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On 9/21/2024 at 12:28 AM, GardenStateBaller said:

Milton looked like the #1 team in USA this weekend. Just sayin. 

Pretty good for a public school. I wish Buford put more emphasis on offense. Put them two together and we are looking at MD, SFA some years, SJB, and IMG numbers of D1 prospects. Just need for the GHSA to stay out of the way of progress.

[GardenStateBaller]

https://turdfurgeson.com/ghsa-football-rankings-week-8-2/

 

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Fingers crossed that this plan passes!!!

The Georgia High School Association’s rule-making authority, the 75-person executive committee, will discuss a bold plan today that would classify schools based on sports success rather than enrollment size starting in 2026. 

The proposal is called the GHSA Competitive Balance Reclassification Model. The GHSA provided GHSF Daily with its PowerPoint presentation ahead of today’s meeting in Macon. 

It calls for the five schools with the most successful sports programs in each class to move up one class every two years while the five least successful programs move down one. Enrollment would no longer matter except as a starting point. 

The concept has the endorsement of new GHSA executive director Tim Scott, who will lead the discussion in Macon with associate director Don Corr, who helped develop the model. It has been in the works for more than a year, starting at the grassroots with a few member schools campaigning for it. 

No vote will be taken Monday, but Corr said he hoped the executive committee would consider adopting the proposal, or one like it, by next spring so the GHSA can begin planning. 

“The GHSA has always had schools that perform poorly on the field or on the court and that have almost no chance of winning championships,” Corr said. “If they drop down, maybe they could have a little bit of success to build their program back where it needs to be. Schools that get moved up that are dominating a classification in all sports would be able to compete at the new classification without an issue.” 

The competitive-balance model would eliminate the contentious public-private split that currently calls for private schools in Class 3A and lower to play in private-only state playoffs. Under the new plan, private schools could move into any classification and compete with public schools in the regular season and playoffs. 

To determine which schools move up or down, the GHSA would use three years of data (2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25) and use a points system to rank the schools in their classifications based on their finishes in state tournaments and meets. 

Under this plan, it’s conceivable, perhaps likely, that all-sports powers Marist and Westminster, currently in Class 4A, would be in the highest classification by 2028-29. The Georgia Athletic Directors Association has been running an all-sports tally for decades, and Marist and Westminster have won their classifications 23 of the past 24 years. 

The GHSA’s points system would not be the same as the GADA’s, though. The GHSA would give more points in sports with higher participation. For example, 94.9% of GHSA schools have boys basketball teams while 17.6% have gymnastics teams. The boys basketball champion would get 94.9 points (100 times .949). The champion gymnastics team would get 17.6 (100 times .176). Football, as the top revenue generator, would get the full 100 for its champions. 

The GHSA points plan, also unlike the GADA’s, would rank teams on their average points per sport, not their total points. So schools that participate in a limited number of sports, but do well in them, would rank higher under this system than the GADA’s system. 

If the executive committee ultimately rejects the plan, the GHSA will begin the process of reclassifying next summer using enrollment. Currently, schools with more than 2,000 students generally are placed in 6A while those below 800 are in Class A. 

The GHSA’s office or executive director don’t always take a position on reclassification, leaving it to the reclassification and executive committees, but just as former executive director Robin Hines influenced last year’s decision to reduce the number of classes by one, Scott hoped to do the same when he went on record in August supporting a competitive-balance model. 

“It’s making [reclassification] decisions based more on things that happen on the field or on the court and not just the numbers of students in a school, where you’re not Class 6A just because you’ve got a certain number of students,” Scott said. “I think it’s important to get things more balanced. We want to give a young person a better opportunity to compete and have a chance to win.”

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On 10/7/2024 at 1:39 PM, GardenStateBaller said:

Fingers crossed that this plan passes!!!

The Georgia High School Association’s rule-making authority, the 75-person executive committee, will discuss a bold plan today that would classify schools based on sports success rather than enrollment size starting in 2026. 

The proposal is called the GHSA Competitive Balance Reclassification Model. The GHSA provided GHSF Daily with its PowerPoint presentation ahead of today’s meeting in Macon. 

It calls for the five schools with the most successful sports programs in each class to move up one class every two years while the five least successful programs move down one. Enrollment would no longer matter except as a starting point. 

The concept has the endorsement of new GHSA executive director Tim Scott, who will lead the discussion in Macon with associate director Don Corr, who helped develop the model. It has been in the works for more than a year, starting at the grassroots with a few member schools campaigning for it. 

