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Post by beauchenecoach on Jan 31, 2014 22:35:20 GMT -6
As you know, I was for this... But from what I was told. Majority of coaches, especially above 3A, want the 4 equal division set up. It is more even and makes more sense across the board. I think both would grow soccer... And perhaps the 4 division set up would satisfy everyone more and still keep the sport the same across the board of all schools and divisions. I just think we need some expansion now, to encourage smaller schools to start and maintain soccer programs because they won't have to compete with schools that are so much larger than they are. I believe that is where the most growth will come from. How long would a 4 equal divisions proposal take to put together, when is the earliest it could be voted on, and when is the earliest it could be effective? NewO Will try to find out those answers this spring in advisory meeting with LHSAA. I hope we aren't too late in January to vote it in as reclass takes placed his fall. Perhaps with fair warning and support of LHSAA, they could delay soccer districts till January or February as they did a few reclasses ago. It was supposed to be proposed this year, but Cath PC chose to propose what they did instead of 4 equal divisions. It was worth a shot, but I had a feeling it wouldn't pass, while the 4 divisions set up would have. I even had a few coaches ask why the 4 divisions set up we discussed wasn't on proposal... Wish I had did it with our principal... But it will definitely be proposed next year. Should pass. Just hope LHSAA lets it go into effect for the next reclass which takes place this coming school year, but goes I to effect in 2015/16 and 2016/17 pair of years.
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Post by beauchenecoach on Jan 31, 2014 22:38:10 GMT -6
This is huge, especially for non-publics, meaning that incoming 9th graders from ANYWHERE within a parish will be immediately eligible. here is Ascension Parish, it means that any incoming 9th grader will be immediately eligible to participate in varsity athletics regardless of where they live in the parish. The Ascension Parish School board still has designated school attendance zones, meaning that it currently wont allow this kind of movement for public school students under its own policy, yet a student could move to a Private school The "below 7th grade rule" passed, meaning that no longer will students at any school be able to participate in ANY level of a sport below the the 7th grade. A rule change proposal that was a hot button a few years ago, but has been largely overlooked this year, was a change to the independent club coaching restrictions. Right now, HS coaches can only coach club teams with no more than 6 players on them from their school--regardless of gender. The rule change proposal was offered this year to allow club coaches to coach the opposite gender in club from their HS affiliation with no restriction. This would have been huge. It failed though, so the 6 man rule is still in effect. I'm still trying to get some info on the proposal that removes a year of eligibility for a student athlete that participates in varsity athletics at one school during their 8th grade year and then moves to another school in 9th Grade. So sorry to hear the DIII split didnt pass. Evidently the amendment to move it to next year passed, but the motion for the split failed--by a fairly wide margin. Looks like the best we're gonna do is go with a 4 Division system--which for all intents and purposes WONT provide for the "fairness" that the 5A and 4A schools that voted against are looking for..........but thats an argument for another day. i do have a problem with the small schools essentially running the LHSAA... it doesn't seem fair to guarantee every small school into the playoffs while the big schools still have a chance to miss out... hopefully for soccer we see 5 equal divisions in the near future, each with 16 team playoff brackets, kind of like volleyball4 equal divisions with 24 team playoffs would be more like volleyball with teams per divisions being nearly identical or actually slightly larger in soccer. In order to get to 5... We need lots of growth in number of schools playing. LOTS!
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Post by Chalmetteowl on Feb 1, 2014 7:40:07 GMT -6
5 equal divisions would be 31 teams per for the boys and 29 per for the girls, which lends itself to 16 team brackets
if football is going to have 10 teams in a division and call that a state champion, then there really is no minimum
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Post by beauchenecoach on Feb 1, 2014 9:42:57 GMT -6
5 equal divisions would be 31 teams per for the boys and 29 per for the girls, which lends itself to 16 team brackets if football is going to have 10 teams in a division and call that a state champion, then there really is no minimum I understand your numbers... But they really didn't even want the 38-40 per division even though we kept using volleyball as an example. Volleyball is mostly an I-10 corridor sport. Travel in soccer with 4 divisions would be a lot worse... To go to 5 would kill the sport for small schools that have to travel hours for possible district games. That's what we were told a couple years back. And as you can see yesterday... Huge massive changes that skip a step or two would not pass. Get behind the 4 division model and let's try to force that through since they have a percent of 38-40 teams per division with 24 team playoffs. We have enough support to put that through. We just need to get everyone on this page and not start putting up all these more out there proposals that benefit a few teams interests. I am pretty certain that we will get 4 divisions passed as long as we are allowed to have it proposed and our membership continues to be behind it. Like I said earlier, my fault for not ensuring that proposal went in this year. Many had expected to see it on agenda this year. and apparently football gets a whole different set of exceptions and rules than soccer... Go figure. $$$$$$
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