TSSAA to look at open zones, privates, new classifications possible

[LoveForTheGame]

One option is to have football distrcts mirror all other sports districts with three regular season classes (a la z-plan) and then determine playoff placement like the old 5-class system did, with the top 4 teams making to the playoffs. Then the largest two playoff bound schools by enrollment go to the higher classification (6A if in an AAA district) with the other, smaller two playoff teams going to the 5A playoffs. A team will be preclassified into A, AA, or AAA by enrollment for the regular season, but would not know what post-season class they are in until the playoffs. Texas uses something like this already. This is not my personal favorite idea, nor one I would like to see, but some of you may like it.

[AlcoaBasketball]

[DCTIGERFAN]

Friendship Christian off the top of my head.

Wilson County has a population of 122k. That's pretty dang big, it's not like Lebanon is some little, small, rural town. Wilson County has the 12th largest population in TN out of 95 total counties.

[DCTIGERFAN]

yes 7 and the greater Atlanta area has more population than all of TN. So Ga has 9.7 million people and 7 champions, TN has 6.4 million people and 8 champions........yes way watered down. Going by the TN model, California with 39 million would need to have 25 class state champions!

Ahh that's not quite true, but you're point is valid. Metro Atlanta has a population of 5.6 million, which is a little more than half of the entire state of Georgia's population of 10.1 million. Tennessee as state has a population of 6.5 million. 

[SdotBears]

That's a great plan, makes sense too and its pretty even. Take it to Childress.

Cbg does have a good, reasonable plan. That's why it'll never pass

[Governm]

Ahh that's not quite true, but you're point is valid. Metro Atlanta has a population of 5.6 million, which is a little more than half of the entire state of Georgia's population of 10.1 million. Tennessee as state has a population of 6.5 million.

Not talking metro areas but Nashville and Memphis (just the cities) have a bigger population than Atlanta. I like Tennessee better because the population is more evenly distributed. There are large parts of GA where there is nothing.

[HTV]

And you guys want to hear a really crazy number?  According to Knoxville Central's head coach, who is from New Jersey and coached in New Jersey for a couple of years between coaching at Oak Ridge and being hired at Central, New Jersey has 28 "state" champions in its different classifications.  

 

That's just insane.  

[Knoxvul]

yes 7 and the greater Atlanta area has more population than all of TN. So Ga has 9.7 million people and 7 champions, TN has 6.4 million people and 8 champions........yes way watered down. Going by the TN model, California with 39 million would need to have 25 class state champions!

What's California??

[WhiteShadow]

Metro is not open zone. Lots of ways to go to certain schools though. As far as magnet schools I think you need to look at whether they are true magnet schools such as Hume Fogg which attract top academic kids or magnet schools that simply have the name. They are very different. In metro the three academic magnet schools are HF, MLK, and EN.

East Nashville is not an academic magnet.

[STARSNBARS]

Cbg does have a good, reasonable plan. That's why it'll never pass

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[SdotBears]

SdB ewe brang upp a goodur point...

Seeing that never gets old

[ChattanoogaFBFan]

Using the same criteria as above---

How would East Tennessee be divided?

 

1. Maryville
2. Fulton
3. Knox West
4. Alcoa
5. Science Hill
6. Greeneville
7. Knox Catholic
8. South Doyle
9. Sevier Co.
10. Oak Ridge
11. Sullivan South
12. Webb
13. Loudon
14. Hardin Valley
15. D-B
16. Farragut
17. Tennessee High
18. Elizabethton
19. Mo. East
20. Anderson Co.
21. Mo. West
22. CAK
23. Campbell Co
24. Clinton
25. Livingston Acad. (would they go East?)

 

I am not as familiar with that area and who is closest to who.

 

I would probably replace Livingston with some one like Powell since they would be closer to Knoxville than Livingston. Also Knoxville could be split up a couple different ways. 4 Districts 6-7 teams per

 

District A Northeast TN

Science Hill

Greeneville

Sullivan South 

D-B

Elizabethton

TN High

 

District B North

Sevier Co.

South Doyle

Mo West

Mo East

Fulton

Knox West

 

District C South

Alcoa

Loudon

Maryville

Farragut

Knox Catholic

CAK

Webb

.

 

District D West

Oak Ridge

Anderson Co.

Clinton

Campbell Co.

Hardin Valley

Powell.