CocoaFranco

let's reward the programs that have kids transfer out? Poll students about why they transfer its typically the school they are coming from doesn't support football, likely have a revolving door of coaches, runs a system that the player doesnt fit in... everyone wants to act like these kids are being recruited to leave... they aren't... they are leaving for their best opportunity.

Open 32 is the most ridiculous proposal we have come up with. If you support it, you do not understand high school football. Forcing the top 32 teams to compete for one state championship actually takes away the opportunity from many teams that could have won their classification but could never even make it past the 2nd round in an open 32. We care about competitive balance now? For years while public schools couldn't get transfers we watched private schools dominate every sport and every classification. This isnt that hard... Make all transfers count as 1.5 students All private schools go to 1.5 for every student. Get rid of rural... we cant say rural needs their own class if we put metro and suburban together. or hey don't change anything this past year's metro suburban state championships were the closest games in recent history..

sit out a year for transferring? that's insane... you cannot penalize a student because he's transferring to another program. maybe the school he is zoned for is on their 4th head coach in 5 years and runs the wing T and hes a pocket QB.... just weight transfers as 1.5 students

Here is my take. if you dont like reading jump to bullet 5 and 6 1) If we are justifying keeping rural because of population density then we need to lay out why we are moving away from suburban and metro. According to the FHSAA justification on metro suburban a couple years ago, from 2011-2021 metro teams won 89% of state titles (excluding rural). 2) If enrollment is the key metric in determining classifications, we need to scrutinize how we count students. My opinion all students zoned for a high school count as 1 person, all students not zoned for a hs they are attending should count as 1.5 people. All students outside of a prescribed distance from a private school should count as 1.5 persons. The prescribed distance should be the average radius of public school zones in that private schools county. 3) If we elect to have an open division it should be 4 teams only. For instance, if the season ended today according to the FHSAA rankings it would be Chaminade (1M), Cocoa (2S), Mainland (3S), and Miami Norland (2M). If we went by Max Preps (more realistic algorithm right now) it would be Chaminade (1M), Cocoa (2S), STA (3M), and Heritage Plantation (2M). In both of those scenarios it potentially allows someone else to win that classification. (1M, 2M, 2S, 2M, 3S, 3M). Anything more than 4 waters down winning a state championship in the other classifications. 4) Addressing public and private seems to get people more emotional than metro suburban and the argument for pro private is open enrolment. Well that's not entirely the case. Many schools are not "open" due to capacity and very few public schools have the facilities like their private school counterparts. 5) Did metro suburban work in creating a more competitive state series. Its pretty hard to argue it didn't. However, I believe there is a better way to break it up. 4S Lakeland vs Venice (21-14) Public vs Public 4M Columbos vs Apopka (16-13) Private vs Public 3S Mainland vs Lake Wales (32-30) Public vs Public 3M STA vs Homestad (38-21) Private vs Public 2S Cocoa vs FSU High (38-31) Public vs Private 2M Miami Central vs AH Plantation (38-31) Public vs Private 1S FBA vs Trinity Catholic (21-3) Private vs Private 1M Chaminade vs CCC (48-14) Private vs Private 1R Hawthrone vs Northview (13-2) Public vs Public 5 Public and 4 Private schools won… 6) my suggestion for next year - top 4 teams play in the open division called "The Open" - Combine 1S and 1R into one class called "1A" -Take 1M and 2S make it one class called "2A" - Take 2M and 3S and make it one class called "3A" - Take 3M and smaller half or 4S and make it one class called "4A" -Take 4M and larger half of 4S and make it one class called "5A" That gives us 6 classifications... send it to the director.