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Hey oldskool, how is BE being more than twice the size of PG any different than AAAA teams? Over the last decade we were always one of the smallest AAAA schools yet had to compete with some that were 3,000+ and a lot with more than 2,500+. ...





I hear ya, Old Gal. I have always thought it was silly for SCISA to have 3 classifications(4 for American football) when its largest school has 350 high school students. All SCISA schools would play in the same class (Single A) in the High School League.

But, size does matter - at least to some extent. Enrollment is a particularly big deal in American football where you really need to have 40 kids, chin straps on, ready to go. Its only a medium-size deal in soccer and baseball where you really only need about 13 or so kids ready to go). Its practically not a factor in basketball and other sports.

My point about BE playing non-public schools is this: With an enrollment of more than 700, BE is twice the size of the next biggest non-public school, but it is three, four, and even five times the size of some of the other independent schools I listed (I believe Hilton Head Prep for example only has about 140 high school students). Nobody in AAAA is playing schools twice their size (particularly in football) much less four or five times their size.