Bisonguy06 wrote:I totally disagree. If you're going to talk about enrollment cutoffs and what to pick for your numbers, you have to start that discussion somewhere. Otherwise, you're just pulling numbers out of thin air. You start the conversation by looking for natural breaks.
Williston has competed just fine in the top football class forever. Devils Lake has been strong but not dominant in AA football, and they rarely made any noise in AAA football prior to their move down. Therefore, we have evidence that a school of Williston's size can compete in AAA and a school of Devils Lake belongs in AA. At what size can a school compete in AAA? I say split the difference. There's a gap of 89 students between them. 350 is a nice round number almost halfway between the male enrollments of those two schools. Seems like a nice place to draw a line between AAA and AA, and I provided some reasoning and some evidence to support the #350. Is my reasoning perfect? Of course not. Anyone can find dents in the armor, but at least my #350 had some thought put into it.
steve34 wrote:I'm happy with the current grouping system.
That system includes:
Top 12--AAA
Next 16--AA
Next 32--A
Rest--9-man
I'm just fine with keeping these groups the way they are.
steve34 wrote:BisonGuy, please try to understand the issue. It's not a 12 team problem. The plan is to increase to 14, and that has problems. Even if you're going to keep the class at 12, you have to move someone down, as Davies enters the mix. So Williston goes down. And you still can't fill schedules with 12 teams. Half the season is non-conference games. It doesn't work with 12 period.
steve34 wrote:12 teams is done. Reason: Even if you fill the schedule nicely among the teams, half the schedule is non-conference games. Coaches did not like the big number of non-league games this year.
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