StudCantrell

I forgot to mention that once a school decides to go D1, that school can decide which class they want play in. This happens between the declaration of each school deciding to go D1 or D2 and the division of classes and districts. A school can play up a classification but can not play down. Trousdale did this for years back in the early 2000's. They had Class A enrollment but played in AA.

Actually, Goodpasture had the opportunity to go D2. In fact every school in TN has that opportunity. Prior to the re-classification date, each school gets a letter to decide if they want to play D1 or D2. Any school can play in D2 if they want to. After the responses comes in, the TSSAA then puts the schools in the their classes (D2 A and AA, and D1 A, AA, AAA) and then they put them in the districts, regions, etc. Any public can play D2 if they want to as well. Goodpasture had the chance to go to D2 but chose not to. FCS chose to go D2. You can only guess why FCS chose to go and why Goodpasture did not.

Macon won 47-33 over CPA in the Region 5-AA championship game. District 8-AA will be loaded next year.

Macon won 47-33

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Good Point rlh! The "Tribunal" could be the TSSAA itself, consisting of Bernard Childress and his assistant executive directors.

The TSSAA and the majority of the schools wanted the 5-class system. It was the BOC that voted in the 6-class system. My solution is this: Eliminate the Board of Control and the Legislative Council. With the technology we have today, each member school gets to vote online on all business matters. Only the principal or AD's have access to this. A school or TSSAA can make a proposal and the schools vote. The majority wins (example: if the there are 300 members, a 151-149 vote wins). The TSSAA can gather enrollment figures every four years, draw up classes, districts, and regions. The schools vote for approval. Class A votes on class A matters, class AA on class AA stuff, and class AAA on class AAA stuff. Only football playing schools vote on football matters. Same for the other sports also. Public/Private split can be voted on by entire membership. That's my two cents worth. Anybody else like to tweak my proposal, say I'm nuts, or what not. LOL!

I really can't blame the TSSAA entirely for this mess. I think the Board of Control deserves most of the blame. The TSSAA and the majority of the schools wanted the 5-class system. It was the BOC that voted in the 6-class system. My solution is this: Eliminate the Board of Control and the Legislative Council. With the technology we have today, each member school gets to vote online on all business matters. Only the principal or AD's have access to this. A school or TSSAA can make a proposal and the schools vote. The majority wins (example: if the there are 300 members, a 151-149 vote wins). The TSSAA can gather enrollment figures every four years, draw up classes, districts, and regions. The schools vote for approval. Class A votes on class A matters, class AA on class AA stuff, and class AAA on class AAA stuff. Only football playing schools vote on football matters. Same for the other sports also. Public/Private split can be voted on by entire membership. That's my two cents worth. Anybody else like to tweak my proposal, say I'm nuts, or what not. LOL!

Grundy 20, ND 14. Grundy scored on a 15-yd TD pass on the last play of the game.

Gerry, I like your plan as it makes a lot of sense. Just think how the brackets would look if the T$$AA would do football playoffs like basketball, baseball, and softball tournaments. Just three classes (A, AA, AAA). I am giving what the top half of the AA bracket would look like. Top four in each district qualifies for playoffs and going by district standings according to T$$AA. Bracket 1 Greeneville 10-0 Johnson Co. 2-8 Happy Valley 7-2 West Greene 7-3 Claiborne Co. 7-3 Sullivan North 7-3 Elizabethtown 6-4 Chuckey-Doak 7-3 Bracket 2 Alcoa 10-0 G-P 7-3 A-E 6-4 Loudon 8-2 Fulton 6-4 CAK 9-1 Gibbs 9-1 Kingston 6-4 Bracket 3 Tyner 8-2 Meigs Co. 2-8 Sequoyah 4-6 Central 6-4 Sweetwater 4-6 Howard 8-2 Polk Co. 9-1 Red Bank 6-4 Bracket 4 Bledsoe Co. 7-3 DeKalb Co. 3-7 Livingston Ac. 5-5 Grundy Co. 6-4 Sequatchie Co. 7-3 York 4-6 Smith Co. 9-1 CCS 4-6 32 teams, only 8 with losing records. Less travel until the quarter-finals and semi-finals. How many would be in favor or against this format?

Just think how the brackets would look if the T$$AA would do football playoffs like basketball, baseball, and softball tournaments. Just three classes (A, AA, AAA). I am giving what the top half of the AA bracket would look like. Top four in each district qualifies for playoffs and going by district standings according to T$$AA. Bracket 1 Greeneville 10-0 Johnson Co. 2-8 Happy Valley 7-2 West Greene 7-3 Claiborne Co. 7-3 Sullivan North 7-3 Elizabethtown 6-4 Chuckey-Doak 7-3 Bracket 2 Alcoa 10-0 G-P 7-3 A-E 6-4 Loudon 8-2 Fulton 6-4 CAK 9-1 Gibbs 9-1 Kingston 6-4 Bracket 3 Tyner 8-2 Meigs Co. 2-8 Sequoyah 4-6 Central 6-4 Sweetwater 4-6 Howard 8-2 Polk Co. 9-1 Red Bank 6-4 Bracket 4 Bledsoe Co. 7-3 DeKalb Co. 3-7 Livingston Ac. 5-5 Grundy Co. 6-4 Sequatchie Co. 7-3 York 4-6 Smith Co. 9-1 CCS 4-6 32 teams, only 8 with losing records. Less travel until the quarter-finals and semi-finals. How many would be in favor or against this format?

I beg to differ. This game is huge. Winner plays at home, more likely against DCA. Loser goes to Goodpasture. But you never know, that is why you play the game.

