[Maroon Beech]

Private and big schools need their own division

Big schools already have 6A and 5A. Only St. Xavier and Trinity, both 6A, play in either of those.

How would you bracket a separate private school division? Only 14 (soon to be 15) play football and half of them are 2A or smaller.

6A St. Xavier and Trinity.

5A None

4A Covington Catholic - less than half the size of X and T.

3A Christian Academy-Louisville, Lexington Catholic, and DeSales (playing up to 4A this cycle).

2A Lexington Christian and Owensboro Catholic - less than half the size of Cov Cath (St. Henry coming soon).

1A Bethlehem, Bishop Brossart, Covington Holy Cross, Kentucky Country Day, Louisville Holy Cross, and Newport Central Catholic - all around half the size of LCA and OC.

How do you seed them? Can they only play each other in one or two districts? Do you penalize public schools for playing them for RPI as if they're out of state schools. Does a private division get fewer playoff games, 3-4 instead of 5 like the current setup. If you think all of them should be playing for one championship, you really aren't proposing a fair division are you?

Almost every metro area these schools are in has some combination of independent cities, open enrollment counties, or multiple private schools for families to choose from. A lot of very successful programs pick up "out of district" kids; happens from Paducah to Pikeville.

A private division will never make it to a Board of Control vote. If it ever did, and passed, litigation would be lit.

lol don’t think it’s impossible. Tennessee has an absurd amount. 6 classes and then three divisions for private. Some of those private divisions has less schools than what you mentioned.
personally I don’t care, but I’m sure there’s some people that would say privates go to one class for all privates and be done with it.

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Tennessee does have a separate Private (Division 2) Division but has substantially more teams than Kentucky.  Division 1 (Public) has six classes with a total of 298 teams. There are about 49 - 50 teams in each class.  There are 8 Regions (Districts in Kentucky). Each Region has approximately six teams and four make the playoffs. Division 2 has a total of 49 teams divided into three Classes. Class A (126 - 265 enrollment) has 17 schools, Class AA (272 - 526) has 21 and Class AAA (622 and up) has 11 schools. There are three Class AA schools "playing up" to Class AAA.  All Division 2 teams make the playoffs.