does best. The workouts are intense, long, tedious in the way we require them to be technically-sound, are centered around building TOUGHNESS as well as strength (so they're GRUELING some days) BUT the kids keep on coming back -- and more new kids join in every week it seems. It's because Copley does what a good coach should: he pushes them hard, but does the "little things" good coaches do to make them WANT to come work hard. A lot of credit for what's gone on so far too goes to a bunch of kids that were asked to make a pretty radical change in the way they trained and keep coming back for more. Also, the coaches of our other sports have been EXTREMELY open to the idea that building STRENGTH is a GOOD thing in THEIR sports too...so there's not a situation where 5 or 6 of your best athletes are going 3 or 4 months without strength/quickness/agility/speed training -- and more importantly, INJURY PREVENTION. Finally, the administration has been GREAT about responding to some needs we've mentioned...can't go into details here, but they've made a great commitment with VERY little "red tape" to work around to improve our training facilities (and not just for training football kids...for ALL kids in the school -- including non-athletes that just need a more healthy lifestyle).

No, I didn't mean it in an "athletics/recruiting" way. Just saying as private school people themselves say, they HAVE to 'recruit' as a SCHOOL just to pay their bills. For HC to stay alive, they have to attract a certain number of kids each year for budget reasons. For their football team to be successful, they need some of those kids they attract to be good football players -- who, in the not-so-distant-past if choosing a Catholic school, would've chosen X or T. My point was, since about the time Coach R. came in there a few years back, they and DeSales have done a better job convincing some better athletes to go to those schools rather than the "big Catholics" in town. Needing to "attract kids" to their schools is a fact of life for private schools they'll readily admit to. I meant it as a compliment to their admissions people more than anything. Honestly, I'm not one that would try to stir up any controversy about Prop 20 on here. I do NOT want to have a dog in that fight.

Single-A has EASILY the most parity at the top. One thing I knew about Single-A from coaching a top-10 4A team in DOG-FIGHTS against Danville 2 straight years is that the very top teams of 1A could EASILY compete with all but the top 2 or 3 4A teams every year (at the T and X point though, the numbers onslaught would be too much I'm afraid). And for those that stayed around to see what a MACHINE NCC was this year in all phases, I think most would agree that this is true -- I had a couple of very successful 4A coaches tell me they thought so while watching them (though I have NO IDEA what happened to them against CCH -- VERY suprising in hindsight). Danville: doesn't matter what they lost...there is an almost never-ending talent/strength pipeline there--put that with probably the most solid overall coaching staff in the state at any level and there's no way they could ever be "down." Mayfield: virtually ditto what I said about Danville. NCC: best big-kids I've seen on any one team in a LONG time -- and a bunch of them are back. Losing Diehl will hurt; but they've had 35+ on their Frosh team the last few years so I'm sure there's someone good waiting in the wings. And now, they're going to be like a shark that just got a taste of blood I'm afraid. Oh, and their coach is "pretty good" too. Lou. HC: Losing Redinger didn't hurt as bad as many thought it would. Ray and the school staff at HC did a great job pursuading some key kids to try a SMALL private rather than one of the big boys and it's really paid off for them (as it has for Sander at DeSales). LexChristianAcad: lost a LOT of speed/athleticism. But the coach there knows how to win with what he's got to work with. The folks in 2A aren't going to be too happy in a couple of years when this school gets "upsized" like LexCath did so quickly. Somerset: Lost Newell (RB) AND the 6'4 receiver (Norman -- a VERY good one!). But return one of the best head coaches in the state, most of their linemen, and a VERY tough QB -- second-best I'd seen "all-around" next to the one at Painstville. LC: They lost a lot of skill (the "star" I think you're thinking of was their RB though -- CHAFIN). But they've got a good JUNIOR-to-be RB coming up (Roskoff) and return almost all their linemen. Bellevue -- Got a taste of success this year too...and a guy at the reins that obviously knows what he's doing. Beechwood -- Didn't kill them last time the coach left; won't this time either. They're a machine. Others: Harlan will be much better in '06. Paintsville has the best overall player in 1A (Pugh). Hazard lost a good one at QB but returns almost all their OL and DL and is getting their basketball kids to actually play football now, so they'll be tough again. Williamsburg won't have another down year...neither will South Floyd -- they have a 9th-grader to be that is all-world. Christian Academy of Louisville -- Just a matter of time, folks...they're doing a lot of things the right way.

