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Where did you hear that Boone Co schools won't allow their middle schools to have football due to the relationships with the Boone Co Pee Wee Football League?
I've never understood that to be true. I know the BCPWFL tried for years and years to form a partnership with the High Schools in terms of aligning themselves up in a district format.
This year I know their Jr (5/6th grade) and Sr (7/8th grade) divisions have finally done that (more out of self preservation I think)- but I never heard that the BCPWFL was, in some way, the reason there was no middle school football.
The fact is, the Boone Co public schools have had a free ride for several decades now as they've never had to support (read, "fund") any middle school football only because they were lucky enough to have the BCPWFL there doing it for them. The league has never asked for- and never received- any funding from the county. At one time it was the largest privately funded pee wee football organization in the state.
What I understand is that it's an all or nothing deal- that the Boone Co schools administration is saying to the middle schools that each school must agree to field a team or none of them will- so apparently they must not all agree. I'd say they are perfectly content not having to fund a sport they've never had to worry about before is probably closer to the heart of it more than anything.