BoomKing2006

Mayor get's caught in a lie on Wednesday. Mayor announces return of football on Thursday. Funny how that works out. He was prepared to keep sports shut down for no other reason than to keep people miserable.

At least Gallatin can say they lost to the team that lost in the State Championship and Beech can say they beat Gallatin. Little Victories.

2019 Round 1 Average Margin of Victory: 1A - 28.56 2A - 28.4.4 3A - 34.0 4A - 24.44 5A - 24.38 6A - 27.25 Composite - 27.84 Agreed... too many teams amplified by the fact we have too many classes.

Texas = Six Classes Tennessee = Six Classes

So this is how Texas does it. The have 6 Blanket Classifications for ALL SPORTS but in football within the 6A classification (2200 students up to 6000 students) they have 2 divisions (Brackets). Divisions are not concrete but are based on enrollment of playoff qualifying schools. Here's a hypothetical using theoretical Tennessee High Schools of how this could play out. School Enrollment Wins Losses Division Region X Beech 1450 7 0 II Mt. Juliet 2228 6 1 I Hendersonville 1510 5 2 II Cookeville 2277 4 3 I Gallatin 1621 3 4 Wilson Central 1926 2 5 Lebanon 1897 1 6 Station Camp 1320 0 7 Region Y Oakland 2285 7 0 I Rockvale 1450 6 1 II Smyrna 1948 5 2 II Stewarts Creek 2238 4 3 I Riverdale 2094 3 4 Blackman 2411 2 5 Lavergne 1933 1 6 Siegel 1789 0 7 So the season plays out and the top 4 teams in each region qualify for playoffs. In region X, the 2 highest enrollment schools THAT QUALIFIED FOR THE PLAYOFFS go up to division I (Mt. Juliet and Cookeville). They will be seeded against the 2 highest enrollment schools THAT QUALIFIED FOR THE PLAYOFFS from Region Y. Mt. Juliet Higher Seed Region X plays Stewarts Creek Lower Seed Region Y Oakland Plays Cookeville Similarly for the smaller enrollment schools from Region X, Beech and Hendersonville will be seeded against Rockvale and Smyrna. With this format.. Bartlett (2700) will ALWAYS BE Division I if they qualified for the playoffs and a school like Page (1139), who would likely be in a region with brentwood and ravenwood, will always be division II but for your borderline 1500 range they could go up or down based on qualifying schools. It's really not as complicated as it sounds... but ya know... lets not follow what Texas does. They're not producing good high school football teams or anything.

Currently AAA Baseball, Basketball, Softball is as follows: Stone Memorial: 1022 Up to Bartlett: 2722 Those team sports also require similar depth.

maybe talk to every Track/Cross Country/Golf/Tennis Coach in the state where there are two divisions... 760 and below and 760 and above. 1200 students up to over 2000 is more equitable than 760 up to over 2000.

Doing separate classifications by sport is dumb. Red Bank (798 Students) plays 3A Football (Schools up 820 is or so), 2A Basketball/Baseball/Softball (Schools up to 1000 or so), but in track and cross country they are classified as a "Large School" (Up to 2700+). Most states have blanket classifications... if you have this many kids you are in this class for all sports. In that case, i think 4 blanket classes (FOOTBALL INCLUDED) would be ideal for the state. A - 0 to 323 Students AA - 324 to 706 AAA - 707 to 1150 AAAA - 1151 to 2700 In sports like Soccer, Tennis, Golf, Cross Country you can still combine A and AA into one class as needed as most are right now. But it's the T$$AA which doesn't do things for competitive equality so nothing will change after 2021.

The discussion to lower the number of classes for football is so they don't have to add any for other sports bickering about only having 3 who want to move up to 4 (Softball, basketball, baseball... etc..). So if they can get it down to 5 they can point to the other sports and say they're addressing the inequality. Doing separate classifications by sport is dumb though. Red Bank (798 Students) plays 3A Football (Schools up 820 is or so), 2A Basketball/Baseball/Softball (Schools up to 1000 or so), but in track and cross country they are classified as a "Large School" (Up to 2700+). Most states have blanket classifications... if you have this many kids you are in this class for all sports. In that case, i think 4 blanket classes would be ideal for the state. A - 0 to 323 Students AA - 324 to 706 AAA - 707 to 1150 AAAA - 1151 to 2700 In sports like Soccer, Tennis, Golf, Cross Country you can still combine A and AA into one class as needed as most are right now.

For sure. Playing that region with Hillwood, Hunters Lane, and Glencliff will get you state ranked.

I guess i was wrong. As it turns out this game was just for county bragging rights in 5A as well.

4 blanket classes all sports. for sports like soccer, golf, tennis you can combine A and AA into one class like they are now.

What are the 5 plays then?

2019 Round 1 Average Margin of Victory: 1A - 28.56 2A - 28.4.4 3A - 34.0 4A - 24.44 5A - 24.38 6A - 27.25 Composite - 27.84

School 2016 MidCycle Current Beech 1139 1385 1450 Gallatin 1508 1621 Station Camp 1756 1470 1320 Hendersonville 1531 1510 See page 2 or so for explanation why the numbers have fluctuated so much.