Archbishop Alter drops to DIII

 
This mostly applies to D1/D2 flip flop teams and smaller D1 teams that never flop. Why are teams with 325 competing with 1000+, when D2 and D3 teams have a range less than 200??? A sport where you have to field 11+ solid players to excel has three divisions where 5+ solid players in basketball is the sweet spot and they have four divisions. I know that the cutoff in D1 soccer is similar to basketball and there are less soccer teams in the state, but doesn't the amount of talented athletes needed to field a contending team ever come into play when amount of divisions are considered?
 
K-1122 said:
This mostly applies to D1/D2 flip flop teams and smaller D1 teams that never flop. Why are teams with 325 competing with 1000+, when D2 and D3 teams have a range less than 200??? A sport where you have to field 11+ solid players to excel has three divisions where 5+ solid players in basketball is the sweet spot and they have four divisions. I know that the cutoff in D1 soccer is similar to basketball and there are less soccer teams in the state, but doesn't the amount of talented athletes needed to field a contending team ever come into play when amount of divisions are considered?
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Couldn't agree more. OHSAA needs to fix this problem. There is way too much disparity in enrollments in the lower part of D-1 and the upper echelon. It could easily be fixed by eliminating the equal number of teams in each of the three divisions blueprint...and going to a smaller D-1 grouping....say 500 and up in D-1......and then split up D-2 and 3 with the remaining teams. D-2 and D-3 would have many more teams...but when you look at the fairness of competition....the differences in enrollments are much more logical than sending a 329 enrollment school like Bellbrook against schools with more than 3 times their enrollment. Same can be done with basketball and Volleyball. Both have much unfairness between the lower parts of D-1 and the huge D-1 schools.
 
iluvsnow said:
And Bellbrook...who should be very good, is the smallest D-1 team in the state, missing by one person being a D-2 team.
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Actually Rocky River is the smallest D1 team with 1 less girl than Bellbrook and 1 more than the largest D2 school, Tiffin Columbian. (Bellbrook is 2 more than the largest D2 school).
 
If I'm not mistaken, the OHSAA basically takes the total number of schools playing soccer & divides by 3......in essence creating a roughly equal number of teams in each of the Divisions. At least, that appears to be how it has been done in the past. Thus there CAN be a disparity in total enrollment from the top schools (in number of students, IOW) in a given Division to the bottom few, near that cut-off point.

Post Script: Having checked the OHSAA Meetings Minutes from June 9th......that is how it was divided again this season. Thus.....
D1 = 328 female students from October 2021 / 173 teams
D2 = 191 to 327 students / 173 teams
D3 = 190 or less students / 174 teams

On the Boys side, each Division has 189 teams.
 
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