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re: Could Parkview beat Greenwood, Fayetteville or Bentonville?
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:52 pm to Clark14
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:52 pm to Clark14
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No one is coming to these towns to play sports.
I grew up in the southeastern portion of the state and go back for holidays and hunting seasons. No one is staying in those towns any longer. Every trip I take, it seems like population amounts on signs get smaller and smaller. Kids that leave for education after high school, likely don’t move back. That’s the actual problem. There’s nothing there for kids who have an opportunity to get out.
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When they finally get a good group of local kids that can compete with other small towns they still aren’t going to have enough talent to compete with PA or such academies. J
Small town schools aren’t in the same class as Pulaski Academy. The smallest private that’s decent at football is Harding Academy, and aren’t they 4A?
Small town football, which to me is 3A and 2A, were completely dominated by Junction City, Prescott, Booneville, and Charleston for many of the 2000’s. Those schools combined have won 17 state titles between them in that timeframe (2000-2022).
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Posted on 12/6/23 at 12:31 pm to Hawgeye
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I grew up in the southeastern portion of the state and go back for holidays and hunting seasons. No one is staying in those towns any longer.
If sucks because I wish there were more jobs, better opportunities to stay, etc. Being from NWA and watching it grow not only in people but overall wealth, it’s hard to see other parts of the state not have lightning in a bottle with Walmart, Tyson, etc. and to your point it seems like everyone is leaving but not all are staying in state - so we potentially lose more D1 talent on a per capita basis bc of that. The amount of transplants up here and kids that don’t want to play D1 for Arkansas is infuriating(the few that actually have the talent for SEC). I know there’s a lot more that goes into it, but our big schools that are winning state titles don’t necessarily have that many kids that could ever play SEC ball. Maybe I’m totally off. Might be a hot take.
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