Run4Fun2009 wrote:magic man wrote:Run4Fun2009 wrote:Flip wrote:magic man wrote:For real? Well, how is that fair? You have to look at the fact that some schools have other fall sports that can pull away from the number of male athletes that might play football, no?
Am I missing something here?
Are you missing something? what have you actually understood would be the better question.
What if you have one kid run cross country should you be able to drop a class in FB because of that? What about non athletic activities? Come up with an alternative plan before you criticize the current one.
Essentially magic man there is no easy fix to anything you've suggested or criticized...right now ND has gone with a plan and really the only private school that really has been affected is OG. OG has been AA, A & 9-man over the past decade. Yes they have several fall sport opportunities with their coops with Shanley; they also have foreign exchange students (not nearly as many as Hillcrest)...but they haven't been out there whining about any disadvantages towards them...they just go about their task at hand...preparing their team for next year.
If some of the Rumblings are true, and Oak Grove ends up in 2A with the next realignment, we'll see if they complain or not.
They won't be 2A again unless they add a coop team...
A game hasn't even been played and there are already rumblings in 2A about complaints of travel, with them only having 10 teams. (Ex: Traveling from Wahp to Watford, every other year). They went from 16 teams down to 10. A mistake if you ask me, but when you have a bunch of public schools whining about being competitive in 2A, they get their wishes after a while.
The other rumblings are that they are looking at taking teams from 1A to move back or up to 2A... There are about 6 teams right in the same range of player totals, Oak Grove being one of them. If the NDHSAA does decide to increase 2A, they won't be able to pull from 3A, so they will pull from 1A.. How many they pull will be the big question.
Looking at the 2017-18 plan, they rank 4th in enrollment. (Beulah, New Town, Park River FL, and Oak Grove).
Again, assuming that all the rumblings are true, they are going to have to expand 2A.