The NSAA Classification Committee met Wednesday in Grand Island. Football classification starting in 2018 was the topic of discussion. It was decided to move forward with a proposal that would classify football according to boy enrollment only. Although this would have only changed 6 schools during the current classification, it will be the fairest way to determine classes. The next meeting will be the last week in July, where the committee will look at setting enrollment numbers for all football classes based on boy enrollment. Example- schools with a boy enrollment above 400 would be in Class A. The current classification is based on 28 schools in Class A, then 32 in Class B. Having enrollment numbers would keep the enrollment ratio of largest school to smallest school in a class for reasonable. The ratio in Class B is almost 3:1, meaning the largest Class B school has 3 times the enrollment of the smallest Class B.
It was a very productive meeting. I hope we can put togther a good proposal to take back to the District meetings in November.
