CPA moving to Div. II?

[rollredroll]

IMO, you are missing the reason for reclassifying as far as CPA is concerned. And it has nothing to do with football. Could it have something to do with another sport and they eventually really don't care which classification in D2 that they play in, in fact, they would like to play in the large school. Their thrust is Basketball. Football would just be iceing on the cake. Aid is another issue and Overton is the other school population that could be involved. Just an opinion. IMO, CPA would not be happy in small school in anything because they thrive on a larger goal(goals), unless its changed.

 

The question of whether or not CPA is moving from DI to DII occurred on the Football Boards (maybe it's on the Basketball Board, too, but I haven't looked). It seemed natural to discuss the issue in the context of football.

 

CPA may, relatively, be better now in basketball than football. Its prospects of success going forward may be better in basketball than football. However, IMO, to say football has nothing to do with a potential decision is dubious. I don't know any football-playing school, and any football-playing private school in particular, where football is not a consideration in terms of the athletic department. BA may be the closest thing to a "basketball school" in large DII (based on D. Harrison and B. Wright this past decade), and that would include a large DII with CPA in it, but we all know what the show pony sport is on Granny White.

 

Would the upside in basketball by moving from DI to the large class in DII outweigh the downside of playing football in the large class of DII? CPA has won no boys basketball titles in DI, so they have nowhere to go but up in DII, even in the larger class. But I think even the most diehard CPA fan would say that the downside to football success is much larger in the larger DII football division. I admire the concept of "playing up", but I don't know any school where there is not some level of pride taken in athletics and the W/L column. If BA didn't win those AAAAA titles in 1995 and 1996 after all those years of playing at its natural classification and picking off titles left and right, do you think they would have stayed in AAAAA? And they probably would have had that decision, as the push from Murfreesboro to split the privates may not have occurred any time soon in that era.

[Gr8CaesarsGhost]

As I said before, there are some good schools in the smaller DII classification, however I don't think it is as competitive ever week as what CPA is facing now.

 

Well they would get to see Pack at FRA every year in football. Is the CPA/FRA rivalry still in tact? Maybe not.

[silverpie]

 

As for multipliers in other states, I don’t know them off the top of my head, but Tennessee’s is high – maybe the highest there is among states with multipliers.

 

I've also heard that it's the highest. Others I'm aware of are 1.35 (Alabama), 1.5 (Missouri), 1.65 (Illinois), and a flat +1 class (Arkansas).

[FBGIRL]

I've also heard that it's the highest. Others I'm aware of are 1.35 (Alabama), 1.5 (Missouri), 1.65 (Illinois), and a flat +1 class (Arkansas).

1.8 was just enough to move most of the privates up in class. TSSAA knew what they wanted to do and how to achieve it. IMO CPA will not move to DII but who knows.

[fiftyfifty]

IMO, you are missing the reason for reclassifying as far as CPA is concerned. And it has nothing to do with football. Could it have something to do with another sport and they eventually really don't care which classification in D2 that they play in, in fact, they would like to play in the large school. Their thrust is Basketball. Football would just be iceing on the cake. Aid is another issue and Overton is the other school population that could be involved. Just an opinion. IMO, CPA would not be happy in small school in anything because they thrive on a larger goal(goals), unless its changed.

You must be talking about one or two basketball players who uh hmm transferred recently. But they should care about whether they play in A or AA in Div II, it will be the difference between possibly winning titles and maybe never winning one.