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This article was in the Danville Advocate Messanger. Just thought it would be of interest to this thread.




Prep Football: KHSAA commissioner answers questions about reclassification
By LARRY VAUGHT
[email]larry@amnews.com[/email]
September 25, 2010


The Kentucky High School Athletic Association is scheduled to release information Monday on what teams will be playing in each football class in 2011-12. District alignments will be released later, but Monday’s information should reveal if teams that asked to move up in class will be allowed to do so.

KHSAA commission Julian Tackett offered a few insights on how the process works:

Question: What factors are taken into consideration when a football team asks to move up in class?

Tackett: Geography, and only geography. Were they in a position where the teams that likely were to be assigned to play with them created a geographic hardship. That was the sole criterion to be used. There was one school whose request got complicated a bit by the fact that they are a second-year school, but all others were considered completely and solely based on geography.

Question: How much do you and the Board of Control try to factor in what competitive advantages might be gained by teams asking to move up in class?

Tackett: “Not one single bit.”

Question: Do you favor teams being allowed to move up, or would you prefer just to align classes by enrollment and that be the end of it?

Tackett: “Personally, only for those extreme geographic situations, not just for competitive or region balance reasons. Why classify if classes can then be manipulated for competition reasons.”

Question: Does it seem unfair that football teams can ask to move out of district/regions when soccer, basketball, baseball teams really do not have the same options?

Tackett: “See answer to previous question.”

Question: Who makes the final decision on a team moving up?

Tackett: “The Board of Control.”

Copyright: AMNews.com 2010