Bernard Childress, executive director of the TSSAA.The TSSAA Board of Control will meet tonight to discuss possible scenarios before voting on a new reclassification plan.
The state’s high school sports governing body sets classification every four years, but rather than setting everything in stone, this year’s meeting could raise more questions.
The nine-member board has asked the TSSAA to present several options of plans for them to discuss, including a three-classification plan for all sports, a four-class format across the board and another plan in which football will drop from six to five classes and all other sports will remain in the current three-class system.
The board is scheduled to vote on a new plan Wednesday, but that could get pushed back to its next meeting in late July.
“Our staff worked a lot of hours on going through a lot of scenarios, but we are only going to present those plans that we feel are viable options for our state,” TSSAA executive director Bernard Childress said. “We will show them the breakdown for each plan and also ask them to look at just keeping things the way they are currently. Then it will be up to the board to discuss and vote on which plan they feel is best.”