Beginning with the 2018-2019 high school football season.........

[Scout 4u]

Think Orrick. They dominated a couple years........would have been penalized........but couldn't even be competitive in class 1 after that group graduated. That penalty would have been so devastating to the kids that came after that group. It's easy to say Valle needs to play up but the rule just doesn't work. If you must implement something like the success multiplier, it needs to have a broader spectrum of success involved than a couple yrs.

You are a wise man millerbleach...

 

[BoosterBosko]

There is a really simple fix to all of this. After a few successful seasons, just blow a big game or two. Have a nice regular season, then lose deep in the playoffs. Its easy to do. Just run the ball, deep in your own end zone and fumble as time expires. I know at least one coach on here that knows a thing or two about losing big games.

 

[LHSTiger81]

Success multiplier is stupid, period.

 

[Mitsurugi san]

If the success multiplier is applied does it mean that the alums responsible for the success are allowed to come back and play the next year. So the 1993 Webb City, 2003 Kearney team or 2011 Logan Rogersville teams all would have been bumped up. That would have worked so well since you know how dominant that 94 WC, 04 Kearney and 12 LR teams were.

I feel like this post went largely unoticed (probably because of the equally valid point someone made shortly after this post about the punishment for Class 5 and 6 schools being less or nonexistent since they have fewer classes to move up, or nowhere to move up in Class 6...)

...but Frog makes a great point here: This new rule punishes not the classes of athletes who accomplished the feat of making it to so many championship games in four years, but instead punishes the classes that follow them. Now maybe that doesn't hurt the schools who reload every year, but it absolutely kills those schools that are just lucky enough to have one amazing class of athletes a generation that happens to take them to two championships in their four year stint.

Like most rules designed by various governing bodies to "help the less privileged", this rule only serves to hurt those it seeks to help (just let competition be competition).

BTW, Frog: I think yours is the very first post I've ever "liked" on this site (because apparently that matters now).

 

[Mitsurugi san]

And by "class of athletes", I mean graduating class ("class" can mean too many things in this discussion)

 

[MoSooner69]

I feel like this post went largely unoticed (probably because of the equally valid point someone made shortly after this post about the punishment for Class 5 and 6 schools being less or nonexistent since they have fewer classes to move up, or nowhere to move up in Class 6...)

...but Frog makes a great point here: This new rule punishes not the classes of athletes who accomplished the feat of making it to so many championship games in four years, but instead punishes the classes that follow them. Now maybe that doesn't hurt the schools who reload every year, but it absolutely kills those schools that are just lucky enough to have one amazing class of athletes a generation that happens to take them to two championships in their four year stint.

Like most rules designed by various governing bodies to "help the less privileged", this rule only serves to hurt those it seeks to help (just let competition be competition).

BTW, Frog: I think yours is the very first post I've ever "liked" on this site (because apparently that matters now).

exactly the point I was making with my post about a Class 1 school.

 

[Mitsurugi san]

So under this.. Lamar would be Class 5? Whether its Webb, Lamar, Valle, or whoever... not sure a school should be penalized for success... What about a little class one school that happens to have a great athletic class come through once in a decade and happens to make two championship games?... They would have to play Class 3 perhaps after the great class was gone and they are back down to an "average" class 1 school talentwise..

And thus you get my second like!

It doesn't even have to that pronounced; consider Cassville: Only a couple years after winning their second state title in two years and they were struggling to stay above .500 in Class 3 (and have been ever since); they'd get battered in Class 5!

This is so stupid!