Proposed changes to State Championship Tournaments

[dovetail]

I'm surprised that this did not come up sooner. Some politician from downstate has this up for consideration to separate the state tournaments between public and private. A number of states still do this, Texas for example. An alternative approach toward "leveling the playing field" is to apply a multiplication factor to a school's enrollment for purposes of tournament classification. For example , a private school with 600 students might be assigned a factor of 1.5 with an assumed enrollment of 900 for tournament classification purposes. Some states also do the calculation for public schools with "open enrollment". Will this work in a tiny state with less than 50 secondary schools? I doubt it. I don't know what is driving the pol's reasoning but it won't work in the First State.

 

[Bucsnot]

I'm surprised that this did not come up sooner. Some politician from downstate has this up for consideration to separate the state tournaments between public and private. A number of states still do this, Texas for example. An alternative approach toward "leveling the playing field" is to apply a multiplication factor to a school's enrollment for purposes of tournament classification. For example , a private school with 600 students might be assigned a factor of 1.5 with an assumed enrollment of 900 for tournament classification purposes. Some states also do the calculation for public schools with "open enrollment". Will this work in a tiny state with less than 50 secondary schools? I doubt it. I don't know what is driving the pol's reasoning but it won't work in the First State.

 

[Bucsnot]

For what it’s worth , this Rep. had a kid playing baseball for CR this year , who lost to Sallies in the Championship game 🤔

 

[Uncle Bumfuzzled]

SEN. Buckson has been talking about this for a while but tied it to the DIAA NIL vote. He is a good guy. Just wrong on this..

https://www.delawareonline.com/stor...il-delaware-high-school-athletes/73440564007/

For what it’s worth , this Rep. had a kid playing baseball for CR this year , who lost to Sallies in the Championship game 🤔