Janssen Baker

Christian/father/husband/Douglas High School football & softball coach/ Roll Tide

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@coach_smith11 @ToeTheLinePod @Coach_JD_Atkins @spsmobile_al @airtran5 @PowerHSports @AL7AFootball @PORTCITYPROSPEC @FOX10Sports @CoachLundberg @jacksonbill01 @CoachDoerflinge @HallTechSports1 @coachmarkf Would be hard to retain assistant coaches for sure. High school kids making more money than them and coaches spending less time with their own family. Be hard to justify staying and coaching.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@coach_smith11 Same thing happening in city schools near me.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@tvann2 Keep fighting Coach! Someone needs to hold AHSAA accountable.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@jaredkeesee Totally agree! Scottsboro responded their numbers were wrong the same day the AHSAA emailed asking for verification. Why send out a mass email asking, if you are just going to do what you want?

[Gary Lloyd @GaryALloyd]

The AHSAA can’t seem to stay out of headlines and prepared statements.

[Coach Pitts @CoachVPitts]

@GaryALloyd 😬 This is a bad look. We all got the email asking for info to be verified. If you aren’t going to accept the corrections the schools provide, why ask? Maybe there is more to it…something we aren’t aware of. I hope so.

[Terry @terrydisbell]

@GaryALloyd Heath may be in over his head

[Max Cohan @MaxCohan]

Scottsboro City Schools says the AHSAA denied a request to fix data errors that would have impacted Scottsboro High School’s reclassification:

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@CoachBGodsey @ONTHEDMARK1 @AHSAAUpdates @Heath_M_Harmon Not talking about for this year. Just my thoughts for future. If we went back to area play then it would cut travel for a lot of programs. I believe a lot of teams are having to travel longer distances.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@johnsonj42 @ONTHEDMARK1 @AHSAAUpdates @Heath_M_Harmon From a softball standpoint a lot of teams have very few pitchers for the entire program. For instance, one 5A city school only has one pitcher for the both JV and V levels. That’s asking a kid to do too much. Smaller teams would struggle in region play. Not saying I’m against it.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@johnsonj42 @ONTHEDMARK1 @AHSAAUpdates @Heath_M_Harmon I do see that side of it. I coach softball as well only difference we have area tournament at the end. It would be difficult for softball to follow region play due to teams not having the pitching.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@coach_smith11 Totally agree

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@coach_appling @willainsworthAL That’s not entirely correct. City schools do get to choose who stays and who goes.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@willainsworthAL Would it not be better to go back to area play?

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@willainsworthAL Great read Mr. Ainsworth. There has to be a better solution for fairness on both sides!

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@ethereum20002 @GaryALloyd The more students a school has the better opportunity to pull athletes to play. So Florence has 500 more kids to pull from to play football.

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@BamaHsfb Try this one
@Heath_M_Harmon

[Janssen Baker @BakerJanssen]

@GaryALloyd What Andrew said is correct. Which is why city schools have an advantage and revenue to build such schools to help with numbers while county schools do not. If you drive thru Albertville they are truly a 7A based on revenue, population and landscape.