So when these schools that can't field a team, or forfeit half their seasons it doesn't affect every opponent that doesn't get to compete that week? A little isolated thinking, no?
Have you seen how many games they play each week for volleyball and basketball?
I wish my daughters' team didn't play 3 games a week, every week of the season.
Too many games nowadays. Don't worry about these poor teams not getting to compete, they will still get to compete plenty of times.
Many times co-oping means small, low talent level schools must compete with larger, more talented schools, resulting in more embarrassing losses.
You act like co-oping is easy. Try traveling on muddy gravel roads for 30+ miles one way 5 days a week. Not every town is 5 miles apart with highways.
How much more do parents need to worry about their teenage children driving in the dark after practices, especially when the younger kids on the team cannot drive yet, so now you are placing multiple young lives in the hands of your kids when they have to give each other rides?
Who pays for the fuel bill for these kids to drive back and forth? Who gets out of practice at 7 or 8pm instead of 6pm each night? How much more family time must be given up in the evenings?
Please don't act like co-oping is such as easy choice that is only denied by selfishness.
There is a lot of sacrifice for each school (admins, head and assistant coaches that get paid very little, students, parents, fans, etc) that co-ops.
