The Schwab wrote:The Schwab wrote:I feel that if we are going to have 4 classes, the top two need to be made up of more than just class A basketball schools. If 4 classes are what football needs to have (which might make the most sense I would have the cutoff lines be something like this with no multipliers:
AAA- 400 boys or higher (16 teams this year)
AA- 110 boys to 399 boys (14 teams)
A- 65 boys to 109 boys
9- 64 boys and under
Class AAA would have 16
Class AA would have 17 (a couple of teams are 1 or 2 kids below)
Class A would have 41
9-Man would have 24
I did the counting quickly so some may be a couple off.
Here's where I see the difficulty lying: EEK/Grafton/South Prairie/PRFL/Stanley combined for a record of 7-37. Take out Grafton, and its 4-32. Now we through those schools into having to play St. Mary, Wahp, VC, Devils Lake, Watford City, Horace, etc, instead of, using Park River as an example, Northern Cass, Central Mclean, Thompson, Carrington, etc. I don't see that as a gain for those schools.
Add that to the fact that all the privates, powerhouses like Langdon, Hillsboro, Thompson, DT, solid program's like Harvey, Bowman County, etc. no longer have to go through CC, Kindred, Buelah, etc - I just don't see this as a huge gain.