NSAA Legislative Proposals

[Eagle3898]

Well, they already coop softball🤷

Yes you are correct . That is awesome that they do but I was talking more about the other sports.

 

[TC53]

Anyone have the numbers from, say 1975 to 1990, when there were only 4 classes and about 100 more schools? I know the population shift to metro areas is huge, but how was the state able to handle 4 classes with more schools just a generation or so ago? What I'm wondering is, what were the number cutoffs between classes? Was class D, 55 and below? I'm sure the difference between the smallest class C school and the biggest C was huge. What about B? My high school was class B and one of the smallest, yet won some state championships. Just curious in the breakdown of enrollment and number of schools in each class.

1977:
Burke was biggest school at 2,522
The smallest Class A (32 teams) was Roncalli with 599.
The biggest B was Pius X with 559.
The smallest B was West Holt with 222.
Aquinas as 3rd largest in C-1 with 212.
St. Edward was one of the largest D-11 schools at 90.
I believe any D school (90 or below) could play 8-man. Shelby was ineligible for 8-man playoffs in 1975 (and maybe 1976) because they were in Class C basketball.

So, if I'm reading it right:
A: 599 and up (limited to 32 schools)
B: 222-559 (limited to 64 schools I believe)
C: 91-221 (might have been 128 schools)
D-11 & D-8: 1-90

 

[Alum-Ni]

1977:
Burke was biggest school at 2,522
The smallest Class A (32 teams) was Roncalli with 599.
The biggest B was Pius X with 559.
The smallest B was West Holt with 222.
Aquinas as 3rd largest in C-1 with 212.
St. Edward was one of the largest D-11 schools at 90.
I believe any D school (90 or below) could play 8-man. Shelby was ineligible for 8-man playoffs in 1975 (and maybe 1976) because they were in Class C basketball.

So, if I'm reading it right:
A: 599 and up (limited to 32 schools)
B: 222-559 (limited to 64 schools I believe)
C: 91-221 (might have been 128 schools)
D-11 & D-8: 1-90

In 1990:

Class A: 32 largest schools

Class B: Next 64 largest schools

Class C1 & C2: Remainder of schools playing 11-man football (43 schools each)

Class D1 & D2: All 8-man playing schools split evenly (D1 had 62, D2 had 61)

Class D3: 28 schools

Class A and D3 had 8-team playoff brackets. The remaining classes had 16-team brackets

 

[newsie101]

1977:
Burke was biggest school at 2,522
The smallest Class A (32 teams) was Roncalli with 599.
The biggest B was Pius X with 559.
The smallest B was West Holt with 222.
Aquinas as 3rd largest in C-1 with 212.
St. Edward was one of the largest D-11 schools at 90.
I believe any D school (90 or below) could play 8-man. Shelby was ineligible for 8-man playoffs in 1975 (and maybe 1976) because they were in Class C basketball.

So, if I'm reading it right:
A: 599 and up (limited to 32 schools)
B: 222-559 (limited to 64 schools I believe)
C: 91-221 (might have been 128 schools)
D-11 & D-8: 1-90

Interesting numbers. Thanks!

 

[Alum-Ni]

Found the district assignments for the first NSAA playoffs, held in 1975. Classifications were based on male enrollment on the sixth day of the school year. Those male enrollments are in parentheses. Class A was the largest 32 schools. The next 64 largest were Class B, the next 64 were C1, the next 64 were C2, the remainder of 11-man playing schools were Class D, and all 8-man schools were in Eight-Man class.

CLASS A

A-1
Beatrice (504)
Fremont (944)
Lincoln East (1,005)
Lincoln High (1,136)
Lincoln Northeast (1,128)
Lincoln Southeast (1,106)
Norfolk (710)
South Sioux City (443)

A-2
Bellevue (1,673)
Omaha Benson (1,000)
Omaha Burke (1,348)
Omaha Central (1,375)
Omaha Creighton Prep (986)
Omaha Tech (393)
Papillion (788)
Ralston (699)

A-3
Millard (1,013)
Omaha Bryan (792)
Omaha Gross (520)
Omaha North (891)
Omaha Northwest (1,054)
Omaha Roncalli (461)
Omaha South (1,453)
Omaha Westside (1,575)

A-4
Alliance (345)
Columbus (576)
Grand Island (1,022)
Hastings (682)
Kearney (535)
McCook (377)
North Platte (985)
Scottsbluff (573)

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CLASS B

B-1
Adams Central (143)
Auburn (196)
Aurora (245)
Crete (247)
Fairbury (284)
Falls City (258)
Firth Norris (195)
Grand Island Catholic (159)
Grand Island Northwest (266)
Lincoln Pius X (320)
Nebraska City (303)
Seward (281)
Superior (184)
Syracuse (167)
Wymore Southern (138)
York (341)

