Football classifications released
Oct. 3, 2007 @ 11:13 a.m. by JoannaThe KSHSAA released its football classifications for the 2008 and 2009 seasons — click here — and there aren’t many surprises.
Heights has to be pleased with its situation. It moves out of its district with Emporia, Junction City and Manhattan and into the same district with East, Derby and Southeast.
This puts Heights into a situation where it’s not relegated to only six City League games, as it has been in recent years. That’s been a pain for the Falcons — just as Carroll and Kapaun have been — because lose one game in the CL and the title is so much tougher to win. But a team like East, which has seven league games, has an advantage because the title is based on winning percentage. So East can go 6-1 and still win out over a 5-1 team.
Hutchinson moves into a pretty tough district with Great Bend, Hays and McPherson. I would imagine the Salt Hawks are fine with the move, but those other teams must be hating life.
Wichita Trinity gets hosed in its first-year of non-club football with its district of Andover Central, Rose Hill and Mulvane. Ugh. (A disclaimer, I’m not questioning the state. Based on how the KSHSAA does things, this is no surprise. It still stinks for this fledgling program, though.)
Any surprises that you see? Comment on them here.
– joanna
October 4th, 2007 at 6:01 am
The problem with unequal scheduling in City League can be reduced with the new districts. Now all the 6A schools in City League have exactly one non-league opponent in their district. Assuming that each of the six plays another non-league foe in the first six weeks of the season, each of them will have seven league games. Carroll and West will be in a district together, meaning they each have two non-league games in district. If they each play only league opponents the first six weeks, they would each also have seven league games. The only team out of luck in this scenario is Kapaun, which has three non-league district games, so can get only six league games. This is clearly unfair to Kapaun. Has any thought been given to a league schedule that designates six league games for every school, with the option that each school (other than Kapaun) schedule either an extra non-league game or a game with a league opponent that doesn’t count in the league standings? There is really no perfect solution when you have nine teams in a league and unequal numbers of district games, but the current setup really has a fairness problem.
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October 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
i know it will be tough for Wichita Trinity to succeed early especially with such a tough district, but keep an eye on their speedy freshman running back. He’s currently tearing up the teams on their club schedule and he has more speed then most people on the city league teams.
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October 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The current district football system is a joke. A joke. With so many three-team districts in 2-1A, you’re going to have plenty of two- and three-win teams, and some one-win teams, in the state playoffs. It’s asinine to say the least. And what about six- and seven-win teams who stay home because their district draw is difficult? This is no way whatsoever to run this system.
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