Saw this - After three and half years of treating cross country different than all of the other Ohio High School Athletic Association sponsored sports and Championships the OHSAA Board eliminated the use of combined enrollment.
http://runohio.com/index.php/news/1148-combined-enrollment-reversed
How unbalanced are some schools? Don't they all have roughly 50/50 gender distributions?
Or does Ohio let private, potentially single sex schools compete with the unwashed masses?
They also completely changed the Regionals process. I can't tell if I like it or hate it.
Booze hound d wrote:
How unbalanced are some schools? Don't they all have roughly 50/50 gender distributions?
Or does Ohio let private, potentially single sex schools compete with the unwashed masses?
It only affected a handful of teams but the problem was sending teams all over the state to "balance" each regional.
All they did was went back the way it was years ago.
Maybe they can fix track next.
Kids going to a regional 2.5 hrs away when there was one 40 minutes away.
Ohiohsguy wrote:
They also completely changed the Regionals process. I can't tell if I like it or hate it.
http://www.ohsaa.org/news/sports/20160617cc.pdf
For my region in Division I, it turns out to be incredibly stupid. Our region will have a grand total of seven teams, all of which will come from one district site. I'll rarely have anyone good enough that it will matter, but I'm wondering why we had to go away from a system that had worked quite well for the last 30 years. I think it's a solution in search of a problem, but if you work in Ohio schools you come to expect that everyone in Columbus has an IQ < 75.
As far as combining boys & girls enrollment for division alignment, I thought it should have been expanded to swimming and track, the other two individual-based sports that often share coaching (especially at the smallest schools). All of these sports, of course, will be exempt from the new enrollment counting system that will start in a year. Apparently if it doesn't have a ball, it doesn't matter.
There are a number of single sex schools in Ohio and the coed private schools in the same town could be 60%-40%
Also a few schools because of the imbalance in enrollment would move up a division while other schools moved down a division so normal DIII schools had to run against DI schools.
I think the largest divisions had 286 boys going against a school with 1400 boys
You would think if s school is going to offer a sport they would have appropriate coaching and money for those teams... The use of combined enrollment was a mistake for 3.5 years...
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