There is no "fair" multiplier. Schools that recruit need a higher multiplier. Private schools that are in or near decent school districts and pick up a lot of borderline athletes from the public schools that come for playing time need a multiplier (probably not 1.5?). Schools that are just serving as the only decent option in their area do not need a multiplier if they don't recruit. Hell, they might need a multiplier that's less than one.
Have to agree with the mask-wielding enunciator here. I don't think this is to entice MAIS teams. 1.5 is pretty high, nationally (I think). I think TN is 1.8 but they've had lots of problems too.
Is a MAIS championship really a championship though?
no. not then, not now, not ever.
I wonder if this will make the Catholic schools possibly return.
I can't believe it's still open. Just a few years ago they only had 250 kids total from K3 - 12th.
This is ultimately why all this shlt can’t co-exist. I wish it could but it can’t.
Well you can always start them off that way, if you’re willing to pay. If your kid is an elite athlete, they will be found and have numerous opportunities at many schools.
...but not having a multiplier doesn't keep them from recruiting.
What does it matter who the governing body is? Problem still isn't solved, and the problem is how to district and determine a champion.
I think you just have to regroup every few years based on a rolling average of performance. Private schools that consistently recruit will get pushed above their size. Private schools that don't will not. You could do it for all schools (although that would occasionally screw smaller schools that just have a good stretch of athletes) or you could do it just for private schools, although that would effectively push some public schools up or down to make room for private schools.
That's what shocks me about the situation at JA. You've got parents that might be paying $48k a year for three kids in jr. High and High school largely to get them away from the issues of Jackson public schools, and then not only do you go out of your way to import burglars, you pay them to come there? Just wild to me that you didn't have parents camped out at the school after that.
Yeah I think PCS was banking on the Mendenhall, Magee, Seminary district and ended up with the coast.
Yea, as far as I know, it historically was basically just MRA doing it with any real consistency. You'd occasionally have a coach that went out for players, but you didn't have boosters that were consistently willing to pay other people's tuition. You might have one here or there pay for a kids friend/teammate outside of school sports, but if anyone was doing it consistently, they weren't making enough of a difference for people outside of their local area to know about it. Even now, I'm not sure it's happening much outside of MRA, JA, and I guess Hartfield. OTher than those, I think the recruiting is more "wooing". Coaches and parents making them feel welcome and wanted, but not actually throwing money at them.
Yea, I think the public v private cuts both ways in competition. Public schools are generally going to have access to better athletes if the private school isn't recruiting, but the private schools aren't going to lose very many good athletes because of poor home environments like a lot of (most?) public schools do. I had a coach from a not poorly thought of school district tell me there was more raw talent walking through his halls whose home environment and upbringing left them unable/unwilling to do the minimum things required to play football (e.g., show up to practice even when they feel like it, not talk back to the coach, etc) than he had on his team. It surprised me because it wasn't JPS we were talking about, and I also thought playing football would be so desirable that even most of the roughest thugs would try to do it if they thought they could get playing time.
The bottom portion is exactly what I have seen in the private vs public football games. The public school will have FAR better athletes, but the private plays MUCH better as a team.
The only thing wrong with the MHSAA system is too many private schools, and too many classes. We need to go back to 5.
Fear of retribution. That’s what the world has come to and no group is better for it.
Pretty sure one family had their kid kicked out of JA because they complained.
Yeah there’s been some pushback for sure. Who ultimately won that battle? Seems to have faded into the sunset.
Nah, 7A would kill most of the 5As. Not 100% across the board so don’t give me the exception to the rule. But overall it’s not fair which is why they created 7A. The exponential curve on the graph is telling.
