The future of DII AAA

[D23A]

It's been a little over 5 weeks now since McCallie brought back a Gold Ball to the Ridge, but now as the offseason is in full swing, it may be time to begin thinking of the future of the highest Private School division, It may sound early right now, but it looks like next season can be another wide open race between all of these talented schools. In addition to next season, is there potential for expansion of 1 or 2 teams, or maybe as much as 4, resulting in a total of 16 teams in the highest playing level in TN.

[QSouth89]

On 1/11/2020 at 7:43 PM, D23A said:

It's been a little over 5 weeks now since McCallie brought back a Gold Ball to the Ridge, but now as the offseason is in full swing, it may be time to begin thinking of the future of the highest Private School division, It may sound early right now, but it looks like next season can be another wide open race between all of these talented schools. In addition to next season, is there potential for expansion of 1 or 2 teams, or maybe as much as 4, resulting in a total of 16 teams in the highest playing level in TN.

That makes no sense, a class with 16 teams?  Lets make a 100 classes so everyone can get a title.

[MrFootball1]

On 1/14/2020 at 2:02 PM, QSouth89 said:

That makes no sense, a class with 16 teams?  Lets make a 100 classes so everyone can get a title.

So you don’t think any teams will ever get added to Dlll?

[MichaelMyers76]

They will add at least one in the next cycle. I would look for at least one more.

[PurplePanther]

The addition of KC threw some schedules out of whack.  I believe this is the first year that Father Ryan/MBA did not play ever.  This is a long standing rivalry.  Knoxville area is the only part of the division with 1 team!  
 

Knoxville- 1 team

Chattanooga- 2 teams (Baylor and McCallie) with a possible addition 

Memphis- 4 teams (Briarcrest, MUS, CB, St. Ben...don’t know if anyone would move up

Nashville- 5 teams (MBA, Ensworth, FR, JP2, BA) with maybe 2 moving up

When all said and done, all Nashville Teams won’t play each other, while all Memphis and Chattanooga teams will.  It is the price that is paid for being in the largest area that happens to be in the middle of the state.

OR....Nashville adds 2 teams and plays in one division and everyone else in another division....yeah right...

[Eagle901]

None of the D2-AA teams in the Memphis area would be likely candidates to move up, unless it's a pretty dramatic drop in the cutoff.  All of them are likely sitting in the 300-325ish enrollment range or less.  

[URSUS]

4 hours ago, MichaelMyers76 said:

They will add at least one in the next cycle. I would look for at least one more.

I am curious as to which 1 or 2 teams might consider moving up.  

I am hearing more and more dropping the publics to 5 classes and the privates to 2 classes.

[OldandBusted]

If they drop to 2 divisions in private, with Lakeway Christian starting varsity next year, it would be 24 teams in A and 24 teams in AA. It would give the ability to create 3 regions consisting of 8 teams in each. Not sure how even the competition would be. It would decrease the travel for a lot of schools.

 

[URSUS]

Based on the 2017 numbers two classification would put GCA-Knoxville as the smallest school in the large division and USJ As the largest school in small division. I guess the addition of Lakeway and any other new school could move that line somewhat.

[BigTime1950]

9 hours ago, OldandBusted said:

If they drop to 2 divisions in private, with Lakeway Christian starting varsity next year, it would be 24 teams in A and 24 teams in AA. It would give the ability to create 3 regions consisting of 8 teams in each. Not sure how even the competition would be. It would decrease the travel for a lot of schools.

 

Are you saying Lakeway Christian is playing a varsity region schedule in the fall of 2020?

[OldandBusted]

13 hours ago, BigTime1950 said:

Are you saying Lakeway Christian is playing a varsity region schedule in the fall of 2020?

That is my understanding.

[BigTime1950]

1 hour ago, OldandBusted said:

That is my understanding.

How did they do that in the middle of the scheduling cycle? Would that create problems for the other teams schedule?