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 🤔

 

[SCash]

Let's not pretend that Eric Buckson has not been involved in high school sports for the last 30 years. Saying this a Daddy ball move is an absolute joke. I will say I don't agree with him but he has his own thoughts.

 

[Uncle Bumfuzzled]

Senator Buckson has tabled the legislative proposal. His comments were that he wants DIAA to consider possible ways to make the system fairer so that championships wouldn't be so private school dominated. He feels that the private schools have an unfair advantage. He said that as long as DIAA considers this, he will live with the DIAA decision no matter what it is. Based on his previous comments, he was not going to run with legislation if DIAA didn't approve NIL. They did.

Remember this guy has been a 30 year public educator, a member of the Kent County Levy Court and is now a State Senator. He is thoughtful and believes there is an issue of fair competition. I think that DIAA will probably have some serious discussion of various ideas of the private/public issue and then let things continue as they are.

 

[84rider]

I agree with you bumster and just add, I’ve known Eric since High School and he is a great guy. CRHS athlete, teacher,friend to many and a decent golfer. He’s not much different from a lot of the fathers that post on this site. I still believe in to be the best you have to beat the best.