Please don’t let this happen

[crazylegs777]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all. If you think Illinois Football is crazy try Tennessee. Don’t let it happen in Illinois. They split public & private schools years ago. Some Public Schools who won state in football say oh we would have beat those Private School champs if we played. Thanks to the split we have 3 watered down classes in private & 6 in public. There are 8 regions in each class & the top 4 go to the playoffs. Some regions have 6,7,8 teams in them & some have 4 so you realistically can have 3-7,2-8,1-9 or 0-10 teams in the playoffs!!! Some teams petition to be put in those 4 team or 5 team regions to level it out but those mostly get declined. Some teams 5-5 or 6-4 get left out. Alcoa is like East St Louis. They are a 2A school playing in 3A & just won their 10th state title in a row. They are now 3A & opting to play 4A. They have a difficult time getting teams to play them. They had to play a team from New York last year & only had 9 games(Tennessee plays 10 game seasons & has a week 0) this year. Bad flooding cancelled games & teams that ended up having a open date would not play them. They play many 6A schools & lose close or beat those teams. If you go on Coach T look up the Milan(starting a separate school for students to keep their enrollment low) & Alcoa threads for one but like I said if you guys think Illinois football is crazy. Oh & trans trying to build up their football programs can play Independent but can’t make the state playoffs. Also if you do a Co-Op they don’t total your enrollment. So a 300 student school combines with a 400 student school it only counts as the host school enrollment 300 not 700 total.

 

[crazylegs777]

2 county schools more than 3 times the size of Alcoa have stopped playing them losing thousands of dollars in $$$$$ because Alcoa is drilling them while other schools move up a class to avoid playing them. What I’m saying is complaints & madness in every state

 

[Alexander32]

It sounds like districts (apparently called regions in Tennessee) are more the problem than the separation of public and private schools.

I remember two or three years ago a contributor to this board, who lived in Tennessee, made several favorable comments about the Tennessee system. As I recall, he liked the fact that privates and publics were separate. I did some online research at the time to see if the two sets of schools ever did play each other occasionally. I soon found out why the regions and playoffs were separate.

Naturally, with regional play and playoffs separate, the only time the two sets of schools could play would be the one or two non-region games the teams were allowed to play each year. As is my usual method, I was looking for games between the two sets of schools when both schools made the playoff semifinals that year, to ensure both schools were top caliber in their respective playoffs. There were only a handful of games that met the criteria over several seasons. In every case the private school won the game by more than 30 points.

It is no wonder Tennessee has separate playoffs for its private and public schools.

 

[doctor_d]

I’ve said many times that I’m not looking for separation, but Texas is near the pinnacle of school ball and they are separated. I get to hear about it fairly often from one of my best childhood/high school friends, who now has lived in the Dallas area for the past 25 years as a teacher and formerly a football coach/now a ref. The only difference is that in Texas, the big public schools are considered better, but I haven’t done the research to find out if the small/medium size schools have much head to head to compare.

 

[GoBlers]

I’ve said many times that I’m not looking for separation, but Texas is near the pinnacle of school ball and they are separated. I get to hear about it fairly often from one of my best childhood/high school friends, who now has lived in the Dallas area for the past 25 years as a teacher and formerly a football coach/now a ref. The only difference is that in Texas, the big public schools are considered better, but I haven’t done the research to find out if the small/medium size schools have much head to head to compare.

The best public schools in Texas recruit more than the Illinois privates do lol. Plenty of boosters with tons of $$$ moving in talent.