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Post by coachddwebb on Nov 3, 2017 13:59:33 GMT -6
How often does your state do conference alignment and what do they use to base it on? In Arizona they do it every two years and they have gone back and forth using sport participation and school enrollment the lasts 4 years.
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Post by agap on Nov 3, 2017 15:36:24 GMT -6
Every 2 years
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Post by freezeoption on Nov 3, 2017 16:28:39 GMT -6
in our state conference is always set, doesn't change unless you leave the conference, districts is what changes and starting next year that will change every year
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Post by coachwoodall on Nov 4, 2017 10:13:46 GMT -6
Every 2 years
By school enrollment (135 ADM)
By geography
There is an appeal process, but you have to present a plan, it has to work for every school it affects, all schools must be in agreement with the plan.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2017 10:22:21 GMT -6
How often does your state do conference alignment and what do they use to base it on? In Arizona they do it every two years and they have gone back and forth using sport participation and school enrollment the lasts 4 years. We've switched around from every 2, to every 3, and now every 4 years. We've had 4 different plans for how to do this in the past 10 years. It's been a mess. I believe a few sports like bowling and cross country are divided into 2 classes. Now they take the enrollment for each school and divide the public schools and privates playing in the public league into 6 even classes for football and 3 for basketball (basically the 2 smallest, middle, and largest football school classes are combined to get 3 basketball classes, but the conference affiliations for other sports will vary). Then they divide those football classes into 8 conferences based on geography. The top 4 teams in each conference get a playoff spot. The reason for this is to get a playoff bracket guaranteeing 32 games per class because the state association wants money. A few years ago we had a format where we had 3 classes for regular season conferences being split into 6 for the postseason (and kept the same for basketball and other sports), with a complex BCS-style points system used to determine who made it into the football playoffs. That got scrapped after the state screwed the math up 2 years in a row and teams had a hard time knowing what they needed to do to make it in. It's weird because you get some 4 team conferences where everyone is guaranteed a playoff spot and others with only 5 or 6 teams where 1-9 or 2-8 will get you in, while there are some that have 9 teams and will leave a 6-4 team or 5-5 team sitting at home. You also have some conferences, especially in the largest or smallest classes, where each school is 1-3 hours away from its other conference opponents. Last year a 1-9 team quit rather than make the 2.5 hour bus ride to go play the #1 seeded team from the next conference. Schools can ask to move up a class at that time when the conferences are being drawn, or to possibly request a specific conference affiliation at that time, but that's the only time they can move. Teams can't go down unless enrollment drops, so the final classes aren't exactly even. A lot of good football schools who would have been 4A asked to play up in 5A to save on travel expenses and preserve local and traditional rivalries. |
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