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Our school was not notified that they didn't have enough players for a season until the first week of August. We tried to schedule a week 0 game to make up for it, but we were unable to find a school willing to play a week 0 game. We were already going to just have 4 home dates this year. Now we only have 3.
I am from Danville and our administration made the decision twice to field a team this year. We had 30 kids sign up at the first parent meeting. We had a few underclassman quit by mid July and an upperclassman quit at the same time. That gave us 27 total with 5 seniors, 8-9 juniors and the rest Sophmores and freshman. The second day of our football camp admin pulled the carpet out from underneath us. It was epic fail on our admin part to wait so long. Not a proud Danville Community member. I feel for all the teams scrambling to find a game to put in our place. Do you know if you get the 17 points for us forfeiting?
Since Danville didn't start the season, there shouldn't be any forfeits awarded. Just one fewer game in the district standings. I believe there is a formula in place for cancelled seasons -- not an automatic +17 for the opponent.
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EEEBear - If you only had 27 total kids in the program, then you don't have a program. That was part of the issue last year when the team started with like 17 players buy after week 1 were down to 14 with most of those being Sophomores. If you had 5 Srs, 8-9 Jrs and 27 total kids, then you only had a 13-14 Fresh-Soph total and that isn't viable. Sorry that the program struggled, but it was time to pull the plug with those numbers.
The problem with your statement is that you do not have enough information for it to be definitive. Granted, you want to see larger numbers out of the FR-SO group, but you need ore information such as what your 7th/8th grade group looks like with numbers. If there are not numbers in those classes, then you are correct.
While it may be tough, sports can survive and succeed with a young group. Our teams at Alburnett are living this exact scenario with sports being "driven" with the SO class last year and now being followed with the FR class. We have some very good athletes in the other classes, just not much for numbers. Last year, football had 6 Sr's, basketball had 2 and baseball had none. The only one that struggled was football and that was due to size/maturity and coaching changes.
If there were some numbers coming in, it may have been viable. Sad to see the change for the Sr's.
I'm from Danville and I do have the information. It just wasn't relevant for the conversation at hand. The number of kids who ended up going out was even less than those originally interested. Football has not been a student choice for a few years. Basketball has been the glamor sport here. Last year football had one senior and two juniors. The remainder were sophomores. This year many of those sophomores now juniors aren't playing. There are about 15-20 playing 5th/6th football and a similar number for 3rd-4th. If those kids remained playing maybe there would be enough to think about a program in 3-4 years. Unfortunately this program was a shared program in the past due to low numbers and although there may be a few years where you may have enough players, generally there won't be enough. That creates the same dilemma mentioned above about cancellation of seasons and impact on other teams. This is likely a better solution and one that should be permanent as opposed to on again, off again.
It also speaks in some ways about the need for consolidation of schools as well, but why open a can of worms.
It also speaks in some ways about the need for consolidation of schools as well, but why open a can of worms.
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