Like I said...in a vacuum. Enrollment numbers alone don't make this decision, and parents would be fine getting their kids faces kicked in over those drives (completely understandable in that SBC model Dappling threw out...not as understandable in the NBC or NWOAL if those were options).
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Like I said...in a vacuum. Enrollment numbers alone don't make this decision, and parents would be fine getting their kids faces kicked in over those drives (completely understandable in that SBC model Dappling threw out...not as understandable in the NBC or NWOAL if those were options).
I know...my response was to your post that there weren't 8 teams interested. I'm working on trying to pick apart posts rather than injecting any obvious nuance to them...something I picked up from a poster here ?
Maumee’s largest class is their current 7th graders at 200. All of the classes prior to the current 7th graders and youngest are around 150.
Unless maumee annexes some land and expands the district, it won’t be 1000 while all of us are around
NBC
Rossford - 432
Fostoria - 398
Eastwood - 362
Lake - 361
Otsego - 358
Genoa - 341
Elmwood - 279
Woodmore - 250
BVC
Liberty-Benton - 338
Elmwood - 279
Van Buren - 267
Riverdale - 221
McComb - 170
North Baltimore-155
Arcadia - 146
Leipsic - 145
Arlington - 141
Cory Rawson - 129
Pandora-Gilboa - 117
Vanlue - 57
?????????? The NLL doesn't have any playoffs.
No they don't.
ILikeSports
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And annexation into the city does nothing. Parts of the City of Defiance are in the Tinora school district. You can see Swanton High School from part of the Evergreen district. I believe it requires a vote from residents and I don't see AW residents voting to leave for Maumee.
OK, the NLL may have 16 teams interested, but not from schools the new NLL wants in the league.
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split_finger
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Thanks! you just proved my point... Afraid to compete with schools relative to their size.
Krasula24
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relying on yappi for info cause jordan strack blocked me on twitter LOL
i’m still hearing talks about the the 3 schools leaving the nwoal................ and swanton absolutely wants no part in the league anymore. i don’t know why, but they’ve been unhappy in the nwoal for a long time.
split_finger
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Break it down by Boys and Girls and you will see how much of a butch move it was...
Boys vs. Girls
Elmwood 162 - 117
Liberty Benton 177 - 161
Riverdale 129 - 112
McComb 89 - 81
North Baltimore 80 - 75
Arlington 78 - 63
Arcadia 66 -80
Cory-Rawson 57 - 62
Pandora-Gilboa 62 - 55
Vanlue 31 - 26
EXTREME buhb!tch MOVE... twice as many boys than 7 of the schools
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This is callous...but at some point the old people whose kids went to Maumee in the mod 00's are going to die or downsize. That will recharge the schools just fine. Maumee is one of the most cyclic communities in the state because of relatively flat property values disincentivizing rapid movement for empty nesters and them being landlocked...but they will grow soon enough. When I looked at them for grad work, it seemed like it was a 15 year trough to peak type cycle, so I'd imagine they'll be back up to 1000 or so students in the high school within the next 15 years.
Either that or....open enrollment lol
Legacy
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I would have to agree, Defiance will stay in the WBL. However, if Delta, Swanton and Evergreen leaves, look for PH to go to the BVC, BG, Napoleon and Otsego and Maumee to the NWOAL.
You think LC and Archbold would stay in that conference with all of them? That's why I just don't see a way Defiance isn't in the NWOAL or NLL here in the next few years. It's way too obvious of a fit for them geographically and enrollment numbers wise to not to be a part.
split_finger
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Because they don't complete in anything... They are trying to pull an Elmwood.... the Ticky TAAC would be perfect for them
Legacy
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ILikeSports
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Would Otsego people want that league? At least three of the NWOAL schools they are closest to and play the most would be gone. And would they want to be with BG, Maumee and Napoleon?
ILikeSports
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They have 2 league titles this school year. Unless you are just talking football, where they have had a couple down years in a row.
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what is their enrollment trend in the lower grades though? gotta think long term I would think
Whizzer King
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Whizzer King
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Not a chance
Del Griffith
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One has to consider future enrollment too.
Also, it would be interesting to see the number of athletes per sport that participate in the NBC who are not actual members of that school's district (Genoa wrestling several years back, rossford current basketball team, etc). Elmwood geographically are not going to be able to compete with the shenanigans that have taken place in "pulling those kids in" like other schools in the NBC have done.
Why do you hate Elmwood?
Elmwood has been competing with most of those schools since 1972. After 50 years they are going somewhere else.
Cowards.
Ayersville too.
Honestly, in THAT hypothetical where Maumee AND BG went NWOAL....I think LC and Archbold leave, and Defiance WOULD come. 6 team league, playing a lot of SBC weeks 4 and 5.
Otsego I can't see unless the NBC falls apart or the NWOAL sticks to smaller schools. I'd assume they want no part of a wholesale big school expansion.
BG is not going to do that.
I know that. You know that.
But just throwing out THAT 6 team league has a better shot than an 8 team with LC, Otsego, Archbold, and 5 "big" schools.