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Regular Season
1. Adopt a multiplier like other states for out of district students.  If you are a private school your District is the same footprint as the Public School that it would fall under. For Independent schools your footprint is the City Limits of your town/city. Apply a multiplier based off the percentages of boys and girls separately in the school outside of that district. Have to keep these separate because of magnet school programs that may lean populations one way or another male vs. female.

2. Privates still play with publics but the multiplier will potentially force them into higher classes. It also forces Independent School District teams and public schools that have talent move in from multiple nearby districts to have their population weighted. In Georgia this is the Buford Rule. Buford is a powerhouse public school with probably half their kids living out of district because it is an elite academic and athletic school system. Buford by enrollment is a 2A or 3A school but they have to play in 6A because of the multiplier.

3. Tweak the RPI. There is absolutely no reason why Out of State games can't be weighted properly with services like Calpreps/Maxpreps with accurate record keeping and strength of schedule weighting.


Playoffs
1. Three Teams Per District make playoffs, not four. District winners earn a First Round Bye as a reward and to keep value to winning your District. Seed each Semi-State 1-12. The four district winners are assured a Top 4 seed. The remaining teams are seeded 5-12 regardless if they finish 2nd or third. The biggest blowouts and lopsided games that make no sense are usually 1 vs. 4 so getting rid of the four seed helps with that.

2. Semi-Finals are played at a neutral site.. not opposed to Round 3 as well... but minimum Semi-Finals.

3. For RPI calculations, only 9 calculations are taken and not 10. You must have your losses calculated but you can choose to drop your lowest winning calculation. This serves two purposes. First, for teams who have no contest or a team back out of a game it keeps them from being penalized for not playing a game that may be out of their control. They just have their nine games calculated. Secondly, for teams wo are forced to play in five or six team Districts it helps to not hinder their RPI by being forced to play weaker District competition.

You will never see a reduction of classes because of the $$$ associated with the KHSAA. These rules tweaks though would dramatically improve competition and equality while at the same time preserving the integrity of a district schedule. It also helps to smooth out scheduling or unfair disadvantages by being forced into a District schedule with a District larger than others.

I really like the sound of that but let’s be honest. There’s not a single soul on the Kentucky school system or khsaa offices that would be smart enough to figure that out and implement it correctly. 

pretty sure Corbin would be in 8A by themselves though lolol. They’d be champs every year. Congrats Corbinites!

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5 classes was the PERFECT number for this state. It would have kept the tight races and even playing field while really expanding the opportunity for some schools to get success they simply couldnt before.

But Ofcourse the khsaa jumped straight to 6 classes to be like the others.

5 classes with the multiplier for privates and out of district kids. Around 5-6 teams per district so you have half your schedule already filled every year and the other half to do what you want. Then do what you want in the playoffs. 2 teams or 4 who cares. Same teams are gonna win those first round games 99% of the time regardless.
That would have been perfect.