Cambria Heights to Heritage

[CharlieConway]

I think to make scheduling easier.

Reasonable thought. Mind if we run with this?

How much do the athletic director(s) make at each school in the LHAC, ICC, WestPac, Mt., WPIAL? Just ballpark me?

[CharlieConway]

I'm not gonna play this game and insult your intelligence. You know where I am headed. Things could be A lot easier is all I am saying!

[knowitall]

I think to make scheduling easier.

Reasonable thought. Mind if we run with this?

How much do the athletic director(s) make at each school in the LHAC, ICC, WestPac, Mt., WPIAL? Just ballpark me?

It depends. Some WestPAC schools probably pay theirs a couple hundred dollars. Hempfield paid its AD over $100,000.

[knowitall]

I think to make scheduling easier.

Reasonable thought. Mind if we run with this?

How much do the athletic director(s) make at each school in the LHAC, ICC, WestPac, Mt., WPIAL? Just ballpark me?

It depends. Some WestPAC schools probably pay theirs a couple hundred dollars. Hempfield paid its AD over $100,000.

And I suppose I don't know nothing about nothing as I have no idea where you are headed. Other than to the WPIAL and irrelevance, that is.

[Crimson's Ghost]

I actually don’t know where you’re heading either. So let’s try this, why shouldn’t we have conferences? I actually can’t think of one good reason.

[konjo78]

I think we could have divisions over conferences. Back 10-15 years ago there was a proposed division system to D6 I feel was a gigantic miss to not do.

Conferences are used to help scheduling out and convenience but the wide range of schools in some conferences just is not okay. We gotta get back to teams playing their class of schools

[Crimson's Ghost]

I disagree. I think the way the WPIAL aligns it’s teams is dumb. But at least they are a big enough district to do it. District 6 is fine with the conferences it has in place.

[CharlieConway]

I think we could have divisions over conferences. Back 10-15 years ago there was a proposed division system to D6 I feel was a gigantic miss to not do.

Conferences are used to help scheduling out and convenience but the wide range of schools in some conferences just is not okay. We gotta get back to teams playing their class of schools

BINGO! KONJO!!!!!!!

Also, restructure districts. We have some districts out there that don't even have schools to have a playoff and they combine. Clear indication that something is wrong.

Districts should automatically merge as they move up in classification. There are less 6As than 4As. Grid systems based on classification.

Think about it. Grid it off and see what you come up with!! Play within your district and play the same class size schools!!

Who says D6 is happy Crimson? Ligonier Valley and Cambria Heights appear to not be. Oh yeah and that entire B. Carroll episode and the LHAC.

[Crimson's Ghost]

The PIAA could use some work in restructuring districts. But in the meantime, I don't think we have to blow up conferences because Ligonier and Laurel Valley merged and dominated the Heritage because of it.

So Cambria Heights is unhappy. Well wasn't West Shamokin unhappy in the WPIAL? Didn't Butler and Albert Gallatin just leave the WPIAL playing under the structure you are suggesting?

I mean, so the story is everyone is always gonna be unhappy under any set of circumstances. Individual school districts are only looking out for themselves, not the greater good of high school athletics, so I think it's hard to use them as examples.


I think the PIAA should cut 6A and move down to 5 classifications for one, but that's a different story entirely. But I think geography-based conferences make more sense in the regular season than conferences based on size. Johnstown and Westmont are neighboring school districts, one's AAAA the other is AAA. It makes more sense for me for those two to play each other and be in the same league for all sports rather than Johnstown playing Bellefonte and Westmont playing Bald Eagle.

Maybe I'm a little crazy, but that's just how I see it.

[Crimson's Ghost]

Also, restructure districts. We have some districts out there that don't even have schools to have a playoff and they combine. Clear indication that something is wrong.

I think that's more of a consolidation issue, isn't it? The 'Something wrong" part is just Western Pennsylvania has a lot of school districts that are really small IMO.

District's 1,2,3,4,11,12 account for 80 of the 95 playing football schools in the largest classification. Districts 5,6,7,8,9,10 account for 15.

But in Single-A 71 of the 90 football playing schools are in the West, and just 19 in the East.


What's the answer as to why there are only large schools in the East and a bunch of tiny ones in the West?