PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia’s excessive faculty basketball landscape should trade appreciably as the state athletics fee proposes adding the fourth classification in 2021. The notion is a two- to 12-month test run for basketball, which is the simplest, stated Bernie Dolan, executive director of the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission. “There changed into some hesitation to absolutely turn each sport the other way up till we see how this performs out,” Dolan stated. “We can check it after two years and see if it looks as if it’s honest.”
A vote may be held on April 2 with the aid of the SSAC Board of Control, and if passed, the degree might be dispatched to the county’s Board of Education. Dolan confirmed four Class A personal faculties could probably flow to larger lessons: Charleston Catholic, Notre Dame, Saint Joseph Central, and Wheeling Central Catholic. Remaining in Class A would be Greater Beckley Christian,
Madonna, Parkersburg Catholic, and Trinity. “Depending on how the numbers wash out in 12 months, we’re no longer positive who’s going to head up or down, but it isn’t moving everyone wholesale up simply because you’re a non-public college,” Dolan stated. “I sense there are particular blessings to being a private college because you’re in a metropolis, and masses of people are getting admission to each one and center. We just tried to position a variety of things that we notion changed into honesty to try to balance it.
” Saint Joseph Central’s girls’ basketball crew won its 9th Class A championship inside the closing 11 years over the weekend. Fifteen of the last 17 Class A champions in boys basketball are personal faculties, which includes a stretch from 2002 to 2012 in which an individual faculty gained the name eleven straight seasons. Wheeling Central’s boy’s basketball software has won eight Class A titles because of 2002. “I’ve continually argued that during our type device, our schools have benefits, no longer because they’re private. However, they’re
positioned,” Dolan stated. “Through some of the conferences we’ve had in our Competitive Balance Committee, we tried to place more than a few on what that balance ought to be.” Through the thought, each faculty could score from 1-a a hundred,whic, weighing numerous factors. Dolan said 70 percent of your rating would come from enrollment and 20 percent from location [whether it’s the location to a city or county seat]. The final 10 percent is an aggregate of the county’s economics and students enrolled. “All those matters get mashed
together, there’s a calculation, and then it puts the schools in numerical order, and we will divide those into four instructions just for basketball.” The Competitive Balance Committee consists of 18 people — 5 principals or athletic administrators from the three cutting-edge training and three WVSSAC Board of Directors contributors. Representatives from public and private colleges formed the suggestion. The courtroom type, which Dolan believes has a “correct chance” to bypass, should majorly affect public faculties.
There are public college members who are going to move up also, and that they’re likely not satisfied with it,” Dolan stated. “It’s not we flow personal faculties. There are different ones that can be shifted up because they have the same blessings of an area and the economics of their town in addition to in their faculty.” The basketball nation tournament runs Wednesday through Saturday, with eight individuals from each of the three training; under a four-magnificence device, Dolan stated play would begin with six additional video games on Tuesday.
