Re: 2018 Verbal: Bartholomew Ogbu
Originally Posted by
Professor Chaos
No I don't. For the Bison I think it all starts with recruiting well.
I don't know for sure whether the privates recruit or not but it's not just coaching that gets them more success on average than similarly sized public schools in the rural areas. It's the fact that they have year round training facilities in their town with a higher number of competitors that also train year around. Also the families they come from generally make their fair share of money as well so they have the resources to send their kids to camps or fully utilize those training facilities.
You have a point as well. Also, the center part of this state is going to have hardly any rural towns left in ten years. Only in the NW and East are the small towns still surviving. Shiloh for instance made it to their second football championship ever this year barely beating our a very good New Salem team. When Shiloh goes 11 man they will have a much more difficult time because they will be a small school in that class size.
I am not opposed to having a three class system if it is what the kids want and is what is best for the kids not their parents. However, grouping the privates into one is a little overboard as there is such a difference in size from say an Our Redeemers to a Shanley (I bet the class sizes are almost 10 times as big).
As far as better recruiting for NDSU, Mr Nelson in the twin cities believes Leidner would have gone as high as Wentz if he went to NDSU so maybe its the coaching, purple of course.
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