3A District Alignment

I've been saying the same thing. If they want to play in 3A so bad, let them play each other in "3AP". Then they can do it again in the 1st and 2nd rounds of the playoffs.

Honest question…is the gap really that big besides maybe Lincoln and Heritage Hall?

Perkins beat Holland Hall 63-0 last year. Marlow beat Metro in the 1st round and Cascia Hall handily in the 2nd round. Then Perkins loses by 7 and Marlow loses by 2 as time expires in the semi finals. I understand the argument behind advantages, but for the top programs is that gap so wide it’s impossible to beat them?

Sounds like someone that has convinced himself that the privates are just getting  better coaching, right? The fact that you don't understand or refuse to understand that any school that gets to pick and choose who comes to their school has an advantage really indicates exactly how much you don't understand. 
1. The private schools get to decide who they accept and who they don't.
2. The private schools are under no obligation to offer special education services. 
3. The private schools can decide to get rid of any student they choose to at any point for any reason.
4. The private schools can and do require that students that attend their school participate in a varsity sport. 
5. Public schools are required by law to accept any student that lives in their district. 
6. Public schools are required by law to offer special education services.
7. The student at a public school that is non verbal and confined to a wheelchair counts the same toward the ADM as the starting QB. This first kid mentioned will not be accepted at a private school. 
8. The public schools are required by law to accept transfers in the order that they are received unless they can articulate why one is not accepted and it must be documented as to why the transfer is refused. 
Now I am sure you will still find an excuse for the privates, but at least you have been exposed to the truth about the differences that give the privates an advantage.I guess I left one off which is, anytime the membership of the association passes a rule that the privates don't like, they go running to an attorney and file a law suit. They do  this despite the fact that they have joined an association voluntarily and agreed to go by the rules that the association votes to implement. 

I guess public schools have gone soft... this was an issue when I was in school 20 years ago, and is still an issue today...

It will not go away.

Maybe the issue in public schools is the lack of structure? The lack of care? Nobody complains when it's Bixby who has controlled state championship in their class

Nobody complained when wagoner controlled 4a.

Nobody complains about Washington, Tuttle, Blanchard, and Carl Albert's.

I mean at what point do you just say to the kids... well kids we can't be the privates so we settle for second place..

BTW I coached at a title 1 school in oklahoma, I know the disadvantages all two well as I coached at a 2a school against metro after they dropped from 4a to 2a..

So please public schools can control ADM... I've witnessed it first hand.

Recruiting I've heard the publics in Tulsa and oklahoma city use to go recruit the middle schools and then get the best athletes apartments in their district..

I witnessed a school in south east oklahoma attempt to recruit a student enrolled him and then couldn't secure a rent house in the district with the aid of the coaches.


Football is 90% preparation... parents who care, coaches who care, and a community who cares wins... again ask Tuttle, Blanchard, Carl Albert, Washington, Bixby, and others around the state

No excuses, just produce... but looks like Joe blow above me as 15 to 20 excuses... like bro we get it... privates have an advantage... but at what point do you quit crying.. because there is no crying in football.

It's not an excuse. Excuse means to give a false reason why you can't do something. These aren't false reasons, these are real reasons that public schools aren't competing on a level playing field with private schools. The OSSAA has a responsibility to level the playing field. Rule 14 is an attempt to do that. These private schools like Crossing and OCS, are the real cry babies. They recruit kids to come and play at their school then complain because they have to play up a few classes. Crossings, a school with a long waiting list, somehow is able to get several new basketball players for next season. Frankly it's a shame Crossings has only won one state title in the last decade, same with OCS.