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Texas HS State Championships question Duncanville & Desoto?

Posted on 12/17/23 at 1:15 am
Posted by DeafVallyBatnR
Member since Sep 2004
16824 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 1:15 am
They play in the same district Desoto finished in 1st place and Duncanville placed 2nd in District.

But they play in 2 different State Championship Brackets Division I Desoto and Division II Duncanville. What is that all about?
Posted by Mickey53
Shreveport
Member since Dec 2009
444 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 1:19 am to
So? Look at Louisiana! You have schools in the same districts playing in ðifferent divisions. It happens.
Posted by B1rdman15
The Office
Member since Feb 2010
5143 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 6:39 am to
The 6a schools play in the same district during regular season play, idk the reason other than they’re down the street from one another.

For the playoffs, schools get split into D1 or D2 based on enrollment. New realignment number indicates Desoto will be 5a D1 next season.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
30143 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 7:15 am to



Does LSU utilize these logos in any way when recruiting Texas?

I think it’s a great idea.

I saw Caden Durham with lsu gloves on. It’d be so cool to see the Texas tigers logo on recruits gloves or dare say it…..socks.

I have lower left logo on a shirt and love it. See my avatar.
This post was edited on 12/17/23 at 7:20 am
Posted by LSUstudent4life
Houston
Member since May 2008
1861 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 8:46 am to
I’m guessing the coaches have it written their contracts they have to wear Nike while recruiting. Also those shirts aren’t officially licensed.
Posted by 18handicap
Member since Jul 2014
5315 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 8:57 am to
It's all about enrollment. There's such a large gap in all of the conferences between the smallest and largest schools, that the superintendents of the state voted for the splits in the playoffs. Only conference 6A keeps the same districts in all sports while the rest split before the season in football only.

In 6A the range is from 2225 (Garland Naaman Forest) to 7102 (Allen). There are 86 schools larger than 3000 students. So they take the 4 playoff teams from each district and the 2 largest go to Division 1 and the others to Division 2.

Funny as a few times a school in the state finals in D2 is larger than schools in D1.

The reason why 6A superintendents won't split before the season like 1A-5A is travel. In the last realignment, there were only 15 6A schools West of the I-35 corridor (9 in El Paso, 1 Lubbock, 1 San Angelo, 4 Midland/Odessa). For next year that number drops to 13 (2 El Paso schools drop to 5A and face awful travel in football 5A D1). Out of the 13 left, only 1 El Paso has over 3000 students and Frenship ISD is building a 2nd HS, so Frenship HS will drop to 5A in 2 years. So the football travel $$$ will be astronomical in those areas with the possibility of the 1 El Paso school being in the same district with Fort Worth schools.

It works better in the smaller conferences, but there are some travel issues in west Texas, but most of them are used to it. The splits in the rest of the sports don't work because of travel on Tuesdays, but when I was in Snyder, our softball district included Fort Stockton on a Tuesday and that was a long bus ride for a game we won 15-0 in 3 innings!

I know this is long, but I hope this helps.
Posted by MarioBrothers
Member since Dec 2014
686 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 12:49 pm to
Thank you 18handicap for answering, I was going to answer till I saw your response. You are correct.
This post was edited on 12/17/23 at 12:51 pm
Posted by Kocin
Pearland Texas
Member since Feb 2017
625 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 2:13 pm to
They also played against teams from the same district
Posted by Tmcgin
BATON ROUGE
Member since Jun 2010
4962 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 2:17 pm to
Four teams from each district makes play off
The two largest enrollments go Div 1 (big school)
The two smallest enrollmets go Div 2 (small school)

they do this for 3A thru 6A I believe

No school in LA would be Div 1 in 6A football btw
Posted by duboisd
Palestine, Texas
Member since Jan 2006
2504 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 2:30 pm to
I coached at a 2A school just outside of San Angelo for five years. Anthony, which is on the OTHER side of El Paso, was in our football district!
Posted by 18handicap
Member since Jul 2014
5315 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 2:57 pm to
I remember seeing those 2A and 3A districts with Anthony and Tornillo! When I was at Snyder, Presidio was assigned to our softball district one year... thank goodness they didn't field a team that year!
Posted by 18handicap
Member since Jul 2014
5315 posts
Posted on 12/17/23 at 3:00 pm to
I coached in Texas from 1995-2021 and I was on several committees with TGCA during my career. I've run the Texas Prep Softball website, which is the closest thing to a softball coaches organization, for 20+ years now. I follow the TGCA, THSCA, and UIL information very closely.
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