How many more games does Millard South play this regular season?

[That SOB Van Owen]

How does funding work for public schools? Do schools that get transfers from outside their district get extra $ from the state to support that? Just seems like a mess.

 

[TheXHerb]

Kids should generally be free to go to whatever school they want if they think it’s going to be better for them academically, socially, etc. They should just make it a rule that you’re only eligible to play for the school in the district in which you actually live. Let them go to one school and play for another if they really want (not all that different than how homeschool kids are treated AFAIK).

If moving schools is really in the students’ best interest then they can do it, but eliminates all the other bullshit. I expect you’d see the number of transfer cut down dramatically.

Or at least make the sit-out transfer policy more restrictive. Right now, there's no policy if you transfer to play JV or below, and for Varsity, you have a deadline to hit for the following year (which is a 3 month sit out rule) before you can play varsity. This prevents in-season transfers.

Make the delay a 12-month rule and that's going to make parents think twice before moving their kid, if they lose a whole year of playing time.

 

[Jim14510]

Kids should generally be free to go to whatever school they want if they think it’s going to be better for them academically, socially, etc. They should just make it a rule that you’re only eligible to play for the school in the district in which you actually live. Let them go to one school and play for another if they really want (not all that different than how homeschool kids are treated AFAIK).

If moving schools is really in the students’ best interest then they can do it, but eliminates all the other bullshit. I expect you’d see the number of transfer cut down dramatically.

No way you could do this logistically. Kid would potentially need a bus to go to other school and then another bus home.

Probably not the typical situation but enough that it would prevent it from being required.

 

[herbsinator]

Or at least make the sit-out transfer policy more restrictive. Right now, there's no policy if you transfer to play JV or below, and for Varsity, you have a deadline to hit for the following year (which is basically the the 3 month sit out rule) before you can play varsity. This prevents in-season transfers.

Make the delay a 12-month rule and that's going to make parents think twice before moving their kid, if they lose a whole year of playing time.

The problem is that a lot of transfers are occurring before the kids even start HS.

 

[Jim14510]

How does funding work for public schools? Do schools that get transfers from outside their district get extra $ from the state to support that? Just seems like a mess.

I believe they gain $ per kid.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

Why even have ISDs at this point? Just turn the whole thing over to the state.

 

[herbsinator]

No way you could do this logistically. Kid would potentially need a bus to go to other school and then another bus home.

Probably not the typical situation but enough that it would prevent it from being required.

Then they shouldn’t transfer in that case. Lets be real, 95% of these cases have nothing to do with the academics of the school, etc.

 

[TheXHerb]

The problem is that a lot of transfers are occurring before the kids even start HS.

Yea, true recruiting starts early. It wouldn't stop it permanently, but it might be a good starting point compromise to see how much of an impact it would have. A lot of kids don't mature and become dudes till later to know if they will become great players or not, and this would at least curtail that part of it some.

 

[Jim14510]

Then they shouldn’t transfer in that case. Lets be real, 95% of these cases have nothing to do with the academics of the school, etc.

Of course but that will always be the argument.

 

[Frogsker30]

Funny story to show you how things have changed

When I was in high school back in the early 2010’s our left tackle who started all his junior year and was being crooting by FCS schools. His mom remarried in the summer between Jr and senior year, And moved less than a mile out of the district.

Nsaa blocked him from playing. The district blocked him from playing and enrolling. He fought the school board won but nsaa still said no.

 

[herbsinator]

Of course but that will always be the argument.

The question is whether creating logistical issues for a handful of students is better or worse than what we have now. From where I’m sitting, it looks like HS athletics are pretty much fucked in Nebraska at the moment.

My solution would put things back in line with pretty much how everything operated for the last 100 years or so. Somehow a bunch of generations of students managed to go to the school district where they lived and turned out okay.

 

[Jim14510]

The question is whether creating logistical issues for a handful of students is better or worse than what we have now. From where I’m sitting, it looks like HS athletics are pretty much fucked in Nebraska at the moment.

My solution would put things back in line with pretty much how everything operated for the last 100 years or so. Somehow a bunch of generations of students managed to go to the school district where they lived and turned out okay.

I'm not arguing against your logic. Completely agree with you. Just saying they won't do it because of all the poor people having to get bused. It only takes one sob story of some nerd that wants to learn about something his school doesn't offer but he wouldnt have a ride to bowling practice.

 

[Alum-Ni]

Are the new high schools in Lincoln still class B?

They will be A in the next scheduling cycle

 

[Herbie]

Cif in California requires you to live in the district you play in.. unless your parent works in a different district.

 

[Alum-Ni]

Why even have ISDs at this point? Just turn the whole thing over to the state.

At this point, it's for the boundaries for electing school board members for determining which properties are taxed to which districts.

 

[Alum-Ni]

Cif in California requires you to live in the district you play in.. unless your parent works in a different district.

States are all over the place on this. Some state have no penalty, some states require a "transfer" to lose an entire year of eligibility and there's everything in between.

 

[nja13]

Sydney, Central City, and Lakeview will all be tough games for Wahoo. They are good but not unbeatable.

Hopefully tougher than when Wahoo beat Central City 47-7 in last year's championship game.

 

[Alum-Ni]

I’m so far behind on this, sorry for the stupid questions.

So this is a state wide open enrollment? So in theory a kid from Lincoln could enroll at an Omaha school or vice versa?

In theory yes.

Some individual school districts require all students to live in the district, but not many. Student-athletes can basically enroll at any school they want for their freshman year. Once they begin their four-year clock, if they decide to transfer, they can must declare their transfer before May 1 for the following school year, otherwise they are ineligible for 90 days (unless they physically move into the new district, then they are immediately eligible).

You get one transfer (without moving) in your high school career, and can transfer back to your "home district". After that you are stuck (unless you can cite some case-by-case extenuating circumstances)

 

[Alum-Ni]

Sydney, Central City, and Lakeview will all be tough games for Wahoo. They are good but not unbeatable.

I think Lakeview will be a great matchup for Wahoo this year.

 

[nja13]

Ya, I referenced it up top, but there's still an imbalance and it's not helping. Southwest is 2-4 and Lincoln High is 4-2, Southwest beat the brakes off the Links.

I kind of think it is helping. What's wrong with those bottom teams playing competative games and every winning some?
The whole idea of the rule is to get kids to go out for football again, and certainly this is helping get kids out for football at Lincoln High.

Strength of schedule still plays a big factor in making the playoffs. That's another reason why Lincoln High forfeited this week, which makes them inegilible for the playoffs. Because they weren't going to make the playoffs even with a 6-3 record. They haven't beaten anyone with more than 2 wins so far.

Yeah, Southwest might not make the playoffs either, but three of the four losses so far have come at the hands of 3-3 teams in competative games. Take care of their own business and they'd be fine. It's not like they're being fed to slaughter against the best of the best.