Flip wrote:Don't you have to assume it's happening right now?
OG has bounced between A and 9 man. I'm sure they have foreign exchange students too. I've never heard them p*ss and moan. I'm pretty sure Bishop Ryan and Dickinson Trinity have opted up in prior years. According the enrollment numbers Park Christian, also a private school, has 60 less kids and they're in the same section. Hillcrest needs to quit whining.
I don't know if I would say it's whining, but more of just being real with their circumstances. If they only have 12 - 15 kids on their roster, how would they be expected to compete in a 11 man league?
The fact that most public schools can lower their number by virtue of them having free and reduced lunch kids, shouldn't the same be said for private schools that have foreign exchange students? I would guess, that based on where the kids come from, there isn't many foreign exchange students that are coming from areas that Football is the main sport, so the likelihood of them playing football in the states, isn't that great. I would only guess that most of the private schools aren't getting a large number of kids that qualify for free and reduced lunch, so they are not seeing any kind of "break" for their kids.
Park Christian had to shut down their program last year because of lack of numbers. Not much they could do, because they are already at the 9 man level, but imagine if they had to play 11 man..
You bring up Oak Grove, Bishop Minot Ryan and Dickinson Trinity... Which really proves that you have to take a look into the "numbers" a little deeper. I know that it's hard for the NDHSAA to seem fair to all, but not having a blanket number, but it would seem that you have to look at each individual school and see what's really going on there. (Other Fall sports, foreign exchange students, etc.)