B-2
Arlington (158)
Ashland (176)
Blair (324)
Boys Town (258)
Elkhorn (161)
Gretna (175)
North Bend (147)
Omaha Cathedral (172)
Omaha Paul (209)
Omaha Ryan (265)
Plattsmouth (325)
Raymond Central (154)
Springfield Platteview (164)
Tekamah-Herman (152)
Wahoo (153)
Waverly (254)

B-3
Albion (176)
Central City (194)
Columbus Lakeview (140)
Columbus Scotus (161)
Creighton (137)
Crofton (149)
David City Aquinas (161)
Hartington Cedar Catholic (151)
O'Neill (207)
Pierce (144)
Randolph (141)
St. Paul (154)
Schuyler (222)
Wayne (199)
West Point Catholic (145)
Wisner (149)

B-4
Ainsworth (151)
Broken Bow (218)
Chadron (200)
Cozad (213)
Gering (319)
Gordon (170)
Gothenburg (171)
Holdrege (248)
Kimball (163)
Lexington (262)
Loup City (138)
Minden (193)
Ogallala (301)
Ord (182)
Sidney (308)
Valentine (179)

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CLASS C1

C1-1
Cedar Rapids (84)
De Witt Tri County (113)
Fairfield Sandy Creek (110)
Franklin (100)
Fullerton (118)
Geneva (126)
Genoa (87)
Harvard (85)
Hastings St. Cecilia (94)
Hebron (100)
Milford (132)
Sutton (113)
Tecumseh (118)
Utica Centennial (131)
Weeping Water (93)
Wilber (96)

C1-2
Bennington (83)
Brainard East Butler (83)
David City (125)
Dodge (89)
Elkhorn Mt. Michael (119)
Fort Calhoun (91)
Fremont Bergan (125)
Hooper Logan View (135)
Howells (111)
Louisville (88)
Mead (84)
Oakland-Craig (116)
Omaha Holy Name (130)
Valley (110)
Wahoo Neumann (137)
West Point (130)

C1-3
Atkinson West Holt (135)
Battle Creek (95)
Bloomfield (106)
Elgin Pope John (91)
Emerson (129)
Laurel (103)
Madison (136)
Neligh (120)
Newman Grove (92)
Norfolk Catholic (102)
Pender (117)
Plainview (135)
Stanton (113)
Tilden Elkhorn Valley (96)
Verdigre (84)
Wausa (89)

C1-4
Bassett (89)
Bayard (118)
Bridgeport (113)
Cairo Centura (136)
Chadron Job Corps (118)
Crawford (97)
Gibbon (95)
Imperial (132)
Mitchell (130)
North Platte St. Patrick's (99)
Oshkosh (88)
Ravenna (98)
Rushville (88)
Sargent (84)
Sutherland (86)
Wood River (127)

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CLASS C2

C2-1
Alma (76)
Axtell (61)
Blue Hill (75)
Clay Center (63)
Cook (71)
Doniphan (61)
Friend (81)
Henderson (76)
Humboldt (67)
Malcolm (69)
Nebraska City Lourdes (65)
Palmyra (71)
Pawnee City (78)
Red Cloud (77)
Stella Southeast (76)
Tobias Meridian (69)

C2-2
Allen (64)
Bancroft (68)
Clarkson (73)
Hartington (70)
Humphrey St. Francis (66)
Leigh (64)
Lyons (77)
Omaha Dominican (75)
Ponca (75)
Scribner (81)
Shelby (62)
Wakefield (82)
Walthill (61)
Winside (82)
Wynot (62)
Yutan (76)

C2-3
Ansley (78)
Burwell (81)
Clarks (62)
Kearney Catholic (67)
Lindsay Holy Family (68)
Niobrara (72)
O'Neill St. Mary's (76)
Orchard (65)
Osceola (73)
Osmond (81)
Pleasanton (68)
St. Edward (76)
Shelton (73)
Spencer (66)
Springview (62)
Stromsburg (77)

C2-4
Arapahoe (65)
Arnold (67)
Bertrand (64)
Cambridge (68)
Culbertson (67)
Curtis Medicine Valley (66)
Grant (69)
Hay Springs (68)
Hemingford (78)
Hershey (82)
Hyannis (64)
Indianola Republican Valley (66)
Merna (71)
Morrill (60)
Mullen (62)
Wauneta (71)

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CLASS D (11-Man)
(Class D enrollments include Exeter and Palmer at 61 and all others under 60)

D-1
Deshler
Dorchester
Elmwood
Exeter
Fairmont
Falls City Sacred Heart
Johnson-Brock
Nelson
Polk
Shickley
Sterling
Waterloo

D-2
Butte
Cedar Bluffs
Coleridge
Ewing
Greeley
Homer
Lynch
Newcastle
Silver Creek
Spalding Academy
Stuart
Winnebago
Wolbach

D-3
Arcadia
Beaver City
Elba
Hildreth
Kenesaw
Lawrence
Litchfield
Orleans
Oxford
Palmer
Scotia
Wilcox

D-4
Alliance St. Agnes
Amherst
Benkelman
Callaway
Elm Creek
Elwood
Harrison
Lexington St. Ann
Loomis
Minatare
Overton
Sumner

