Nazareth to sixman?

The Swifts are proud and stubborn. Not sure if they will play six man. I hope the community will eventually come around and embrace this great game.
 
I don't know...we will see next year like the guy before they are way to proud maybe so proud that they will just play basketball we will see.
 
Naz IS proud. This is the reason I believe the handwriting is on the wall for the Swifts.

They will make the decision due to that pride. Can't see them ( they are just 20 or so miles up the road ) living in losing HE11 when they don't have too. They have a light at the end of the tunnel, they just need to turn toward it.

Good school, good community, good kids. Formula for success in an arena where you can compete.

I don't imagine a forfeit because of lack of players set too well with a town of traditions of football playoffs and state basketball tournaments every year. It will be hard decision to "step down" to six man ( everyone's perception at first ) but I have to think it will be done...
 
Naz swore for many years that they would never go D II in basketball, but eventually they faced up to reality and made the move. I suspect they will do the same here. It may be after much gnashing of teeth and hair pulling, but they surely might. Ha
 
High Plains Drifter":rqeh8tyk said:
Naz swore for many years that they would never go D II in basketball, but eventually they faced up to reality and made the move. I suspect they will do the same here. It may be after much gnashing of teeth and hair pulling, but they surely might. Ha
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I don't see it happening. Those Germans are so full of pride (among other things) they would cut their nose off to spite their face.

But I could be wrong.
 
I think it's just a matter of time for both Nazareth and Bronte. Despite all the rhetoric about "not real football" and "stepping down"; it's still high school football in the Great State of Texas. No one wants to be a perrennial doormat when they know they could have success elsewhere.
 
I will make a $1000 dollar bet Bronte will NEVER play six-man...it ain't going to happen!

And Naz probably have missed their window to be a good six-man team if they did decide to play now...a little to late...so I doubt they will...

It's a lot like Roby...their was a time they could have played six-man and been a playoff team for several years and built up a six-man program...but they were to stubborn to do that and decided to stay 11man. Now they would be put in a district with Throckmorton and Knox City...they have better odds making the playoffs staying where they are in a game facing opponents they already know in the new small school 1A division.

Menard would be more likely I'd say and when the time comes Cross Plains (102) will I bet...possibly next realignment.
 
I don't think that Naz will drop they were a good 11 man program just a couple years ago with small numbers so they may be down this year but unless they run several years without competing then I don't see them dropping.
 
I know it's "their" perception
but could we not,
among ourselves at least,
call it "go to 6man" or
"move to 6man"??

I'm just askin'.
 
Naz has been DII in basketball ever since the split was made.

With them struggling I didn't think that would be enough for the drop but now with these number issues, I actually believe it could happen in the next 3 years.
 
I prefer "switching to six man" or " moving up to sixman"
Yes dogboy, someone was paying attention & for the second time
In a week I agree with you.
 
Getting caught up in the PC-ness of what to call it is a little silly to me. If you don't have the numbers to compete at the 11-man level - you move down to 6-man. There's no insult to telling the truth.

Sure, 6-man is more fun - but it's really nothing more than a numbers game. If some districts are too ignorant, or too proud to be honest with their reality, that is not an insult to our game. It just makes those individual districts look like the petty, proud losers they are.

Case in point: the Nazareth Swift football program.
 
I bet they still have some good athletes there, just not the numbers they had in the past. Nazareth let that great playoff run they made for 11 years blind them to the reality that there just is not enough farming to keep all the kids home any more. When one man can do almost everything to farm 2-3 square miles, the available land runs out pretty quickly. They will either drop football, or come back to 6 man. I am surprised there are not a few old timers left there who played it back in the late 50's.
 
This goes back to the school board and the school officals for letting their pride get in the way of what's right for their students and their sports programs. Cutting the football program will not help them, they will only bleed to death slowly, kids who like playing football will transfer out to schools who do play like Hart, Happy, and Kress who are all in the area.
 
OBK,
What's your take on Bronte? I know there are a bunch of old heads over there that don't consider 6-man to be "real football" but I believe that once they rack up a few losing seasons they'll come around. I only ask because I know you've been around for a million years and would probably have some insight on the situation.
 
WV Backer":4wqlm8bi said:
OBK,
What's your take on Bronte? I know there are a bunch of old heads over there that don't consider 6-man to be "real football" but I believe that once they rack up a few losing seasons they'll come around. I only ask because I know you've been around for a million years and would probably have some insight on the situation.
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Maybe, though I don't know anyone from Bronte. I'll defer to Oneday on this issue.
 

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