steve34 wrote:We all have to accept that, due to their growth, Fargo, Bismarck, Minot, and Grand Forks are all different than any other towns in the state. With this plan, all of the AAA schools come from these four towns. The AA teams come from Williston, Dickinson, privates from Fargo and Bismarck, Devils Lake, Belcourt, Valley City, Jamestown, and Wahpeton. These towns look the same. There are natural breaks in enrollment numbers and town size to mirror the class system here. We don't need to show half of these teams up just to make us feel good about the number of teams in a class. If the class is 10 teams, and they all look relatively the same, then that's the class. College conferences make 8-10 work, and their conference titles mean as much as if they were in a 12-14 team conference. Why can't a 10 team class work in high school, when all the information supports it?
steve34 wrote:I'm actually trying to plan for the future. Right now, there are 18 of those teams, counting Davies. If we see West Fargo and Bismarck build, we will be at 20. That's 10 a class, if you divide it by 2. I still think there's a good case for grouping at the top level. And, like I said, if teams want to opt up and upset the apple cart a little bit, I think it's right to let them do so, and figure it out somehow.
steve34 wrote:The claim has been made here that Jamestown and the others have never considered themselves a second-tier town. That's not true. I talked to people from Jamestown (in the high school system) about this idea, and they embrace it.
steve34 wrote:Smarter men then all of us have that agenda, and sooner or later, as the bigs get bigger and everyone else gets smaller, we'll get there. I got nothing but time, and time is on my side.
steve34 wrote:And in five years, they will all have 700. And in 10 years, they will all have 800. And in 5 years, Jamestown will have 350, and in 10 years, Jamestown will have 300, and lower, and lower, and lower.
Bisonguy06 wrote:When the Fargo schools grow to 700 and 800, they still won't be as big as Minot High, and Minot High really has not been dominant in football or any other sport.
steve34 wrote:And in five years, they will all have 700. And in 10 years, they will all have 800. And in 5 years, Jamestown will have 350, and in 10 years, Jamestown will have 300, and lower, and lower, and lower.
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