Coaches association Executive Director Eddie Joseph criticized the current system as doing too little to reward a district champion. Its plan would have given district champions a first round bye. We have people who are very, very unhappy with the format that we have. The district champion gets no advantage whatsoever for winning the district. The current system also creates too many state champions, said Midland Lee coach John Parchman, who sits on the coaches association board of directors.
Football is the only Texas high school sport that crowns two champions in each class.
Midland Lee won the 1998 Class 5A Division II state championship for its first state title. It's too watered down. Class 5A has been using the two-champion format since 1990 and Class 4A since 1996. Breithaupt says he thinks the 2A and 3A schools will learn to like the two-champion system. The bigger classes have been doing it longer.