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3 hours ago, Mavchamp said:

This is my mock 7A alignment.

The 7A cutoff for this alignment would be 2,771 and up. 

This is based on last year's numbers.... and doesn't account for new schools or decreasing enrollments or districts asking for schools to play up.

So there are undoubtably some schools on here that shouldn't be and some that should be that aren't.

I tried to make it as geographically feasible as possible.... but some of these distances are wild.

Enjoy!

District 1
El Paso Franklin
San Angelo Central
Midland Lee
Midland High
Odessa
Odessa Permian
Wolfforth Frenship

District 2
Arlington Lamar
Arlington Martin
Arlington Sam Houston
Arlington
Grand Prairie
South Grand Prairie
Euless Trinity
Southlake Carroll
Duncanville
DeSoto

District 3
Flower Mound
Lewisville Hebron
Coppell
Flower Mound Marcus
Lewisville
Keller
Keller Timbercreek
Hurst Bell
Irving
Irving McArthur

District 4
Allen
Plano West
Plano East
Plano
McKinney
McKinney Boyd

District 5
Dallas Skyline
Mesquite Horn
Garland Sache
Wylie
Rockwall
Richardson Lake Highlands
Richardson

District 6
Killeen
Killeen Ellison
Killeen Harker Heights
Killeen Shoemaker
Belton
Lake Belton

District 7
The Woodlands
Conroe
Woodlands College Park
Spring
Humble Atascocita
Spring Westfield
Conroe Grand Oaks
 
District 8
Aldine Macarthur
Aldine Benjamin
Aldine
Aldine EIsenhower
Klien Forrest
Klien Oak
Klien
Klien Collins
Klien Cain

District 9
Cypress Bridgeland
Cypress Ranch
Cypress Ridge
Cypress Creek
Cypress Lakes
Cypress Fair
Cypress Woods
Cypress Falls

District 10
Katy Taylor
Katy Tomkins
Katy 7 Lakes
Katy Cinco
Katy
Katy Mayde Creek
Alief Elsik
Alief Hastings
Alief Taylor

District 11
Jersey Village
Langham Creek
Spring Branch Northbrook
Houston Sam Houston
Houston Westside
Houston Lamar
CE King
Houston Bellaire
Houston Chavez

District 12
Deer Park
Pearland
Pearland Dawson
Dickinson
Pasadena Sam Rayburn
League City Clear Springs
Alvin
Fort Bend Travis
Channelview

District 13
Austin Westlake
Lake Travis
Del Valle
Round Rock
Round Rock Cedar Ridge
Round Rock Westwood
Austin Bowie
Round Rock Stoney Point

District 14
San Antonio Lee
San Antonio East Central
San Antonio Reagan
San Antonio Conner
San Antonio Madison
San Antonio Johnson

District 15
San Antonio Warren
San Antonio Clark
San Antonio Stevens
San Antonio Jay
San Antonio Harland
San Antonio Brandeis
Smithson Valley

District 16
Laredo United
Los Fresnos
Laredo United South
Laredo Johnson
Harlingen
San Benito
Laredo Alexander
Del Rio
La Joya

Its a good Mock, but the El Paso situation and the Del Rio/Laredo situation is the issue. You could probably send Del Rio to San Antonio area, but you still have the El Paso issue.  The other issue I see is how would 6a look? You just took half of the schools out of 6a to create 7a. Will you have enough schools to form the current 32 districts? If not, are the remaining schools enough to form a reasonable 16 districts?

Regardless, its a good start, but the El Paso thing is a major issue.

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20 hours ago, JTFAN99 said:

Its a good Mock, but the El Paso situation and the Del Rio/Laredo situation is the issue. You could probably send Del Rio to San Antonio area, but you still have the El Paso issue.  The other issue I see is how would 6a look? You just took half of the schools out of 6a to create 7a. Will you have enough schools to form the current 32 districts? If not, are the remaining schools enough to form a reasonable 16 districts?

Regardless, its a good start, but the El Paso thing is a major issue.

Good catch with San Benito..... they would definitely fit better in one of the SA districts.  SA is only a little over 2.5 hours..... the south district was much longer after I looked. 

Laredo- 3:05
Los Fresnos- 6:17
Harlingen- 6:23 mins
La Joya-  5:30
San Benito- 6:40

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My alignment would have 136 schools in 7A and 116 in 6A.

I originally had closer to a 50/50 split between them.....but it left a couple of 5 team districts.....and it created more travel problems.

TBH....I'm not sure how it would affect 6A..... but it would no doubt drop it to 16 districts instead of 32.  And it may would create more travel problems for 6A than 7A.  I was actually surprised..... travel wouldn't really be that bad for 7A outside of the West Texas district and the far South district.  The rest of it was pretty unremarkable by East Texas driving standards.  Now.....metro fans would howl.  God Forbid Lewisville fans have to drive all the way to Irving or something.  

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Another issue I have...

I dont understand how it makes more sense for a school with 2700 to play a school with 4000+ rather than playing a school with 2300.

