All that crap that revcoach has posted is when Tennessee had a 5 class system...all of those numbers are wrong..
so all his testimony is stricken from the records!!
The whole problem is that TSSAA cannot read or interpret there own rules....There are 3 Football classes in TN , and the TSSAA acknowledges this, A...AA...AAA, they are broken down into subclasses for playoffs ONLY and the TSSAA acknowledges this...
TSSAA rule DOES NOT state if multiplier moves a team 2 SUBCLASSES it must move down...it DOES however state if multiplier moves a team 2 CLASSES...
Read for Your self: I highlighted and Italicized the key words...oh and rewrote the wrong.
How Classification Breakpoints will be set:
Separate schools into Division I and Division II
Multiply Division I independent schools by 1.8
Note: By TSSAA Board of Control Action, no school can be moved up more than one (1) class in any sport due to the multiplier.
Remove any school that has no sports programs but only coops with other schools.
Sort schools by enrollment and divide into Classes A, AA and AAA in Division I as well as Class A/AA in sports with only two classes. Each class will have the same number of schools. For example, if there are 360 schools, then there will be 120 in each class. Once Classes A, AA and AAA have been set the number of football playing schools in each class will be determined. Once that is done, that number will be split so there will be the same number of football playing schools in each sub-class. Example: Suppose there were 80 football playing schools of the 120 (in example above) in Class A. There would be 40 placed into Football Class 1A and 40 to Football Class 2A. If there is an odd number of teams the higher number will be used in the lower class. (e.g. If there were 81 football schools in Class A, 41 would be in Football Class 1A and 40 in Football Class 2A). Note: The enrollment breakpoint between Division I Class A and Class AA will be used to set the breakpoint between Division II A and Division II AA. All schools will have opportunity to move up in classification, however, this will not affect the breakpoints that were set earlier in the process. Division I and Division II Districts and Regions will be set as a recommendation to the Board of Control.
*June 2008 Board of Control Action created the current three class plan which places schools in the same districts for football, baseball, basketball, baseball, softball, and volleyball. June 2012 Board of Control action clarified that schools cannot move up more than one class in all sports. There are four examples where the multiplier moves schools up 2 classes subclasses in football and 1 class in baseball, basketball, baseball, softball, and volleyball. This school may only be moved up 1 class subclass in football (Class 1A to Class 2A). This also causes this school to be moved back to Class A in baseball, basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball so that they can remain in the same district for all sports per TSSAA Board of Control Action.
