Football playoff proposal earns endorsement vote from Athletic Directors Advisory Committee

[Joshua Wilson]

I don't think so.  Most of the independents are private schools that otherwise would be in 2a.  

 

Moore Haven I believe is the only public school in 2a and basically didn't want to play in 1a-8.  While Pahokee is in their geographic area, the rest of that district isn't.   Also, many of the 1a-4a schools in an area try to play each other anyways but due to district conflict, can't always:  Example:  Fort Meade (1a) & Avon Park (4a).  Typically they play one another but because they have long distant district games that are mandatory, some years they can't.  With the new rules they would have the flexibility to do so.  

 

Most of the independents would fall 2A or 3A.

 

Moore Haven could be moved to 1A for playoff purposes under this and qualify under that, but never have to touch playing a 1A team on the schedule period. I think this benefits them a lot to be honest. 

 

A lot of rivalry games will remain with this.

 

Frank Beasley scrapping the bonus points was a good thing...taking that out made things a lot better and makes that classification number insignificant for the regular season.

[Hwy17]

Josh,

 

Do you see them making 2a and 3a as private and 1a and 4a as public?  In other words, Bishop Verot, etc in 4a drop down to 3a; Moore Haven goes to 1a. 

[Sharkbait]

I think this is a mess. You had better hope the 1A through 4A school you root for makes the playoffs this year because next year 10 and 0 may not get you in if your schedule( which a lot of teams are already committed to games) has oppononets fall on hard times.  In 1A one large  employer having layoffs can wipe out a team and we none have a crystal ball to see it coming. With districts you at least know what you have to do.  If this is so great then why doesn't 5A and up do it?

[blackmagic]

If they limit 1a with a number of total schools, I am all for it. Not like I have a choice anyway. I dont think 600 students should determine 1a, especially since they let schools over 600 in. Should pick a number like 36 and let the bottom 36 in enrollment in and everyone else up. Think we have 39 schools in right now.

[Joshua Wilson]

Baby steps folks! The FHSAA can only do so much at once. They threw entire house of changes at what is wrong with football now they would get nowhere fast! Plus, if my memory recalls correctly, the FHSAA plans to look everything after the first two years and decide if they need to make a change and move to one format for all or to the rest. They are going by designing this for what the members schools said they wanted through the survey.