Will TSSAA listen to Coaches?

[Indian]

Using Moore rankings to pick winners, for argument's sake, no upsets. This would also add a week to the playoffs, due to 48 teams making it, just cut out week zero. With the non-district record not as important hopefully teams would have an easier time scheduling.

 

Quad 1:

1-Alcoa (bye) 2-Polk County (bye) 3-Sullivan North (bye) 4-CAK (bye) 5-Kingston 6-Happy Valley 7-Austin East 8-Loudon 9-South Greene 10-Knoxville Grace 11-Meigs County 12-Chucky Doak

 

First Round: Chucky-Doak at Kingston, Meigs County at Happy Valley, Knoxville Grace at Austin East, South Greene at Loudon

 

Second Round: Loudon at Alcoa, Austin East at Polk County, Happy Valley at Sullivan North, Kingston at CAK

 

Third Round: CAK at Alcoa, Sullivan North at Polk County

Fourth Round: Polk County at Alcoa

 

Quad 2:

1-Signal Mountain (bye) 2-Smith County (bye) 3-Tyner (bye) 4-Boyd-Buchanan (bye) 5-Bledsoe 6-Westmoreland 7-Sequatchie 8-Brainerd 9-York 10-Hixson 11-Grundy 12-Upperman

 

First Round: Upperman at Bledsoe County, Grundy at Westmoreland, Hixson at Sequatchie, York at Brainerd

 

Second Round: Brainerd at Signal Mountain, Sequatchie at Smith, Westmoreland at Tyner, Bledsoe at Boyd-Buchanan

 

Third Round: Boyd-Buchanan at Signal Mountain, Tyner at Smith County

Fourth Round: Smith County at Signal Mountain

 

 

Quad 3

1-CPA (bye) 2-Milan (bye) 3-Marshall County (bye) 4-Goodpasture (bye) 5-Westview 6-Lewis County 7-Pearl-Cohn 8-Camden 9-Loretto 10-Fairview 11-South Gibson 12-East Hickman

 

First Round: East Hickman at Westview, South Gibson at Lewis County, Fairview at Pearl-Cohn, Loretto at Camden

 

Second Round: Camden at CPA, Pearl-Cohn at Milan, Lewis County at Marshall County, Westview at Goodpasture

 

Third Round: Goodpasture at CPA, Marshall County at Milan

Fourth Round: Milan at CPA

 

Quad 4

1-Liberty (bye) 2-Mitchell (bye) 3-Hillcrest (bye) 4-Fairley (bye) 5-Manassas 6-Jackson South Side 7-Trezevant 8-Westwood 9-Crockett County 10-Douglas 11-Central-Merry 12-Frayser

 

First Round: Frayser at Manassas, Central-Merry at JSS, Douglas at Trezevant, Crockett County at Westwood

 

Second Round: Westwood at Liberty, Trezevant at Mitchell, JSS at Hillcrest, Manassas at Fairley

 

Third Round: Fairley at Liberty, Hillcrest at Mitchell

Fourth Round: Mitchell at Liberty

 

Semifinals: Signal Mountain at Alcoa, Liberty at CPA

Finals: Alcoa vs CPA

 

I don't see this making it, just one more idea being thrown about. But there is an overall wish by coaches to reduce the number of postseason classes. Without some creativity it may be hard to accomplish that.

[Indian]

A couple more quick thoughts, taking just four teams from a district would likely leave out some deserving #5's but that's how it was previously. Maybe this could result in bowl games returning. Some 4's would likely get smashed, but again that's how it was previously.

 

One thing one of the coaches in the article mentioned was right now there's virtually no idea of who you're playing so there's less preparation time. With this you could get a good idea who the top 4 would be just a few games into the season and by looking at just a couple of teams schedules be able judge about where they'd fall in the 12-team bracket. As it is now going into Friday's games some teams still have multiple possible opponents.

[elhosel]

I don't see the tssaa going back to 5 classes because they would be losing $$$$ droping 6A. Plus this is misleading yes the coach's don't like the playoff system but I bet if you ask the same coach's about the regular season I bet they would wanna keep the current formant because of less travel. Everyone just going have to get use to this it's not going change they don't care how much everyone fuss it not going change

 

Less Travel? For Who? I know the premis for the new format was suppose to be based on "Less Travel" but everyone in our district and and most of the neighboring districts, travel increased. And for the top teams around in East Tennessee, it has become a scheduling nightmare trying to find games within a 2 hour travel window! When we had a 9 team Region and 5 classifications, life was so much better!

[Indian]

Less Travel? For Who? I know the premis for the new format was suppose to be based on "Less Travel" but everyone in our district and and most of the neighboring districts, travel increased. And for the top teams around in East Tennessee, it has become a scheduling nightmare trying to find games within a 2 hour travel window! When we had a 9 team Region and 5 classifications, life was so much better!

 

 

What was your former district line-up, what's the current group? Cutting back to set teams making it, 1-4, 2-3 matchups in round one, ought to make it easier to schedule as I'm positive most coaches would want good games to improve their teams.