News from the TSSAA

[Guest cneagles]

The problem is they seem to be classifying schools according to basketball instead of doing it the other way around. Need to get some football minded leadership in high places and maybe some of this nonsense will be corrected. If you are going to lump the classifications then why is Basketball being the main one considered.

[CoachT]

The problem is they seem to be classifying schools according to basketball instead of doing it the other way around. Need to get some football minded leadership in high places and maybe some of this nonsense will be corrected. If you are going to lump the classifications then why is Basketball being the main one considered.

It is not because of basketball. It is because they are putting everyone in three classes for the regular season and then splitting them for the playoffs. Basketball and the other sports are already divided into three classes so why not use the same districts.

[b-ball mania]

If the Virginia Plan is used with three classifications, will there be a multiplier, if so

for who?

[CoachT]

If the Virginia Plan is used with three classifications, will there be a multiplier, if so

for who?

The multiplier issue is yet to be decided but is a separate isue from the VA Plan. The VA Plan could be used regardless of whether the multiplier is used or not.

[038585]

If they do not use the multiplier the Va plan will not help with the problem.

[GWAVE1]

 

Wins versus lower class teams cannot mean more or the same than wins versus higher classes.

 

 

Also what about the increased travel costs for the playoffs? Wasn't that the reason why we play the same region 3 straight times before going further east or west? It doesn't affect Gallatin as much as smaller schools but I thought that was the whole premise behind the 5 class system.

All right I think I understand some of the issues better now. But help answer some of these above dilemas for me so I can further understand what may take place.

 

It appears to me this just makes your regular season schedule easier to schedule. I still don't like the basketball districts being the deciding factor for football. It may sound biased but I think it should be the other way around. Football is almost always the bigger gate.

[yellowdog]

I still don't like the basketball districts being the deciding factor for football.

Saying districts are the same as for "basketball" while technically correct the new districts will be determined by the following criteria - which will impact basketball as well as other sports.

 

Taking all TSSAA schools and dividing them into three equal classes (If you have 330 schools then 110 would be A, 110 would be AA and AAA would be 110). Then divide these 110 schools into 16 districts. Each district being grouped by geography as much as possible. That is about as fair as you can be.

[JSCOTT]

The multiplier of 2.0 for privates,1.2 for the five urban areas and city school systems.Is what I heard Mr. Carter say last week on the radio. The decision could come at the Board of Control meeting on January 8th.The Virginia Plan will be adopted. I believe.

[VolunteerGeneral]

The multiplier of 2.0 for privates,1.2 for the five urban areas and city school systems.Is what I heard Mr. Carter say last week on the radio. The decision could come at the Board of Control meeting on January 8th.The Virginia Plan will be adopted. I believe.

JSCOTT...What is the 5th urban area you refer to? Tri-Cities? Murfreesboro? Brentwood/Franklin? Most of those schools are 5A anyways.

 

BTW...Where are you from JSCOTT?

 

Thanx VG

[silverpie]

Not sure what he means by "the five urban areas," but the following are the metropolitan statistical areas of Tennessee:

 

Chattanooga (Hamilton/Marion/Sequatchie plus three Georgia counties)

Clarksville (Montgomery/Stewart plus two Kentucky counties)

Cleveland (Bradley/Polk)

Cookeville (Jackson/Overton/Putnam)

Jackson (Chester/Madison)

Johnson City (Carter/Unicoi/Washington)

Kingsport/Bristol (Hawkins/Sullivan plus a Virginia county)

Knoxville (Anderson/Blount/Knox/Loudon/Union)

Memphis (Fayette/Shelby/Tipton plus four Mississippi counties and an Arkansas county)

Morristown (Grainger/Hamblen/Jefferson)

Nashville-Murfreesboro (Cannon/Cheatham/Davidson/Dickson/Hickman/Macon/Robertson/Rutherford/Smith/Sumner/Trousdale/Williamson/Wilson)

 

In addition, there are various micropolitan statistical areas (that's a new invention in the 2003 list).

 

The following ones are in "combined statistical areas"

Chattanooga/Cleveland, plus the Athens (McMinn) µSA

Johnson City/Kingsport, plus Bristol-Virginia

Knoxville, plus three µSA's (Harriman, LaFollette, and Sevierville)

Morristown, plus the Newport µSA

Nashville-Murfreesboro, plus the Columbia µSA

[ELA]

JSCOTT...What is the 5th urban area you refer to? Tri-Cities? Murfreesboro? Brentwood/Franklin? Most of those schools are 5A anyways.

 

BTW...Where are you from JSCOTT?

 

Thanx VG

All schools inside the following counties will be effected:

 

Hamilton County Area

Shelby County Area

Davidson County Area

Knox County Area

Madison County Area

Edited December 20, 2003 by ELA

[VolunteerGeneral]

Ela.do you have anymore info on this?

 

Does this just include those counties or do they include surrounding counties?

 

I would think Sullivan County is bigger than Madison. How about Rutherford and Williamson and Sumner? Are they included in Davidson?

Edited December 20, 2003 by VolunteerGeneral