7A make up

[FBdude]

12 hours ago, Football In MS said:

In these instances there should be an allowance for mileage. If the school doesn’t like the region assigned due to milage & it’s beyond a certain # of miles, then you give them the option to play up a class in a more local region. So then the school has a choice: play in your classification & assigned region… or play up a classification in a smaller radius.

But making regions different sizes within a classification for no reason other than travel is wimpy.

Diesel is at an all time high, some of these programs have to pay for it out of their budget. How big of a budget you guys think a 2A basketball, baseball, or softball program has?? Districts should make sense from a travel prospective. I mean what matters is the student athlete… right??

[Rebel Bert]

1A 34 schools all but 2 make the playoffs. 

2A Region 7 should be 6 schools and then a 4 school region in the south.

3A St Andrew's or Pisgah should go north and Yazoo County stay north. Maybe a 6/5/4/4/6/5/5/5 set up.

4A I would say its about right.

[MSSportsGuy]

6 hours ago, FBdude said:

Diesel is at an all time high, some of these programs have to pay for it out of their budget. How big of a budget you guys think a 2A basketball, baseball, or softball program has?? Districts should make sense from a travel prospective. I mean what matters is the student athlete… right??

The association has been far too rigid about region placement or even class placement when a small modification would help travel for everyone involved. If a school wanted to play up or down if there is a miniscule difference in travel, then what's the big deal? I get the fairness aspect but it's unfair to the kids and schools to have regularly long bus trips on weeknights when it would help everyone.

 

Of course the association does very little that makes sense. (7 classes.......)

[Football In MS]

7 hours ago, FBdude said:

Diesel is at an all time high, some of these programs have to pay for it out of their budget. How big of a budget you guys think a 2A basketball, baseball, or softball program has?? Districts should make sense from a travel prospective. I mean what matters is the student athlete… right??

Exactly why I suggest to let the school choose from the options I suggested:

- stay close to home for the sake of $ and have the students play up a division 

- play within your fairly assigned competitive region assigned based on geography and enrollment 

[Football In MS]

1 hour ago, MSSportsGuy said:

The association has been far too rigid about region placement or even class placement when a small modification would help travel for everyone involved. If a school wanted to play up or down if there is a miniscule difference in travel, then what's the big deal? I get the fairness aspect but it's unfair to the kids and schools to have regularly long bus trips on weeknights when it would help everyone.

 

Of course the association does very little that makes sense. (7 classes.......)

Yep. 5 regions (6 at most) is plenty for many reasons - including geography.

7A schools have to make long bus trips all the time. And always have. But we all know that it is what it is when it comes to sports. This is what you sign up for as a student athlete. Is it always easy? No. Does it teach valuable life lessons? Absolutely.

[Dubaction]

Region 2 and Region 3 should all schedule each other to make up for the lost 7A game 

[Football In MS]

9 hours ago, pancho said:

Then the same thought pattern should be applied to other regions and classes.  The MHSAA claims a blanket and even approach that is fair to all but in reality they just twist in the wind.

Other regions and classes are larger, thus less spread out in general 

[pancho]

4 minutes ago, Football In MS said:

Other regions and classes are larger, thus less spread out in general 

Large region but less spread out?   I assumed less spread out was the opposite of a large region.