How do they have boy and girls at the same school in different classes when your class is determined by enrollment numbers?Do they have someone on the committees?
Yeah, it wasn't that long ago that a couple of Class 1 districts in SEMO only had 1 or 2 teams.
Because the cutoff is determined by number of schools playing the sport. Therefore cutoff by class is different between boys and girls.
Correct and there are a different number of all girls schools than all boys schools.
Strafford boys went to class 4 but girls stayed class 3, I think they would have rather been class 4
Add in the private schools moving up and down due to success factor will make teams do that as well. I think California boys and girls are in different classes as well.
Ok someone explain to me how the P.B. girls are class 6 and the boys are in class 5. That can't have anything to do with how many schools have teams for both boys and and girls.
Because they no longer put all the boys and girls schools in the same district and the same classes which resulted in some smaller classes having districts with 1 and 2 teams in it. Now the boys are divided separately into classes and the girls are divided into their own classes. Which means that each year there are going to be schools that have one team in a class and another team in a lower class. Thayer is like that this year. Girls are class 2 and boys are class 3.
The P.B. girls and boys didn't play in the same district last but they were both still in the same class. This makes absolutely NO sense. Seems to me if they were trying to fix the small schools not having enough teams they would drop the girls to only 5 classes so there would be more in the smallest classes, not move a class 5 to class 6. How does that help the problem of 2 team districts?
OK so why now, they never have before? What purpose does it serve? Not asking because P.B. girls going to a higher class is gonna make any difference in the P.B. girls success or or failures, I just find it very strange.
I just said they could help that if they drop to 5 classes for girls instead of pushing some to class 6. I don't see how that helps the problem in the lower classes. That should change the numbers for schools in the smaller classes so they would have more schools in class 1 and 2.
They have been in the same class for as long as I can remember and I've been around a LONG time. Again I ask why now?
I've never said it does, but it happens to be where I live. I'm talking about all of girls basketball, and boys for that matter. Whatever happens will have very little affect on the P.B. girls season, not likely they could win a class 3 district right now and I don't know when it's gonna get any better but that doesn't mean that MSHSAA should screw around with classes and districts when what they're doing doesn't make anything better for anyone? You're such a smart guy maybe you can tell me how ANY of what they're doing helps the issues in class 1 and 2.
That is an easy one. It helps because they have districts with a full group of teams intead of districts with 1 or 2 teams in them. Clearly it makes it hard for a few places. But no system is perfect. Having a district with 1 or 2 teams in it is just downright dumb.
How does moving teams up a class help the class 1 and 2 have more teams in a district? Thee fore my suggestion to eliminate the top class could hep have more teams in smaller classes.
