Two Teams Instead of Three?

[Lil49erCoach]

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Los Banos Tigers

@LosBanosTigers
·
14h

Beyer, Ceres, Johansen and Mt. House have dropped JV football for the season. Scrambling for games.
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Dustin Caropreso

@CoachDCaropreso
· 16h
Well can it get any worse for LB, Pacheco, Davis & Lathrop in the WAC. We now have had 4 teams drop there JV football programs which is half our league members. It’s time as a league too figure what direction we are going to go with our lower levels.

 

[Lil49erCoach]

In reality there are 4 possible divisions in the teams. You have to be careful what level you are scheduling.

Freshmen - Nothing but Freshmen.

Frosh/Soph - Freshmen and Sophomores. This is usually what everyone calls JV

Junior Varsity - Frosh, Soph, Juniors - I coach I knew in the NCS would have his 2nd team Juniors play JV so they were getting game playing time. Usually the skill guys. If something happened to #1 in the game he would limp through with #3 but next week #2 was up on varsity with a lot of game time experience instead of sitting on the bench behind the starter. Made for some fairly well stacked/competitive JV teams as there were other teams doing this.

Varsity - Frosh, Soph, Juniors, Seniors - If you can play, and are eligible and/or mom signs off you can play varsity as a freshmen/soph.

Always had to ask if we were playing a JV team, or a Frosh/Soph team. I would think that the bigger schools would possibly consider having all 4 levels to get more kids more chances to play and get better, but smaller schools are heading toward 1 team.

I think declining numbers is going to be an increasing problem because if there is nobody (small schools) at the bottom of the football food chain then the ones in the middle become the bottom to the bigger schools. If a mid-level school has to replace smaller schools on their schedules with larger schools then odds are they won't have the wins for playoff time. Schools that have 15 kids in their senior class and 20 in their junior class have no idea what it is like to have 17 kids in the junior and senior classes combined.