maddog1971 wrote:Any Private School should be a class AA. They are drawing their kids from a huge population. If you hand pick your kids you will always get the best of the Area. Finally Shanley is moving up until they get kicked for a few years and then they will move back to AA. By the way.. I googled population of some the schools moving up. Kindred 727 people, Beulah 3226, Hazen 2372, 1592 for Hillsboro, Rugby 2730, Langdon 1738, Velva 1248.
Now some of the teams have to deal with towns of 6000 plus.
I know Kindred gets most of their kids for 15 mile area but still.... these are what we are calling big schools that need to move up to AA.
You guys kill me each year with this private school bias.
So, since you said all private schools should be in 2A, because they "pull" from a huge population and another mentioned that they get the players that they want, what happened with Oak Grove and Park Christian (MN)?
Since they just have the kids lined up waiting to play football at these schools, why haven't they just run through their regions/divisions?
How many other Fall sports do those other schools have, namely Kindred, since they were mentioned?
What other fall activities do they have? You think kids are signing up for Oak Grove because they just can't wait to play football? What have been their participation numbers over the past 5 years?
And who does the free/reduced lunch factor help when calculating the number of boys in a 7th thru 10th grade sample? It's got to be those private schools that just have kids lined up to play football there?
Public schools get the advantage of the free and reduced lunch kicker, hardly any other fall activities to compete with football(9 man/1A level), so any kid who wants to participate in a fall sport is playing football.
If a school has 50 boys, and 20 of them get free/reduced lunch, that doesn't change the fact that those 50 boys can still participate in football, they didn't just suddenly disappear or aren't allowed to play now. 50 boys are 50 boys, plain and simple. If you want to start factoring in variables, factor in foreign exchange/international students. Make them a half of a kid like they do for free/reduced lunch kids. I think we can all agree that a kid from China is less likely to play football vs a kid who gets free and reduced lunch.
Shanley is going up to 3A.. Bishop Minot Ryan is opting up to 1A... St Mary's is playing the the 2A level.. Oak Grove's roster size looks like one of a 9 man team, but they are playing 1A..(if I'm not mistaken, they have the highest tuition of all of the schools, so I'm sure parents are lining up to pay those fees)
Get over the private school bias.