Bisonguy06 wrote:I know he's from Valley City, but VCHS would not be top 16 in enrollment and would not move to AAA. Wahpeton would. Belcourt would. VCHS would not, unless the numbers change. That's what I meant by my comment.
heimer wrote:Thanks for another dose of anti-Valley City prejudice, RunforFun. I clearly stated in the opener of this thread that Valley City would not be affected by this change. You just can't resist a chance to slam Valley City, can you?
I'm not speaking on behalf of Wahpeton, Belcourt, Valley City, or anyone. I'm speaking on behalf of football, period. No one else in the state seems to be able to speak on behalf of a sport. They always have mixed motives involved, promoting their team, or their area of the state, or protecting their memories of 30 years ago. Not me. I have none of those things to protect.
I'm speaking for football. Rise up and do the same, RunforFun. I challenge you.
heimer wrote:Thanks for another dose of anti-Valley City prejudice, RunforFun. I clearly stated in the opener of this thread that Valley City would not be affected by this change. You just can't resist a chance to slam Valley City, can you?
I'm not speaking on behalf of Wahpeton, Belcourt, Valley City, or anyone. I'm speaking on behalf of football, period. No one else in the state seems to be able to speak on behalf of a sport. They always have mixed motives involved, promoting their team, or their area of the state, or protecting their memories of 30 years ago. Not me. I have none of those things to protect.
I'm speaking for football. Rise up and do the same, RunforFun. I challenge you.
heimer wrote:Bisonguy, you conveniently ignore the free and reduced meals part of this thread that I originated the thread in the first place.
The practice should be stopped. Devils Lake continually gets screwed by reverse racism, which applies a 60% enrollment standard to schools with heavy users of "free and reduced meals". The standard was brought about by the NDHSAA after they were challenged for their policy of automatically classing the native schools down a class prior to 2007 (not speculation, verified by a person inside the NDHSAA).
The two of you, Bisonguy and RunforFun, both run to protect every private school when it is suggested that they should be forced to multiply their enrollment due to their "selective enrollment process" (recruiting, or more politically correct, lack of a defined school district). Yet, you apparently support a rule that allows other schools to artificially deflate their enrollment for a select sport based on what and how the students eat.
So, which way do you want it? When Valley City petitioned to move down, you screamed that 325 is 325, and until you're 324, you're A. Fine. I accept that, I don't agree that 325 is the right standard, but it is the rule. Football says the top 14 are AAA. Yet, thats not what happens. Right now the top 13 and #15 is AAA, while #14 is AA. That seems to be in direct conflict with your "your enrollment is your enrollment" standard you stuck to two winters ago, while you cheered the District 5 schools on in their effort to "reclaim your Class B glory".
Bisonguy, your phanton "enrollment spike" theory is a joke, and you know it. Until 2018, when this year's kindergarden class becomes seventh graders, there will be no upward tick in enrollment, much less a spike. I know the class sizes. With West Fargo 2 coming online before then, even 16 schools will not include Valley City. You made a deliberate attempt to muddy my motives on this thread. Argue facts in evidence, not your half-baked "theories".
RunforFun, your bias is clearly showing. Are you now of the persuasion that any change argued for is a product of Valley City? Sounds like it, because reading my original post all the way through, or looking the numbers at the links I provided, would have illustrated that Valley City is not part of this debate. Yet, somehow, you drag the Hi-Liners through the mud again. Good strategy. Track standards go up, blame Valley City. 9-man overtime rules change, blame Valley City. Obamacare is fully funded, blame Valley City. Maybe you can hook the Fighting Sioux fiasco on them too.
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