I wasn’t aware!

[Gipper]

[Coach Nowlin]

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Check out info here on how it could look 

[justafootballguy]

The fact that this is happening with that low of numbers at SN is absolutely killing me inside....

[Impartial_Observer]

I’ve heard via the grapevine that Trinity Lutheran is switching to 8-man. They were supposed to have been in their second year of playing JV, prior to a V schedule next year. No clue how all that stands now. This is their third attempt at starting a football program. 

[Gipper]

9 hours ago, justafootballguy said:

The fact that this is happening with that low of numbers at SN is absolutely killing me inside....

I know enrollment is down a bit, but don’t know if it necessitates scrapping 11-man.  Frontier, conversely, is smaller and they’re fielding a team.

[Frozen Tundra]

6 hours ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I’ve heard via the grapevine that Trinity Lutheran is switching to 8-man. They were supposed to have been in their second year of playing JV, prior to a V schedule next year. No clue how all that stands now. This is their third attempt at starting a football program. 

I feel like there needs to be a minimum roster limit in order to play 11-man football. I don’t know what that number would be. 30, maybe? But if you don’t have the minimum then you have to play 8-man football for that particular year.

[Donnie Baker]

7 hours ago, Frozen Tundra said:

I feel like there needs to be a minimum roster limit in order to play 11-man football. I don’t know what that number would be. 30, maybe? But if you don’t have the minimum then you have to play 8-man football for that particular year.

30? That would probably eliminate half of 1A. 

[Frozen Tundra]

2 hours ago, Donnie Baker said:

30? That would probably eliminate half of 1A. 

Just throwing out a number. Most of the football teams I see in person are 4A or higher so I have no idea what’s normal for 1A. I just get frustrated hearing about some teams constantly struggling to field teams. Maybe moving to 8-man football would alleviate that a bit. If we get enough 8-man teams then maybe it can be taken more seriously and we can have an IHSAA-sanctioned tournament for it.

[justafootballguy]

10 hours ago, Frozen Tundra said:

I feel like there needs to be a minimum roster limit in order to play 11-man football. I don’t know what that number would be. 30, maybe? But if you don’t have the minimum then you have to play 8-man football for that particular year.

30??? Sir I am not sure you have seen a 1a sideline, but 30 just is not gonna happen at A LOT of schools 

[Frozen Tundra]

7 minutes ago, justafootballguy said:

30??? Sir I am not sure you have seen a 1a sideline, but 30 just is not gonna happen at A LOT of schools 

Apparently you didn’t read my last post before commenting

[justafootballguy]

45 minutes ago, Frozen Tundra said:

Apparently you didn’t read my last post before commenting

I did not see that post when I commented. A lot of 1A schools are trying to hang on to the 11 man as long as they can...sadly a few more need to let it go and jump on the 8 man game plan. It is not a bad thing allowing kids to still play the game.  

[Frozen Tundra]

Just now, justafootballguy said:

I did not see that post when I commented. A lot of 1A schools are trying to hang on to the 11 man as long as they can...sadly a few more need to let it go and jump on the 8 man game plan. It is not a bad thing allowing kids to still play the game.  

Agreed. My hope is that enough schools can drop from 11-man to 8-man that some schools that don’t already have football may have the courage to try having 8-man teams. With the few 8-man teams we currently have, I think there’s a fear from some schools to take it on because of the travel required for it.

[Muda69]

Just now, justafootballguy said:

I did not see that post when I commented. A lot of 1A schools are trying to hang on to the 11 man as long as they can...sadly a few more need to let it go and jump on the 8 man game plan. It is not a bad thing allowing kids to still play the game.  

8-man is just football-lite.  

The real solutions are:

1. Co-op programs.

2. School consolidations.