Oak Ridge High School Football 2020

[STILLNUM1]

1 hour ago, osunut2 said:

Good chance OR goes to 6A. They are sitting right at the cut-off.

Based on numbers, AC may be moving back up to 5A. McMinn County and Ooltewah look like they are moving back to 5A as well.

They must of added teams to 6a last time.At one time did they only have 32 6a teams or was they thinking about that.

[osunut2]

1 minute ago, STILLNUM1 said:

They must of added teams to 6a last time.At one time did they only have 32 6a teams or was they thinking about that.

That was part of the Z-plan, back when all 32 6A teams made the playoffs. TSSAA dumped that back in 2017.

[STILLNUM1]

4 minutes ago, osunut2 said:

That was part of the Z-plan, back when all 32 6A teams made the playoffs. TSSAA dumped that back in 2017.

I thought I remembered 32.That would be something if Oak Ridge got stuck with schools that much bigger than them over having 2 more students than couple of others schools.Do they put 50 in 6a and work their way down or how do they decide how big each class is

[osunut2]

1 minute ago, STILLNUM1 said:

I thought I remembered 32.That would be something if Oak Ridge got stuck with schools that much bigger than them over having 2 more students than couple of others schools.Do they put 50 in 6a and work their way down or how do they decide how big each class is

They split the classes evenly, initially. There were 298 D1 schools last time, so that split the classes in ~49-50 each. Then you'll have schools that will opt to play up, like Gibbs, Fulton, Carter, and Seymour in this last reclassification period.

50 is probably a good guess at this point. Which puts OR right on the bubble (50th).

[STILLNUM1]

1 minute ago, osunut2 said:

They split the classes evenly, initially. There were 298 D1 schools last time, so that split the classes in ~49-50 each. Then you'll have schools that will opt to play up, like Gibbs, Fulton, Carter, and Seymour in this last reclassification period.

50 is probably a good guess at this point. Which puts OR right on the bubble (50th).

Ok thanks for info.Some of these 6a schools are so big they need to make it where u have to have like 1750 or more to be 6a.Heck I think I seen one school with 2,700.1,000 more students would be like Oak Ridge playing single or 2a

[osunut2]

30 minutes ago, STILLNUM1 said:

Ok thanks for info.Some of these 6a schools are so big they need to make it where u have to have like 1750 or more to be 6a.Heck I think I seen one school with 2,700.1,000 more students would be like Oak Ridge playing single or 2a

I scrubbed the data TSSAA provided, and it looks like there are 300 D1 schools by my count. That would make OR #50, which puts them in 6A.  Here are some interesting notes, if that number is correct:

• Other teams moving up to 6A - Gallatin, Beech, Mo East, West Creek, Summit, Shelbyville, Clarksville
• Potential Region 1-6A - DB, Science Hill, Jeff Co, Mo East, Bearden, Farragut, HVA
• Potential Region 2-6A - Cleveland, Maryville, William Blount, Bradley, OR
  • To even the numbers up, I wouldn't be surprised if Farragut was moved to Region 2
• Teams moving down to 5A - Mo West, McMinn, Heritage, Ooltewah, Wilson Central, Station Camp, Mt. Juliet, Memphis Central
• Teams moving up to 5A - Tullahoma, AC, Portland, White Co, Spring Hill, West Ridge (new school), Springfield, Nolensville, Howard
• Other changes of interest - South Doyle (down to 4A), Soddy Daisy (down to 4A), Union Co (down to 3A)
  • Could see Fulton, Carter, Gibbs, and Seymour all opt to play 4A ball, now that SD's enrollment has dropped. Tough to predict 5A (and 4A) regions in the Knox area until those schools decide whether to play up or not.

[CardinalGrey]

Wow!  That's interesting to hear.  I guess we will wait and see.

 

RWR!

[bonkers]

I don't think it would be good for OR to be one of the smallest 6A schools in the state. The talent level is less than West and Powell, and they are 5A. I would hope that OR ends up a large 5A, but we will find out soo, I guess. Exactly when do we find out?

[osunut2]

4 minutes ago, bonkers said:

I don't think it would be good for OR to be one of the smallest 6A schools in the state. The talent level is less than West and Powell, and they are 5A. I would hope that OR ends up a large 5A, but we will find out soo, I guess. Exactly when do we find out?

Should be mid-November.

[bonkers]

14 minutes ago, osunut2 said:

Should be mid-November.

OK, thanks

[CardinalGrey]

[keepitmoving]

4 hours ago, bonkers said:

I don't think it would be good for OR to be one of the smallest 6A schools in the state. The talent level is less than West and Powell, and they are 5A. I would hope that OR ends up a large 5A, but we will find out soo, I guess. Exactly when do we find out?

OR wouldn't have a choice.   Its based off of enrollment size.  Only choice a school can have is if they want to play up like Fulton does.  Fulton enrolment size (if I am not mistaken) is that of a 4a school, but they choose to play 5a.