gbigg;864443 wrote:I'm speaking on stacked teams and how it makes the other D5 schools have not much of a chance to win, bigger schools may have a little better chance but look at who won last year like what YOU posted. It proves my point !!
I get what you are trying to point out. And it's what other people have said. It really is more than just private/public. People feel that it isn't fair for a school that is located in a city (even one as small as Youngstown) to be in a division with schools that are in a completely rural area with far less people.
But the argument doesn't fly with me. Yes, schools like Ursuline and Mooney have "more kids" that could possibly attend their school, while schools like Coldwater, Versailles, Marion Local, etc. may not have that many kids in their district or surrounding districts. However, in the cases of those small town public schools...MOST of the time they are the ONLY option for kids. That is not the case for someone in the Youngstown area. A person living in Youngstown has the choice of sending their child to the Youngstown City Schools, Mooney, Ursuline, Youngstown Christian, Austintown Fitch, Jackson Milton, Loweville, Sebring, Struthers, West Branch, Western Reserve, Girard, Hubbard, Howland, Liberty, Niles, Warren Harding, and a few other choices as well. So to say that the Catholic schools have an advantage over those small town public schools when they are competing for students with literally ALL of those schools is completely absurd.
