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Still 13th smallest school in new class
Ever since arriving at Holmes before the 2007 season, Stephen Lickert thought the school felt too small for a Class 5A football program. As it turns out, the school's head football coach was right.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association's Board of Control on Wednesday granted a Holmes petition, ruling unanimously that the Bulldogs should compete in 4A, the state's third biggest classification.
"We had a solid numbers-based argument," Lickert said. "We weren't trying to dodge anybody. We just want to compete against schools are own size."
The move will leave Northern Kentucky's 5A district (District 5) with just four teams - Covington Catholic, Dixie Heights, Highlands and Scott. All will automatically make the postseason. Holmes will move into 4A's District 5 with Bourbon County, Franklin County, Harrison County and Pendleton County.
Holmes was placed into 5A when the state developed its current six-class system before the 2007 season. At the time it had 511 males in grades nine through 12. Since then, the school's male enrollment has dropped to 454, well into 4A range. Despite the loss of enrollment, the KHSAA never moved the Bulldogs for its 2009-10 alignment plan.
"They weren't doing anything malicious," Lickert said. "I think they just wanted to keep us in an all-Northern Kentucky district and keep those rivalries going. They just wanted to leave it."
Lickert researched the numbers after the season and petitioned the KHSAA with athletic director Ron Madrick. Even with the move, the Bulldogs will be the 13th smallest of 4A's 36 teams. "We were dramatically out of place," said Madrick.
Now Holmes has a different problem, as do other area programs. The Bulldogs must find room on their schedule for four new district opponents. That means four teams from their original 10-game schedule - Bellevue, Bryan Station, Cooper, CovCath, Dixie Heights, Highlands, Holy Cross, Lloyd, Scott and Withrow - will have a hole in their schedule.
Representatives from all four of Holmes' former district opponents have indicated that they'd like to keep Holmes on the schedule. Lickert will meet with coaches from the team's new district on Jan. 24 to begin hashing out the problem.
"We're going to fill in the games we need to play in the district and then go from there," he said. Madrick said he knows the process will be difficult. "It's going to be an inconvenience and in some cases a hardship for us, the teams in the new district, the teams in the old district and other teams we have scheduled already," he said. "But it's something we're going to have to deal with."
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Still 13th smallest school in new class
Ever since arriving at Holmes before the 2007 season, Stephen Lickert thought the school felt too small for a Class 5A football program. As it turns out, the school's head football coach was right.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association's Board of Control on Wednesday granted a Holmes petition, ruling unanimously that the Bulldogs should compete in 4A, the state's third biggest classification.
"We had a solid numbers-based argument," Lickert said. "We weren't trying to dodge anybody. We just want to compete against schools are own size."
The move will leave Northern Kentucky's 5A district (District 5) with just four teams - Covington Catholic, Dixie Heights, Highlands and Scott. All will automatically make the postseason. Holmes will move into 4A's District 5 with Bourbon County, Franklin County, Harrison County and Pendleton County.
Holmes was placed into 5A when the state developed its current six-class system before the 2007 season. At the time it had 511 males in grades nine through 12. Since then, the school's male enrollment has dropped to 454, well into 4A range. Despite the loss of enrollment, the KHSAA never moved the Bulldogs for its 2009-10 alignment plan.
"They weren't doing anything malicious," Lickert said. "I think they just wanted to keep us in an all-Northern Kentucky district and keep those rivalries going. They just wanted to leave it."
Lickert researched the numbers after the season and petitioned the KHSAA with athletic director Ron Madrick. Even with the move, the Bulldogs will be the 13th smallest of 4A's 36 teams. "We were dramatically out of place," said Madrick.
Now Holmes has a different problem, as do other area programs. The Bulldogs must find room on their schedule for four new district opponents. That means four teams from their original 10-game schedule - Bellevue, Bryan Station, Cooper, CovCath, Dixie Heights, Highlands, Holy Cross, Lloyd, Scott and Withrow - will have a hole in their schedule.
Representatives from all four of Holmes' former district opponents have indicated that they'd like to keep Holmes on the schedule. Lickert will meet with coaches from the team's new district on Jan. 24 to begin hashing out the problem.
"We're going to fill in the games we need to play in the district and then go from there," he said. Madrick said he knows the process will be difficult. "It's going to be an inconvenience and in some cases a hardship for us, the teams in the new district, the teams in the old district and other teams we have scheduled already," he said. "But it's something we're going to have to deal with."
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