Numbers and football

[no-look]

In general, do the larger schools usually doninate in most cases.....especially 3A where  some are twice the size of others.....Celina is small 3A but can beat a lot of the larger schools....just wondering how the top ten stand in numbers?....and overall, does it make a difference?

[Guest rykerx144]

I would say that yes overall it does make a difference.  If you have 200 athletes to choose from as opposed to 50, yes you can put together a better team with more athletes.  There are also several cases of smaller schools having good programs that can hang with some schools three and sometimes four times their size. 

[badndn]

The gap at the 3A and lower schools is much smaller than the gap at 4A and especially 5A schools.

Large 3A is 800+ and small 3A is 400 range

Large 4A is 1900+ and small 4A is 900+ Big gap

Large 5A is 3500+ (some as high as 5000) and small 2000+ Huge gap

Some of the powers in 5A

Allen 4800

North Shore 4200

FB Hightower 3000

Odessa Permian 3300

Converse Judson before the split with the new school (Wagner) 4000+ Notice they are not as strong since.

Plano 5000+

Plano East 4500

Pearland 3800

Euless Trinity 3000

Cy Falls 3500

Houston Lamar 3300

The Woodlands 3700

Dallas Skyline 5100

Spring Westfield 4000

Alief Elsik 4500

Katy 3000

Not to say the smaller 5A can't compete, but only a few really standout, Lufkin 2300, Southlake Carroll 2500 and growing, Cedar Hill 2500

[Guest Penny]

Bad, when I look at your stats, the percentage gap looks very similar... so to me it appears to be relative?

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[badndn]

Vidor 1381

Not by the UIL numbers.

Vidor 1430

Which is larger than PNG at 1413.

[badndn]

Bad, when I look at your stats, the percentage gap looks very similar... so to me it appears to be relative?

Yes. That's what I was trying to show. It is relative. especially at the larger classifications. And then when you factor in districts like Katy with open enrollment!

I was watching Southlake and Miami Northwestern last year and they were talking about the fact that the district that Nothwestern was in had over 100,000 students and it was open enrollment, essentially making Northwestern a football school. I think you see that in some of the districts in texas as well. Odessa is a prime example.