Should there really have been a dropout in a Uil realignment?”
On Monday morning, the Birdville Fine Arts/Athletic Complex will resemble the Wall Street trading floor. Many area high school football coaches and athletic directors will assemble for the long-awaited announcement of the biennial UIL reclassification and realignment for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. At 9 a.m., all eyes will be on screens as coaches learn which districts they’ve been placed in for the next two years. The alignments, established by enrollment figures submitted by schools in October, will serve as football and basketball districts. The unveiling will produce a distinct mixture of moaning and groaning and hooting and hollering. Then chaos ensues as football coaches dash across the floor, some screaming from one corner to the next, trying to fill nondistrict schedules. “It’s pretty interesting to sit back and watch,” Dallas ISD athletic director Jeff Johnson said. “It’s a pretty neat deal.” Generally, teams are placed in districts with their neighbors of similar si
As the latest University Interscholastic League realignment approaches, a sweeping change will come with it. And while coaches know that there will be a lot of movement when the UIL releases the districts for high school athletic competition for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years on Monday morning, this time there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the procedure. “We’ve been in a lot of different districts. We could go anywhere,” Denison athletic director Cody White said. “I think we could go back with Wichita Falls. I wouldn’t expect to go east.” Said Sherman athletic director Gary Kinne: “I don’t know what to hope for. There’s a lot of ways to look at it. If we stay in the same district, which I don’t think will happen, that would be great.” Among the reasons for the unknown futures in almost every classification is a split of football teams in Class 1A and 2A based on enrollment before geography as well as the perceived decision by the UIL to fill in the four previously empty d
