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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wjschmaltz" data-source="post: 351854" data-attributes="member: 6150">First I've seen this. The nostalgia of me wants it to stay the way it was. But looking at the list of teams, it's far from the way it was. My county had 4 teams when I played about 20 years ago. Down from 7 teams when my parents played, and according to that list it's down to two now and probably not long until it's one. When I played our district had 14 teams and region had almost 30. Had to be the best of 30 teams to make the dance. I think the region now has like 11 teams. Makes sense to form a co-op, who wants to lose every game by 30? A 3 class system means less co-ops and less time for kids being bussed around every night = more time with family. I was lucky enough to play in 3 class B state tournaments. My graduating class was 24 people and our team did not have a co-op at the time. We ran through a gauntlet playing schools with 6x the enrollment we did but did alright. I love giving my BIL shit that they could never beat us even though they had 4x the enrollment we did!I used to always argue with my private school friends that even with enrollment, it's not apples to apples. Most of the kids on our team were 3 sport athletes and spent the summer working on the farm or family business. Sure we did summer league maybe once a week for a couple months in the summer, but other than that, we only played BB for 3-4 months a year. We would go play Shiloh, Oak Grove, or Trinity and go punch for punch against guys that played one sport and spent 12 months in a gym 5 days a week. The opportunity for a city school, even with a low enrollment, to put a very good team together versus a small town school is simply not on the same level. There's 6 class A schools listed that I didn't even know existed. That fact and the fact that ND's population has remained relatively the same kind of proves the disparity in the shrinking small town school and somewhat need for a 3 class system. I'll admit that if I ever move back, it's likely my kids will go to a private school in Bismarck.  But hopefully not playing sports, we got other cool shit to do!</blockquote>

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