Any teams besides Essex and Clarinda Academy coming off the schedules this year? That will be tough losing 2 teams in 1 district.
Schedule changes? Teams dropping out?
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Do we know of any changes to the RPI for this year. Every team ,who played a week 0 ( with the exception of Janesville), were hurt by the extra game in the RPI no matter if they won or lost.
Iowa Valley's schedule on the SICL site is wildly different than what it should be, based on 2018. After checking a couple of others, it looks like D4 did a total shuffle and just kept the proper home/away.
Waco and WMU have apparently added out-of-state opponents.
Wk 1 - Waco at North Shelby (Mo.)
Wk 2 - River Ridge (Ill.) at Winfield-Mt. Union
Wk 1 - Waco at North Shelby (Mo.)
Wk 2 - River Ridge (Ill.) at Winfield-Mt. Union
Must be. 16 schools listed:
https://www.ihsa.org/SportsActiviti...dulesStandingsResults.aspx?url=/data/fb/h.htm
And New London is playing a Wisconsin school in Wk 0.
That makes 6 total interstate games this fall (up from 3 last year).
Assumption - Rock Island Alleman
Davenport West - East Moline United Twp
Bedford - Worth County (Mo.)
It's on the team schedule. They're playing on the 24th (Saturday), so it might not be displaying on the statewide weekly schedule.
A Wisconsin school, Williams Bay, that's on Geneva Lake, over 250 miles from New London. Nearly 8 hours round trip. No wonder it's on a Saturday.
(And I thought it was bad my senior year, after the old Blackhawk Conference disbanded, and my team had to make a 120-mile trip down to Brookfield, Missouri, for a game. That was a late night ...)
Yeah, obviously not ideal. But when you need a game, you need a game.
Stanton and Griswold are playing twice (Wk 6 and Wk 8). The Wk 8 game is going to be played at Essex, and be a non-district game.
Other D7 schools could have/should have done the same thing, frankly. East Mills and Fremont-Mills only have 7-game schedules, and Sidney and Bedford only have 8 games each. There were some workable open dates in there.
Rpi changed things. Nonconference games didn't mean anything. Now losing one keeps you out of playoffs possibly.
Anybody else think 8-man should hold off setting districts and schedules until they know what schools will actually field teams each year?
The IHSAA could do a better job of anticipating which schools are more likely to not field a team and try to keep them separated to lessen the impact when they have to make the decision to not play a varsity season. (I.e. placing teams with the greatest risk in the 9-team district when you have 66 teams like this cycle) That way even if two of those nine teams drop out, you still have a seven team district.
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