theunderstudy

A lot of moving pieces in DII currently with boys basketball. Who do we think we will get the remaining opening jobs?

You are responding to a post from 2/6, while a hundred others have come in since. I will just agree with you.

Agree with @Booger here, no one has been upset about those boarding schools until the last half-decade. Why would McCallie or Baylor volunteer to play a national schedule @FBfan26 ? You ain't from around these parts or ain't ever visited on a Friday night in the Fall, so hear it from someone who has... those two schools care about one thing when it comes to football. Beating the crosstown rival... and for the past half-decade if you win that game, you're in a spot to win a gold ball. When I meet grown adults in Chattanooga and get to talking, they ask "Where did you go to school?" I always reply UTC for undergrad and Vanderbilt for grad school. The response is always "No, did you go to Baylor or McCallie?" It's different around here, man. This quite literally is life. I imagine they both care zero about playing schools like IMG Academy, Bishop Gorman, etc. What would either gain from that?

Mccallie, Baylor, Webb School, etc. that having boarding programs are not doing what Lipscomb did in this scenario. They operate within the parameters that the TSSAA governing body has set for any institution that wants to have a boarding program. Go look at the Tennessean article that came out recently "bona fide change of residence" new term of the week. The second half of the article is fascinating with the text messages and violations that others on this board have been commenting about. I want to hear more about this from other folks in the know https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/10/30/deuce-knight-lipscomb-academy-postseason-ban-tssaa-football-playoffs-2023/71384369007/

For sure, and I think Oakland could beat any DIIAAA team on the right night. It would be awesome to see one of the big DII schools schedule them during the season.

Agreed, Oakland would go 9-3 in a season in D2AAW east.

Booger, i know you are older than time itself and appreciate what you have done for the decade and a half I’ve been following CoachT. Everyone here is entitled to talk ball and give their opinion, even if that doesn’t sit right with Boog. I like that everyone can have difference of opinion. We disagree on CPA. We agree on Baylor and Mccallie not being an issue until they started winning gold balls. The understudy pays more attention to the state of TN football than most and has for a long time.

Looking at that list, that is about the exact # of kids Baylor has in High School. If you add middle school #s in, it's more like 1080. What do you think TSSAA would decide for the two large boarding institutions? Does anyone ever see that happening?

Split it at 350 then. Create the most even #s possible in both divisions. 24 in one class, 25 in the other. Goodpasture is the biggest in A and FRA is the smallest in AA. Thanks for providing the graphic, I think the most eye-opening stat of all is how Christian Brothers could do so little with so many boys. Good Lord.

A, AA, AAA return?! Go back to 3 champions for the ENTIRE State? I know this will never happen again but think of the quality of football we would see come playoff time. I'm drooling over here.

Booger, you are lost. This is the DII thread. Last I check Oakland isn't in DII. But, if you want to extend them an invite, I'd be happy to see that. In the 2021-22 season where Oakland went 15-0, they played LA and CPA and they squeaked by with a win in both contests. Impressive considering those two played for the AA ball that year. Let them play the AAA East region gauntlet of a schedule just sayin

That's what I was about to post. This is the best option if you are talking about those Blue Blood programs getting to play in AA if there are 3 classes. Just move it back to A and AA. If we have 3 classes and you think Ensworth or BA should move into AA to win a gold ball, you are part of the problem.

I don't think it's that short-sided. I want the best private teams in the states playing at the top level of DII. CPA would be a top 5 DII AAA team immediately. Heck, if you are nice to them and put them in the West, they are the best team already.

Agreed, if BA and Ensworth move down that would be shocking. There is not a explanation in the world for why either of those schools should be in competition with schools like Silverdale, Webb Bell Buckle, etc. I don’t know about CCS or Knox Webb moving up, either. They aren’t consistently competitive or dominant in the class they are currently in. And I get it’s a #s thing. And they fit the criteria for what the committee has decided. I would vote to leave it how it is currently with the only exception being to move CPA up, get your 12th team, and call it a day.