Final Rankings: Class 6A

Cd, What you have just said is the single most insanely, idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your Rambling, incoherent, response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. You are awarded no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

6a gets out coached every year by the east side. Teams in 5a, 4a, 3a and 2a always beat teams from Tulsa. Douglass beat Wagner and Glenpool every time they play them. Guthrie and Carl Albert beat who ever they face. Heritage hall and Millwood do also. So what is 6a teams problem, bad coaching and weak districts? To get undefeated districts they play weak opponents.

I know in Edmond the high school programs cannot implement their philosophy(or schemes) in the middle schools because in five middles schools that feed three high schools. Out of 8th grade they have the right to choose any of the three high schools. Therefor in Edmond high school programs are recieving athletes that basically have no clue about what the culture or schemes of these schools are until their 9th grade year outside of what they get in summer camps and just coming to games. It's a slippery slope. Not as easy as it seems. Sure like Union, Jenks, Broken Arrow, Owasso those kids are growing up in those school systems in other places like Edmond the choice of high school is often times not made until the end of the 8th grade year. Well I don't see these schools ever uniting again but I can see a classification realignment where there could be more teams in class 6a and class 5a and have a Division I and Division II much like Texas.

Guru, I think they can. Even before talk begins about splitting/unified, I believe there is LOT’S of room to develop youth programs – aka the “bobbleheads” – those kids from the 3rd grade through to middle school. Fun-focused and family-based programs that even out talent, teach basics, run common systems that grow into the HS philosophy, and tie them into the particular culture (coaches at those HS’s get together and oversee that process). You can do that at MWC/Del City, Edmond, Moore, Norman, Yukon, Mustang, Deer Creek, Piedmont, etc. Then the middle schools just take it a step further – still under the HS program oversight – to be the “finishing schools.” I was a part of that at Jenks with my kids, and now in Edmond with the grandkids I see that difference clearly. When you see a sea of maroon jerseys on elementary playgrounds every Friday in the fall in Jenks, or tens of floats in the homecoming parade with football players, dads/moms, and cheerleaders for all the teams from 2nd grade on up (it takes forever), you know its football. I don’t see that here. I have friends in the Union and Owasso districts, and it’s the same. Do that first and I believe in 5 to 10 years you’ll see parity without splitting the eastside The downside to keeping one high school is any given Friday in Edmond, 33 kids are on the field somewhere, while on the eastside its only 11. That ensures there are lots of kids who could be on the field who aren’t on the eastside teams. That’s the price you pay, but they see it more as underclassmen for the most part marking their time (although lots of underclassmen on Union this year – bad sign for the rest of the state). What has usually been the case is most games have starters out by 4th quarter, so that next year’s starters already have significant experience when it’s their time.

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