Kickapoo and Glendale invited to COC
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This is just crazy. All the movement and rumors of movement. Pretty much every SW Mo conference is changing other than the SCA.
I’m asking because I honestly don’t know…
Was it the first three that officially left the Big 8 that started all this, or did they leave because they heard Marshfield and Rogersville were leaving?
Was it the first three that officially left the Big 8 that started all this, or did they leave because they heard Marshfield and Rogersville were leaving?
IF they move, and why wouldnt they, the COC just became even stronger across the board. Will dominate local media coverage no doubt.
You're essentially replacing your two worst schools athletically (CJ and Branson) and replacing them with Kickapoo and Glendale. Also helps travel quite a bit for those schools in the Springfield metro.
You're essentially replacing your two worst schools athletically (CJ and Branson) and replacing them with Kickapoo and Glendale. Also helps travel quite a bit for those schools in the Springfield metro.
is there anything else other than football?
Personally I hope they stay. This would be in my opinion unquestionably the premiere league in SWMO. They can play down and may want to, I get it, but they (and especially Willard) should both stay in the COC. Not that they care what I think.
My gut tells me the later. Someone in the shadows was creating the OMC first. It was mentioned that someone being Branson.
I have heard from multiple superintendents that Branson started all of this and that everything has happened very suddenly.
Regardless of who started it this time, I think the real motivator over the past several such realignments has been the new district points system in football (and the transition to a 9 game regular season).
Yes and a good reason for the OMC to accept class 5 Parkview
yep rewarding teams for playing 'up' against bad teams is ridiculous.
going 9-0 every year against sisters of the blind shows up in the playoffs.
I get the intention, you want to reward teams for playing tougher competition and the resulting thinner margins or even loses. Incorporating some kind of win/loss, strength of schedule formula is way outside the capabilities of MSHSAA so the best they can do is assume that every larger school is automatically better. Which of course everyone knows is not the case.
So the system is flawed and easily gamed. In same cases deliberately, but in others just a product of circumstance. Webb City and Carthage get extra points for beating Ozark even though it was arguably the easiest game of the season. That's not anything they intentionally designed. On the other hand beating C6 Joplin or Nixa should be worth more points. But MSHSAA isn't sophisticated enough to come up with a formula that can identify that.
I could be mistaken but I’m pretty sure the W/L record of the opponent you win or lose to is factored into the district points.
Kickapoo is transferring!!!! I hope the conference does not check the FOR ATHLETIC REASONS box....
They could use a Sagarin type system and be a lot more accurate.
As it is now, Adrian should be playing Clinton, KN, KC Northeast, Center, Southeast, Pembroke Hill for a sure 1 seed.
Just silly.
Kickapoo is transferring!!!! I hope the conference does not check the FOR ATHLETIC REASONS box....
Was anything described in that song actually...ironic?
Ironic that Mr. Play it safe Bosko was afraid to fly,
He had to pack his suitcase and kiss his kids good bye!
Okay you bozos and nincompoops!!! Leave me OUT of this. I dont give two hoots about conference realignments in Missouri. Wanna know why? I live in PENNSYLVANIA!!!
I was just thinking other day that I wonder if the rest of the COC and OC teams merge into one conference.
Maybe with all this reshuffling the new and improved COC will rename itself with something that makes more sense. Maybe I am the only person that finds it annoying that the name of the conference and actual geography of the members don't align.
It is basically a conference of the largest and most competitive schools in the SW corner of the state, sure there is a name with more punch to it. It's marginally in the ozarks - which to be fair is a region with a vague boundary. Kind of like the "midwest". I bet we could come up with some pretty corny names.
It is basically a conference of the largest and most competitive schools in the SW corner of the state, sure there is a name with more punch to it. It's marginally in the ozarks - which to be fair is a region with a vague boundary. Kind of like the "midwest". I bet we could come up with some pretty corny names.
Google Ozark Mountain Conference and other than the recent news articles, you’ll get all this crap about an Ozark Mountain UFO conference that they have annually apparently 🤣🤣🤣
