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02-04-2006, 06:42 PM
New Braunfels Herald
Smithson Valley will stay in District 26-5A, which simply substituted Converse Wagner for SA Lee. Lee, which submitted an average daily membership (ADM) of 1,968 students, fell below the new cutoff for Class 5A, which now begins at 1,985 students.
“They took one out, put another in and here we go again,” Smithson Valley athletic director and football coach Larry Hill said. “We knew this could happen. . . We expect Wagner to be very competitive right off the bat.”
There’s an upside and a downside to the Rangers’ placement. Their travel and league opponents won’t change, but the competitiveness of the district will remain the same — even though they’ll be four playoff teams next year.
“You’ll get four, but you can get five or six playoff teams out of this district,” Hill said.
There was a major move in San Antonio’s outlying 5A district. The current District 25-5A lost San Marcos and Seguin to an Austin district and saw Clemens and SA Jefferson drop into 4A. That left East Central, Highlands and Southwest open, and they were placed into a new 27-5A — with three Corpus Christi schools and Victoria Memorial.
“You would think that they would’ve put us in with San Marcos and Seguin and those three San Antonio schools and tried to make something that would’ve been of some sense, but I’m not sure that’s what goes into their big picture,” Hill said of the UIL.
Smithson Valley, which loses 52 seniors, will play a brutal nondistrict schedule that almost got worse Thursday.
“We had The Woodlands and Odessa Permian, but we couldn’t find a third game,” Hill said. “Then, some sports marketer came up with putting us with (Southlake) Carroll.
“At the time I had no options and neither did (Dragons coach) Todd (Dodge). But, about an hour after that, we both found games.”
And so, the Rangers will play Kerrville Tivy for its third nondistrict contest.
Smithson Valley will stay in District 26-5A, which simply substituted Converse Wagner for SA Lee. Lee, which submitted an average daily membership (ADM) of 1,968 students, fell below the new cutoff for Class 5A, which now begins at 1,985 students.
“They took one out, put another in and here we go again,” Smithson Valley athletic director and football coach Larry Hill said. “We knew this could happen. . . We expect Wagner to be very competitive right off the bat.”
There’s an upside and a downside to the Rangers’ placement. Their travel and league opponents won’t change, but the competitiveness of the district will remain the same — even though they’ll be four playoff teams next year.
“You’ll get four, but you can get five or six playoff teams out of this district,” Hill said.
There was a major move in San Antonio’s outlying 5A district. The current District 25-5A lost San Marcos and Seguin to an Austin district and saw Clemens and SA Jefferson drop into 4A. That left East Central, Highlands and Southwest open, and they were placed into a new 27-5A — with three Corpus Christi schools and Victoria Memorial.
“You would think that they would’ve put us in with San Marcos and Seguin and those three San Antonio schools and tried to make something that would’ve been of some sense, but I’m not sure that’s what goes into their big picture,” Hill said of the UIL.
Smithson Valley, which loses 52 seniors, will play a brutal nondistrict schedule that almost got worse Thursday.
“We had The Woodlands and Odessa Permian, but we couldn’t find a third game,” Hill said. “Then, some sports marketer came up with putting us with (Southlake) Carroll.
“At the time I had no options and neither did (Dragons coach) Todd (Dodge). But, about an hour after that, we both found games.”
And so, the Rangers will play Kerrville Tivy for its third nondistrict contest.