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[Warthog]

When will this supposed consolidation start happening? What schools do you think will be consolidated?

[veteranlefty]

While the Ohio government has some ideas of consolidating school districts it will be several years before any of this comes to fruition most likely. Look how much resistance there has been to a few situations where this should have already occurred like Vanlue-Arcadia and Old Fort-Bettsville. The BVC cannot really factor that in yet.

[roarintiger1]

Consolidation should have been mandatory before ANY state money was given to any school to build a new building.

[Buckshot]

Back to Football. Outside of the MAL schools and specifically H-L, which schools would most likely jump at the opportunitiy in the BVC? I'd say Riverdale for sure since there board has not yet OK'd the move to their new conference.

[veteranlefty]

I think Carey makes more sense in BVC than Northern 10 too....Riverdale administrator basically said they would love to join BVC. Hopewell would see much more competition in football in BVC than MAL and I am sure NB would jump at BVC for travel and stability reasons as well. Those are the four I have heard mentioned most often and they seem to make sense.

[polkhigh33]

veteranlefty, on 22 February 2012 - 01:35 PM, said:

I think Carey makes more sense in BVC than Northern 10 too....Riverdale administrator basically said they would love to join BVC. Hopewell would see much more competition in football in BVC than MAL and I am sure NB would jump at BVC for travel and stability reasons as well. Those are the four I have heard mentioned most often and they seem to make sense.

You would think that would be the case with Carey, but they have a long, long history with what would be the N10 schools. Whatever is going to happen will need to happen fairly quick, although I guess the N10 isn't really a conference yet so I dount there would be any need for notice. To boot, the N10 only has eight school board approvals to date (Bucyrus and Riverdale have not gotten theirs) and I don't believe the charter paperwork has been completed.

My gut says Carey stays in the N10 (or N8), but if they wouldn't, would Seneca East and Mohawk then reverse course? I think both schools voted just 3-2 to leave the MAL.

[Northwestsports]

I guess it would better for A-town to have a D-5 L-B team out that they can't beat and a D-5 Riverdale team in that they can beat.

[NW Ohio Guy]

Findlay-Liberty Benton ISNT A POWER HOUSE, THEY PLAY SCHOOLS THAT ARE HALF THE ENROLLMENT SIZE, EVEN MORE THAN 5 TIMES SMALLER THEN THEY ARE. Findlay-Liberty Benton should be in NWC/WBL!!!!!!...ENOUGH SAID!

[bob22]

NW Ohio Guy, on 22 February 2012 - 06:07 PM, said:

Findlay-Liberty Benton ISNT A POWER HOUSE, THEY PLAY SCHOOLS THAT ARE HALF THE ENROLLMENT SIZE, EVEN MORE THAN 5 TIMES SMALLER THEN THEY ARE. Findlay-Liberty Benton should be in NWC/WBL!!!!!!...ENOUGH SAID!

NWC? After they curb-stomped the team the others kicked out for being too good? Just sayin...

[cubbies4life]

NW Ohio Guy, on 22 February 2012 - 06:07 PM, said:

Findlay-Liberty Benton ISNT A POWER HOUSE, THEY PLAY SCHOOLS THAT ARE HALF THE ENROLLMENT SIZE, EVEN MORE THAN 5 TIMES SMALLER THEN THEY ARE. Findlay-Liberty Benton should be in NWC/WBL!!!!!!...ENOUGH SAID!

IF THEY ARE NOT A POWERHOUSE WHY SHOULD THEY LEAVE THE BVC??????????????????????

And by the way Van Buren should go too. Who else???

Edited by cubbies4life, 22 February 2012 - 07:04 PM.

[NW Ohio Guy]

cubbies4life, on 22 February 2012 - 07:01 PM, said:

IF THEY ARE NOT A POWERHOUSE WHY SHOULD THEY LEAVE THE BVC??????????????????????

And by the way Van Buren should go too. Who else???

An upper division school? (van buren doesn't count, they aren't known for recruiting, and aren't as big)

Edited by NW Ohio Guy, 22 February 2012 - 07:39 PM.

[Corleone]

NW Ohio Guy, on 22 February 2012 - 06:07 PM, said:

Findlay-Liberty Benton ISNT A POWER HOUSE, THEY PLAY SCHOOLS THAT ARE HALF THE ENROLLMENT SIZE, EVEN MORE THAN 5 TIMES SMALLER THEN THEY ARE. Findlay-Liberty Benton should be in NWC/WBL!!!!!!...ENOUGH SAID!

