Private Schools At Spring Fling

[slats]

sportsguy.. I agree with you that the larger schools have no trouble competing with the private schools. That being said, I believe the best scenario is to leave the private schools with the public and have the private schools play at the highest level in each sport. What do you think?

[creekerfan]

This issue isn't going away until some public schools win a state title. Private school fans should accept this as long as they are dominating Tn high school sports. Right or wrong, that's the way it is. When and if, (and what a big IF) public schools start to win again, then private schools will complain about the playing field. Such is life...

[Guest RHSTIGERS]

If my counting is right there are 28 Private schools in single A. Of those 11 made it to the region. Of those 9 made it to the region finals. Of those 6 made it to the sectionals. Of those 4 of them are in the state.

[silverpie]

A school with not even 100 students having to play AAA? That would definitely be an injustice. I advocate a variation on that theme: All schools that give financial aid receive a multiplier of 2 (for example, Evangelical Christian, which has an enrollment of 482, would be treated as equivalent to a public school of 964). These schools would be limited to the same percentage of athletes getting financial aid that they give to students as a whole, or could elect the old quota rule instead (with a quota added for bowling). Private schools that do not give financial aid to athletes would have a 1.5 multiplier (Boyd-Buchanan, for instance, has an enrollment of 329, and would thus be classified at 493.5).

[OSHSman]

Multiplying the enrollment by 1.5 would do very little. Some private schools w/ enrollments of 250 or lower might not be classified in a higher class. The best way to go about it is move privates w/ enrollments of 200 or higher up one class.

[Bighurt]

University School of Johnson City is a public school.

[creekerfan]

University High is technically a public school but is really a private school. I've always heard they had a waiting list for admission.

[Bighurt]

Check on Hume-Fogg in Nashville. They are a public school and a lottery system. Yet, their Volleyball team dominates their district against private schools and their girls soccer team dominated when Harmon Hodge was there. What about Murfreesboro whre you have oepn zones.

[Dice1550]

I don't understand your logic. You said if he lives in a different state then he shouldn't be able to play against the public schools? And you said it doesn't matter when he gets there. So because he lives about 2 minutes across the Georgia border he shouldn't be able to play? Why? Is it that if he's from another state then he must be a better athlete? What's the difference between him going to a public school since 1st grade or a private school since first grade? Just because he lives across the border doesn't mean anything.

[Indian]

Because Tennessee Temple is a member of the TSSAA. Public schools won't have out of state players, why should they compete in the playoffs with private schools that do or at least have the potential to do so? That player couldn't play for the public school teams in Temple's region/district without moving there, is that not an advantage, regardless of when he arrived? Maybe he had the potential all along, maybe it was brought out by Temple's coach, probably some of both but the fact is he could not play for Whitwell, Sale Creek, etc and he could for the private school teams around Chattanooga. And I didn't say he shouldn't play, just that his school should be playing with other private schools in the postseason. Would a boys basketball district with Chattanooga Christian, Temple, Boyd-Buchanan, Grace and Notre Dame be so bad? How about baseball? It must be the way some seem to be against it.

[Edited by Indian on 5/23/02 7:58P]

[Indian]

Re: Murfreesboro..Blackman, Riverdale and Oakland don't compete in the postseason or district play against the Class 1A/2A, A and AA private schools so they shouldn't be part of any argument.

[Dice1550]

No, I do not see how this is an advantage. If a kid goes there in elementary school from the same county or out of state it doesn't matter. From a different area does not equal good athlete. I can see some other points where privates may have advantages, but to say that because the kid isn't from the same county doesn't make sense.