06-10-2005, 10:52 AM | #1 | ||
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Tucker Tigers might see new opponents
In 2006 that is.
Thursday, the Georgia High School Association released the proposed reclassification and region realignments that would take effect for the 2006-2008 school years. Last season's (and this year's) ten team Region 6-AAAA is slated to become a 12 team region, subdivided 6 & 6. Tucker would be in 6-AAAA(B), with archrival Marist, Lakeside-Dekalb, Mays, North Springs, and St.Pius X. Sub-region (A) would have traditional powerhouse SW DeKalb, Cedar Grove, Columbia, Miller's Grove, Stone Mountain, and Washington-Atlanta. Teams leaving 6-AAAA would include: North Forsyth (to 7-AAAAA), Forsyth Central (7-AAAAA), Etowah (5-AAAAA(B)), Alpharetta (6-AAAAA(B)), and Chamblee (5-AAA(B)). The decision of how to handle games with teams in the opposite sub-region (play them & count them, play them but don't count in SR/R standings, don't play them) and how to handle selection of 4 teams from the region to advance to the state playoffs will be left to each individual region. Last year's AAAA champion, Warner Robins, gets one of the toughest reassignments of all -- not only do they move up to AAAAA, but they are currently slotted for Region 1-AAAAA ... which includes defending state champ Lowndes County and traditional powerhouse Valdosta, as well as Coffee County, Colquitt County, Tift County, and fellow newcomer (and nearby rival) Houston County. Since I'm posting this, I'll throw in a few non-Tucker items too -- Local HS Monticello gets one of the biggest kisses of all the teams, dropping down from Class AA to Class A, in a sub-region without any football powers. -- Their former region, 8-AA, has to be among the strangest geographical ones, with a group of 6 teams south of Athens down toward central Georgia, and a group of five near the GA/NC border. Perfect example of why play between sub-regions will not be required. -- At least two regions will automatically send all their teams to the playoffs because there's only 4 football schools in the region: 1-AAAA (Americus-Sumter, Bainbridge, Lee County, and Thomas Co. Central) 5-A (Eagle's Landing C.A., Landmark Christian, Our Lady-Mercy, Whitefield Acad.)
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06-10-2005, 11:00 AM | #2 |
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I think Marist and Tucker were both slotted to move down to AAA, based on enrollment, but both decided to "play up" to the AAAA classification.
I love this new region. SWD has been down the last couple of years, but for twenty years, they were THE program in DeKalb county--most prominent alumnus being Quitcy Carter. I'm not sure Tucker has played them (except for maybe in a jamboree) since the early 80s. That south half of the region is filled with neighborhood rivalries--Columbia-SWD, Stone Mountain-Miller Grove, Cedar Grove-Columbia and SWD. Lakeside and Tucker maintain their rivalry, as do St. Pius and Marist (and of course Marist and Tucker). Mays is the two time defending AAAA state basketball champion (and beat Tucker in the state finals this year). |
06-10-2005, 11:11 AM | #3 | |
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OF NOTE: both Tucker and Marist were both slotted to be dropped down to AAA with this realignment. Tucker was the 2nd-smallest school in the entire state in AAAA this past season, and Marist has never been a AAAA-sized school. When the enrollment figures were released a few weeks ago, before doing anything, Tucker's AD (and head football coach) Bill Ballard called Marist AD Tommy Marshall. My understanding is that Ballard's end of the conversation went something like this: "Hey Tommy, Bill Ballard. You doin' alright? Good, good. Hey listen, have you seen the new enrollment figures? Yeah? Well, are y'all playing up again? {pause} Alright, that's all I need to know. We'll play up, too." And so, one of the best rivalries in Georgia continued...
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06-10-2005, 11:21 AM | #5 |
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In the case of this region, I fully expect them to play across the other sub-region, perhaps leaving themselves 1 or 2 non-region games. I'd really like to see teams like Tucker, Marist, SW, play home-and-home with 1 of the south GA schools or with the new Clayon County'ish Region 4 through this cycle. I don't believe it's likely though, the risk when it comes to tiebreakers is too great for most teams.
But that region 8-AA, what a clustered up mess.
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06-10-2005, 11:23 AM | #6 |
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And the other half is similar for girls, with Pius & Mays winning state titles in 03 & 04, while Etowah won it all last year/earlier this year.
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06-10-2005, 11:26 AM | #7 |
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Hey JIMG, any linky for the rest of us?
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06-10-2005, 11:30 AM | #8 |
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06-10-2005, 11:31 AM | #9 |
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Thx.
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