heimer wrote:Mailman_25 wrote:ndlionsfan wrote:It's not any closer for GBC, either. Maybe that is part of the reason why Carrington dropped PBK so they could slip back to A and have decent road trips. Too bad there is not another school large enough out west to go up to AA to balance things out.
Well, not exactly.
Distance to Bismarck according to Google Maps (we all know Valley City is not going west)
Wimbledon: 131
Valley City: 135
Rogers: 137
Cooperstown: 166
Enderlin: 174
Casselton: 175
Lisbon: 182
I love this post. Let's calculate only the mileage to Bismarck to make a point. Did you bother to check the mileage to, oh, I don't know, say Beulah, Watford City, Stanley, Minot Ryan and Belcourt, you know, like 70% of the west region?
I feel bad that GBC is going to be west, but they were the logical choice for the move. They are closer to almost all of the region than Valley City.
In 2011's plan, the football board tried to shaft VC by moving them west instead of GBC, then dealing with the situation of Fargo Oak Grove remaining AA. A member of the football committee told me there was no rationale for moving Valley City instead of GBC. They just decided to do it.
Another screwjob of Valley City, likely payback for disrupting their Class "B" utopia with the 2009-10 basketball season. And this is how the NDHSAA operates, with backroom politics and screwjobs.
They got this one right, but only because they got a second chance at it. Between GBC and VC, GBC is the rightful team to take the west assignment. Frankly, they could fix this issue with smaller classes and schedules of everyone playing everyone. Until they do that, this is the way it is.
heimer wrote:This is just another attempt at screwing Valley City.
And Flip, you're right, there is still plenty of time for your "B utopia" buddies at the NDHSAA to screw Valley City again.
Only this time, I hope they are ready to go to court.
heimer wrote:Awfully petty reason to oppose. Over half the AAA make it now. Shortening up the classes for better competition should yield some reward to the teams involved.
This is why this state goes nowhere in improving its high school athletics. Every idea seems to be 30 years out of date and based on no fact. What is wrong with 8 of 12 in the playoffs when EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR BELOVED B BASKETBALL TEAMS MAKE THE PLAYOFFS?
heimer wrote:We need a more robust 9-man class
We need to modernize our scheduling. 9 games has been the norm forever.
We need more competitive regular season games. 16-team classes don't make the state champs feel any better about themselves than 12-team classes.
We need schools to have more choices on competition. The opt-ups alone in the plan I suggested would make a more competitive atmosphere.
The Schwab wrote:I am so glad that everyone is always out to get valley city, when in fact IMO it is the other way around, lets make things easy on them, like when a certain few administrators got together a couple years ago and we didn't have "class b" for a year instead we had "division b". Were you feeling sorry for North Border when they were sent to the west region for football? 9 man IMO is the division that best represents most of the class B towns in North Dakota so it makes sense that they have the most teams
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