Well those A and AA schools are able to get together for region basketball tournaments. They can get together for baseball tourneys also. That excuse the friends at the TSSAA gave you just doesn't hold merit. I think you should reward the regular season champ and play district tourney for the next two spots into a six-team double elimination region torunament with each district sending three teams. Each region winner qualifies for the state torunament

I have several friends that are high school coaches in Kentucky and they love the schedule they have. Their season is just getting underway right now. KY starts everything about two to three weeks after we do here in TN. Practice starts in the first week of March and the season starts around the last week of March or first week of April. The post season starts the third week of May and the state tourney starts around the second week of June. All of the post season starts after a majority of the schools have graduation. This schedule allows all the students to travel to follow their team without the worries of finals, graduation, etc. The players can actually walk the line with all their buddies on graduation night. No more home plate graduations. Plus more students will travel, more parents will travel, which means biggger gates and more money going to the state organization (KHSAA or T$$AA). It's a wonder why the T$$AA has not figured it out yet. The weather is much better, decreasing the chances for arm injuries for pitchers, the basketball players would get a couple of weeks of practice rather than a couple of days of practice and jumping into a game knowing that they are not ready yet. The only thing that this schedule hurts is the summer teams and travel teams. Their seasons would be shorter but they can get enough games in before football starts.

Not talking about making it shorter. Talking about pushing season back. All spring sports can be pushed back and have Spring Fling in June. Graduations won't be compromised because of this. Kids can actually graduate with their classmates rather than in a hotel lobby 300 miles away. Early March has terrible weather, it is still winter. March 9th is too early of a date. Arm injuries are waiting to happen and it is just miserable to be out in that weather. Practice needs to start the week of March 1 and the season starts on the week of April 1. If you have basketball players playing in the state tourn., they can still get in two weeks of practice before opening day. April unitl the last week in May should be enough time to get regular season in and all students get to graduate with their fellow classmates. First week of June- District Tournament, second week of June - Region & Sectional, and the third week of June - Spring Fling. Last week of June and first week of July - Dead Period. For those that don't make it to the state, they can play summer ball until dead period and can participate in football and basketball workouts. After dead period, just like it is right now. For those who would make it to the state, they'd have a good season and after the dead period, they will be ready for football or basketball workouts.

Kentucky starts their state in the middle of June also. Not much climate difference in TN & KY.

I'm playing devil's advocate. By no means I am taking sides. Suppose my team finished second in district 5-AAA in the regular season with my only two losses being to the regular season champ by an average of 20 points and my overall record is 22-6. But in a non-dstrict game i beat the 6-AAA champ by 15. Going into the district tourney I look at my best way in advancing to the state. One and three seeds from the same district are in the same bracket in the region so I really don't want to be in the same bracket as our reg. season champ. The best way is to win the dist. tourney against the reg. season champ. Then you go down to the worst-case scenarios. If we lose in the semis, is it our best interest to win the consolation and probably be in the same bracket as our reg. season champ or finish fourth being in the opposite bracket of reg. seson champ and take our chances with a team we had beaten by 15 earlier in the year. If we win the semis we will be in the opposite bracket anyway if we play the champ. But if we win the semis and the champ gets upset, do we win the title or finish second to stay out of their bracket pending on the consolation outcome. Things that make you go /huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" /> That is what a lot of coaches go through. Right or wrong.

You play to how the system dictates it. With the system in TN, you can actually lose three games in the post season and still make the state tournament. I play to win all the time but sometimes a loss in the districts can be an advantage in the regions and advancing to the sectionals. Rhea County as it was mentioned went to the state in this scenario. The best way to eliminate the posssibility of "playing not to win" is make the districts single elimination until the finals. The top two advance. No more consolations. The regions can be done three different ways: 1. continue as they are. 2. just the champion advancing to the sectional and turn the state tourney into a final four. 3. the region champions advancing to the state tourney.

What about Juan Clariday?

The tournament goes to Sequatchie County for the Final 4 part on Saturday and will go on until Tuesday with the If Necessary game on Wednesday. 2 games on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday with the I.N. game on Wed. Gametimes have yet to be determined.

Coffee Co. - 5 Sequatchie - 4

instead of coin toss, they should do parer-rock-scissors.

Laz, I admit that those titles were after the formation of D2 (I'm not really for sure when D2 was actually formed). As privates continued to dominate Class A baseball after D2 was formed, it was realized that the formation of D2 was not working by itself and so the multiplier was established. I agree that those events in football led to the invention of D2 but the privates' domination of Class A baseball put it over the edge and caused the addition of the multiplier. What year did D2 actually start?

Why was D2 formed? After reading the previous posts and some of my research, I came to this conclusion. With BA defeating Riverdale, that got things started. Second, Collinwood being eliminated by private schools two years in a row in the football playoffs. That led to a proposal being sent out on the subject of the split. Third, and this is based on facts that I researched, the event that was the straw that broke the camel's back was Class A baseball. From the year 2000 to 2005 all six Class A champions were privates. In five of those six championship games, both teams were privates. In those six seasons 36 teams qualified for the state tourney, out of those 36, 22 of them were privates. That my friends led to D2 and the multiplier. In 2006, all eight teams that qualified for the Class A state tourney were publics. However, one might see another trend coming, in Class AA, 3 of the 8 teams were privates. The small rural publics were getting dominated in baseball and addded with the the events that was mentioned in football united the small publics and it led to the formation of D2 and the establishment of the multiplier. That is JMO on why D2 was formed. Stud

Riverdaleman, I meant that the district winner would host the region tournament. I thought I said that at the beginning of this thread. Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough there. D1 regular season champ hosts region in odd year, D2 regular season champ in even year. Hope that clears it up. I like sharing our ideas. It's been a fun topic to talk about. Yeah, the Germantown, Houston, and Collierville district is a tough one too. Under my plan, those would be three worthy teams to be in a region tournament. Good Luck to all the teams left in the tournaments!