Old 4A vs 3A now

[Sville]

I admit I am a stat nerd and I was bored this evening so I got out my old DCTF from 1999. That was the last year Sville won it all (we had an enrollment of 981) and wanted to see how many of the 4A teams then are 3A teams now. There are 47 (if I didn't miss any) approximately 25% of the 3A teams after this last realignment were 4A back then:

Andrews
Athens
Big Spring
Boerne
Borger
Brownwood
Burkburnett
Carthage
Clint Mountain View
Dallas Madison
Dallas Roosvelt
Estacado
Fabens
Fort Stockton
Fredricksburg
FW Castleberry
Henderson
Houston Furr
Houston Jones
Houston Kashmere
Houston Scarborough
Jasper
Kaufman
Kilgore
La Marque
Lampasas
Levelland
Mineral Wells
Navasota
Palestine
Pampa
Paris
Paris North Lamar
Pleasnton
Robstown
Rock Port Fulton
San Antonio Houston
Snyder
Springtown
Stephenville
Sweetwater
Tyler Chapel Hill
West Columbia
West Orange Stark
WF Hirschi
Wharton
Wilmer Hutchins

[Roughneck93]

El Campo

[Maroon87]

Kingsville

[SHSBulldog00]

Sweeny was a 4A, moved back down in 99

[j_dog]

Funny how the more things change, the more they are the same. Back in the old, old days (as in 1960) the classes were B, A, AA, AAA, AND AAAA.

Jasper moved from AA to AAA (then the supposed equivalent of today's 4A) with some 455 ADA, five over the 450 cutoff. Amazingly, I think 450 is now the bottom cutoff for 3A! Yet 3A is now the third class from the top.

[Twirling Time]

Funny how the more things change, the more they are the same. Back in the old, old days (as in 1960) the classes were B, A, AA, AAA, AND AAAA.

Jasper moved from AA to AAA (then the supposed equivalent of today's 4A) with some 455 ADA, five over the 450 cutoff. Amazingly, I think 450 is now the bottom cutoff for 3A! Yet 3A is now the third class from the top.

Looks like all the classes have shifted a whole level in 50 years because of population growth. It's just going to get faster and faster as people move south where the jobs are. That's why we need a 6A.