Archbishop Murphy (WA)

[PrepGridiron]

Crazy story out of Washington. Private and public debate comes to a head

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/archbishop-murphy-will-join-wesco-conference-for-2018-19-school-year/

[HawgGoneIt]

They should make them play up at the top level for that district, whatever that is in Washington. 

If they are allowed a larger area to draw from than the publics they will compete against, then, the enrollment numbers shouldn't matter and move them up to thr highest classification. That still may not be fair, but, probably better than classifying them by enrollment along with the publics.

[Eddyr2]

47 minutes ago, HawgGoneIt said:

They should make them play up at the top level for that district, whatever that is in Washington. 

If they are allowed a larger area to draw from than the publics they will compete against, then, the enrollment numbers shouldn't matter and move them up to thr highest classification. That still may not be fair, but, probably better than classifying them by enrollment along with the publics.

i like how CIF SS does it, with competitive equity. Just put all the best teams in the same playoff bracket. 

[HawgGoneIt]

1 hour ago, Eddyr2 said:

i like how CIF SS does it, with competitive equity. Just put all the best teams in the same playoff bracket. 

But doesn't that kind of leave you guessing and wondering each year about which bracket a school would be in? Especially the publics that don't get the same benefit of transferring as the privates could have a great team one year, graduate the house and be way down the following year. 

The best teams in same division thing sounds good on the surface, but you could well leave out a great public school team this year, move that team up next year due to last year's performance and they get killed because they can't reload like the privates. 

[Eddyr2]

1 minute ago, HawgGoneIt said:

But doesn't that kind of leave you guessing and wondering each year about which bracket a school would be in? Especially the publics that don't get the same benefit of transferring as the privates could have a great team one year, graduate the house and be way down the following year. 

The best teams in same division thing sounds good on the surface, but you could well leave out a great public school team this year, move that team up next year due to last year's performance and they get killed because they can't reload like the privates. 

CIF SS lets everyone know before the season what divion they will be in. D1 is mostly private schools and the historicly high level publics (ie Cen10, MV, Poly). the bottom 2 or 3 school drop out of D1 and the top D2 schools jump up...it's a lot like promotion and relegation relegation in the premier league

[On2whls]

10 hours ago, Eddyr2 said:

CIF SS lets everyone know before the season what divion they will be in. D1 is mostly private schools and the historicly high level publics (ie Cen10, MV, Poly). the bottom 2 or 3 school drop out of D1 and the top D2 schools jump up...it's a lot like promotion and relegation relegation in the premier league

It's a "little" like promotion and relegation in the premier league.  No matter how poorly a Trinity League school does, I don't see them facing relegation.  On the promotion side, some teams get a raw deal.  San Clemente was really a better fit for the D2 playoffs than for D1.