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Just wait a couple of years. More schools keep leaving fhsaa they'll have their 8 team open division because that'll be all that's left.

I bet economics has something to do with it. Where are the new homes being built?

Most of these don't surprise me. Champagnet Catholic however was a state power house. What made them shut down?

Where's Silver King at? Reckon them Charlotte Boys better get things fixed and quick or else they become another has been. A few more down years and Charlotte might be thinking SSAA. But SSAA requires approval letters from other member schools. Desoto and Lemon Bay gotta be smiling at that.

Like most institutions, it's about preserve the status quo.

More than a few of these "rogue renegades who win at all costs" have done so at the expense of some once really good programs. Once they get a taste of their own medicine they will be the loudest wanting reform to the transfer policies of FHSAA. Some might even want in SSAA, to which I say no.

Hardee, Desoto, Okeechobee have been forced to play up a class in football for years. This is because of the large migrant farm worker population that's here in the fall and gone by spring. FHSAA says we have to count them. Because the leave as soon as the oranges get picked, they're counted as drop outs, which is why we have a high drop out rate. We've been fighting this for decades.

FHSAA might have to combine rural with 1A just to have enough schools to call it a class.

It's the free market at work

So according to Corey Davis's tweet last night, the SSAA Atlantic division is now up to 41! I was told a public school in Jacksonville wanted to join SSAA but the Duval County School Board blocked them from doing so. Such a shame in my opinion. As the SSAA grows, if a significant number of large public schools enter such as the above mentioned Broward schools or the Miami or Orlando area conferences, perhaps the SSAA should create a metro division.

IMG outta be in this open division. But then the rest would want out.

Awesome!

SSAA tweeted on X that Belen Jesuit has joined. IdK, maybe that Miami conference Nolebull told me about will join.

I see more schools leaving FHSAA for SSAA. FHSAA might have some one team districts.

Looking around at some programs I know of who typically are considered bad, I notice a few had winning seasons this year and/or last year, and even made the playoffs. They didn't need to be relegated down to find success. They got better on their on. Also, you and I both know FHSAA ability to take a system and make it worse. There's some really good programs who aren't quite "elite ". Consistent winning seasons and playoff appearances but don't quite win a championship. Those would be punished under a system that moves them up.