This state is not big enough for four football divisions. A change is needed.
mike thingstad wrote:Why would those teams want to move to A? I think that all would happen is that a lot of teams would just move down to nineman that would like to play elevenman football. I know right now that Killdeer, Stanley, and Velva's pop puts them at nineman but choose to stay up. Why would you want to play team that are 3X or 4X bigger than you?
mike thingstad wrote:Velva, Stanley, and Killdeer all had to appy to play A ball this year. Remember that they use how many boys you have in your school not total enrollment. Trinity was nineman until they added a co-op then had to apply up to AA.
ndlionsfan wrote:Yeah, that would make sense. When the state goes back to a 3 class system (which will almost definitely happen after next season) you'll see some of these traditional 11man teams drop down because of declining enrollments and different cutoffs with the classes.
baller01 wrote:So ok...Let me guess this straight. In basketball they wan't more classes and in football they want less classes. This makes a lot of sense*sarcasm* since football is a game of numbers. Look at the teams that are most successful in their divisions. They are usually the teams with the greatest numbers of kids out for football. In some cases and years it would be ok, example Killdeer beating Watford. But that wouldn't happen that often.
In basketball, a team like Beach can atleast compete with a team such as Hazen. In football however, Hazen vs Beach would be a massacre.
Stromer wrote:ndlionsfan wrote:Yeah, that would make sense. When the state goes back to a 3 class system (which will almost definitely happen after next season) you'll see some of these traditional 11man teams drop down because of declining enrollments and different cutoffs with the classes.
How many schools do you think would be close to dropping down? I think in a perfect world only 4 would drop down but I think more will probably want to if some of those bigger schools are dropped down.
Unity77 wrote:Towns like Beulah, Grafton, Valley City and Devils Lake don't stand a chance against the bigger schools. I just read that Grafton's current HS enrollment is 306. There is no way Grafton could compete against the likes of Fargo South.
mike thingstad wrote:Rumor has it that two teams are thinking of dropping football because they can compete at the level they are at, this might happen to other teams if you put them in a spot where they can't compete. Not win(which is nice to do a time or two) but compete.
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