You think the MSHSAA situation is extreme? Check out the news from Florida

While Missouri coaches and administrators debate the pros and cons of their vote whether to split high schools into two individual associations, state legislators in Florida have taken it upon themselves to do that.

But now the real surprise: The whole process is being done without the involvement of coaches, administrators or even the Florida High School Athletic Association, which oversees state high school sports.

In a vote Tuesday, the Florida Senate voted to push the state's private schools out of the FHSAA and into their own private organization. That means the schools would have their own playoff system, much like the proposal that's being debated in Missouri. The biggest difference, however, is that in Missouri, individual schools were given a vote (those results should be known later this week).

In Florida, officials at the FHSAA said they were never even notified of the Senate measure, nor were they included in any discussions.

"Nobody said anything to us," FHSAA commissioner John Stewart told the St. Petersburg Times in this story published Wednesday.

The measure is expected to be approved by the House this week, then will go to Gov. Charlie Crist for his signature.

The bill's top supporter says he introduced the measure because the FHSAA is "rude" and "arrogant" and doesn't listen to the complaints of its private school members.

And yet the head of the Florida Council of Independent Schools told the Times that his group didn't doesn't even support the bill. Most of Florida's private schools don't support the split either, he said, even though it appears on the fast track toward being approved.

The bill will allow private and public schools to compete during the regular season, then stage separate playoffs with the public and private champions meeting at the end of the playoffs for a final championship game.