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Leroy Easter...

They had 3 or 4 solid players. Lost to Centennial in the quarterfinals.

How is that going to work?

Two leagues are combined, every couple years each sport is evaluated to create a top tier and a bottom tier. For example, the first top tier football division should look something like:

Hanford
Tulare Union
Redwood
Lemoore
Dinuba
Mission Oak

Bottom Tier:
Mt. Whitney
Tulare Western
Golden West
Porterville
El Diamante
Monache

Each sport would have different schools tiered together.

It's already happening. I heard McLane has gotten several transfers from around the district already, including several starters from Edison. When was the last time McLane pulled players, especially from Edison!

1996-1997 with Toste

I remember feeling like this Sunnyside class was going to be ready to play D1 with the QB/WR/RB combo they have. I definitely thought we would see more kids transfer in to bolster the lineup but it seems like they have just fallen flat and if anything lost kids. Other than the father son dynamic is there any other reasons why they can't get over the hump?

They are as good as anyone at the QB/WR positions...

If the CMAC/NYL league wasn't so messed up you would think it would be easy to move Central to CMAC with Garza and move Sanger to WYL like the old days?

There is supposed to be an EYL/WYL two tier league in the works for 2025..

Does CUSD have the authority to create a private high school(s) within its boundaries? That could accomplish what Bronco is aiming for. You could still keep ALL CUSD high schools while driving all of your best talent in the district to one or two schools.

Ha! They did that a LONG time ago breaking off from Fresno and creating CUSD...

I believe that may be a relative. Chris Wedel's college stats show he played in the early 2000s.

Yup, saw the last name and blanked on the first...

I think that CUSD should have 2 High Schools. One at Clovis & one at Buchanan. Thats where the stadiums are ! Those 2 schools should be made up of 11th & 12 graders with feeder schools  for K thru 7 / Jr Hi's 8 thru 10 ( at least 2 /3 each) all feeding into the High School.  Make Herndon the boundary . Like  TULSA  Union High School in Tulsa Ok. With No transfers ! All local kids , It would fill both stadiums every week & turn both Clovis schools back to the Football Programs they NEED to be

The Freshmen rosters are wild... I think CN had maybe 25 kids. 25 studs but 25 never the less.

I'd argue that Garza adds with Clovis South to make 8 teams.

I believe he's from Wasco originally, but I can't swear to that.

Yup, also attended Wasco and played both football and baseball at COS in the early 90's.

Kennedy is really building something special. Their lower level youth teams are doing very well and run the same schemes and play their games at the varsity stadium. Coach Milan is truly running a "program" out there.

I think a minimum of 5 is generous, but I can see a team scheduling a grueling nonleague schedule that does deserve to be in the playoffs. I would say a minimum of .600 or 2nd place in their league.

League placement doesn't make any sense...

Then don't have teams from different levels in the same conference  - make all conferences be  made of the same division & make the divisions up BEFORE the season - not after. 

There's a lot of long-standing week 10 rival games that have teams from seperate divisions... not the primary issue but part of it. There's also a proximity component when building most leagues.

First and second place team per conference make playoffs, this makes league games important.
the teams that don't qualify are scheduled a bowl game.   

This is the root of our problem. Once leagues began to have teams from multiple divisions, this is when our issues started.

Maybe to a point.

The problem lies when a school of 3000 gets pushed down to play those with 650 kids it really isn't a level playing field (or vice versa).  There's a point where numbers become a major problem.

Literally every athlete who could help the team in most schools with 500-750 kids is on the team. And that is simply not the case in most big schools.  Dos Palos, Caruthers, Fowler, Woodlake, Liberty (Ranchos), etc. have around 20% of their male population playing football. 

Public schools need a population ceiling they won't go past, and a floor they can't go under.  Private schools should simply be placed in whatever division they belong (usually 1-2, but there exceptions for the really small ones).

Good point. Some of the really small schools have closer to 60% of the male population playing.

Oh yah, I've experienced kids that acted like they were doing me a personal favor when they were put into the game to play some defense...

Hold the phone...

The CN rings say 13-0... c'mon man!

Just lost a little respect for those guys. And I really respect how that program typically does business.

[Whatever we do for playoffs I hope that it's a system where the biggest schools in the area are always placed in D1It's so embarrassing when any Clovis school, or some of the big Bakersfield schools, willingly accept an invite to a lower division playoff.I'd put Bullard football in that category when they "won the D2 title" (lol) in 2021]

Whatever we do for playoffs I hope that it's a system where the biggest schools in the area are always placed in D1

It's so embarrassing when any Clovis school, or some of the big Bakersfield schools, willingly accept an invite to a lower division playoff.

I'd put Bullard football in that category when they "won the D2 title" (lol) in 2021

We've been down this road a million times. No one wants McLane, Roosevelt and Fresno High playing up just because they have over 3,000 students. BIGGER schools is just a silly notion. CN has half the student bodies of those schools but no one in their right mind wants CN playing in D2 and those big enrollment schools playing D1...

McLane has over 3,000 kids with about 800 eligible.

We've got to get rid of the big school small school language. It's just silly in the central valley demographic.

Yes its official, we will have Div1A and Div1AA, meaning Div 1 will field 16 teams. I am curious, could someone on here way smarter than me (and with more time) take last years playoff brackets and re-do them with this format? I am curious to see how or if this affects the remaining divisions and if it does, positively or negatively.

I believe this was part of the discussion when they announced it to the league reps and it had Hanford as the top seed in the D1AA bracket.

I was reflecting today on how many teams may never win another section title until we change the current playoff system. Let's say a team is base D2. Under the current system, any years when you are actually good enough to win the big game, you are going to get moved up to D1. In the years in which you lose enough games to stay down, your team isn't good enough to win the title.

You've got to have enough down years where you get placed incorrectly and then make a run.

Lemoore comes to mind. They had a cluster of bad seasons, were placed in D3 and then the talent pool shot up so they made that run to back-to-back D2 title games.

I know in 2025 it's about to get a little weirder at the top with a second tier of D1 being put into place. The top 8 teams will play for a D1A title and #9-16 will play for D1AA. Not sure that I have the names correct.