Here’s a question that only a fellow Sacramento native could answer. If you drive to SF, what towering, but-ugly sign, is visible from the freeway, even though the business that owned it closed about 50 years ago? One time, a tractor was sent out to finally knock it down, but some local loony tune chained herself to it, and the plan was foiled.
Not sure why you would have to be a Sacramento native to know and love the Milk Farm sign (I'm from Oakland). Long may it live!
I phrased it that way since Gordie says he’s from Sac. You got him off the hook, so I’ll have to think of another question.
I'm from the SJS. 2nd largest section in the state.
SF and Oakland Sections merge into CCS. CCS is pretty much all bay-area, and my father coaches at CCS. He's the one who told me how stupid those sections are, and he literally coaches football.
Split up Southern Section to AT LEAST 2-3 smaller sections. LA City and San Diego can remain the way they are. Southern Section could have South Coast, LA Metro (like another post was saying) etc. No need for SS to be that damn big.
I strongly agree with another post saying that the Sacramento-Modesto/Merced schools should be split. I'm from Sacramento and I'm sick of having to drive 2+ hours to get to a damn meet.
It don’t know how you could be from Sacramento and think those things, Stockton is only an hour away without much traffic, but driving two hours the other way to Fresno makes sense to you? Both Stockton and Merced have high enrollment schools that need to be in a competitive section. In the history of Sacramento sports, and unless it was a state competition, no one has ever driven to Merced for a HS competition. How could you possibly have to drive 2+ hours to get to a damn meet?
You are incorrect. We just drove two plus hours each way for the Divisionals over the course of 3 days. Sacramento to Riverbank. In fact one of those legs was 3 hours because of traffic
It don’t know how you could be from Sacramento and think those things, Stockton is only an hour away without much traffic, but driving two hours the other way to Fresno makes sense to you? Both Stockton and Merced have high enrollment schools that need to be in a competitive section. In the history of Sacramento sports, and unless it was a state competition, no one has ever driven to Merced for a HS competition. How could you possibly have to drive 2+ hours to get to a damn meet?
You are incorrect. We just drove two plus hours each way for the Divisionals over the course of 3 days. Sacramento to Riverbank. In fact one of those legs was 3 hours because of traffic
We drove 15 minutes to the same divisional meet.
I've driven to Merced for a high school competition.
Splitting the Sac Joaquin would put some large schools in the Northern section if all the schools north of Stockton joined that section. The NS lack of larger schools is another weird little quirk of our state's section system. They don't even send ANYONE to the CC state meet or the ball sport playoffs in the bigger divisions. Splitting the Sac Joaquin would put the Stockton - Merced schools with the all of the Central section schools, creating a pretty strong section for almost every sport.
It don’t know how you could be from Sacramento and think those things, Stockton is only an hour away without much traffic, but driving two hours the other way to Fresno makes sense to you? Both Stockton and Merced have high enrollment schools that need to be in a competitive section. In the history of Sacramento sports, and unless it was a state competition, no one has ever driven to Merced for a HS competition. How could you possibly have to drive 2+ hours to get to a damn meet?
You are incorrect. We just drove two plus hours each way for the Divisionals over the course of 3 days. Sacramento to Riverbank. In fact one of those legs was 3 hours because of traffic
That’s a sub-section issue. It looks like it includes some of smaller schools in Sacramento.
It don’t know how you could be from Sacramento and think those things, Stockton is only an hour away without much traffic, but driving two hours the other way to Fresno makes sense to you? Both Stockton and Merced have high enrollment schools that need to be in a competitive section. In the history of Sacramento sports, and unless it was a state competition, no one has ever driven to Merced for a HS competition. How could you possibly have to drive 2+ hours to get to a damn meet?
Two weeks ago I had to go up against schools who drove TWO HOURS to get to our DIVISIONAL round. Not even masters. We host our divisionals at a school in Fair Oaks which is in sac county, and there were schools like Pitman, Downey, etc all coming from Modesto which is a good 1.5-2 hour drive if not longer.
It don’t know how you could be from Sacramento and think those things, Stockton is only an hour away without much traffic, but driving two hours the other way to Fresno makes sense to you? Both Stockton and Merced have high enrollment schools that need to be in a competitive section. In the history of Sacramento sports, and unless it was a state competition, no one has ever driven to Merced for a HS competition. How could you possibly have to drive 2+ hours to get to a damn meet?
Two weeks ago I had to go up against schools who drove TWO HOURS to get to our DIVISIONAL round. Not even masters. We host our divisionals at a school in Fair Oaks which is in sac county, and there were schools like Pitman, Downey, etc all coming from Modesto which is a good 1.5-2 hour drive if not longer.
You guys are confusing divisionals and sub sections. Each section holds a different qualifying process for their sectional meets / state meet qualifiers.
SJ Section holds Divisional meets which are based on school size. This is why my team can drive 15 minutes to our D4/D5 Divisional meet in Riverbank and schools from Sacramento can drive 2 hours to get there, while Pitman, which is 5 miles from our school will drive 2 hours to Sacramento to compete in the D2 meet.
What you guys are completely missing is that if the OS folded into the NCS, they would have only had to drive to Dublin this year. What is that, 20-30 minutes? Schools like Piedmont, which are in Oakland, already do this. The SF Schools would have gone to Gilroy this year, which is a bit of a hike, but no more than Merced to Davis, or Arcata to Dublin, or Arroyo Grande to Buchanan, or El Centro to where ever they held the SDS meet this year.
CA is a big state and travel is something that teams have to do, even within their sections. The Oakland section is nothing more than ONE LEAGUE. And the SFS is really no more than 2 leagues. For them to continue to receive section status, especially if TRAVEL is your best argument, is just silly.
You guys are confusing divisionals and sub sections. Each section holds a different qualifying process for their sectional meets / state meet qualifiers.
SJ Section holds Divisional meets which are based on school size. This is why my team can drive 15 minutes to our D4/D5 Divisional meet in Riverbank and schools from Sacramento can drive 2 hours to get there, while Pitman, which is 5 miles from our school will drive 2 hours to Sacramento to compete in the D2 meet.
What you guys are completely missing is that if the OS folded into the NCS, they would have only had to drive to Dublin this year. What is that, 20-30 minutes? Schools like Piedmont, which are in Oakland, already do this. The SF Schools would have gone to Gilroy this year, which is a bit of a hike, but no more than Merced to Davis, or Arcata to Dublin, or Arroyo Grande to Buchanan, or El Centro to where ever they held the SDS meet this year.
CA is a big state and travel is something that teams have to do, even within their sections. The Oakland section is nothing more than ONE LEAGUE. And the SFS is really no more than 2 leagues. For them to continue to receive section status, especially if TRAVEL is your best argument, is just silly.
I like the way SJS does it. I think that's how the rest of the sections should do it, personally. Smaller championships that progressively get more competitive until you reach state. SS should take notes
I knew the divisions are based on school size, which makes sense.
Travel is in fact inevitable because it's just California. I'm not trying to argue that the traveling is necessarily bad, I'm just saying there's probably better options. Schools like Pitman, Downey, etc could honestly be in their own section while my area is in the Sacramento section, like what you were saying.
Especially the poor southern section, which is practically a miniature state meet