I am from Holston and I am sorry you feel that way...our small and large cutoff in upper east tennessee was set by the large schools, we at Holston had no say in the number, we just go play where they tell us to play, the reason for the cutoff is we have so many large schools in the 250-550 range, the gap between a science hill with near 600 8th graders, plus schools like sevier and robinson from kingsport with 300 8th graders is a much bigger gap than our 140 to your 40-60 8th graders, our numbers vary with the year, our 6th grade class has about 115, i do agree with you that there should be 3 divisions, we at holston have been pushing for 3 divisions for years, we finally go 3 divisions passed in area 1 for football small 0-100, intermediate 100-175, large 175-up, we crown 3 area 1 champs in football, we were told we could not do that in basketball because of the sectional setup, we have talked to the TMSAA about doing it in basketball and the say Area 2,3, and 4 have to do the same thing to make it work, i urge you to get the ball rolling in those 3 areas and form 3 divisions as we have in area 1