Inner-city football teams are getting blown out on Friday nights. Should UIL consider more factors during realignment?

[RedZone]

Interesting read.

https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2020/01/31/inner-city-football-teams-are-getting-blown-out-on-friday-nights-should-uil-consider-more-factors-during-realignment/

[Nolebull813]

Yeah they should stand up and tell them to invest more in the coaching staff and the football program in general. 

If the UIL is confident in their transfer rules then there is not much they can do. 

 I mean what are they supposed to do?  Align teams based on their zip codes average annual income???

[DevilDog]

6 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Yeah they should stand up and tell them to invest more in the coaching staff and the football program in general. 

If the UIL is confident in their transfer rules then there is not much they can do. 

 I mean what are they supposed to do?  Align teams based on their zip codes average annual income???

Bro I posted this on the What up Texas on Friday

[Wooderson]

1 hour ago, Nolebull813 said:

 

 I mean what are they supposed to do?  Align teams based on their zip codes average annual income???

Arizona's 2015 alignment did include free/reduced lunch rates as a sort of multiplier. The end result was having inner-city Phoenix and Tucson schools in the same division as non-elite rural schools which ended up alienating a completely new population.

The upcoming alignment skips the socioeconomic factors and allegedly looks strictly at on-field results (allegedly as a Notre Dame Prep program that's gone 45-6 the past four years in 5A had their appeal to not be forced into 6A approved, while a similarly successful Northwest Christian program is actually suing to keep from being moved from 3A to 4A).

[Nolebull813]

High school sports is one of the few things in life you can be spectacularly terrible as a program, yet still operate like business as usual.

if you get a 1.5 GPA you don’t graduate. But if you go 1-9 in football, let the games continue!!!  
 

There needs to be a rule similar to the multiplier that makes teams go down in classification for not being good. Maybe a .250 winning percentage or something. Or additional conferences or leagues that operate under the state association. 
 

in Florida, we have a conference called the Sunshine State Athletic Conference. It is for teams that are so bad in football, they get to play in their own league against each other and can not compete for FHSAA State Championships. They have their own mock playoff and title games. 
 

maybe other states might need to follow suit and let bad sports teams all join their own leagues and let real teams compete without wasting time. 

[MA Fan]

This sort of thing is part of the reason Illinois reversed their decision to go to district football, no one wanted to see powerhouse Chicago privates playing Public League schools that can barely field a team. Waste of time for both schools.

[The Guru]

17 hours ago, Nolebull813 said:

in Florida, we have a conference called the Sunshine State Athletic Conference. It is for teams that are so bad in football, they get to play in their own league against each other and can not compete for FHSAA State Championships. They have their own mock playoff and title games. 

That's not at all what it is.

It's a bunch of FHSAA schools that choose not to compete for championships. It has nothing to do with how bad they are as anybody could choose to participate or not.

[Nolebull813]

4 hours ago, The Guru said:

That's not at all what it is.

It's a bunch of FHSAA schools that choose not to compete for championships. It has nothing to do with how bad they are as anybody could choose to participate or not.

They feel like they are so bad that can not compete with University Christian, NFC and Champagnat 

Those teams aren’t even good on a larger scale. 2A is turrrrrible. So if you think that you can’t even compete with those teams then you are really bad