GreenMachine;451718 wrote:Should OHSAA separate the public and private schools for the playoffs? Keep in mind, in the largest divisions (D1 and D2), the public schools won state last year. Also, if OHSAA does decide to separate the schools for playoff action should there still be 6 public divisions and 6 private divisions?
Yes....last year they did....But let's look closer....shall we?
There are currently seven (7), private schools playing DI, so out of the approximately 120 total schools in DI, that means there are one hundred and thirteen (113) public schools in DI.
Public schools represent 94%, privates, 6%.
Yet, of the 38 DI State Championship games, the privates have won 23 of them, 60%.
When 6% of the total wins 60% of the prizes, there should be changes made.
Now I know numbers don't always show the real picture, and to prove that, of the 23 Championships that the privates have won, Moeller and Ignatius have won 17 of them.
In the 70s, there were approx. 250 schools competing at the AAA level every year for a State Championship, (compared to the approx. 120 today), yet Moeller seemed to dominate. I'm sure that had something to do with the fact that they were getting kids from several different states.
Privates and publics have faced off 20 times in the championship game, with privates winning 15 times, (75%), of the five (5) losses, three of them have been to Canton Mckinley.
With all that said, I don't think they should seperate them either.
I think a bigger problem is the numbers, as I've said before, their is no ceiling in DI, therefore, if a school with, say, 1171 boys, were to play a school with, oh, I don't know, 550 boys, that's a diff. of approx. 600 boys. The ceiling in DII is 168, DIII 96, DIV 74 and DV 51.
Schools with low #'s in DI, that can compete year in and year out are Massillon and Glenville and occasionally Lima, the next teir up are Upper Arlington, McKinley, Warren and Dublin, after these 7, the large enrollment schools rule the day.
