Football and basketball champions?

[Pigglywiggly1966]

Has there been any 1A/sixman teams to win both titles in the same year or hold both titles? (Jayton won basketball last year, might win football this year) fixing to dig into the research now, just thought I’d ask the masses first.

 

[THK1138]

Not that I’m aware, but Benjamin got close last year.

 

[Cowboy1234]

Hard to do in 1A with all the straight basketball schools!!!

 

[rwpag]

Hard to do in 1A with all the straight basketball schools!!!

This and the fact that a large number of shools will have two months of orgainzed practices and 15 or so games under their belts before the football champ laces up. With that said, Gordon or Jayton have the athletes to pull it off.

 

[Homelander]

I know they aren't sixman schools, but I want to say Canadian won back-to-back championships both in football and basketball. I believe their head basketball coach had been at Water Valley prior before that. The coaches kid was a heck of a basketball player and WR for Canadian as well.

 

[Homelander]

This and the fact that a large number of shools will have two months of orgainzed practices and 15 or so games under their belts before the football champ laces up. With that said, Gordon or Jayton have the athletes to pull it off.

The reason I brought up Canadian winning state in both sports, is because a majority of their athletes played both sports. It has nothing to do with schools having more time in basketball than the teams who make it in state in football. It's just really hard to win state in both sports! I do think Jayton has a good chance to accomplish it though

 

[Dale Miller]

Gordon will return a state final four team intact.

 

[rwpag]

It is my understanding that the various classifications will use the 6A football methodolgy for determining which teams populate the Div1 and Div2 brackets and that this will be done next year as well (i.e. the top four teams in each district advance to the playoff with the two larger enrollment schools going to Div1 and the other two to Div2). I assume they will form new districts for each division in future realignments. For this year and next, I think there is a strong probability that both Gordon and Jayton will get assigned to Div2 and will meet in the second round of the playoffs.

If currrent enrollment numbers hold, Gordon will be in Div1 in the next realignment. Had this been done in the most recent realignment, the enrollment cutoff looks like it would have been around 66 for separating divisions

 

[Texlonghorn75]

It is my understanding that the various classifications will use the 6A football methodolgy for determining which teams populate the Div1 and Div2 brackets and that this will be done next year as well (i.e. the top four teams in each district advance to the playoff with the two larger enrollment schools going to Div1 and the other two to Div2). I assume they will form new districts for each division in future realignments. For this year and next, I think there is a strong probability that both Gordon and Jayton will get assigned to Div2 and will meet in the second round of the playoffs.

If currrent enrollment numbers hold, Gordon will be in Div1 in the next realignment. Had this been done in the most recent realignment, the enrollment cutoff looks like it would have been around 66 for separating divisions

How does Gordon get assigned to Division 2? Their enrollment has continued to rise, and some locals predict Gordon will be an eleven man football team before ever returning to Division 2 enrollment numbers.

 

[rwpag]

How does Gordon get assigned to Division 2? Their enrollment has continued to rise, and some locals predict Gordon will be an eleven man football team before ever returning to Division 2 enrollment numbers.

As it is, Gordon is in a basketball district with three teams (Eula, Baird, Ranger) having a higher enrollment and two teams (Strawn, Moran) having a lower enrollment. For Gordon to go into the Div1 bracket, both Strawn and Moran would have finish in the top four in the district and thus have a better district record than two of Eula, Baird, and Ranger. I assume of course that Gordon finishes in the top four. You're going to see a lot of teams you would regard as Div1 showing up in the Div2 playoff bracket this year and supposedly next.

All of this is due to the decision to have two Divisions being made after the current realignment that placed each classification into one large pool with no regard to Divisions. I am assuming this will be rectified on the next realignment.

Reg2Dist11 is a good example. Five of the seven teams have an enrollment of 80 or more. If three or four of them finish in the top four, they can't all be placed in the Div1 bracket. The two teams in the top four with the lower enrollment numbers will drop to Div2 even if they have an enrollment of 80 or more.

 

[Blue Bird]

Basketball as I understand it, does not have the mid-number as the dividing number between the division 1 and 2. Each district will have four teams making the playoffs. The two teams with the largest enrollment of the four becomes division 1. The two smaller teams will go into the playoffs as division 2. It is possible that Gordon could be in division 2 in the basketball playoffs. It is confusing to me on several levels, mainly because no one will know ahead of time who their bi-district opponant could be.

 

[COOKERBURNER]

Jayton will do it this year when they repeat in basketball..Returning all the dogs from last years championship run

 

[THK1138]

Technically Jayton just did. I know it’s not what you meant.

 

[sixmanfan2007]

I know they aren't sixman schools, but I want to say Canadian won back-to-back championships both in football and basketball. I believe their head basketball coach had been at Water Valley prior before that. The coaches kid was a heck of a basketball player and WR for Canadian as well.

They did it two years in a row.