2013-14 Schedules - something HAS to change

[blazeburnin]

Something HAS to be done about the playoff format. Teams are having to criss-cross the state just to find games, and/or dodging other teams right in their own backyard. Utterly ridiculous. I just wish TSSAA would come out and say they are just in it for the money. It would make it a little easier to swallow. Them charading under the umbrella of "doing things for the kids" is a complete SHAM!!!!!

[Indian]

Do the classifications for football and basketball separately and you wouldn't have to have 16 football districts. Having 14 or 15 could raise the average number of teams in each district without causing signifcant travel increases. That's an easy partial solution without scrapping the whole system.

[bigchief]

Indian, then you would have uneven brackets for the playoffs. 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 to 1. With 14/15 someone gets a bye. Then you would have people complaining about that. The solution was to go back to 5 classes, but that got voted down for some reason.

[Hoganknows]

Go talk to the guys who voted this back in for four more years and ask them!

[Indian]

Indian, then you would have uneven brackets for the playoffs. 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 to 1. With 14/15 someone gets a bye. Then you would have people complaining about that. The solution was to go back to 5 classes, but that got voted down for some reason.

 

It doesn't matter in the current system, some districts have more make it than others.

 

Five classes was voted down because eight regions spread it out too far.

[MSURacer]

Indian, then you would have uneven brackets for the playoffs. 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 to 1. With 14/15 someone gets a bye. Then you would have people complaining about that. The solution was to go back to 5 classes, but that got voted down for some reason.

 

No you wouldn't. 32 teams would still make the playoffs.

[baylorbigdog1976]

 

 

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Edited December 2, 2012 by baylorbigdog1976

[Croach]

Anybody have BGA's schedule?

[Indian]

I would not object to ending the multiplier, having all the private schools back in Division I, as long as they were separated for the postseason and games vs private schools didn't affect public schools' playoff seedings. They'd basically be non-district games but would add to the schedules. The reason-not all public schools would have private schools in their districts. I'm not sure how they could do it exactly but it would probably be similar to the current system.

[alt1958]

Indian, then you would have uneven brackets for the playoffs. 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 to 1. With 14/15 someone gets a bye. Then you would have people complaining about that. The solution was to go back to 5 classes, but that got voted down for some reason.

 

The problem I saw for us (Bradley Central) was the split of the District in 4 teams in Eastern Time Zone and 4 teams in Central Time Zone, if we went to 5 classes. The travel going west was OK with the extra hour to get there. But the return gate (let's be real, without gate receipts you can't pay for the program) would be almost nonexistant, for the Eastern Time Zone teams because Central Time fans would not be making the return trip in any kind of numbers. Most folks leave after work and if you work till 5 PM.... Central Time folks simply would not make that trip.

 

The proof was in the fact that Bradley took a good crowd to Blackman in 2011 (and band). Blackman barely brought (maybe) a hundred people on the return visit (without the band to boot). Nothing against the Blackman fans, just what happened

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With this in mind the Eastern Time Zone teams would have to find 3 huge games for gate receipts to make up for the 2 games where would get almost nothing (assuming a 5 and 5 home and away schedule).

[Indian]

Here's how I'd have it in Class AAA (still with 5A and 6A playoffs), if you just classified by football schools and didn't necessarily have 16 districts. In Class AAA I had it working out best with 14. Each district would have 6, 7, or 8 teams though the Murfreesboro district wouldn't have that many until the new school opens. That would be an issue also Hardin County would continue to have long trips though that will probably happen in any system. There are some long trips, like for Lincoln County but I think they'd be better off in this group than going to McMinn County or even to the White County district.

 

The Memphis districts could use some work, I'm sure, I didn't look up street addresses and I'm not familiar which ones are more traditional rivals.

 

That's not much of a change, just reclassify by football schools and compress the districts a bit, and it would help scheduling for many teams.

District 1

Daniel Boone High School FB 1348

David Crockett High School FB 1247

Dobyns Bennett High School FB 1856

Science Hill High School FB 2207

Tennessee High School FB 1144

Volunteer High School FB 1177

 

District 2

Cherokee High School FB 1109

Cocke Co. High School FB 1225

Jefferson Co. High School FB 2147

Morristown West FB 1370

Morristown East FB 1445

Sevier Co. High School FB 1727

Seymour High School FB 1239

South Doyle High School FB 1138

 

District 3

Clinton High School FB 1175

Campbell Co. High School FB 1262

Karns High School FB 1315

Knoxville Central High School FB 1117

Knoxville Halls High School FB 1270

Oak Ridge High School FB 1346

Powell High School FB 1415

 

District 4

Lenoir City High School FB 1242

West High School FB 1244

Maryville High School FB 1445

Heritage High School FB 1570

William Blount High School FB 1722

Farragut High School FB 1728

Hardin Valley Academy FB 1851

Bearden High School FB 1897

 

District 5

East Hamilton High School FB 1107

Cleveland High School FB 1357

Bradley Central High School FB 1664

McMinn Co. High School FB 1472

Walker Valley High School FB 1565

Soddy Daisy High School FB 1341

Rhea Co. High School FB 1382

Ooltewah High School FB 1404

 

District 6

White Co. High School FB 1161

Cookeville High School FB 2163

Warren Co. High School FB 1821

Franklin Co. High School FB 1428

Coffee Co. Central High School FB 1626

Shelbyville Central High School FB 1255

 

District 7

Blackman High School FB 2381

LaVergne High School FB 2133

Smyrna High School FB 1998

Riverdale High School FB 2028

Oakland High School FB 1919

Siegel High School FB 1873

Stewarts Creek High School FB 1505

 

District 8

Beech Senior High School FB 1297

Gallatin High School FB 1381

Hendersonville High School FB 1527

Lebanon High School FB 1638

Station Camp High School FB 1433

Mt. Juliet High School FB 1903

Wilson Central High School FB 1714

Portland High School FB 1135

 

District 9

Springfield High School FB 1111

Northwest High School FB 1201

West Creek High School FB 1221

Clarksville High School FB 1343

Henry Co. High School FB 1356

Rossview High School FB 1442

Dickson Co. High School FB 1473

 

District 10

Hillsboro High School FB 1159

Hillwood High School FB 1215

Glencliff High School FB 1264

Hunters Lane High School FB 1586

Cane Ridge High School FB 1603

John Overton High School FB 1744

McGavock High School FB 2159

Antioch High School FB 1920

 

District 11

Independence High School FB 1426

Brentwood High School FB 1596

Centennial High School FB 1655

Franklin High School FB 1747

Ravenwood High School FB 1906

Columbia Central High School FB 1306

Lawrence Co. High School FB 1130

Lincoln Co. High School FB 1339

 

District 12

Dyer Co. High School FB 1129

Munford High School FB 1313

Millington Central High School FB 1343

Germantown High School FB 2038

Houston High School FB 1788

Collierville High School FB 1978

Hardin Co. High School FB 1123

 

District 13

Brighton High School FB 1458

Southwind High School FB 1702

Bartlett High School FB 1848

Cordova High School FB 1851

Bolton High School FB 1952

Ridgeway High School FB 1177

Arlington High School FB 2315

 

District 14

Overton High School FB 1364

White Station High School FB 2263

Memphis Central High School FB 1619

Whitehaven High School FB 2076

Kingsbury High School FB 1144

Wooddale High School FB 1427

Kirby High School FB 1336

[MountainTroll]

I think that Layne boy needs to appoint Squaw to finish his term when he retires. She's pretty good at sipherin'.