NSAA Committee Recomends Football Classification Changes

[Mavric]

At the committees meeting last week in Grand Island, it agreed to backing three proposals for football classification, with 2018 the earliest season for implementation:

» Boys-only enrollment used and numerical cutoffs introduced to standardize the ratios in each class between the largest and smallest schools.

» A higher enrollment cutoff for playoff eligibility in eight-man, with 47 boys the proposal.

» An enrollment cutoff for the six-man playoffs, with 25 proposed.

OWH

 

[Mavric]

This would be on boys-only enrollment.

 

[Mavric]

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[BigRedBuster]

This would be on boys-only enrollment.

I saw these tweets the other day.

Do these take affect for the fall of 2017 or 2018?

Also, if I'm understanding this. A school with around 270 students in HS will be middle of the road class B.

Correct?

I would love to see a breakdown of school classification based on this.

EDIT: FYI...if anyone other than me is interested, I found the NSAA enrollment numbers list for the 2016-2017 school year. LINK

 

[BigRedBuster]

Based on the info I found, it looks like

Class A = 48 schools

Class B = 38 schools

Class C1 = 96 schools

I wonder why they made class B so small.

 

[Mavric]

Takes effect for the 2018 season.

270 would be middle of Class B.

Class B shrinks because it had the biggest enrollment discrepancy between the biggest and smallest school. They are trying to make the enrollment ratio between the biggest and smallest school in the class as small as possible and as similar between classes as possible.

 

[Mavric]

Based on the info I found, it looks like

Class A = 48 schools

Class B = 38 schools

Class C1 = 96 schools

I wonder why they made class B so small.

I don't think this is correct. The link you had was for total enrollment, not boys only.

I can't find it right off hand now but Class A goes from 28 to 31 schools, B shrinks from 32 to 25 (or something close to that).

 

[GSG]

Based on the info I found, it looks like

Class A = 48 schools

Class B = 38 schools

Class C1 = 96 schools

I wonder why they made class B so small.

I don't think this is correct. The link you had was for total enrollment, not boys only.

I can't find it right off hand now but Class A goes from 28 to 31 schools, B shrinks from 32 to 25 (or something close to that).

IT WAS IN YOUR FIRST LINK, I THINK

Class A (425 boys and above, ratio 2.3:1): It would grow from the present 28 teams. If in place now, South Sioux City (452), Elkhorn South (426) and Ralston (426) would be moving up from Class B. Going to cutoffs would allow for flexibility as Omaha could add two schools and Gretna and Elkhorn High could exceed the cutoff before they build new schools.
Class B (160-424, 2.65:1): As its ratio dips from the current 3.13, this class would shrink from 32 teams to 25. While some might question why B should be smaller in number than A, this is a move that must be made for equity and safety, which came up repeatedly throughout the meetings.
Class C-1 (70-159, 2.27:1): About the same number of teams, 47 instead of 43. Omaha Gross, Platteview, Aurora and Holdrege would be coming down from B while Valentine and St. Paul — both in C-2 this year — would stay in C-1.
Class C-2 (69 and below, *3.1:1): The asterisk is for Fremont Bergan (22), which skews the ratio. Take Bergan out, and the ratio is only 1.77 to 1. Auburn and Southern/Lewiston would come down from C-1, making the class 44 teams instead of 42.
Eight Man-1 (35 and above): It gets tricky here. Much of last week’s meeting was spent on the cutoff number, with some pushing for a higher number than 47 boys. The current cutoff is 83 students, boys and girls.

 

[BigRedBuster]

Based on the info I found, it looks like

Class A = 48 schools

Class B = 38 schools

Class C1 = 96 schools

I wonder why they made class B so small.

I don't think this is correct. The link you had was for total enrollment, not boys only.

I can't find it right off hand now but Class A goes from 28 to 31 schools, B shrinks from 32 to 25 (or something close to that).

Ahhh....I didn't reconcile post #3 with the post I copied.

So, from GSGs post, no schools are going from C1 to B. So, what they look at is the ratio of students (boys only in this case) from the top school to the bottom school. Never understood how they figure out where to break it off.

 

[Mavric]

Based on the info I found, it looks like

Class A = 48 schools

Class B = 38 schools

Class C1 = 96 schools

I wonder why they made class B so small.

I don't think this is correct. The link you had was for total enrollment, not boys only.

I can't find it right off hand now but Class A goes from 28 to 31 schools, B shrinks from 32 to 25 (or something close to that).

Ahhh....I didn't reconcile post #3 with the post I copied.

So, from GSGs post, no schools are going from C1 to B. So, what they look at is the ratio of students (boys only in this case) from the top school to the bottom school. Never understood how they figure out where to break it off.

It has up to this point always been a set number of schools in each class. Or at least a set number in A and B and then they divided the rest of the 11-man schools in half for C-1 and C-2 and divided the 8-man schools in half for D-1 and D-2. But Class B has been the sticking point for some time because the biggest B schools have nearly three times the enrollment of the smallest B school which was seen as unfair. So the basis of this new proposal was to get the size ratios closer for all the classes.