CocoaFranco

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.. 
 

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.. 
 

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.. 
 

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.. 
 

Imagine this: Let's say a really good program has been coming close but hasn't won a championship in their respective class yet. Then finally they got the team that just might win it, but by chance the computer ranks then 32 in the state. I for one would find that unfair. Especially if my team was 5a or 4a.

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 

Yes this is the exact problem I have with this proposed open division.  As usual the FSHAA fixes something by proposing an even worse solution.  They are avoiding the root cause of all issues and that is recruiting/transfers.  It seems simple enough to separate school choice from athletics such that anyone is free to transfer for academics but they must sit out a year of athletics unless they moved to that school zone?  This doesn't solve the private school unfairness but just throw them into their own athletic association and be done with it.  Screw em.