Three or Four Classes?---IHSA Officials comment please

[Camron Rust]

Originally posted by JRutledge
If those that live in Illinois have not noticed there is a PowerPoint presentation about possibly expanding from two classes to 3 or 4 classes in most sports. I just wanted to see what others thought about this if you are from Illinois. If anyone else has a comment about how this works in your state (outside of Illinois of course) comment as well.

Peace

Oregon just restructured the classification system from 4 classes to 6 classes. I think it was unnecessary given Oregon's population. In fact 14 of those with enrollment numbers in the 5A class have opted to play up to 6A (where there were only 32 with enough enrollment).

I thought the 4 classifications were adequate and 5 would have been sufficient.

CLASS 6A (1521+) 46 Schools
CLASS 5A (851-1520) 40 Schools
CLASS 4A (401-850) 41 Schools
CLASS 3A (236-400) 37 Schools
CLASS 2A (116-235) 41 Schools
CLASS 1A (1-115) 82 Schools

It looks like they were shooting for about 40 schools per level and/or having no school with more then 2x the number of students as any other school at the same level.

The whole thing was pushed for my some of the medium large schools who wanted a better chance of winning championships (never mind that the championships were just often won by some of the smallest schools in a classification).

I do think some classification system is justified. There is on way a school of 100 kids should have to compete against a school with 2000. That shool with 100 will likely have at most 1 player that could even make the varsity team at the large school.