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I don’t know if Texas has class football, but it seems to me that Aledo HS needs to play up a class or two.

As long as they aren’t shooting steroids, and paying players with cash, cars and girls, then what’s the problem? And if they are, then the boys are ready for playing in the SEC.

I don’t know if Texas has class football, but it seems to me that Aledo HS needs to play up a class or two.

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We do. Trouble is - we don’t have enough classes. We only go as high as 5A. Some states go to 6A. Not sure why Texas (check that - I know why Texas doesn’t) It’s the UIL baloney.

Anyhoo - we have two division within 5A - which further adds to the confusion.

I don’t know if Texas has class football, but it seems to me that Aledo HS needs to play up a class or two.

Texas has multiple divisions/regions based on geography. However,schools are also seperated according to size, from small 1A to the biggest 5A. (A bigger school should have a better team as the have a wider pool to select from.)
I do know schools can play out of their size, as my school (Jesuit) was placed a tier higher as part of the settlement allowing us to play in the UIL. (We're a 4A size school, but play in 5A).

Looking at their schedule, they probably could compete in 5A, but I don't know the criteria for forcing a team up. Their schedule last year went 10-2, and most of their wind are only 45-10 or so. This year it's all 80s-10. But I highly doubt the UIL would move them in the middle of the season.

Our classes are set up according to school populations and the organizing body known as the UIL tries to set up the districts based on geographic location although I question that at times if you look at some of the road trips some schools have to take for for district games including my own school. For example, class 5A takes on schools from about 2000 student population to the maximum enrollment. Class 4A, for which Aledo is a member takes on enrollments of around 1000 to 2000. Mind you this is just the high school populations.

Aledo is right outside Fort Worth and they are in a district wih mostly Fort Worth schools. And those of us who follow High School football here know the Fort Worth schools as well as many inner city schools are weak sauce now a days with their football programs. And the Fort Worth schools are REALLY weak sauce. Aledo is suburban school and most of your state championship programs at the higher levels are coming from suburban schools or communities close by to the populations centers. You can’t get good coaches and program builders into these inner city schools nowadays thanks to the headaches they have become with the students and administrators. Most coaches go there to get their feet wet, and when a better job opens up, they jump in a heartbeat.

Aldeo has state title hardware to their names as of recent and when playoffs start in a few weeks, we will find out if they are indeed this powerful machine or if their district is really that pitiful.