Enrollment isnt always the best method. There are some MAC schools (Midwest Athletic Conference) that have freshman, JV, and Varsity football teams. Its a different animal down there. My point is that they have strong programs and punch way above their weight class, so to speak. Marion Local or Coldwater would win the City League, for example, probably every year.
Exactly.
Don’t we know it. If there was an investigation of this program, they’d get the ‘death’ penalty. But when the mayor, school super, school board member, AD and entire coaching staff is in on it, anything goes. Rossford basketball policy is, no player or parent get Covid tested, if you don’t get tested you can’t be positive, no matter how many times a player pukes at home or days dad misses at work because of illness.
If this is a football only league then let's do it, especially with the 12 team playoff expansion. Unfortunately, all the other sports and levels have to be considered and it doesn't make sense. Now, I'm not saying they won't get roped into some league like this and just have to deal with it, but outside of a few sports they will struggle to compete-and that's just at the varsity level.
The freshman class at rossford is very weak. You’d expect if they were recruiting that you’d have a dominant team at every level in the moneymaker sports.
One other thing too is that if a conference goes to 2 divisions, for example, having Northview and Southview in separate divisions of the same league, you would need to have only 6 conference games in your division and 1 crossover to maintain historical rivalries (because NV and SV would be in separate divisions based on a lot of the discussion here).
True. Just something to consider.
by chance if your talking about all their basketball teams, i recommend trying to watch the women's team
I think this is the third year for Sylvania after we changed boundaries. I haven't heard that there is another push to redistrict again. They said at the time there would be some delay for the changes to take place at the HS level because of grandfathering families into NV or SV. They also need 3-4 years for the impact to be seen because they weren't making any HS kids changes schools.....it was for incoming freshman classes. They also eliminated open enrollment. I think the expectation is the numbers will start to balance out in the next few years.
I agree. Once Strack posted that tweet, my contacts said the whole thing was on life support because of the moving parts, politics, traditions, travel, etc.
I'm not sure how any of that works but doesn't the numbers that OHSAA use reflect several years past. So if say they were using numbers from 18-19.....to determine 20-21 divisions......the actual numbers in a redistricting situation could be shifted quite a bit. The boards intent a few years ago was that the enrollment would be similar.
Or play the 1st game of the season. When Northview was in the GLL and Southview was in the NLL, they played the first game of the season. It would be interesting to see Napoleon and Defiance moved to the last week of the season.
Out of curiosity, why not have Sylvanians send their kids to whichever high school they want in Sylvania? I am a Catholic school person so we've always been ones to send our kids to wherever we felt was best. So the districting thing hasn't made much sense to me. Would Northview be way bigger if it was open enrollment? Would all the football kids end up going to one over the other? I am genuinely curious. Sylvania is the only suburban district to have two high schools.
I didnt realize they were in separate conferences years ago.
That makes sense for why the numbers may not reflect the redistricting. I'm pretty sure fall of 18 would be the first freshman class under the new rules. It could take until '25 for the coattail siblings to work their way through the process.
It has been open enrollment throughout the district up until this last redistricting. Some schools would get closed due to capacity restrictions but if you wanted to drive your kid you could enroll them anywhere. I think they wanted to restrict the open enrollment when they did the redistricting because they were worried it wouldn't do any good if everyone just open enrolled back into their previous home district. Even at the high school level....I'm pretty sure you can take a class at the other school if it isn't offered at your home school since the two schools are so close.
God forbid the next thing they say is along the lines of "Wellll, I guess it didn't work. At least we tried, Napoleon and Maumee!" The possibilities are too far along to just simply shrug the shoulders and carry on.
One year we were 2-8 with wins over NV & SV, who were a combined 1-19. We declared ourselves Sylvania City Champions.