That's the thing....there really isnt a lot of mega schools (4,000+) in TX. So when you presplit or create a 7A, naturally they'll have to pull up some schools as low as 27-2800 to fill in the districts....and that doesn't solve anything.

The only way to fix things...is if you get districts like Allen, Plano or Galena Park to build more schools. But you cant force them to do that...so...back to square one.

I don't think 6A NEEDS a pre split anyway. 

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4 hours ago, ANTI said:

I don't think 6A NEEDS a pre split anyway. 

I would do it just to have it uniform across the board with all the classes.

Call it what it is too. We have 12 classes for football, and 6 for other sports.

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On 4/18/2021 at 3:17 PM, Mavchamp said:

Good catch with San Benito..... they would definitely fit better in one of the SA districts.  SA is only a little over 2.5 hours..... the south district was much longer after I looked. 

Laredo- 3:05
Los Fresnos- 6:17
Harlingen- 6:23 mins
La Joya-  5:30
San Benito- 6:40

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My alignment would have 136 schools in 7A and 116 in 6A.

I originally had closer to a 50/50 split between them.....but it left a couple of 5 team districts.....and it created more travel problems.

TBH....I'm not sure how it would affect 6A..... but it would no doubt drop it to 16 districts instead of 32.  And it may would create more travel problems for 6A than 7A.  I was actually surprised..... travel wouldn't really be that bad for 7A outside of the West Texas district and the far South district.  The rest of it was pretty unremarkable by East Texas driving standards.  Now.....metro fans would howl.  God Forbid Lewisville fans have to drive all the way to Irving or something.  

Hey Mav, what about a 6A Split instead, with schools above 2950 or 3000 going to Div.1.  I think that would work. It would make District 1 a 5 team district cause you would lose El Paso Franklin and Frenship but that should fix most of the issues.  

 

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Lots of issues with a pre-split 6A.....it's no wonder why they haven't done it.  There are some travel nightmares.....

2,773 and up would be Division I
2064-2772 Division II

 

6A Div I

District 1
El Paso Franklin
San Angelo Central
Odessa
Permian
Midlan
Midland Lee

District 2
Euless Trinity
South Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie
Hurst Bell
Arlington
Arlington Martin
Arlington Lamar
Arlington Houston

District 3
Southlake Carroll
Coppell
Lewisville
Lewisville Hebron
Flower Mound
Flower Mound Marcus
Keller
Keller Timbercreek

District 4
Duncanville
DeSoto
Irving
Irving McArthur
Dallas Jesuit
Dallas Skyline
Belton
Killeen Ellison
Killeen Harker Heights

District 5
Allen
Plano
Plano West
Plano East
Rockwall
Mesquite Horn
McKinney
McKinney Boyd
Wylie
Garland Sache

District 6
The Woodlands
Woodlands College Park
Conroe
Conroe Grand Oaks
Klein
Klein Forrest
Klein Collins
Klein Oak
Klein Cain

District 7
Aldine
Aldine Eisenhower
Aldine MacArthur
Aldine Benjamin
Spring 
Spring Westfield
Langham Creek
Jersey Village

District 8
Cypress Bridgeland
Cypress Woods
Cypress Ranch
Cypress CreeK
Cypress Falls
Cypress Lakes
Cypress Fairbanks
Cypress Ridge

District 9
Katy
Katy Cinco Ranch
Katy Taylor
Katy Tompkins
Katy Mayde Creek
Katy Seven Lakes
Alief Elsik
Alief Taylor
Alief Hastings

District 10
Houston Lamar
Houston Bellaire
Houston Westside
Strake Jesuit
Northbrook
Houston Chavez
Houston Sam Houston
Fort Bend Travis
Fort Bend Ridge Point

District 11
Galena Park
C.E. King
Channelview
Humble Atascocita
Humble Kingwood
Deer Park

District 12
Alvin
Pasadena Dobie
Pasadena Memorial
Pasadena Rayburn
Dickinson

District 13
Lake Travis
Austin Westlake
Austin Bowie
Round Rock
Round Rock Stony Point
Round Rock Westwood
Round Rock Cedar Ridge
Del Valle

District 14
Smithson Valley
SA Johnson
SA Reagan
SA Lee
SA Madison
SA East Central

District 15
SA Jay 
SA Warren
SA Clark
SA Stevens
SA Harlan
SA O'Connor
SA Brandies
Del Rio

District 16
Laredo United
Laredo Johnson
Laredo United South
Laredo Alexander
San Benito
Los Fresnos
La Joya

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6A Div II

District 1
EP Montwood
EP Socorro
EP Coronado
EP Americas
EP Eastwood
EP Eastlake
EP Pebble Hills

District 2
Abilene
Wolfforth Frenship
FW Paschal
North Crowley
Boswell
Weatherford
Chisolm Trail

District 3
Keller Fossil Ridge
Keller Central
Denton Guyer
Denton Braswell
Haltom
Eaton
Nelson
Prosper
Little Elm