No vote will be taken Monday, but Corr said he hoped the executive committee would consider adopting the proposal, or one like it, by next spring so the GHSA can begin planning. 

“The GHSA has always had schools that perform poorly on the field or on the court and that have almost no chance of winning championships,” Corr said. “If they drop down, maybe they could have a little bit of success to build their program back where it needs to be. Schools that get moved up that are dominating a classification in all sports would be able to compete at the new classification without an issue.” 

The competitive-balance model would eliminate the contentious public-private split that currently calls for private schools in Class 3A and lower to play in private-only state playoffs. Under the new plan, private schools could move into any classification and compete with public schools in the regular season and playoffs. 

To determine which schools move up or down, the GHSA would use three years of data (2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25) and use a points system to rank the schools in their classifications based on their finishes in state tournaments and meets. 

Under this plan, it’s conceivable, perhaps likely, that all-sports powers Marist and Westminster, currently in Class 4A, would be in the highest classification by 2028-29. The Georgia Athletic Directors Association has been running an all-sports tally for decades, and Marist and Westminster have won their classifications 23 of the past 24 years. 

The GHSA’s points system would not be the same as the GADA’s, though. The GHSA would give more points in sports with higher participation. For example, 94.9% of GHSA schools have boys basketball teams while 17.6% have gymnastics teams. The boys basketball champion would get 94.9 points (100 times .949). The champion gymnastics team would get 17.6 (100 times .176). Football, as the top revenue generator, would get the full 100 for its champions. 

The GHSA points plan, also unlike the GADA’s, would rank teams on their average points per sport, not their total points. So schools that participate in a limited number of sports, but do well in them, would rank higher under this system than the GADA’s system. 

If the executive committee ultimately rejects the plan, the GHSA will begin the process of reclassifying next summer using enrollment. Currently, schools with more than 2,000 students generally are placed in 6A while those below 800 are in Class A. 

The GHSA’s office or executive director don’t always take a position on reclassification, leaving it to the reclassification and executive committees, but just as former executive director Robin Hines influenced last year’s decision to reduce the number of classes by one, Scott hoped to do the same when he went on record in August supporting a competitive-balance model. 

“It’s making [reclassification] decisions based more on things that happen on the field or on the court and not just the numbers of students in a school, where you’re not Class 6A just because you’ve got a certain number of students,” Scott said. “I think it’s important to get things more balanced. We want to give a young person a better opportunity to compete and have a chance to win.”

No worries. Unless there is major backlash, and I mean major, as in majority......this will pass.

Their minds are made up.

[GardenStateBaller]

Milton at Gainesville

When, where: 8 p.m. Friday, Bobby Gruhn Field at City Park, Gainesville

Records, rankings: Milton is 7-0 overall, 3-0 in Region 7-5A and No. 1; Gainesville is 6-1, 3-0 and No. 6.

Last meeting: Gainesville won 12-0 in 1985.

Things to know: These are two of the three top-10 teams in their region. The other is No. 7 Roswell (5-1, 2-0). Milton, the 2023 Class 7A champion, is ranked in the top five of five national polls, peaking at No. 3 in MaxPreps and High School Football America. Milton’s Luke Nickel, who is committed to Miami, is 92-of-138 passing for 1,556 yards and 16 touchdowns. The leading receivers are Florida State pledge C.J. Wiley (30 receptions, 577 yards) and Georgia pledge Ethan Barbour (22 receptions, 361 yards). T.J. Lester has rushed for 678 yards and 13 touchdowns. DL Caleb Bell (Arkansas) and CB Tyler Redmond (Tennessee) are among the defensive standouts on a team with nine seniors committed to Power 4 Conference teams. Gainesville’s offense is similar to Milton’s, each team getting 59% of its total yards passing. Kharim Hughley, a first-year starter, is 88-of-142 passing for 1,628 yards and 12 touchdowns without an interception. His three best targets are over 400 yards receiving – Jeremiah Ware (492), Taz Smith (451) and Shane King (404). Carmelo Byrd has rushed for 593 yards. Gainesville has three P4-committed players. They are OL Alex Payne (North Carolina), DL Julius Columbus (Duke) and LB Xavier Griffin (Southern Cal). Milton and Gainesville have met four times, all in the 1980s, with Gainesville winning three.

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