Wake up-TSSAA!

[saywhat?]

Theres no way to fairly create divisions.

 

Food for thought: schools that have somewhat affluent students will always be able to field better teams

Example: Page

How: Page is a large school with several students. Unfortunately for their athletic program, these students hold jobs and are unable to devote the necessary time for athletics. What this means is that wealthier students already have the necessary money to live, trick out their rides, or do whatever, which eliminates the necessity for them to work to support either themselves or their family. If you have a school with 5,000 students and 4,800 regularly work jobs you only have 200 students to create your athletic programs but are still stuck in AAAAA. If you have a public school of 200 rich kids from brentwood or belle meade, you're on the same playing field as a private school with 100. Is it fair to have a school scarecly large enough to field a full football team up against a school twice its size?

[supersteve17]

Theres no way to fairly create divisions.

 

Food for thought: schools that have somewhat affluent students will always be able to field better teams

Example: Page

How: Page is a large school with several students. Unfortunately for their athletic program, these students hold jobs and are unable to devote the necessary time for athletics. What this means is that wealthier students already have the necessary money to live, trick out their rides, or do whatever, which eliminates the necessity for them to work to support either themselves or their family. If you have a school with 5,000 students and 4,800 regularly work jobs you only have 200 students to create your athletic programs but are still stuck in AAAAA. If you have a public school of 200 rich kids from brentwood or belle meade, you're on the same playing field as a private school with 100. Is it fair to have a school scarecly large enough to field a full football team up against a school twice its size?

Say what?

[GWAVE1]

If the T.S.S.A.A uses the State's fifth month enrollment figurers,and the 1.8 multipler to break down the new classes.THERE should be 110 schools per class.I got the numbers from the state.The break down I think will be like this. AAA ABOVE 1000 , AA 999 TO 486 , A 485 AND BELOW.

I can live with that. But I know the smaller schools wouldn't want too. Just the idea of bring us all back like it used to be brings on a smile.

 

What would be the breakdown if we went to 4 classes JSCOTT?

[saywhat?]

Theres no way to fairly create divisions.

 

Food for thought: schools that have somewhat affluent students will always be able to field better teams

Example: Page

How: Page is a large school with several students. Unfortunately for their athletic program, these students hold jobs and are unable to devote the necessary time for athletics. What this means is that wealthier students already have the necessary money to live, trick out their rides, or do whatever, which eliminates the necessity for them to work to support either themselves or their family. If you have a school with 5,000 students and 4,800 regularly work jobs you only have 200 students to create your athletic programs but are still stuck in AAAAA. If you have a public school of 200 rich kids from brentwood or belle meade, you're on the same playing field as a private school with 100. Is it fair to have a school scarecly large enough to field a full football team up against a school twice its size?

Say what?

By having students who need to work you limit the number of potential athletes.

The idea of divisions is to group schools by the number of potentail athletes they have. This is where A, AA, AAA, AAAA, and AAAAA come in.

 

Currently, size divisions do not exclude the number of students who can't play becase of other obligations like work. To be fair, the size divisions should take this into consideration, but because the number of these students varies from year to year and there is no set method of determining what this number would be in any given year, it is impossible to do this in a fair way. This is one of many examples where divisions are unfair.

[obionathlete]

Astute Obesrvation, saywhat?.

[VolunteerGeneral]

 

Currently, size divisions do not exclude the number of students who can't play becase of other obligations like work. To be fair, the size divisions should take this into consideration, but because the number of these students varies from year to year and there is no set method of determining what this number would be in any given year, it is impossible to do this in a fair way. This is one of many examples where divisions are unfair.

JCM has lots of kids that work and play ball. I think that comes down to parental involvment and sacrifice. Both can be done.

 

I read a great article last year about a kid who played sports at a private school (I think it was David Lipscomb...may be wrong though) and he worked to pay his qwn tuition to the school. That`s several thousands of dollars just to go to a school. He could have easily gone to a public school for free and saved that money. It`s not easy to work and play, but lots of kids do it. It takes discipline and responsibility.

[QueenBee]

It takes discipline and responsibility.

Which is exactly what so many of us lack

[saywhat?]

Isnt there a TSSAA rule that says you can't work, goto school, and hold a job all at the same time?

[Bighurt]

Isnt there a TSSAA rule that says you can't work, goto school, and hold a job all at the same time?

No.

[coasterboardar]

The Lipscomb kid is clearly the exception to the rule. To divide the day between work, school, and sports is too much to healthily ask from any student, or any growing person, as sleep is most frequently lost. This causes a suffering in health and a decrease in lifespan.

[GreenMan]

Did you say decrease in lifespan? Yikes!!!! Well maybe I should quit my job, cause I can't quit night school or football or softball. I guess if it's killing me I'll die happy.

[TDJ85]

Isnt there a TSSAA rule that says you can't work, goto school, and hold a job all at the same time?

Section 10, Article 4 paragraph 2.