[NW Ohio Guy]

...or maybe Findlay-Liberty Benton should be thrown into the MAC, and shut them schools up about being so good! Even though they are pretty good!

[osufan512]

NW Ohio Guy, on 22 February 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

An upper division school? (van buren doesn't count, they aren't known for recruiting, and aren't as big)

I wouldn't say they "curb stomped" LCC. O'Connor threw for 5 TDs in the game. They exposed LCC for being a very poor tackling team though. But, the WBL? HA get real!! They would be the smallest school and would be lucky to be middle of the pack. They should stay where they are. It works for them and the other schools that they compete with aren't trying to boot them out like the NWC did to LCC.

[cubbies4life]

NW Ohio Guy, on 22 February 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

An upper division school? (van buren doesn't count, they aren't known for recruiting, and aren't as big)

Oh brother.

[cubbies4life]

NW Ohio Guy, on 22 February 2012 - 07:45 PM, said:

...or maybe Findlay-Liberty Benton should be thrown into the MAC, and shut them schools up about being so good! Even though they are pretty good!

Question for you. How many football BVC championships has LB won since 1974. Let me know what you find out. And oh by the way, check baseball too.

[Pantherbuff]

cubbies4life, on 22 February 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Question for you. How many football BVC championships has LB won since 1974. Let me know what you find out. And oh by the way, check baseball too.

Not as many as McComb!!!!! So they show kick McComb out also, then!!!!!!!

[cubbies4life]

Pantherbuff, on 22 February 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

Not as many as McComb!!!!! So they show kick McComb out also, then!!!!!!!

LOL. Your right. How about Hardin Northern? Kicked LB's butts many times.

[NW Ohio Guy]

cubbies4life, on 22 February 2012 - 08:10 PM, said:

LOL. Your right. How about Hardin Northern? Kicked LB's butts many times.

back in the day, who's butt didnt they kick! ahahahah. It's sad how they just had a State Championship team and a State Runners up Team a few years ago, and now might not have a team at all

Edited by NW Ohio Guy, 22 February 2012 - 08:40 PM.

[falconfan84]

I went to the OSHAA website and copied the current enrollment figures over into an excel file. From there, I filtered out schools until I came up with this list of schools from the NCC, BVC, MAL, etc.I thought it was quite interesting once these were listed from largest to smallest. For example, if L-B were in the NCC, they would only the 5th largest school. How would H-N, Vanlue, and others in the BVC like to play against schools with over 400 students in the top 3 grades (basically what these enrollment figures represent)? I put conference affiliation (both current and proposed) in the far right column. I thought it might be interesting to a few of you out there that feel like the BVC is the only league with disparity in school size.

School Name	Boys	Girls	Total	Conference
	Enrollment	Enrollment	Enrollment	Alignment
GALION	215	216	431	NCC/MOAC?
UPPER SANDUSKY	216	205	421	NCC/MOAC?
ONTARIO	201	194	395	NCC/??
BUCYRUS	169	183	352	NCC/N10
LIBERTY-BENTON	160	163	323	BVC
WYNFORD	144	138	282	NCC/N10
BLUFFTON	131	132	263	NWC/BVC?
ALLEN EAST	123	126	249	NWC
VAN BUREN	128	120	248	BVC
LAKOTA	126	120	246	MAL
CAREY	128	110	238	MAL/N10/BVC?
SENECA EAST	124	107	231	MAL/N10
COLUMBUS GROVE	121	109	230	NWC
COLONEL CRAWFORD	114	111	225	NCC/N10
RIVERDALE	122	101	223	NCC/N10/BVC?
HOPEWELL-LOUDON	120	96	216	MAL/BVC?
MOHAWK	94	116	210	MAL/N10
ADA	114	95	209	NWC/BVC?
BUCKEYE CENTRAL	111	98	209	NCC/N10
MC COMB	101	102	203	BVC
RIDGEDALE	84	98	182	MOAC/N10
CORY-RAWSON	83	94	177	BVC
LEIPSIC	85	85	170	BVC/PCL
NORTH BALTIMORE	82	83	165	MAL/BVC?
ARLINGTON	89	75	164	BVC
CRESTLINE	75	82	157	NCC/N10
ARCADIA	65	78	143	BVC
HARDIN NORTHERN	66	57	123	BVC
PANDORA-GILBOA	53	69	122	BVC/PCL
LUCAS	59	62	121	NCC/??
ST WENDELIN	55	48	103	MAL/NWCC/BVC?
NEW RIEGEL	48	50	98	MAL
VANLUE	30	30	60	BVC
BETTSVILLE	18	21	39	MAL