In yet another attempt to improve its debatable playoff process the Florida High School Athletic Association will consider reducing the number of state championships when its board of directors meets Monday to consider football reclassification , among other topics, at its Gainesville headquarters.

FHSAA executive director Craig Damon has pitched a plan that would divide roughly 580 football teams into six classifications, down from the eight that are now in play for football, basketball, baseball, softball and girls volleyball.

The format Damon and his staff composed after surveying coaches and administrators in October would keep the Rural class and have 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A and 5A classifications. Currently the classes are 1A through 7A and Rural.

With the advent of an eight-team Open

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