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So 9-1 teams should have to travel to 4-6 teams they already beat during the season ON THE ROAD just because "well your on the top of the bracket this year and we don't want to hurt this teams feelings by telling them they didn't actually earn the right to host and are only hosting because we have the creative mindset of a chimpmunk with a bracket that's barely good enough for a middle school playoff much less the high school playoff bracket in THE BEST FOOTBALL STATE IN THE COUNTRY" If a team wants to host they gotta win during the season, in Columbia case (even though Friday proved they were better than Escambia by beating Escambia in Pensacola and should have been the 2 seed) they did travel and win and now are highest seed left and get to play at home

How do these numbers compare to the transparent RPI from last year?

For comparison Columbia in order to come close to matching Miami Central in FBS players would have to get ALL the FBS players in Columbia, Suwannee, Hamilton, Madison, Gilchrist, Baker, Union, Bradford and probably Alachua County to just COME CLOSE to the same level of talent But somehow that means we are on a level playing field when Miami Central has gotten over 20 transfers FIVE STRAIGHT YEARS, most of whom are FBS level players It's not about "competing with good teams" it's about "trying to face teams who actually can play by similar rules" and thanks to the stupid people that keep getting elected at the state level to preserve "privatizing education" and "school choice" YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD with counties of over 1M people Sharing a class with counties of less than 50k It's not realistic, feasible or honest

Polk County has 700k+ people Baker County has 28k people Are you really trying to say Baker County in that 28k county population has 30-40 FBS players to compete with Central? It doesn't matter if they played the top 10 nationally ranked teams for 10 years straight, they will never just get enough jimmy and Joes to suddenly compete with a team that is pulling from the deepest talent pool in the entire country So Jacksonville don't get transfers? I literally proved this a year ago Are you hearing yourself?

Like I said already I would have no problem using metro suburban and turning it into 3 suburban/rural and 3 metro classes

Your the one who whines about blowouts in the state finals every year but can't see that it doesn't matter what system or how many classes or any other change is made will never make Miami Central vs Baker County or Suwannee or Columbia a matchup that has ANY prayer of being competitive

Earned it? How the hell is any team realistically supposed to keep up with teams that can recruit from a county of 3m people? So what you have to hang with a top 5 nationally ranked team who can recruit all of Dade county just to call yourself a champion? What kind of bullshit is that?!!

@181pl Can you name me any private school from a county of less than 100k that can consistently beat decent Florida publics (top 100 in state) on a regular basis and is "taking opportunities away from public schools who would otherwise compete for a title?"

Private schools in rural areas have no specific advantage than anyone else Aucilla Christian doesn't have an advantage over Madison County Splitting privates aren't gonna fix anything because the public schools in SFL and Jacksonville are far worse than any of the privates, Riverside last year got transfers from 3 different counties and 2 transfers from TCA, why should Columbia have to share a district with a team who is cheating just because they are a public school? As for an open division I would be fine with that idea as it may solve most of the problems but it was proposed a few years ago and shot down because get this, top teams don't want to be put in the same class when they could stay in the archaic and out of date classification by enrollment and have Miami Central vs Baker County or Miami Central vs Lake Minneola to pile up easy title wins

Suburban Buchholz 2338 Braden River 1780 Columbia 1739 Baker County 1408 Metro Dillard 1795 Miami Central 1396 Miami Northwestern 1424 Just a few small examples We all know how Miami Central vs Baker County went but if student enrollment truly mattered it would mean both schools have equal ability to get the talent necessary to compete with those teams but when's the last time that was true? The 60s?

As already pointed out if that was the case it would be saying that Suwannee has the same ability to compete for a state title of get the necessary pieces as Miami Central (which is never at capacity and can get kids from throughout Dade County and even from Broward County if a kid wants to find transportation) That logic doesn't hold up and I can list tons of examples if I can figure out where the FHSAA posted the student population numbers

You think because the schools in Hillsborough are at capacity it means that all metros are the same way THEY AREN'T They aren't in SFL and they aren't in Jacksonville. In Jacksonville even before the rules changes there were kids would would use the address of an uncle/cousin or whatever to switch schools and now with open enrollment can pick a school, heck they even have a middle school "school selection day" and had it for years The myth in this case is you thinking that these borders have always been strict and policed well across the state

I'm not saying the current one is perfect but I guarantee you if we kept the previous system nothing we change with reseeding or point system or RPI or MaxPreps would ever fix it We will keep addressing the wrong problem by ignoring the obvious

Okay so merge 1R, 1S, 2S, 3S and 4S into 3 suburban classes Merge 1-4M into 3 metro classes That would be fine with me but the metro counties need to be split from the rural counties

That will never happen as long as the political climate in Florida stays the same because it's the current majority party who made the change The state of Florida and the governor's office already told the FHSAA if they try to do anything to block eligiblity for transfers they will pull the FHSAA funding So unfortunately that option isn't a real option for the FHSAA even if it would make serious progress in fixing it

HOW? HOW THE BLOODY HELL IS A RURAL AREA SUDDENLY GONNA GET 2M people to compete?? Yet you are one of the people who whine about blowouts in state finals well guess what As long as you allow matchups of Miami Central recruiting from 3M of Dade county taking on teams from counties of less than 100k you WILL NEVER AVOID BLOWOUTS At this point you may as well just cancel the rest of the state because why even bother Well you can't compete with a top 10 nationally ranked opponent that can pull from 3M population so your a crap program and you will never be good again, that's exactly what your saying!

In fact In the old system they would have MET IN ROUND 2 So you would have tons of teams advancing to round 3 much weaker than them in the old system Great teams being grouped with great teams tends to do that

That could have happened before Did you forget these 2 shared a district in the mid 2010s? Your attempt there doesn't hold up

Yes that's exactly what I'm saying And as a result of these cheaters you take any chance to try and force these teams together to protect the overall competitive balance of the state The same people who whine about blowouts in the state finals are not realizing this system is trying to address it

But you just admitted that the talent isn't even remotely close to "level" by enrollment like you claimed so you literally just proved WHY they NEEDED TO CHANGE IT

1) players poaching players on other teams during 7v7 2) coaches texting parents who have some "honor code" to not report it 3) coaches hiring parents for the sole purpose of getting their kid to come to them Just off the top of my head

And they have actually done it TWICE in last 20 years nolebullshit Get your facts right!

Well if you don't separate them you basically are just handing these teams titles against teams who can't compete

Exactly my point And since private schools like STA, Chaminade, Cardinal Gibbons, etc are not boarding schools any kid wanting to go there has to provide their own transportation anyway so under the current rules a school like Miami Central has the same ability to recruit as STA which is why it makes sense to separate METROS not PRIVATES

Well Miami Central and Northwestern are no different than any private school in Florida when it comes to having a competitive advantage with open enrollment They can recruit just as easily