District 4
Richardson Lake Highlands
Richardson
Richardson Berkner
Richardson Pearce
North Garland
South Garland
Garland Naaman Forrest
Garland Lakeview Centennial
Rowlett
Rockwall Heath

District 5
Tyler Lee
Mesquite
North Mesquite
Waxahachie
Cedar Hill
Mansfield
Mansfield Lake Ridge
Arlington Bowie
Irving Nimitz

District 6
Waco
Waco Midway
Killeen
Killeen Shoemaker
Temple
Copperas Cove
Bryan

District 7
Cedar Park Vista Ridge
Round Rock McNeil
Hutto
Hayes Consolidated
Austin High
Austin Vandergriff
Austin Akins

District 8
Spring Dekaney
Tomball
Tomball Memorial
Conroe Oak Ridge
Aldine Nimitz
Wllis

District 9
Cypress Park
Cypress Springs
Katy Ranch
Houston Stratford
Houston Memorial
Houston Springwood

District 10
Houston Heights
Houston Westbury
South Houston
Pasadena 
Beaumont Westbrook
Humble
Humble Summer Creek

District 11
Fort Bend Dulles
FB Clements
FB Austin
FB Bush
FB Elkins
Richmond George Ranch

District 12
Clear Lake
Clear Brook
Clear Falls
Clear Creek
Alvin Shadowcreek
Brazoswood

District 13
Converse Judson
Judson Wagner
New Braunsfels
Cibollo Steele
San Marcos
Schertz Clemens
SA Roosevelt
SA Churchhill
SA MacArthur

District 14
Eagle Pass
SA Taft
SA Marshall
SA Holmes
SA Brennan
SA South

District 15
Laredo Nixon
La Joya Lincoln
Mission
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Vela
Edinburgh North
Edinburgh Econo

District 16
Weslaco
Brownsville Rivera
Brownsville Hannah
Harlingen South
Donna North
PSJA North
PSJA

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A few observations as an outsider (5A fan) with no dog in the fight.......

6A-Div I
-El Paso Franklin needs a free pass.....  even though they have 6A Div I numbers... it's INSANE to make them drive those crazy distances when there are SEVEN EP schools in 6A Div II.... let them play down for football.  I mean... COME ON. 

-The Permian Basin schools or their district mates are going to get shafted no matter what.  Drop them to a 5 team district and you now have them scrambling for SIX non-district games.... in the middle of nowhere.  That's tough.  But finding sacrificial lambs to send them is bad too.  El Paso leaves a district full of schools they could be playing.  But can you imagine Arlington or Trinity being forced out that way.... when they are literally surrounded by 6A-D1 schools.  Tough thing to fix.  No matter what.... someone's not happy, or you have issues with scheduling/travel.

- The I-35 Corridor is tough too.... the Killeen schools and Belton are going to travel no matter what.  Either to the metroplex... or to Austin.

- Most of the Dallas and Houston area districts are nothing to complain about (except traffic).  Not a lot of crazy mileage.  Some goot rivalries intact... and some new ones to be formed.

- Gotta feel bad for Del Rio... they are on an island.  But putting them with SA makes more sense than sending them south.... 

- Driving for the border district is awful.  District 16 and District 2 may be the biggest reasons we don't see a split.

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6A Div II

- As terrible as Div I is for EP.... Division II looks glorious.  I stand by my call to let EP Franklin drop to Div II for football.  But sometimes common sense isn't what UIL is known for.

- District 2 in Div II is just as awful as District 2 in Division I...... only worse.  Stretching from Western DFW all the way to Abilene and into the Panhandle.... it's a nightmare.

- Tyler Lee is a problem.  Can't really shove them into district 4 because it's already packed (and could still have a few more....like Mesquite and North Mesquite.  The problem?  There are just too many DFW schools that fall into the Div II bracket.... and there simply isn't enough room to cram them all together....so someone has to get shafted.....  you could arrange them dozens of ways.  None of them make sense.

- Centex in Div II is a little kinder.... esp for Waco/Killeen/Temple

- Austin and Houstonarea schools all fit together pretty nicely EXCEPT Beaumont Westbrook.  They... like Tyler Lee... and Frenship.... get the shaft for being all alone.

- Eagle Pass.... they have the same issue Del Rio has in Div I.... but sending them to SA.... though a long drive... is kinder than sending them south.

- Driving for 15 and 16 is awful.  No two ways about it.

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All this looking at maps and drive times brought me to this conclusion......

While it sounds great to make 6A uniform like all the other classifications.... it just doesn't make sense.  Not geographically.  Not economically. 

It breaks up rivalries.  It makes it very hard for fans to make games. 

Arlington to Wofforth is 337 miles ONE way.  

Let's group as many of these schools together as we can in ONE class.... and then we can split them after the playoffs. It just makes sense to do it that way.

JMHO.

 

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Just leave 6A the way it is now, just simply change the classification name to 7A...........no squabbling over travel............then divide the lower 5(now) classes into 6 classes - less discrepancies in the sizes of each class than it is now but travel will not change dramatically for most. 

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