TSSAA FOOTBALL CLASSIFICATIONS

[Verb58]

With the TSSAA getting the Z plan approved what will some of the districts look like now.

With the way things look in Sumner I wouldn't be surprised to see as a district...Gallatin, Hendersonville, Beech, Station Camp, Whitehouse in the same district. Talk about the gates at these games. WOW. Just wondering how many teams per district as well.

[ArtVandalay]

Should be the same conference that you play Basketball and Baseball in.

[FridayNightLightsTn]

I think it will be Macon Co, Springfield, Portland, White House, Station Camp, and Beech (or Cheatham Co)

[ihavenofriendzz]

I guess now we know who may hope to give Maryville a run for their money..

 

Bearden

Farragut

Heritage

Lenoir City

Sevier County

South Doyle

William Blount

 

4 of the teams Maryville already plays every year now... WB, SD, LC, Heritage.. So Sevier County, Farragut, and Bearden, will be the only different teams Maryville will be playing.

[Verb58]

Just based on current numbers AAA would start at Whites Creek and go up to McGavock.

Those numbers could have Portland and create an all Sumner District. The playoffs automatic bids are the top 2 as well as 1/2 the teams from the district. ie 6 team district sends 3 teams. Again based on the current enrollment numbers each district could have between 6 and 8 teams with the break in classes coming in the playoffs between 5A and 6A.

 

The numbers for enrollment will come after the first 20 days of this fall so we will still not know ahead of the curve just yet.

[MaryvilleRebels]

Dumbest idea ever... why change something that isn't a problem?

[Solomon]

So do you play all district teams regardless of you are 5A or 6A? Or do you just play the teams that would be in 5A or 6A?

 

Sorry, hadn't done my research on this one.

 

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http://www.tssaa.org/boardminutes.pdf

 

See pages 5 and 6.

[SPLITBACK]

WOW !!!!!!!!!!! what does everyone think ????? /huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" />

 

 

Football playoffs to change in 2009

 

FRANKLIN - The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Board of Control today voted 5-4 to adopt a new system for football playoffs that likely will have six Division I champions beginning in 2009.

 

There will be three regular-season football classes comprised of 16 districts each.

 

 

The football playoffs are likely to expand to six classes. There is a chance they could remain at five classes if multiple Division I schools opt to move to Division II.

 

All schools will remain in the same districts for football, basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball.

 

Having three classes instead of five is also expected to cut down on travel for schools playing football.

 

In regards to football:

 

1. All schools play everyone in their district (AAA, AA, A)

 

2. Each class is divided in half by enrollment. AAA is divided into 6A/5A; AA into 4A/3A; A into 2A/1A. This will place approximately 55-65 schools in each football classification. If the number of football schools in Class A is less than 70, then the Board would determine whether Class A would be divided for playoffs or remain as one class. Using present enrollments, there would be 83 football-playing schools in Class A.

 

3. In 6A, 5A, 4A, and 3A, 32 teams would qualify for the playoffs. In 2A and 1A, 24 teams would qualify for the playoffs. This difference is due to the fact that there would be 41 to 42 schools in 2A and 1A each, with 58 to 62 schools in the other 4 classifications.

 

4. Teams would qualify for the playoffs in the following manner:

 

a. Half of the teams in each group (6A, 5A,??¦) in each district are automatic qualifiers

b. Teams finishing 1st or 2nd in the district are automatic qualifiers

c. Wild cards ??“ Based on state association tiebreakers

 

5. In 6A, there is the rare possibility there could be 25 automatic qualifiers.

 

Districts 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 16 where there is 1 qualifier and another 6A team could finish 2nd. If this occurred in all 8 districts, you would have 33 qualifiers. In the unlikely event that this would happen, you would apply the tiebreaker criteria to those 8 teams to determine the 7 qualifiers to complete the 32-team bracket.

 

6. The 32 teams are then placed geographically in 4 quadrants with 8 teams in each quadrant in 6A, 5A, 4A, and 3A. In 2A and 1A there are 6 in each quadrant with the top 2 seeds drawing a bye in the first round.

 

7. The eight teams (6 in 2A and 1A) are placed in the bracket so that no teams from the same district play each other in the first round except when there are 5 or more teams from the same district. Placements are then done with priorities given to automatic qualifiers based on their district finish followed by Wild Cards. There may be times where teams have to be placed other than their order of district finish to avoid teams from the same district meeting in the first round.

 

8. The team with the higher seed will host throughout the first three rounds. In the semifinals, the top team in the bracket will host in odd years and the team in the bottom bracket will host in even years. (Exceptions: If the two teams are from the same district, the higher finishing team in district standings shall host.)

[Coach]

Dumbest idea ever... why change something that isn't a problem?

 

 

Your own Lynn Brown voted for it.

[ELA]

It will be interesting to see how the DISTRICTS are divided. I would think our district might include:

 

Coffee County (6A)

Franklin Co (6A)

Lincoln County (6A)

Shelbyville (5A)

Tullahoma (5A)

Plus one more????

Columbia Central (6A)

[GREYRIDER]

Your own Lynn Brown voted for it.

 

most of us do not claim that ... person. He needs to retire as do most of the others. I think it adds confusion to something that was working fine.

[FridayNightLightsTn]

TSSAA is missing up. The ole phrase "if ain't broke don't fix it"

 

You will be putting schools with smaller enrollments with schools with bigger ones. Ex: Portland 1025 Students with Lebanon 1400+ or Mt.Juliet about the same also non reigon games will be hard to schedule because no one would want to play down because of tie breakers. No more 15-0 Champions if 1st place gets a bye. Teams play in easier directs. Some teams will play all 6A teams while others will play both 5A and 6A teams. Did not think there was anything wrong with old system as long as you kept graduating teams up in classifications and a justing the enrollment numbers. We well have to see how it plays out in '09