Football Classifications

[gator]

Does anyone know what the enrollment cutoffs are for 4A and 5A for football classifications for 2005-2009? I know the TSSAA will have it on their website next Tuesday, but does anyone know anything beforehand? Thanks.

[gator]

P.S. I read that they were going to take the # of football-playing schools, which I think is 294, and divide by 5. Any other info?

[FatCat]

Does anyone know what the enrollment cutoffs are for 4A and 5A for football classifications for 2005-2009?  I know the TSSAA will have it on their website next Tuesday, but does anyone know anything beforehand?  Thanks.

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Well, about the only thing you can do is go to the TSSAA Website and they have a link on their homepage that has the enrollment numbers for all the DI and DII schools. You can take the DI and divide by 5. That should help you find out where the cutoffs will be. But, the ones on the fringe could change pending appeals.

[FatCat]

Also, remember that this classification list they put out on Tuesday is not final. All schools on the list (except the 5A schools) can request to play up in a higher classification. Several schools do this. They will have until Sep 1 to declare whether or not they intend to move up to a higher classification.

[hssportsfan]

Again, we won't know for sure until all appeals are decided and all the teams moving up are placed. However, just looking at the current #s the cutoffs will be somewhere in the following neighborhoods:

 

4A/5A - somewhere between 1348 and 1361

Overton 1348

Munford 1351

Maryville 1351

Glencliff 1358

Oakland 1361

Brentwood High 1361

 

3A/4A - somewhere between 956 and 988

Fulton 956

Anderson Co 964

Brainerd 967

Notre Dame 977

Memphis East 984

Jackson Northside 986

Whites Creek 988

 

2A/3A - somewhere between 644 and 681

Loudon 644

York Institute 644

Fairview 645

Gibson Co 647

Goodpasture 666

Cheatham Co 667

Frayser 667

Grundy Co 676

Chester Co 681

 

1A/2A - somewhere between 370 and 411

JCS 370

Cascade 375

West Carroll 379

Fayette Acad 390

Union City 391

Hampton 393

Cosby 395

Peabody 399

North Greene 407

Alcoa 411

[NWTennSports]

You know, I'm a little tired of this classification stuff and the public-private debate. Why don't the Lords of the TSSAA grow a pair and either go for a full split or none at all. As far as classification, a state with more hoops-playing schools than football-playing ones crowning FIVE public-school football champs and only three in hoops doesn't make a lot of sense. The TSSAA should go four-classes for football and basketball and be done with it. Any postseason money lost by dropping an entire class in football would probably be more than made up with an extra class in hoops. The TSSAA needs to step up and make a decision. Maybe if all the Lords' kids didn't go to private schools in the Nashville area, the decisions would be much easier, hmmmm??? Oh, and by the way, when the TSSAA makes out the new districts and regions this fall, they might want to try looking at a map. Not all 4-lane roads are good, and not all 2-lane roads are bad. And, make no mistake, a lot of the alignments are based on the Tennessee Highway System.

[boyfromsi]

Don't worry, after Monday we will know a lot more. BTW, the reason for different #s of classes is that football is different from other sports because of resources involved. Illinois for example has 7 classes for football and 4 for basketball (used to be 2 not long ago).

[GWAVE1]

You know, I'm a little tired of this classification stuff and the public-private debate. Why don't the Lords of the TSSAA grow a pair and either go for a full split or none at all. As far as classification, a state with more hoops-playing schools than football-playing ones crowning FIVE public-school football champs and only three in hoops doesn't make a lot of sense. The TSSAA should go four-classes for football and basketball and be done with it. Any postseason money lost by dropping an entire class in football would probably be more than made up with an extra class in hoops. The TSSAA needs to step up and make a decision. Maybe if all the Lords' kids didn't go to private schools in the Nashville area, the decisions would be much easier, hmmmm??? Oh, and by the way, when the TSSAA makes out the new districts and regions this fall, they might want to try looking at a map. Not all 4-lane roads are good, and not all 2-lane roads are bad. And, make no mistake, a lot of the alignments are based on the Tennessee Highway System.

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More sense here than in Donelson.....

[FatCat]

The TSSAA should go four-classes for football and basketball and be done with it.

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AMEN to that!

[Drem2Achev]

Lets go to 1 class in all sports. Well big and little 2 classes, at the most.