Sorry, AT41, the votes for this All-State team are supposed to come completely from HS Coaches votes -- the CJ is supposed to be simply the ones that count up the votes. We're supposed to pick the best we've 'actually seen play' at each position and send them in to the CJ.

Related to this... Ravenwood won the 5A state title in only its THIRD year in existence. Kentucky connection: our former defensive coordinator at Oldham County -- BRIAN RECTOR -- met a Nashville girl, married her, moved there, GOT the head coaching job at Ravenwood as a VERY young head coach...and has done no less than win the 5A championship in the school's 3rd year in existence and only his 3rd year as a head coach. Congratulations COACH RECTOR! Hard work DOES pay off...you are VERY deserving!

They will THIS year (to go along WITH the one they do for all fall sports).

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASY there guys! :fight:

I can address some of the things on this thread from a pretty good position within the program: "...but Pikeville and the W-T will not have enough to be in this game." Pikeville STARTED the season last year in the "traditional Wing-T." This was necessary to teach all 55 kids in the program a "base" system. From there, it became a "No-Huddle, Shotgun Spread" offense -- looks much more like WEST VIRGINIA U's current offense than the old Delaware Wing-T. "There are alot of good kids at PHS. I only wish some of them were 6'5 and 285 lbs. LOL" This is right on... Nonetheless, there's a way to win with kids that are NOT 6'5, 285. It won't be what those that remember "the good old days" want to see (unless we DO start somehow getting that-sized kids again -- OR when other teams we play do as little in the weight room as most other teams did back then). But that's okay; Oklahoma did pretty well when they finally realized they had to go away from "old-school wishbone" too! "I hear Henry Clay. OMG!!! I hope someone at CTB gets canned over this." Not me. You've got to play the best to ever hope to beat the best. We were NOT ready to beat a team like NCC last year in the first game of the season, but if we'd played someone we WERE ready to beat, we'd have known LESS about what we needed to improve. The best we ever got at my old school was when we started the season with LOSSES to teams like St. X and Male. Until "computer-rankings" determine who makes the playoffs in Ky., it's not how you do at the BEGINNING that matters; just how much better you are at the end. And regardless of the outcome of the last game, I doubt there is anybody who saw PHS at the beginning and end that could say we weren't a LOT better at the end.

Watusi, I hope it didn't come off this way, but my response NEVER meant to imply I thought you were being negative toward my idea...just trying to answer your well-reasoned questions about it. I really appreciate the Socratic approach of coming to solutions through asking GOOD questions...you ALWAYS do that on these boards and coaches like me appreciate people that have REASONED passion for the game that is our profession! Keep up the good work, and good luck to your team tonight and the rest of the way.

What is POPULAR is not always what is best (though I realize it would probably have to be "popular" to pass). The 16 teams in 5A would have the same teams to compete with as they do now...this is not intended to make things "easier" for all teams...just to work out the inequities present within a system MEANT to equal things based on enrollment (mainly at the current 4A level).

Also (and the ones that are most penalized by the current LARGE 4A class) all those current 4A teams from 1100 to 1500 students that must compete with schools with 1500 to 3000 overall students. By the way, I appreciate all the constructive criticism. I really just want the most EQUITABLE, but not "watered-down" system possible. Talking through -- and breaking down weaknesses in -- MANY alternatives is the only way to reach the BEST possible system. I AM afraid that going to 6 classes is too many...and I know some wouldn't LIKE being in classes with more schools. But when you put that up against what I feel is the WORST inequity (making schools with 550 boys compete for the same championship as one school with 1500 boys and another with 1100+ boys), I think it pales in comparison. But, that's just my opinion...that and 75-cents will get you an Appalachian News-Express at the Speedway down the street.

