The BVC will have to make that decision this year as Vanlue only has 6 players returning. The Vanlue coach in an article after the season all but admitted that they will not have a team next year and blamed it on all the student leaving due to open enrollment. Can't really blame the kids for leaving since not many kids want to go to school with only 10 other kids in their grade.
The City League lacks white privilege or they would be better.
If they both choose to not field football teams, that leaves 8 schools with teams for the upcoming season, so that’s easy. If they can add Elmwood it become a bit more complicated.
They would dominate in swimming.
well they both are on everyone’s BVC schedule this year, so each team would have to scramble to fill those slots. But yes, just eight teams would be good going forward.
CR should be good for next year, I believe they had a bigger Jr class of players the following year the numbers may get tighter. If Value is unable to field a team does the BVC let LCC fill in again for another year?
I would be shocked if BVC lets LCC in, even if it is for the short term
At what point does one get tired of dealing with maybe, possibly, etc?
about 5 to 10 years after it happens is typical.
They did this year but a number of teams BVC teams declined to play them.
as you said, not even the one year stop-gag worked this year. It was fairly embarrassing for the BVC as far as I’m concerned. Someone clearly wasn’t on the same page within the league.
Anything to instill confidence/culture back to the Program(s).
That would be a crazy baseball conference...but generally, I think that would be a super fun conference in general. Could see a lot of good football, basketball, hell, even soccer games in there.
I think everyone would stay in that conference. Since so few schools have hockey, I think what local teams we have will still stick together independent of all these conference changes.
I just looks up all the schools that are in the league.
Schools with hockey compete in the Northwest Hockey Conference. I think he NLL schools should have a weekend tournament to determine an NLL champion, but I might be the only person who thinks that is a good idea.
Seriously??? Bryan has one sport they are good in...the rest they are average at best. If you can't beat the small schools on a regular basis or even 50% of the time...why would you want to go to the NLL where even baseball would be a challenge to win 50% of the time???
Pretty sure Maumee is a club sport too...unless something changed in the last few years. Maumee's Athletics Department didn't have the money to fund that sport, so I'd be shocked if they changed after losing as many kids as they have.
The school's website lists hockey as a varsity sport.
Kids got varsity letters for it in the past as well, but they didn't support it financially as they would an actual varsity sport (players had to buy their own pads, fundraise for jerseys, ice time, etc.). That's more what I meant...and I don't know if that has changed, that was what my primary comment.
I went to a maumee vs tcc hockey game one time and tcc had quite a few players. Weird that they no longer have a team
You are kidding about the privilege comment right?
I agree with you in football. The coach can't coach...it is what it is. The "small" schools are pretty damn good in football. Boys were the all-sports champions in the c/o 19 and have been in the top 2-3 consistently over the last 10 years.
I apologize...I forgot about Tennis, Golf, and Cross Country. Bryan is good in those sports also. But still, leaving the NWOAL for the NLL would make very little sense for them. Simple solution would be to bring Defiance and Napoleon back in to the NWOAL if you want rivals in baseball and they are looking to leave their respective leagues.
I agree. The drive for them for the NLL schedule is not easy and they would be a bottom to middle tier team in most if not all sports. Overall it would be a huge jump for them in regards to football. Bryan is a very poorly coached football team. It is tough to overcome that. The "small" schools of the NWOAL have been really good the last 5 years. The teams that Bryan wins against 50% time i.e. LC,PH,Archbold would all have winning records against Napoleon and Defiance over the last 5 years. I am not being disrespectful to Napoleon and Defiance but those "small" schools have been good lately.
Swanton, Delta, and Evergreen are already looking to get out. Defiance and Napoleon would push them out. I know there's not much out there, but they could always team up with what's left of the TAAC in the meantime.
Swanton is the only one interested in leaving the NWOAL at this time. They are trying to pull Delta and Evergreen into another league with them. Delta and Evergreen are very competitive in most sports...football has been down for both lately but Evergreen just won the league in boys basketball last year and Delta is a state power in wrestling.