FB Classifications
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My guess is after boys state basketball, which is ridiculous, give me the official numbers and I could have you districts in a couple of hours.
Jeopardy music playing . . . . . . The one thing we all know for sure is the IHSAA will find a way to screw it up and make things worse.. That is what they excel at and the more time they take to make decisions the crazier the solutions seem to be. Let the circus begin!
Politics is at hand here. Certain schools will still get their preferred placements in what classes they want. My guess is that was set to change for some of them and there is a push back of sorts. Otherwise, why is it taking an extra 6-7 weeks to put out classifications. At this rate we will not know districts or schedules until April or May.
I don't disagree with you, but someone has to go down to far southeast Iowa and play those schools.
Classifications will be out March 1st,,,just have to be patient...lol
Why 6-7 extra weeks? The boy$ need to use up some accumulated PTO. Can’t rush these things lol
If the IAHSAA uses nothing other than the BOE's numbers to determine classifications, then they are going to look like complete fools taking this long to release them. I'm hoping the reason they are taking this long is because they are factoring in free & reduced lunch or other factors. A 5th grader could put the classes together in one day if they had the numbers in front of them!
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At this point I wouldn't expect to hear anything until after the boys state basketball tournament
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It's Kentucky those kids could probably use more than 1 extra year of school.
Unfortunately a lot of Iowa kids will need another year to make up too...unless they were fortunate to attend a school which didn’t lock down for almost a year.
But back to the eligibility post, that’s preposterous.
Most Iowa schools didn’t. Really only Des Moines Public and Iowa City were remote for an extended period of time.
I just saw a tweet from Jeff Johnson at the CR Gazette saying classifications and district assignments would be out around March 11-12. I like your news about the classes coming earlier than that.
JJ also said it’s been confirmed that CR Washington will be in 4A, not 5A ...
Thats good news. However it would be odd but just like them to release the districts right before spring break leaving the coaches and ADs to talk with other schools about their non-district "wish list".
Any word when they will inform everyone on how the playoffs will work? RPI?
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See, really, the “wish list” should also depend on how RPI/playoffs work. Is it top 2 district finishers (in 5A/4A/3A) with only a few at-large qualifiers? How does RPI work, how will it affect qualification? Is it top 4 district finishers in 2A/1A, so non-district doesn’t mean *anything* for playoffs? You’d think knowing what the playoff qualification system is would be a prerequisite for deciding who you want for your non-district games.
Last Cycle they had 8 man give them their wish list, then they said 2 weeks later never mind we just scheduled all your games for you.......
So the newspaper is right. I think he got confused.
IAHSAA- At 12 pm we will release preliminary FB classifications.
12 pm........ crickets...........
12:30pm......crickets.........
Shocking
12 pm........ crickets...........
12:30pm......crickets.........
Shocking
LeMars Gehlen 107 A, Newell Fonda 136 8man.......... why? They have 35-40 kids out every year.
Yes they are listed under general and those are this years classifications has teams listed as 5a, 4a, etc...
Actually there are exactly 71 8-player teams (I counted twice), which means a bye week for somebody every week.
There‘s also 56 in Class A, so at least that works out nicely (8 districts of 7, or 7 districts of 8).
Once I can get to my computer I’ll work up maps for each classification for your edification and enjoyment.
It does appear, as we had been speculating, that the IHSAA went strictly by BEDS numbers for classifications - no adjustments for socioeconomic factors, free/reduced lunch, private schools, or anything.
So again, all that work they claimed to be doing last year and all the preparation they said they were doing to come up with something completely different for 2021 didnt actually happen.
So again, all that work they claimed to be doing last year and all the preparation they said they were doing to come up with something completely different for 2021 didnt actually happen.
Absolutely!
It's under Resources/General/Classifications. It's the 2019/2020 classifications under football. They updated that and didn't rename it 2021
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