Good questions, Watusi. I'll do my best (remember, I just took an idea from a couple of things I saw today from other people smarter than me -- TrinityAlum and LSU -- and just crunched some numbers to see how it would look), so it's still a work in progress in my brain. No division could ever be completely "equitable." But my goal is to figure out some way to take out the GROSS INEQUITIES that exist -- I think with the CURRENT way of doing things, those inequities are BUILT-IN...and when you look at the HISTORY of what virtually ALL the teams in 1A and 4A that have made the finals have in common, I think it becomes obvious. Nope. It took a lot of cutting and pasting just to get the schools from the KHSAA site (Adobe) to this one. However, just off the top of my head, I would think there would be MORE geographical flexibility within the 2A, 3A, and 4A classes because they have MORE teams in them. In 1A and 5A, limiting those to only 16 teams would allow them to basically not HAVE to play in a district -- all of them would make their playoffs. They would have the flexibility to play whomever they want in the regular season. And to answer someone else's concern about there only being 3 western teams in 5A, since they'd not be REQUIRED to play each other in the regular season, this would limit that travel down significantly -- I would venture to say putting North Hardin and one of the western Louisville schools (PRP?) in with Henderson, Daviess for the first round of their playoffs would actually be not that much different than what they have to do now travelling to Marshall County and Graves County. And remember, overall travel would be dimished for these schools (and the ones in 1A) since they have a "bye" in their 1st round -- very often a BIG trip for the #4 and #3 seeds, AND they have more regular season flexibility in whom they schedule due to the lack of "required" district competition. Exactly. Though I'm not a fan of seeding through the "computerization" of sports, it may be good. I could see more of a traditional "geographic" seeding of the first rounds for these two divisions (that would help on travel costs as well). Could... in the future. But that's a POSITIVE to me! The more kids in this state exposed to the most DEMANDING sport there is (and thus, the one with the most LIFE-LESSONS), the better. I never thought of that eventuality originally, but now that you've brought it up, I think it actually is a BENEFIT of doing such a thing at the 1A level! I think that would be actually, the BEST way...and that's how they used to do it...but some complained that it was too arbitrary in the past ("who determines that '700' is the "right" cutoff for 2A/3A?"). So they went to the "Even out the numbers in the classes" (as if THAT wasn't even MORE arbitrary!!! ). I like your type of thinking on it...I think there is EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE that proves at CERTAIN school sizes, there are natural breaks in competitiveness (like the fact that I believe only TWO schools under 1600 enrollment in HISTORY have even MADE IT TO the state FINALS -- let alone WIN it all).

Well-noted. This is just a draft for now to give people an idea. I would definitely want to use the most recent numbers taken to determine the actual set-up if this were to be something that passes. Until then though, had to use something. And the KHSAA site was the only place I could find any type of enrollment figures (would MUCH rather have used "Male-Only" enrollment for each school!). I'm sure there are several other schools who's enrollments have changed dramatically since the KHSAA published the list I used...the top and bottom numbers here could serve as a sort of "guideline" as to where your favorite school would be then if this plan were to be adopted.

Then they would have been on the list then in one class or another -- either the BIGGEST school in 2A or the SMALLEST school in 3A. I didn't use "arbitrary enrollments" as divisions. I split it by the number of schools left after parsing out the 16 1A and 5A teams. So there are some natural "gaps" that occur between the largest school in one class and the smallest school in the next one up. If, on the next enrollment calculation, a school has 642 students, where they would fall would depend on the NUMBER of schools in the class above and below them.