[mysonis55]

By your metrics, Murray should have made it and they didn't. Here's another factor, how many schools still playing are within 15-20 miles of a state line?

Most kids have a car or have a friend with one. If someone wants to play football, they will play football. They don't have to harness up the mule and plow the back 30 anymore. Truth be told, kids want nice things and lots of them prefer to work rather than participate in athletics, more so in poorer regions of the state.

The independents logic makes no sense at all. Hear this every year. It's just not true. GC is the 3rd or 4th largest county in the state. There are kids that have to drive 20-25 minutes to get to school here. However, in most recent years they have been legitimate in 5a. As a matter of fact played in the big dance in 2014. Against another public school.