hazpay wrote:woodchuck10 wrote:Run4Fun2009 wrote:hockeynut wrote:Jamestown getting jacked around again.
"Blame" Bismarck St. Mary's...Shanley made the decision to go AAA and the thought was St. Mary's would make the move also; they said no...so next up is Jamestown.
St. Mary’s would rather travel to Belcourt, Stanley, and New Town and win by 40 than play the BisMan schools in their backyard and be in competitive games. Kudos to Shanley for some self awareness and opting up.
41, actually.
Don't "BLAME" anyone. This is purely a numbers game by NDHSAA. Whether we agree or disagree with the format or process, it is simply a matter of drawing lines between enrollment of boys in grades 7-10 the 2 years prior to the roll out of the new plan. The development may be more complex, but in the end, they simply draw a line based on how many teams they want at each level and what the adjusted enrollments are.
Yes, schools can "opt up" if they chose, but not down. There is a philosophical question about whether or not a team should opt up for competition purposes. Kudos to Shanley for that decision, however, I am not going to paint St. Mary's into a corner when there are 4 schools with larger adjusted enrollments in the new plan.
I cannot support the comment that Jamestown is "getting jacked around again". The Jamestown administration lead the charge for the current plan. In doing so, they very specifically said, "we shouldn't have to play teams that are 3 times bigger than us", (Jamestown vs Minot), yet, they are more than happy to play against teams 3 times smaller than them (Jamestown vs Grafton; Jamestown vs Central Cass). You can't have it both ways. According to the adjusted enrollments in the new plan, Jamestown is 15th in size, Shanley is 18th. There will be 16 AAA teams, and 12 AA teams. Of those 28 teams, the disparity in enrollment between Jamestown and the smallest current AA team is 213 students (the disparity is larger than the enrollment of that school). You would have to go all the way up to the 6th largest AAA to find the same disparity. If you take the disparity between Jamestown and the second largest AA school currently, is 135 students, meaning you have to get to the 11th largest AAA school currently.
There may be schools getting jerked around by the plan, that seems to be the rallying cry every 2 years, however, Jamestown IS NOT ONE OF THEM.