The TSSAA Board of Control Decided NOTHING Today

[BoardHater71]

The Options Are:

7 Game Season; 32 Team Playoff (this is what the TSSAA prefers for $$$ reasons)

8 Game Season; 16 Team Playoff

9 Game Season; 8 Team Playoff

10 Game Season; No Playoffs

 

Re-Classification was tabled until a later date.  They couldn't decide whether to just use the numbers from February or to use the jacked up numbers from this upcoming fall that will be insanely inaccurate.  The argument made against using February's numbers was that it impacts "new schools" that are opening in the fall (i.e. Green Hill High School in Wilson County and the kids that it will take away from other schools in the county).  

[pioneer42]

23 minutes ago, howdoitknow said:

The Options Are:

7 Game Season; 32 Team Playoff (this is what the TSSAA prefers for $$$ reasons)

8 Game Season; 16 Team Playoff

9 Game Season; 8 Team Playoff

10 Game Season; No Playoffs

 

Re-Classification was tabled until a later date.  They couldn't decide whether to just use the numbers from February or to use the jacked up numbers from this upcoming fall that will be insanely inaccurate.  The argument made against using February's numbers was that it impacts "new schools" that are opening in the fall (i.e. Green Hill High School in Wilson County and the kids that it will take away from other schools in the county).  

Listened to the meeting and if I had to bet if it voted today they would keep the current classifications for two years based on the pandemic. Childress said they have to have a decision by November for the contracts on venues and they are two year contracts. Like you said the Wilson County situation and home schooling could skew numbers. That may not happen but listening to some comments sounded like they were more worried about the season than classification right now. Biggest part of the meeting that could help football was where they are proposing to the governor to be excluded from the executive order and be treated like the NCAA and the NFL.

[BoardHater71]

With everything that was discussed yesterday by the Board of Control this is the schedule that teams are looking at as of next week:

 

7/6 through 7/11 = Summer Workouts & Conditioning

7/13 through 7/18 = Summer Workouts & Conditioning

7/20 through 7/25 = Summer Workouts & Conditioning

7/27 through 8/1 = Summer Workouts & Conditioning

8/3 through 8/8 = Summer Workouts & Conditioning

8/10 through 8/15 = Workouts & Conditioning (after school)

8/17 through 8/22 = Workouts & Conditioning (after school)

8/24 through 8/29 = Workouts & Conditioning (after school)

 

8/31 through 9/5 = Preseason Week 1 in Pads

9/7 through 9/12 = Preseason Week 2 in Pads (if teams still choose to play Jamborees it will be on this week)

 

9/18 = Week 1

9/25 = Week 2

10/2 = Week 3

10/9 = Week 4

10/16 = Week 5

10/23 = Week 6

10/30 = Week 7

 

11/6 = Week 8 or Round 1

11/13 = Week 9, Round 1, or Round 2

11/20 = Quarterfinals

11/27 = Semifinals

12/3, 12/4, 12/5 = State Championship Games

 

Here's my big question over all of this mess.  The Weeks of 12/11-12/12 and 12/18-12/19 are also available for the TSSAA to use to get their fall sports seasons completed prior to the Christmas Holiday Break.  Why do they elect to not use those weeks?  Colleges do graduation in the fall semester the weekend of 12/11-12/12 if school is in session.  That means that the 12/18-12/19 weekend would have no bearing on Tennessee Tech.  If so then just move the State Championships to another venue such as Middle Tennessee State, Austin Peay, or Vanderbilt.  All of those locations would be great options for the TSSAA to look at using anyway.  

If the TSSAA Board of Control would simply do that then they could play a 9 week regular season + play a full 5 week playoff bracket and there wouldn't be anything to vote on right now.  It would be a done deal and everyone would be happy with what takes place.  

[MichaelMyers76]

12-18/19 will not be used because that is exam week all over the state. The Board of  Control is made up of administrators from  all over the  state whose jobs are tied to those test scores. For some reason they think academics are  why kids go to school.

[BooWhoWiseMan]

9 hours ago, MichaelMyers76 said:

12-18/19 will not be used because that is exam week all over the state. The Board of  Control is made up of administrators from  all over the  state whose jobs are tied to those test scores. For some reason they think academics are  why kids go to school.

Unless it is a semester class or block scheduling then those exams or district exams.  State exams are in april which is one of the reasons I argued the schools would have accurate enrollment numbers if they used numbers from before state shut down.