Ozark Mountain Conference
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If you really think this has anything to do with "feeling good about themselves" you really have no clue what went into this decision.
I don’t know about the whole feel good aspect but I believe they are a better fit in the Big 8 than the Mid Lakes.
No they fit better with the Mid Lakes especially with Hollister and Forsyth. It's where they should have been when the COC broke up.
Aren’t they class 3? Is their anyone else class 3 in the Mid Lakes. I’m talking school size more than logistics.
Pretty sure WP has never been Class 5 in anything other than basketball, and I don’t think they were class 5 in basketball when they were in the SCA, and if they were it was for a year or two.
Most of the SCA schools weren’t Class 1 in basketball when WP was Class 5 in bball, and now most of the SCA is 3 & 4 in basketball.
I believe they were c 5 in 97, 01. I'm old though. 97 I believe they were 5, Salem 4 ava and Mt Grove 3, cabool, willow, Mt view were 2 and Thayer 1.
WP played Hillcrest in football districts in 2001, Hillcrest has been Class 4 for a VERY long time in football, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and say WP was Class 4 in football in 2001.
I also think that WP wasn’t in the SCA in 2001 either. They were independent after being booted out of the league
Clever and Hollister are Class 3. Catholic jumps between the two. Fair Grove and Strafford will grow.
Mid-Lakes enrollment 9-12
Forsyth- 395
Fair Grove- 375
Strafford- 368
Clever- 364
Skyline- 230
Reeds Spring- 608
Hollister- 481
Touched a nerve, eh?
I would guess that deep down you are bothered by this decision, but want to stay loyal to the company line.
Speaking soley from the perspective of football, they are a much better fit in the Big 8. They have no business competing with Hollister and Forsyth. Now in other sports it maybe a fine fit.
But its not just a football move... that is what I am talking about, looking at the whole picture.
That maybe so. But we all know football is what drives the majority of athletic decisions at schools.
So you are no doubt a huge Reeds football guy. Are you happy with this decision?
I would still like to see us do away with Football conferences. Go to 8 team districts that you play during the regular season plus three other games of your choice. Top 4 in each District make the playoffs and then you cross bracket for the playoffs. But that makes too much sense and works too well in other states for us to follow....
are you saying this about all sports? Or just football?My apologies as now I understand why they are a better fit in a much smaller school size conference that they should dominate on a regular basis.
Mainly football but with that many more kids than the other schools they should be more successful. Don’t worry about mentioning girls basketball.
Was Reeds considered in the OMC?
I dont think RS was ever considered for that new league.... Mid Lakes will also be very, very good in baseball and boys basketball will be solid as well.
If I had a kid in school I would be all for a conference close to home. But I’m not. I’m an old man just seeing a school leaving a conference of schools it’s size to go into a conference that they will be the largest by a long ways.
Blasphemy (screamed all in the Joplin “metro”). Just exhausting.
This would solve a lot of issues. Except the constant bitching and moaning of a school that has to play in the same district as someone with 75 more students than them. I’d even argue shoot for 8 teams, when numbers don’t allow use 9. Then just have an 8 game regular season. Results determine bracket. Play on.
Some weren't big enough and some weren't good enough. You can decide which is which.
WP has won or shared the OC title at least 3 times in the last 8 years.
But they’re not Webb City, so they must just have a terrible program.
3 of the last 9. Had to check my facts.
Co-Champs with Camdenton in 2014, even though the beat the Lakers in the head to head.
Outright in 2018
Outright in 2020
Co-Champs with Camdenton in 2014, even though the beat the Lakers in the head to head.
Outright in 2018
Outright in 2020
How many State titles (the only championships that actually matter) did WP win during that time?
Yes West Plains was C5 in football in either late 90/early 2000s. I believe in early 2000s. They were in a 3 team district with Poplar Bluff, Sikeston and I think Farmington. They did this for 2 cycles and maybe 3. Salem was C4 many of those years and sometimes in a C4 district with West Plains, Ozark, and Nixa
When WP was in the SCA all the schools in basketball besides them were a C2 or C3 except Thayer at C1.
