classB4ever wrote:ndlionsfan wrote:
I think the ship has sailed on the 3 class system. With all the coops now I just don't see it changing to go back to single town teams if a third class in introduced. 10-15 years ago would have been the perfect time to get it started but now is just too late.The Schwab wrote:I disagree that it wouldn't be a good time to go to 3 class system: This model is just going off of my "success model" combining school size and tradition
Class AA- Current Class A teams
Class A- East- Central Cass, Kindred, Lisbon, Hillsboro-Central Valley, Northern Cass, Grafton, Fargo Oak Grove, Carrington, Rugby, Thompson, Langdon-Edmore-Munich, Oakes, Hatton-Northwood, Four Winds-Minnewauken, Bismarck Shiloh Christian, Velva
West-New Town, Beulah, Stanley, Heart River, Standing Rock, Hazen, Dickinson Trinity, Nedrose, Minot Bishop Ryan, South Prairie, Bowman County, Minot Our Redeemers, Williston Trinity Christian, Bottineau, DLB
Class B- Everyone else
This is a rough draft I literally put together in 5 minutes. If something doesn't make sense, so be it, but this is a thing that could work. We can have 3 classes and have different criteria than strictly school size.
There are currently around 107 Class B teams. Taking out 30 or so teams to create a 3rd division still leaves over 70 teams in the bottom class. I don't understand why people would think, even with the current co-ops, it wouldn't work and be very popular. There have been many proposals thrown out on here and any one of them could work. My main point is bringing back competitive basketball which will IMHO increase participation by pairing like teams against like teams.
Look at how many of the current top teams are traveling around the state to play against teams like themselves throughout the season. They are literally answering the question of "will it work or not?" They are telling us that something needs to be done and are willing to travel to make it happen. 2 cents.
Good Teams will always travel to find each other to test themselves. That has been going on in this state for 50 years. So nothing new. I still like Class B the way it is except for bumping the Privates out of the class. There are no numbers that support unfair bias to larger class B towns but their are plenty of numbers that support the Privates are unfair.