JUst did a finger drill with the KSHSAA Classification list to create three 48 school classes. Shuffled 16 5A schools to 6A, shuffled 32 4A schools to 5A, shuffled 16 3A schools to 4A.
Interesting numbers
6A goes from a current enrollment Range of 2308-1289 (a spread of 1019 students) to a 48 school range of 2308-981 (a spread 1327 students ). But who cares, they can absorb it.
KIDDING!!!
5A goes from a curent enrollment range of 1281-720 (a spread of 561 students) to a 48 school range of 980-434 (a spread of 546 students). Not much difference but picking up the 4A schools should even out the competition--help fill th regional brackets.
4A goes from a current 64 school enrollment range of 717-258 (a spread of 459 students) to a 48 school range of 428-234 students (a spread of 194 students). Issue here may be does it rob all of the meat/competitiveness out of 4A, and are would it shift empty bRACKETS FROM 5A TO 4a? 4A folks will have to comment on that.
Did not do anything to 3A except rob their biggest 16 schools for 4A. How that would affect 321A State is their call.
I think this is doable for all 4 classes. Makes 6A and 5A competitive up and down the school list--evens the chances to qualify for state 6a and 5A relative to 4A--a long term legitimate bitch by 4A folks--maybe a bitch also by the 321A folks. Keeps a 4 class/4 state tournament schemme, keeps the state tournaments at 16 man brackets, keeps the State tournaments at a manageable size for a 2 day tournament, and perhaps keeps everything at a manageable size that you could put 654A back into one facility.
Need to drop a lot of wishful proposals (grand state, dual state, combine 6a and 5A, etc) and get behind something that has a chance of being sold to 1) School administrators and 2) to KSHSAA.
If can't get together need to just sit back and continue to bitch! Hasppens every year around State Tournament time.
Last edited by Contrarian; 02/16/12 03:34 PM.
