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[polkhigh33]

Meeting will be Jan. 30th....league will meet with four different school districts in hopes of replacing the three departed. No official word on who those districts are.

[polkhigh33]

Carey, Mohawk and Seneca East will be leaving.

Tiffin Calvert, Hopewell-Loudon, Lakota, North Baltimore, Fremont St. Joseph remain for football. New Riegel, St. Wendelin, Bettsville and Old Fort are part of the league for other sports.

[polkhigh33]

Five names being floated right now, although apparently only four invited to a meeting - Elmwood, Woodmore, Gibsonburg, Northwood and Sandusky St. Mary. All schools have said once publically they are staying put, but things change.

[bambino]

I think the BVC will be the next league to expand to big-small division. Stay tuned!!

[polkhigh33]

According to radiodave, Elmwood has issued a statement saying "at this time, we are staying in the NBC."

[oberhaus]

polkhigh33, on 24 January 2012 - 04:40 PM, said:

According to radiodave, Elmwood has issued a statement saying "at this time, we are staying in the NBC."

"At this time" In other words...We are waiting to see who else has interest. Namely Woodmore and Gibsonburg.

[polkhigh33]

Pretty much

[veteranlefty]

Same 5 schools I heard mentioned too....SMCC said they were staying in SBC back in November but now SBC people hearing they are interested again. Northwood would bring decent football team to MAL while Gburg and Elmwood wanted in two years ago. Woodmore wants in as they were tired of the 60 point losses in football last year. Hopefully when the dust settles MAL can find 3 new partners...meeting is Monday so maybe we will hear something next week.

[polkhigh33]

Meeting is today....should be interesting.

[I'm Randal]

My understanding is that Elmwood and Gibsonburg wait to see what the other school will do. I don't think they are 100% happy in the NBC.

[Warthog]

I'm Randal, on 30 January 2012 - 10:53 AM, said:

My understanding is that Elmwood and Gibsonburg wait to see what the other school will do. I don't think they are 100% happy in the NBC.

There was blurb in the BG paper the other day that the NBC had a meeting and it was announced that 'all is well' and they were not expecting any changes.

Found the piece...

"No change planned in NBC
The superintendents, principals and athletic directors of the Northern Buckeye Conference met Friday to discuss the stability of the conference.
NBC members are: Eastwood, Elmwood, Lake, Otsego, and Rossford from Wood County along with Fostoria, Genoa and Woodmore. This is the first academic year for the conference.
After much discussion the feeling was that the Northern Buckeye Conference is a solid conference and it will be moving forward with the eight schools who are presently members. All eight schools are committed to the success of the conference, according to a news release from Larry Jones, the NBC commissioner."

Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune 1-28-2012.

Edited by Warthog, 30 January 2012 - 11:23 AM.

[polkhigh33]

Saw that as well....

It could be tough for the MAL. Woodmore not jumping ship makes things a little more difficult (and I'm not sure the NBC works for them long-term, especially in football). The other problem is expansion to the east is tough with North Baltimore being so far west.

[polkhigh33]

Midland Athletic League
updated 1-30-12
Email received by The Senior Reports from MAL President
RE: MAL meeting

Dave,

There really is nothing to report. We are moving into more
discussions with other leagues. I wish I had more to report
to you but that is it.

Rebecca Heimlich
Superintendent of Lakota Local Schools


I think Woodmore deciding to stay squashed plans. I don't know what they plan on doing now. "Discussions with other leagues" is interesting. How many leagues out there are really looking to combine?

Edited by polkhigh33, 31 January 2012 - 09:08 AM.

[bob22]

polkhigh33, on 31 January 2012 - 09:07 AM, said:

Midland Athletic League
updated 1-30-12
Email received by The Senior Reports from MAL President
RE: MAL meeting

Dave,

There really is nothing to report. We are moving into more
discussions with other leagues. I wish I had more to report
to you but that is it.

Rebecca Heimlich
Superintendent of Lakota Local Schools


I think Woodmore deciding to stay squashed plans. I don't know what they plan on doing now. "Discussions with other leagues" is interesting. How many leagues out there are really looking to combine?

Could the BVC be seriously looking into a big school/small school set-up? Makes sense given the lack of numbers issues at more than a couple bvc schools.

[Coach_B]

Could be, but many at the dance are already spoken for. See: Riverdale

[polkhigh33]

Let's be realistic about this - how many other "leagues" want to merge around the area as they stand in their current format?

The TAAC is probably the only one that would even be midly interested. But then you look at that situation and it muddies with Hilltop and Edon. In a perfect world I'm sure the TAAC would prefer to see those to schools go elsewhere, eliminate the long drive, and slide Lakota and North Balitmore into those slots. Outside those two schools, I'm not sure it appeals to Calvert, SJCC and H-L.

The BVC has it's problems football-wise with Vanlue and now Hardin Northern (and the size of Liberty-Benton), but is there really a fit between the two leagues? The BVC has been pretty cosy together. There's a ton of NL games in all sports scheduled between the two leagues, but combined they'd be left with 15 football playing schools and Riverdale is off the table as a 16th. Elmwood says it's comfortable where it's at. St. Joe is really too far east of the BVC schools.

It may very well take shuffling elswhere for an opportunity to come about for the remaining MAL schools. Who knows what will happen if Shelby/and or Willard leave for the proposed Richland County area league. I think that league is going to happen in some way, shape, form.

Edited by polkhigh33, 02 February 2012 - 12:17 PM.

[bob22]

polkhigh33, on 02 February 2012 - 12:16 PM, said:

Let's be realistic about this - how many other "leagues" want to merge around the area as they stand in their current format?

The TAAC is probably the only one that would even be midly interested. But then you look at that situation and it muddies with Hilltop and Edon. In a perfect world I'm sure the TAAC would prefer to see those to schools go elsewhere, eliminate the long drive, and slide Lakota and North Balitmore into those slots. Outside those two schools, I'm not sure it appeals to Calvert, SJCC and H-L.

The BVC has it's problems football-wise with Vanlue and now Hardin Northern (and the size of Liberty-Benton), but is there really a fit between the two leagues? The BVC has been pretty cosy together. There's a ton of NL games in all sports scheduled between the two leagues, but combined they'd be left with 15 football playing schools and Riverdale is off the table as a 16th. Elmwood says it's comfortable where it's at. St. Joe is really too far east of the BVC schools.

It may very well take shuffling elswhere for an opportunity to come about for the remaining MAL schools. Who knows what will happen if Shelby/and or Willard leave for the proposed Richland County area league. I think that league is going to happen in some way, shape, form.

Maybe a merger wouldn't include everybody. In the end, each school has to look for themselves.