Where are you getting 83 schools?
The language says non-boundaried schools, which technically includes CPS schools but CPS schools aren't multiplied
I gave you a link earlier in this thread to an IHSA page where you can find the pool of football schools that are eligible for the waiver. Here it is again:
Pool of schools eligible for the waiver in football
Go to that page. Find the FB column. The green cells denote schools eligible to apply for a waiver of the multiplier. Count the green cells in the FB column. I counted 83, but didn't double check it.
You obviously need a primer on public schools in Chicago and how the multiplier impacts some of them because you are operating under some incorrect assumptions.
First of all, stop saying CPS schools. Not all public schools in Chicago are CPS. There are dozens of public charter schools that are part of their own networks and that fall outside of CPS budgeting and administration. This is why I have been calling them public schools in Chicago and not CPS.
Secondly, all Chicago public charter schools can draw kids from anywhere in the city. Those public charter schools are non-boundaried and they are, indeed, subject to the multiplier. MOST of those charter schools also happen to be waiver eligible due to a lack of a single playoff win in the last three years.
Lastly, SOME non-charter CPS schools are not neighborhood schools with defined enrollment areas, which is to say that they are non-boundaried AND subject to the multiplier. Schools like that are Simeon, Whitney Young, Westinghouse, Payton, Lane, Agricultural Science, etc. Most also happen to be waiver eligible.
Link below is a list of schools and where they stand in terms of multiplier waiver eligibility. Note that it says that with the waiver it does not guarantee a change in class. I chose a private and a non-boundary team as examples. St. Pat's last made the playoffs in 2021 and were in 5A. They are eligible for the waiver this year and should they make the playoffs they would still be 5A, so there's no point in them applying for the waiver. Chicago (Brooks) also last made the playoffs in 2021 and were 5A and would be 5A if they made the playoffs again this year.
Where are you seeing the actual classifications in football such that you are able to make these statements? The IHSA says that football classifications aren't determined until right before the playoffs. "Football is not included on this chart, since those classifications are only determined at the end of the regular season."
In football, there are some
very rare occurrences of multiplied schools not getting bumped up to a higher class. Sometimes, in cases where a non-boundaried school has an actual enrollment that places them towards the upper end of the enrollment range of a classification, that school was bumped up TWO classes from their actual enrollment class. To my knowledge, the only football schools that have been subject to the 1.65 multiplier and did not get bumped up at least one class are the very smallest non-boundaried qualifiers in 1A and the non-boundaried qualifiers that found themselves in 8A by virtue of their actual enrollment. Those occurrences are true outliers.
That kills your argument that there would be 83 teams applying for a waiver. If a schools knows that no matter how the ball bounces that they would firmly be in a specific class should they make the playoffs then there's no point in them applying for the waiver.
Again, that happens once in a blue moon. My argument is more than substantially accurate.
The waiver deadline to petition up is September 1. I would not be surprised if the multiplier waiver deadline is the same.
Perhaps. Would have been nice if the IHSA had said up front when the waiver deadline would be.
Would also have been nice if the IHSA said who on its staff is voting on the waiver applications. Here is what the announcement says about that: "The IHSA staff will review each waiver request with the school name removed and vote to approve or deny. A simple majority vote will determine the result. The IHSA Board will review the staff votes and have the discretion to change them."
Looks like there is some sort of staff committee that will be created for this purpose. I'd like to know who is on it.
Not providing a deadline and not stating who is on that committee makes me wonder if the IHSA is flying by the seat of its pants on this one.
There are going to be multiple IHSA staff members reviewing all the applications and voting yea or nay on them. That, plus all the work from the applicant schools, plus the IHSA board review of the IHSA staff votes, creates a wasteful totality of work to determine something that actual regular season performance would substantially accomplish on its own. There will be years when NO waiver eligible schools qualify for the playoffs, yet the process is going to happen anyway. Can't be any more inefficient than that.
