[color=brown:v5i4y305]Nelsonville-York fans will remember the Otsego Knights - the team NY played in the '81 State Championship game. I just found out their league - the Suburban Lakes League - is disbanding in 2011. I’ve been reading up on it online - it’s pretty interesting.
One school left after this past year - Lakota. That one move has caused a domino effect that has led to the entire league disbanding!
It all started here…
[url:v5i4y305]http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090303/SPORTS12/903030427[/url:v5i4y305]
5 SLL schools push for Rossford to join
Eastwood, Genoa, Woodmore, Otsego, Lake in favor of expanding to 8 teams
[quote:v5i4y305]That vote took place Feb. 19, but current SLL guidelines require at least 75 percent of the membership to approve a new member. Eastwood, Genoa, Lake, Otsego and Woodmore voted in favor of adding Rossford, while Elmwood and Gibsonburg principals voted against.[/quote:v5i4y305]
The five SLL schools who wanted Rossford in are forming a new league - along with Rossford - called the Northern Buckeye Conference.
The NBC is taking applications until July 31 for two more teams to be added to the new league that will begin in the 2011-2012 school year…
[url:v5i4y305]http://www.sent-trib.com/stnew/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1313:northern-buckeye-conference-seeks-two-members&catid=23:high-school&Itemid=38[/url:v5i4y305]
Interesting that the five SLL schools who wanted Rossford to join would rather leave and form a new league with Rossford then not have Rossford and stay with Elmwood and Gibsonburg. I wonder what will happen to those two schools?
[url:v5i4y305]http://www.sent-trib.com/stnew/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=602:five-sll-schools-rossford-plan-new-league&catid=23:high-school&Itemid=38[/url:v5i4y305]
[quote:v5i4y305]Five SLL schools, Rossford plan new league
Written by By Chayse Held
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
Five schools from the Suburban Lakes League — Eastwood, Genoa, Lake, Otsego and Woodmore — plus Rossford, currently a member of the Northern Lakes League, met Tuesday to formulate a plan for forming a new athletic league.
The new league will be known as the Northern Buckeye Conference (NBC) and will begin competition at the start of the 2011-12 school year, according to Larry Morrison, consultant to the new league.
Committees were formed to develop a league constitution and by-laws and to seek applicants and employ a league commissioner. A priority of the new league will be to identify two additional schools to increase the league membership to eight schools as soon as possible.
Morrison is the commissioner of the Northern Lakes League, and the long-time league administrator stated that the new league “wanted do some things similar to the NLL,†and were seeking his counsel.
The NBC has not sent any formal invitations to any prospective schools to join the new league as of yet.
“They’re going to identify some (prospective schools) and set the criteria and possibly get the constitution developed before that,†Morrison said.
No date has been set for the next NBC meeting. [/quote:v5i4y305]
Who would have imagined one school leaving a league would lead to the entire league disbanding?!?!
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