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8-MAN

Eight-1
Adams
Barneston
Bradshaw
Bruning
Chester
Davenport
Dawson-Verdon
Diller
Elk Creek
Filley
Giltner
Guide Rock
Hampton
Lewiston
McCool Junction
Milligan
Murdock
Nehawka
Odell
Ruskin
Table Rock
Trumbull

Eight-2
Bartlett
Beemer
Benedict
Central City Nebraska Christian
Chambers
Clearwater
Decatur
Elgin
Gresham
Hordville
Humphrey
Macy
Marquette
Monroe
Nebraska School for the Deaf
Petersburg
Prague
Rising City
Rosalie
Snyder
Spalding

Eight-3
Bartley
Bladen
Brady
Campbell
Dunning Sandhills
Eustis-Farnam
Haigler
Hayes Center
Holbrook
Lebanon Beaver Valley
Maxwell
Maywood
Oconto
Palisade
Republican City
Roseland
Stamford
Stratton
Taylor
Trenton
Wilsonville

Eight-4
Arthur
Big Springs
Brule
Chappell
Cody
Dalton
Dix
Gurley
Harrisburg
Lodgepole
Lyman
Madrid Wheatland
Melbeta
Mitchell Sunflower
Potter
Paxton
Sidney St. Patrick
Stapleton
Thedford
Tyron
Venange
Wallace

 

[TC53]

For fun, I laid the 24-25 boy numbers on top of the 1975 classification system.

Class A. McCook in '75 was smallest at 377. That would put 41 teams in Class A with the 24-25 numbers; everyone Lexington (382) and bigger. That's up 9 teams.

Class B. Adams Central was smallest at 143. That would put 22 teams in there today; Gretna to Aurora. That's down a whopping 42 teams. No surprise, the shrinking of Class B has been well documented. Would the four opt-downs still opt with the biggest of the class up in A? Not sure.

Class C1. Bennington at 83 was the smallest in 1975. That would put 34 teams in C1 today, Douglas Co. West to Conestoga. That's down 30 teams from 1975.

Class C2. That would leave just 25 teams in C2, Kearney Catholic to Summerland, down 39 schools from 1975. Would Wakefield, Johnson Central, Bridgeport, and David City play 11-man against just those 25? If so, there would be 29.

Class D-11. Only 15 11-man teams today are 60 boys and less. Would some 8-man teams play 11-man against those 15? Today, 19 teams have enrollments equal to or bigger than Oakland-Craig (48), the smallest public school playing 11-man. Maybe this could be a 30-34 team class?

Class D-8. That would leave between 87 and 106 8-man teams in one division either between 60 and 16 boys or 47 and 16 boys (if those 48+ teams ere willing to play 11-man against schools no bigger than 60.

I suppose you could still split 8-man with 44-55 teams in each with the split somewhere between 32-36 boys.

The other classes seem kind of fair to me, except A. Probably have to split A1 and A2 at somewhere around Omaha Burke's 590 and Buena Vista's 588 with about 20 teams in each. All LPS except LNW (A2) and Standing Bear (B) would be A1. For OPS, Central, South, North, Westview, and maybe Burke would be A1. Buena Vista, Bryan, Benson, and Northwest would be A2.

All three Millards and both Papios would be A1. Bellevue West would be A1 and Bell East A2. Elk South and Elk North would be A2 and Elkhorn would be B. Gretna East would be A2; Gretna High B.

Grand Island, Fremont, and Kearney would be A1. Most of the rest of the old Big Ten; Norfolk, Columbus, North Platte, Scottsbluff, and Hastings; would be A2. Alliance and McCook would be B unless Alliance still opted down.

SSC, Bennington, Ralston, Pius X, and Lexington would be A2.

A little crazy, yea. Worse than the current system? Not sure, I'd go that far. Especially if you split A and 8-man from the 1975 system.

 

[ClkTwr2011]

You are not taking into account the parents and grandparents who will have to be drug—kicking and screaming—into coops and consolidation. Sometimes I think these people would rather be 1-8 with “our team” versus being more competitive by co-oping with the town next door.

Your "sometimes thought" needs to be your "all the time thought".

Parents/Grandparents would rather watch Junior be a 4 year starter on a horrible team than be part of a co-op in which Junior actually plays a couple years of JV Football. They truly believe in their hearts that Junior is just THAT good that he is a 4 year starter.

To me, that is sad.

 

[northeastNebraska]

Your "sometimes thought" needs to be your "all the time thought".

Parents/Grandparents would rather watch Junior be a 4 year starter on a horrible team than be part of a co-op in which Junior actually plays a couple years of JV Football. They truly believe in their hearts that Junior is just THAT good that he is a 4 year starter.

To me, that is sad.

Agreed. Say your kid is a sophomore, would you rather watch him stand on the sidelines in the quarterfinals of the playoffs and play in the last series of a comfortable win or would you rather see him getting stats, but losing in week 8 52-18 and missing the playoffs?

I know my answer.