I’m sure SSC would love to have that many kids out for football. Percentages of students out for activities will always be higher in a smaller school. To me it’s crazy that Homer has that few of kids out for football. Wasn’t that long ago that their numbers were good.
I believe they use the volleyball classifications for this for some reason. There are C-2 schools for football and boys basketball that are listed as class D
Chad's been on staff there for a long time. He's coached in 4 C-2 finals. 2001 as an assistant coach, 2009, 2014, and 2022 as a head coach. 21 trips to the playoffs as a head coach. Darn good coach and deserved better.
The C-1 and C-2 consolation games that I have attended have all been very competitive. Western Nebraska schools tend to have larger crowds than the eastern schools do for those games.
They didn’t have interest in playing an extra game after losing in the semi finals. I went to a class A third place game once. Neither coach seemed to care about the game and the players treated it like the NBA all star game. I did get to see a lot of dunks though.
I think it'll be interesting to see how the Sioux Falls schools will do against Omaha schools. My gut tells me that the Omaha teams will beat them pretty bad.
I don't have any documentation or anything, but the Gridiron was a group of teams that were ineligible for the playoffs. This was back when the schools set their own schedule and some of those schools had enrollments for 11 man football but chose to play 8 man football because their conference...