My hat is off to any school that has a surplus of players. This is my first year in Sixman. What I didn't see is parity among teams. I saw team after team that had double of the players we had. We played TCAF Division 1 with 13 players. School size under 40 in High School. This is not a slam on anyone, please don't make this that. I was shocked to Teams in TCAF with double & almost triple that. Some with 5-12 Seniors on a team in some cases. I am not one of those coaches complaining about talent. I am just trying to get an understanding at which time does the Districts get involved?
How Many Players TCAF,TCAL, TAPPS?
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coachtim":13x0z5ep said:
Parity is tough at this level.
Since TAPPS limits participation to enrolled students only (and seriously limits in-season transfers), you're based on the boys enrollment at realignment time (for 2010-2012, it is based on enrollment during 2008-2010). I think something like 30 boys or less is D2, 30-69 is D1. Now, you can get some schools that are in a growth phase and are above those numbers (which should play out the following cycle).
But if you have 30 boys in school and get 25 out for the team, that's a salute to your school, team and the ability to get those young men to participate. Winning does tend to bring those numbers up; we have 16 this year and I've joked that there are a couple years together we could add up our teams and wouldn't get to that number.
TCAF and TCAL have different ways to separate divisions, and TCAL will change your division if your numbers jump (which happened this year when Tomball Home School was moved from D2 to D1).
