Without specific language....travel/outside organizations will take over even more than they have. These outside travel/leagues shouldn't run simultaneously as the high school seasons. If the thought is that a kid will do both....you're dilusional. This will especially create conflict in...
Putting lipstick on a pig. You can do all you want to try to make 2 different systems of obtaining athletes more equitable.....won't matter. IHSA is a joke.
The data that's been shared throughout the state paints a pretty clear picture. 49 Private schools with 11 man football. 471 public. Privates make up 10% of the playoff field (again since 2001) but have one 39% of the championships and have won 71% of the playoff matchups (since 2001). I...
1. Seed all classes 1-32. There was a proposal by committee that if round 1 of the playoffs the distance was within 150 miles total of the distance traveled even if divided between a north/south....then it was seeded 1-32. In some years....there is more travel round 1 with a North/South split...
The argument goes long before Antioch posting the football information. Parents from soccer were complaining a couple of years ago when is was private champions throughout. I understand this site is private school dominate, but objectively you can't deny it. You can go ahead and post the...
Ramblin. You don't have to believe me...you wouldn't anyway. "Some" is 2 that I know of. Not naming any schools. This thread has moved onto even deeper issues with some private schools and I'm not going that route. There's a ton of private school guys on this site. You can pose the issue...
Ramblin. I'm not posting the names of the players or schools where this has happened and is currently happening and you sure can call me out on that. You can feel comfort that this isn't happening in these private schools, but even those coaching and working at private schools can tell you...
Well it's not about a single round game from a single team, obviously. All of this discussion isn't about a single round. It's over many years. And you've made my point for me. Public schools like Maine East and Maine South (although maybe Maine South isn't the best example here) are under...
Ramblin. They all operate under the same parameters correct? They need to recruit better and hit up the donors like the others. If we separated and then included all 49 privates into a playoff....would that be better?
The 30 mile radius system schools really have 2 levels within that. Ramblinman is correct. Within the 49 teams.....really the ESCC and CCL teams are the ones that a fixed muliplier should pertain to. Your really small private schools aren't really part of this issue in football. Can't speak...
Ahhhh. Now a discussion I like. Let me preface, I have not, researched enough. Any other states handle this issue in a way that most would agree with? Should we be looking at another state that handles this correctly? I don't know if anyone here has brought up a model in another state that...