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KHSAA should take over 6-8 and place every team in a region and district and class. That way you would at least have some consistency.

That would definitely be interesting. The KHSAA could become involved, but I would think they'd have to govern all middle school sports to be effective at governing. I'm not sure that would even be something they'd want to do.

KYMSFA could establish some kind of rules structure that would prohibit repeat performers among the member organizations, and more definitively outline procedures for dealing with 'held back' students in addition to the 'can't be 14 before August 1st' rule. This would be a way to prevent schools from aggressively working to 'hold back' kids to build a football powerhouse in middle school, and allow similiarly aged students to use effort, determination, preparation, and will to determine games, conference championships, and state playoff participants.

The benefits of this plan would be that schools who are practicing education as primary and sports as secondary could still be competitive, or at least not be penalized by their lack of willingness to have a child or a whole group of children repeat a grade at the whim of a coach, or fan base.