d_fense wrote:1. What makes you think that the NDHSAA doesn't want to entertain a multiplier?
There are eight private schools in the entire state. Two of them are too small to be affected by a multiplier and two would likely opt up a class anyway. We need a multiplier for four schools when some may opt up on their own? Doesn't make sense.
d_fense wrote:
2. What gives you the idea that a multiplier would lead to a legal challenge? It is used not only in other states, but in N.D. as well for free and reduced lunches.
It has happened in other states. Yes, there are states that have them (I currently live in one) but there have been many that have rejected the idea mainly because they don't want to potentially get involved in a legal battle over it.
d_fense wrote:
3. How many schools do you feel need to be in the "middle class"? In football we have had 10 or so. I think the 150 cut off puts plenty in the middle.
At least 32. Football is irrelevant to this conversation because each school only has 4-5 road games and they are all on the weekends. With BBB, GBB and VB each school is looking at a minimum of 24 road games, with several on school nights. There needs to be enough teams in the middle class to make travel doable.
d_fense wrote:
4. 120 does not put most privates in the middle class. Shanley and Bismarck St. M. will opt up. 120 just gets Shiloh in at I think 122, and D.T. would also fall there. A multiplier would get "most" privates in. M.B.R. would just get in, Oak Grove would be in easily along with Shiloh, and DT.
Yes it does. Shanley, St. Mary's, Trinity and Shiloh would all be in the middle class now by the numbers. Oak Grove's enrollment is booming and will easily be over 120 by the time this could be implemented.
If you assume that Shanley and St. Mary's would opt up, why would you also not assume that other private schools would opt up voluntarily?
And a 1.35 multiplier would not force Minot Ryan into the middle class.
d_fense wrote:
5. I don't see one school under 150 that will regularly compete with the likes of Wahpeton, where I think most above 150 will do fine. I also don't see one public school with numbers between 120-150 that will dominate the small class.
If Shanley and St. Mary's stay in the top class, then Wahpeton and Valley City are the only two schools that would be moving down. Neither has been good in basketball for years. There are many schools with enrollments even under 120 that will compete just fine with them.