Let's keep our facts straight here guys. There is no need to make up numbers or stretch the truth to suit you. That muddies the waters and weakens your argument, not to mention is against the BGP rules.

 

All current enrollment figures can be found HERE. Please check them out before posting something false. :thumb:

 

A very large 3A school, and could be a 4A school with the enrollment average of Mercer paired against 4A schools as a whole. Now that's not an opinion. Thoses are facts!!!

No, thats not true. Mercers numbers, if they were in the current alignment, would put them sqarely in 3A. The smallest 4A schools all had a 2 year enrollment average slightly over 1100 and that is quite a ways away from 950.

 

 

I could be mistaken, but I think Mercer Co. as it now exists, has MORE students than Woodford Co. who play 4a ball.

Woodford's current enrollment is 1182, Mercers combined is 957. Both based on 05/06 enrollment figures. That is not even close.

I'm guessing that you're confusing the consolidation of the school system and the schools themselves.

 

Once Harrodsburg closed up shop, Mercer County had no choice but to accept the Harrodsburg students into their system.

 

Mercer's only "choice" was whether or not to keep Harrodsburg's high school open until the new consolidated school is completed.

 

Yes you are right, mercer had no choice but my point is that in the early 90's mercer and harrodsburg almost mergered there was a vote back then but it didn't pass so this is not something they just thought of it has been a possibility for many years

Yes, their record would be the same but they have played a weak schedule and they wouldn't be odds on favorite for the 2A title. They would be just another OK 2A team.

 

Mercer would NOT be considered a small 3A team, they would be among the largest.

 

So......if Mercer chose not to accept the Harrodsburg students, where would the students go? And if Mercer chose not to accept them I believe the State would take over the school system and accept them.....so, yeah, they had to accept them.

 

It's not the fact that Mercer has an unfair advantage, western does as well, Western fans are not on here bragging everytime I'm on. To me it's the Mercer people boasting about dominating 2A footbal this year, going 15-0, hijacking other threads that don't concern them,.......,........,......., Mercer is Central KY, not the mountains, west. east, south or north...........

 

 

Everybody that claims that Mercer will dominate AA football isn't necessarily a fan. I've seen several comments by non fans that have ruined threads due to them saying that Mercer can't be stopped. The 15-0 thread was a discussion about a local sportswriter making that prediction. It got turned upside down. And you are exaggerating on the bragging. I made a stupid comment on 40 times without any proof and I apologized for that.

I see that Mercer fans are quickly getting a bad reputation......

Yes, their record would be the same but they have played a weak schedule and they wouldn't be odds on favorite for the 2A title. They would be just another OK 2A team.

 

Mercer would NOT be considered a small 3A team, they would be among the largest.

 

So......if Mercer chose not to accept the Harrodsburg students, where would the students go? And if Mercer chose not to accept them I believe the State would take over the school system and accept them.....so, yeah, they had to accept them.

 

It's not the fact that Mercer has an unfair advantage, western does as well, Western fans are not on here bragging everytime I'm on. To me it's the Mercer people boasting about dominating 2A footbal this year, going 15-0, hijacking other threads that don't concern them,.......,........,......., Mercer is Central KY, not the mountains, west. east, south or north...........

 

 

It seems to me that virtually every thread about Mercer gets hijacked, and people try to switch the topic from the game or prediction to their own agenda of bashing mercer because of the merger. Go back and look. Almost evey Mercer thread it's the same thing, and a lot of it from the same people, over and over and over.....