No more Rye Cove rule?

**imported_Counts** · March 7th, 2007, 04:22 PM

LOL yep but it makes to much since so the VHSL will never go for it LOL

**Canon** · March 7th, 2007, 07:09 PM

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I dunno what you are talkin about honestly I don't care. And btw Ihave been to small schools and I have been to bigger schools. student pupil count has no affect on teh sports, there are still the same number of players on each team. And the fact that there are not any states around us that have Divisions. divisions do u no good. Norton has beat plenty of Division 2 schools with ease. So I don't see how a school that has 182 students playin against schools with 482 students is different than in division 2 where we have 395 pupils playin against schools that can have a enrollment anywhere up to 695 students. It makes no sense to have divisions that is all i am sayin.

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That's the biggest load of crap I've read on here. Just because you have one or two teams from smaller schools that are successful doesn't magically put schools with <300 kids on the same level as schools with 500+ schools. In football for example, for every Burton you've got pretty much EVERY Cumberland District team, most BDD teams, and the bottom half of the LPD.

When a school has more people, athletics have a bigger pool of people to draw from. Now, you have to admit, certain kids are just naturally talented in certain sports, and when you have more people to draw from, you've usually got more talent to draw from. Then, take in injuries. If you're on a team that barely has enough people to play, what happens if someone gets hurt? You're screwed. Schools with more people have an advantage over schools with less people. They have a deeper talent pool and more MONEY AND RESOURCES to get kids interested, playing, and better.

**kmccall** · March 7th, 2007, 08:23 PM

Example: Va. High plays Charlottesville in the Girls Semi's Friday. Va. High enrollement 606 vs Char.1140. Which school would have a easier time finding 10 good players for their team? You can but not year in and year out. With larger schools it is more consistent.

**imported_Coach** · March 7th, 2007, 10:38 PM

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If they can have it at VA High then why the hell can't we(Thomas Walker) host it???? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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your gym is not nice enough.

**imported_Coach** · March 7th, 2007, 10:43 PM

there's never going to be a fair system for every school in va. but, 5-6 classifications would certainly help close the gap.

**imported_PioneerBlue** · March 8th, 2007, 12:36 AM

Then obviously you've never seen our gym moron. It's nicer than Clinchco or Clintwood [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

**imported_PioneerBlue** · March 8th, 2007, 12:43 AM

What are you talkin about dude?? Texas has a 5A system plus in football they have 2 divisions in each class except single A, and they may have it in single A too. So that means there's at least 9 state champions. Friday Night Lights is a bunch of crap btw, they talk about being from a small town and all that but they're a freakin 5A school so how small can the town be??

**imported_PioneerBlue** · March 8th, 2007, 12:46 AM

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That or split schools into 6 equil parts based on enrollment and do not allow schools to play up or down but allow for mixed districts so rivory games still mean something

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I like the Tennessee system. 5A in football, and 3A in everything else. Basically single A football teams are single A in every other sport, 2A and 3A football teams are 2A in every other sport, and 4A and 5A football teams are 3A in every other sport.

**imported_hhstigerfan** · March 8th, 2007, 12:51 AM

Only thing I don't like about Tenn. system is that they only split basketball, baseball, and softball into three classes and everything else in two.

**imported_PioneerBlue** · March 8th, 2007, 01:01 AM

Yeah, that is a little silly. IMO it would be a good system if everything was split into 3 divisions and then football into 5. Only thing about that is, you have some schools, and sorry if you guys have no clue who I am talking about but I am more familiar with Knoxville schools than the Tri Cities, Maryville Heritage is class 5A with an enrollment of around 1400, then you have Knox Farragut also 5A with nearly 2500 students. IMO it would be even better like this, 6A in football then every other sport, A and 2A are A, 3A and 4A are AA, and 5A and 6A are AAA.