bronte entering the world of sixman football

[HP Drifter]

According to sources Bronte voted last night to play sixman football in 17-18. They will honor 11 man next year. Welcome to the Longhorns.

 

[Leman Saunders]

I also confirmed this with some of my Bronte connections.

 

[WV Backer]

Hmmm... I guess hell finally froze over.

 

[Leman Saunders]

no joke, im pretty sure i lost a bet on this one

 

[smokeyjoe53]

According to sources Bronte voted last night to play sixman football in 17-18. They will honor 11 man next year. Welcome to the Longhorns.

Just so I've got it clear, Bronte will play 6man in 18-19, right?..........

 

[BE]

Bronte will stay eleven for this 2017 football season, then go six with the next realignment... is the way I read it.

 

[coachbronk]

They just lost their head football coach. He took a job at a school in San Angelo.

 

[WV Backer]

I had always heard that Bronte and Wink were two schools that would rather give up football than go sixman. Just goes to show that you never can tell. Maybe Wink will make a change too.

 

[Jones26]

I believe their coach left quite a while back. Wink's enrollment fluctuates too much to really make a move to sixman. Right now they are back in 2A numbers.

I'm glad to see Bronte come to sixman. With them and Irion County (rumored), this could change the D1 districts in this area quite a bit (although Bronte is actually closer to D2 numbers than they are 11man numbers). Both have turf fields they need to adjust.

 

[Leman Saunders]

2 schools that have great 6-man coaches in their administration: Cross Plains (Phil Mitchell) and Irion County (Billy Barnett)

Irion County use to be 6man back when they called themselves Mertzon, and not a bad team either

 

[Leman Saunders]

(not in the same area of Texas we are talking about but...)

I know Hubbard will move to 6man as soon as they can count their numbers below 105 (last snap shot was 112), might happen next alignment


I have no clue about Rocksprings who's snapshot number at 60 is the lowest of any team playing 11man, but they have a football HC opening at the moment as well if any of yall want to inquire

 

[Old Bearkat]

2 schools that have great 6-man coaches in their administration: Cross Plains (Phil Mitchell) and Irion County (Billy Barnett)

Irion County use to be 6man back when they called themselves Mertzon, and not a bad team either

Didn't Irion County have almost 120 kids 9-12 the last alignment. They are close enough to San Angelo to get a lot of refugees fleeing the city (like Christoval too). Anyone have any idea on how many kids they have grades 5-8 coming up over the next few years?

 

[coach_jshelton]

Talked to Coach Rawls this past week - they'll play 11-man in JH as well as HS this coming fall before making the switch to 6-man next realignment. Welcome to 6-man Bronte

 

[Johnny South]

You would think that the Jr High would play sixman just to start the learning curve.

 

[WV Backer]

Bronte would certainly bring more of a winning tradition with them to the sixman football world than would Mertzon. Though neither team has been great in this decade, the Longhorns have had more success than the Hornets lately.

 

[coachbronk]

Bronte can be very successful as long as the Admin, the Board and Community support the kids and the coaching staff. Being open minded to the change is the number one objective to their success.

I came from coaching in college to coaching six-man and it took me 2 years to embrace the game and another year or so to fully love the game. One of the happiest and rewarding thing I ever did was leave 11-man football and get back to six-man football.

I wish Bronte all the best.

 

[Old Bearkat]

The change to 6 man affects different schools differently. It took Richland Springs over 20 years to get successful after they switched in 1979. When Garden City and Throckmorton went6 man in 2004, they were immediately successful. Sterling City and Crowell took a couple of years. Jayton was an immediate success going from a good 11 man school to a great 6 man school. The same for Valley and Fort Davis. I was surprised that Petersburg and Nazareth have not had that much success given their football traditions and the same for Rising Star, Gorman, and Robert Lee.

 

[HP Drifter]

Irion County's numbers have dropped with the loss of the Boy's Ranch. Chance they could go?

 

[Old Bearkat]

I did not hear the Boy's Ranch had closed. Or are they going to educate the boys themselves now?

 

[HP Drifter]

It did not close, moved kids to TLCA.