[cksportsfan]

That is sort of the point I trying to make in the Hazard appealing threads. They had no true reason to appeal IMO, at least they are in a district with 4 teams. Raceland, Paintsville, and Fairview should have appealed their district, since they are the only district in the state with a 3 teams. But there is a district in class A with 5 teams. The KHSAA created a scheduling headache for these 3 schools. They are required schedule an extra non-district game, most likely in a week when all other schools are playing a district games with no wriggle room to change games late into the season. Most likely, Raceland, Paintsville, and Fairview will be playing 9 games due to scheduling nightmare created by the KHSAA.

They might be the only 3-team district PROPOSED, but it might not be like that in the future.

Meade County-Central Hardin was a TWO-TEAM district in 6-A for at least one year (maybe two) after Nelson County split (Thomas Nelson), Greenwood split (South Warren) and North Hardin (declining enrollment) dropped to 5-A. With all the other districts fairly compact, made no sense to force a Central Time Zone team from the west into the Meade-Central district or force a Lexington or NKY team to come all the way to south of Louisville (when much closer games are at home).

Bottom line: It's been done before.

As far as the scheduling, eh. At least one team in a five team district will have a non-district game during mandatory district weeks because:
- A v B
- C v D
- Nobody for E to play in district, since you can't do two district games in a week for one team (or two games in general).

Also, 33 teams were placed in 1-A -- FOR NOW -- for two reasons:

1) Because of the South Floyd/Allen Central merger. Merger will take South Floyd out of 1-A. 33 teams gives ability to shift teams around.

2) Fort Knox. FK is currently a 2-A program, but will NOT be by time alignment takes effect. Base is losing THOUSANDS of soldiers (which will also affect 6-A Central Hardin, 5-6-A North Hardin, 5-A John Hardin and even 3-A Elizabethtown. North Hardin has argued it should NOT get sent back to 6-A because by time alignment goes into effect, its numbers should drop as well.