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High School OHSAA to split Div 1 & add a 7th Div for FB

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OHSAA board adopts recommendation to add seventh football division

The plan will place the top 10 percent of schools based on enrollment in Division I, with the remaining 644 schools divided evenly among the next six divisions. This will leave 72 schools in Division I with the other six divisions averaging approximately 108 schools. Each of the seven divisions will continue to qualify 32 teams to the tournament. Currently, the six OHSAA football divisions are comprised of an average of 120 schools per division.

The plan for adopting an additional division was in response to a concern by some OHSAA member schools about the enrollment disparity that exists in Division I, where the current range is 494 males at the lower end of the division to 1,164 at the top. Based on current enrollment data, the lower end of Division I would increase to 600 males. Committee meetings were held to address the issue and the recommendation to add a seventh division came from the committee.


?Adding a seventh division not only helps address the enrollment disparity in Division I, but it also will create 32 more tournament opportunities for student-athletes, their schools and their communities, many of which have never or rarely experienced the playoffs,? Ross said. ?The committee members believe that this is an issue unique to football, especially since not all schools qualify for the OHSAA football tournament.?

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The next two-year cycle for reassigning schools to tournament divisions begins in the fall of 2013. Based on current enrollment figures, a sample of the football tournament divisional enrollment ranges when adding a seventh division would be (again, keeping in mind that this will change before the 2013 season):
Division I - 600 to 1,164
Division II - 410 to 599;
Division III - 288 to 409;
Division IV - 216 to 287
Division V - 159 to 215;
Division VI - 114 to 158
Division VII - 30 to 111

This is the first time the OHSAA has expanded the number of football tournament divisions since 1994, when a sixth division was added. Five years later, the number of tournament qualifiers in each division expanded from 16 to 32. When the tournament first began in 1972, there were three football tournament divisions, and expansion to five divisions occurred in 1980.

Looks like my alma mater will likely drop to DII.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2141006; said:
I feel sorry for the school that has either 112 or 113 enrollees...


Unsurprisingly, when looking at the 2011-2012 boys enrollment, no school had 112 or 113.

...
109 PLYMOUTH
111 BUCKEYE CENTRAL
111 MONTPELIER
111 WELLSVILLE
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114 ADA
114 COLONEL CRAWFORD
114
FAYETTEVILLE-PERRY
114 RIVER
115
ARCANUM
...
 
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interesting tidbits

Midwest Athletic Conference has teams in 3 divisions:
Versalles - 5
Coldwater - 6
Anna - 6
Ft. Recovery - 6
St. Henry - 6
Parkway - 6
Marion Local - 7
Delphos St. John - 7
New Bremen - 7
Minster - 7

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Glenville drops to 2, along with Willoughby South, Sylvania Southview, Massillon Jackson, Westerville South/Central/North, Walnut Hills, LaSalle, Loveland (and others).
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Columbus St Francis Desales and Springfield Shawnee stay in 3, while Cardinal Mooney and Steubenville drop to 4
 
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ncaahoopfan;2141053; said:
Midwest Athletic Conference has teams in 3 divisions:
Versalles - 5
Coldwater - 6
Anna - 6
Ft. Recovery - 6
St. Henry - 6
Parkway - 6
Marion Local - 7
Delphos St. John - 7
New Bremen - 7
Minster - 7

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Glenville drops to 2, along with Willoughby South, Sylvania Southview, Massillon Jackson, Westerville South/Central/North, Walnut Hills, LaSalle, Loveland (and others).
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Columbus St Francis Desales and Springfield Shawnee stay in 3, while Cardinal Mooney and Steubenville drop to 4


We're good enough to merit a mention? Awesome!
 
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ncaahoopfan;2141038; said:
change .txt to .csv, then open in Excel or Open Office Calc



hmmm as a pataskala resident i wonder how this vote will affect the possible reformation of the Licking County League.

According to the chart:

Watkins Mem - 2
Licking Hts - 3
Newark - 2
Johnstown - 5
Granville - 3
Northridge - 5
Heath - 5
Lakewood - 4
Newark Catholic - 7
Utica - 4
Licking Valley - 4
 
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One odd thing is that almost half (32 of 72) of the remaining Div1 schools will now make the playoffs.

ncaahoopfan;2141036; said:
Going by 2011-2012 enrollment, yes. Xenia drops to DII.

Other Great Western South members:
Lebanon stays at D1
Springboro stays at D1
Fairborn drops to DII
Miamisburg drops to DII

Fairborn was close to dropping to DII even under the current set-up (I believe they were only 5 or so kids over the cut-off point last year).

In addition to X & Troy (they failed to mention Miamisburg) the other GWOC team mentioned by the DDN as moving from I to II is Troy.
 
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