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Will MSHSAA Get Girls District Right

mohsbballfan

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Feb 23, 2016
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I think classifications and districts are set to come out in three or four weeks. Do you think that MSHSAA will make the logical decision to draw up district maps for the girls side first, copy that over to the boys side, and adjust accordingly or will they once again have all the boys districts with roughly the same number of teams while the girls side has some districts with eight teams and other districts with one.

Last year's classes and district sizes:
Class 1 girls- 14 districts with six or seven teams, 1 district with one team, 1 district with two teams
Class 2 girls- 7 districts with six teams, 5 with seven teams, 2 with five teams, 1 with eight teams, 1 with four teams
Class 3 girls- 11 districts with six teams, 3 districts with seven teams, 2 districts with five teams
Class 4 girls- 13 districts with five or six teams, 2 districts with four teams, 1 district with seven teams
Class 5 girls- 13 districts with four or five teams, 2 districts with three teams, 1 district with six
Class 6 girls- 9 districts with four teams, 6 districts with five teams, 1 district with three teams

Classes 3 and 6 are decent, could be balanced a little better, but it's at least a decent balance. The other classes are honestly just ridiculous. Travel is not an issue if some thought is put into creating the districts, so I'm not sure why they can't do a better job at this. Hopefully they'll decide to show a little respect in how they handle the girls side, but I'm not holding my breath. Come on MSHSAA, surprise us.
 
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I expect everything to be similar. They will draw the boys district and piece together the girls. The simple fix would be to draw each (B/G) out separately and not worry so much about both sides of each school in the same district.
 
I expect everything to be similar. They will draw the boys district and piece together the girls. The simple fix would be to draw each (B/G) out separately and not worry so much about both sides of each school in the same district.
Agree 100%. That is a simple fix. There are enough schools in every class to do that.
 
At the fall meetings this topi was discussed. If I remember correctly the bylaws determine the way districts are set. They are soliciting opinions from their membership to see if they want it changed for next year.
 
This season they are requiring Girls games on Saturday-Tuesday-Friday and Boys games on Monday-Thursday-Saturday. That way even if boys and girls are in different districts, they won’t overlap. They already have private schools in different districts based on success factor. I think it makes sense to have some schools in different districts.
 
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