[Pigskinman53]

This whole thing got me to thinking about a proposed change to class 1a.
What if class a was by invitation only to the 36 weakest programs in the commonwealth. In lieu of becoming independent like I suggested in the other thread those 36 programs would be divided into 4 districts of 9 teams each, agree to play 8 district games and there would be no playoff at the end of the season at all for class 1a. The programs would be evaluated after a 2 year cycle to see in what order teams would be invited to play in class 1A. A 5 year Calpreps, Massey, Litkenhouse, Cantrall type average would determine the list in order of invitation. A team could elect to pass on the invitation and play in its actual class. All other schools then divided into 4 classes and have playoffs.

District 4
Fulton City
Fulton County
Webster
Hopkins Cen
Caverna
McClean
Todd cen
Breckinridge
Metcalfe

District 3
Dayton
Trimble
Brossart
Shawnee
Atherton
Pendleton
Waggener
Iroquois
Ludlow

District 2
Bracken
Eminence
Clinton
Ft Knox
East Carter
McCreary Cen
Paris
Berea
Jackson

District 1
Phelps
South Floyd
East Ridge
Allen Cen
Knott
Lynn Camp
Paintsville
Maggofin
Jenkins

District 2 and 3 were very difficult to divide geographically. Nothing is perfect and there is travel involved but beggars can't be choosers.

I like the idea but my question would be what about other schools that decide they rather play in this class oppose to trying to to compete for a playoff spot? Using Sheldon Clark for an example, what do you do in a case like that. I'm only using them since they requested to move down. They were winless this season, BUT 5 years ago they were in the state semi finals. Do you allow them to play down in this class just to get their numbers and program back on track? It's several other programs like that around the state such as Casey, Adair, Hart just to name a few I'm familiar with. Also, how would you go about dividing up the rest of the state? Such as how many classes and how would go in each class.

I do like the idea because I believe it will even out the level of competition across the board.