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Post by exqbturnedcoach on Mar 3, 2012 13:34:44 GMT -6
If the UIL creates a 6A do you think they should still have Division 1 and Division 2 champions in each class? I heard the number of new school openings is almost making the 6A decision inevitable.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Mar 3, 2012 18:06:38 GMT -6
Well, I guess I can have it or leave it. From what I read a while back, the number for 6a would be somewhere around 2500 or so, give or take. So, you still could have a 'small' 6a team with say 2501 playing somebody like Plano or Plano E with 5500 or even 6000 kids. Heck, Allen in that same district has over 5K students and could possibly end up in 5a D2 right now if both P and PE make the playoffs.
Even with a 6a there could still be matchups of schools where one has 50% more kids then the other.
It is nice seeing more schools get a chance to make the playoffs and do something but at the same time there are some districts that do not produce 2 legit playoff teams much less 4. Then, there are some powerhouse districts that have 1 or more teams that stay home each year the would win some of the weaker districts! I guess there is just no easy answer, at least on my side of looking at it.
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Post by urbuddha on Mar 4, 2012 2:33:37 GMT -6
It seems so unfair to the kids that a district would even allow a school's population to swell to that degree without creating another school or two. A smaller enrollment usually gives a better student to teacher ratio and the kids have a greater chance at being part of the football team,band,pep squad, etc.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Mar 5, 2012 6:55:55 GMT -6
I agree completely urbuddha! I sat next to a guy up at the SC games this past year in Jerry's World and he showed me a video clip of the Allen band. Holy Moses! I think he said that they marched over 600 kids. It was insane. I've seen the Aggie and Longhorn bands take the field and the Allen Eagle HS band literally dwarfs them both.
I simply cannot imagine these high schools with more kids per class then the entire school I went to. Clemens had about 1100 or so when I was there and our class graduated about 216. I knew every Sr & Jr in the school by name and a ton of the Freshman and sophomores. Just crazy to think of a class with 1500+ in it.
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Post by acatfan on Mar 9, 2012 17:23:40 GMT -6
A cutoff of 2500 for 6A would not work. Looking at the "rank order" chart on the UIL site from the last realignment there would only be about 145 schools in 6A or about 4.5 per district. More likely the UIL would try to put about 1/6th of the total schools (which was about 1311 if I counted right) into 6A which would make the cutoff around 2200.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Mar 10, 2012 21:55:09 GMT -6
A cutoff of 2500 for 6A would not work. Looking at the "rank order" chart on the UIL site from the last realignment there would only be about 145 schools in 6A or about 4.5 per district. More likely the UIL would try to put about 1/6th of the total schools (which was about 1311 if I counted right) into 6A which would make the cutoff around 2200. 1300 schools in 6a?
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Post by blastoderm55 on Mar 10, 2012 22:32:40 GMT -6
Um, aren't there only 1300 public schools in Texas?
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Post by johnnyduval on Mar 11, 2012 10:26:04 GMT -6
Um, aren't there only 1300 public schools in Texas? That's what he said right? 1311 schools? It you take 1/6 that would be approximately 220 schools in the 6A rank. Unless I'm reading wrong?
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