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Nevada Voted to join the Big 8

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The Nevada R-5 Board of Education voted this morning to accept an invitation to join the Big 8 Conference starting in the 2018-19 school year and will leave the WCC.

Big 8 is reportedly is wanting to expand to 14 schools with East and West divisions. Being described as tentative and contingent on all schools accepting the invitation, Nevada would be in the West along with Lamar, East Newton, Monett, Cassville, Seneca and McDonald County.

Several other schools, including Marshfield, Logan-Rogersville, Reeds Spring, Springfield Catholic and Hollister have been issued invitations to join Aurora and Mt. Vernon in the East division.

The acceptance of Nevada to the Big 8 is contingent upon all schools invited accepting their invitation.

We'll have more on this story on Double K Country and www.knemknmo.com.
 
Makes sense for Marshfield, Rogersville, Catholic, and Reeds; the Small COC is dead.
 
Don't get me wrong, I like the sound of it, but what would all the teams who didn't win their divisions do? (scheduling nightmare!)

They'd all essentially have to live with a bye.
 
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Bolivar may need to join the OC, with Joplin dropping out. They need to be scrambling to find some class 4 and larger conference.
 
Bolivar could always but thier big boy pants on and try to get in the COC Large. :)
 
With joplin joining the large COC in 2028, and giving the league 10 teams (9 game football schedule - no open dates), I'd be surprised if they'd let Bolivar in now.

Of course, I suppose somebody could drop out. Who knows....
 
Mister_Wizard said:
With joplin joining the large COC in 2028, and giving the league 10 teams (9 game football schedule - no open dates), I'd be surprised if they'd let Bolivar in now.

Of course, I suppose somebody could drop out. Who knows....
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Not sure who would drop out of the current COC Large Division. Most teams are very competitive in multiple sports, very few bottom feeders. Even the schools who aren't typically good in football can hold their own in basketball, baseball, volleyball, etc. One of the great things about the COC Large I think is that there is great parity when you look at sports as a whole.
 
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Mister_Wizard said:
With joplin joining the large COC in 2028, and giving the league 10 teams (9 game football schedule - no open dates), I'd be surprised if they'd let Bolivar in now.

Of course, I suppose somebody could drop out. Who knows....
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2028....well for the next 12 years I guess Bolivar could play in the COC large.

It will be sad if the COC large members leave Bolivar with out a conference after all it is one conference So if they are left as the only member in the small I would think there would be some bylaws written that would mean the would rotate over to the large back when the conference was originally created. I would think thier history with the COC would mean the Large would take them in.
 
bullitpdq68 said:
2028....well for the next 12 years I guess Bolivar could play in the COC large.

It will be sad if the COC large members leave Bolivar with out a conference after all it is one conference So if they are left as the only member in the small I would think there would be some bylaws written that would mean the would rotate over to the large back when the conference was originally created. I would think thier history with the COC would mean the Large would take them in.
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Agree with your thinking. Would be a shame if they didn't protect their own.

2028, typo. And I'd hate to wait 10 extra years for these new matchups Joplin will bring to the COC.

Btw, seems like now the Large and Small labels can be removed (in 2018).
 
What's with all the animosity towards Bolivar? There never seems to be much love for that district on this board. Don't know much about them, don't really care. Just curious. The only thing I remember about them was back in high school hearing that it was difficult to beat them at basketball at home because they had crooked refs. Which I took with a grain of salt, but at the time they did strike me as one of the less sportsmanlike teams we encountered, though I don't really remember why.

Bolivar seems like a reasonable addition to the coc large, but at this point it would require a total reconfiguration of the mechanics in football since the schedule is completely full. Would the large members want Bolivar at the expense of a normal 9 game schedule playing every member?
 
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What's with all the animosity towards Bolivar? There never seems to be much love for that district on this board. Don't know much about them, don't really care. Just curious. The only thing I remember about them was back in high school hearing that it was difficult to beat them at basketball at home because they had crooked refs. Which I took with a grain of salt, but at the time they did strike me as one of the less sportsmanlike teams we encountered, though I don't really remember why.

Bolivar seems like a reasonable addition to the coc large, but at this point it would require a total reconfiguration of the mechanics in football since the schedule is completely full. Would the large members want Bolivar at the expense of a normal 9 game schedule playing every member?
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I vote we kick out Joplin before they infect the conference
 
bullitpdq68 said:
2028....well for the next 12 years I guess Bolivar could play in the COC large.

It will be sad if the COC large members leave Bolivar with out a conference after all it is one conference So if they are left as the only member in the small I would think there would be some bylaws written that would mean the would rotate over to the large back when the conference was originally created. I would think thier history with the COC would mean the Large would take them in.
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But it really wasnt one conference... It was IN NAME ONLY. The Large and Small really had nothing to do with one another. Any Changes were all geared to the Large.
 
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They had more than one opportunity to get into the Large COC and did not want in....
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You act like you have some sort of insider info. Were you present at meetings? Hearing it in forums or word of mouth doesn't equal facts.
 
As a former Bolivar athlete before the COC split Im glad that the COC Small is now obsolete. It had been a mockery for a while and didnt do Bolivar any good to be in it. I see there's lots of sour grapes from other small members, but that's fine. I would love to see Bolivar get back with former rivals such as Willard, Republic, Branson, Nixa and Ozark.
 
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Yet they stayed there for 15 or so years?...
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I have always been confused on this as well as media outlets says Bolivar won "15 consecutive" COC small titles. Hasn't the COC Small officially been around since circa 2009? Someone help me out if I am missing something.
 
COCfan1212 said:
I have always been confused on this as well as media outlets says Bolivar won "15 consecutive" COC small titles. Hasn't the COC Small officially been around since circa 2009? Someone help me out if I am missing something.
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MaxPreps goes back as far as 2004, and while it doesn't give the conference name, it lists Bolivar's games that season against Buffalo, Rog, Marsh, Catholic, and Reeds as conference games...
 
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There was some decent competition in the early years. There were usually multiple teams (besides Bolivar) that were competitive.
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Buffalo is going to the Ozark Highland Conference which is a new conference starting in 2018. I can remember the COC Small being around in the late 90's, and speaking of Buffalo, they were the COC Small champs in 2000 in football.
 
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I have always been confused on this as well as media outlets says Bolivar won "15 consecutive" COC small titles. Hasn't the COC Small officially been around since circa 2009? Someone help me out if I am missing something.
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I think it was actually 14 counting the one they TIED for this year.... In the early years of COC expansion they played Cross-over games so there were not completely separated the way they ended up being after the group that included Webb joined. So they are counting some of those years as well.... Now, dont confuse that streak with the "never lost a small-COC game" streak. They did lose some in the early days of expansion but not at all after the total split until they lost at Reeds Spring this year.
Whether you are a fan or not... Think they should have been in the Big Division or not... it is quite an impressive run.
 
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1998 was first year of divisions for Central Ozark and Bolivar has be a division champion all but 3 years (2000, 2001, 2002). They shared titles in 1998, 1999, 2003 and this year. As for leagues saving the 9th game for 'league playoffs' its' been done before in the St Louis Suburban League in Missouri in 1974. Not sure of any others in Missouri but several in Kansas have done that.
 
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