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Ummm Ok here's what I know from all of my moles... First of all Harper Woods was not voted into the MAC they already have a even amount of teams and didn't want another under 500 (Class C) school in it.
Second -- North will be allowed to contend for league titles and I believe a realignment will take place in the catholic league next year. The BWAC would not accept North cause they didn't want a private school in there.
Third its all but a mute point that Liggett / Westland & Northwest will join the MIAC.

- It only makes sense for those 3 schools to join that conference -1) almost all of the schools in there are the same size - 2) they are all private and mostly christian schools 3) They dont have to play schools that are 2, 3, 4 times the size of themselves and expect to compete every year.

Lutheran North and Cranbrook always looked good because they drew from student numbers that were at least 2 times the size of everyone else's in the conference. It is time they stop whining and nut up and play schools thier own size on a regular basis and see what happens.

Yes you make a good point that the new MIAC football conference will be weaker but who is stopping those schools from scheduling tougher non-con opponents?
Northwest is having a good football year but how many times would a Northwest or Westland win the conference? It would take a very special group to do that and could never keep it up on a year to year basis.
I think the new MIAC football teams would be Parkway Chr./ Southfield Chr. / Summit Acad. / Oakland Chr. / Plymouth Chr. / Liggett / Westland / and Northwest.
--Which would give everyone 2 non- cons to schedule. Not to bad.
As for wrestling yes it would hurt but Metro wrestling has been pretty bad (as a whole) in the conference the last few years. They would have to schedule like independants until the other schools got wrestling programs.

So who gets shafted here is Cranbrook - Harper - Hamtramck and Clarenceville.
I would think Hamtramck and C'Ville would try to apply into the Mega -- they have some small divisions and horrible teams there (i.e. Ecorse and River Rouge) and maybe Harper as well.
Cranbrook refuses to go into the Catholic league so it looks like they will join the ranks of Country Day and be independent as they will get hammered in the OAA.
Or those 4 teams could try to get other schools to join the metro like Annapolis who applied and maybe M.H. Madison and Lamphere who applied before now that the smaller schools are out -- they would get voted in.and keep it going.

That would make more sense to me... But hey no one listen to me anyway

I would not say "much bigger" at all! ---> here are all the current enrollment figures that would be for the new MIAC football
1.) Summit Academy = 476
2.) Lutheran Northwest = 299
3.) Liggett = 244
4.) Southfield Christian = 236
5.) Lutheran Westland = 206
6.) Oakland Christian = 204
7.) Plymouth Christian = 194
8.) Parkway Christian = 191

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The difference is no more than 100 from Northwest & Westland is right in the middle also Summit has over 150 more students than Northwest.

How does that compare to the the enrollments of ... excluding Hamtramck(998) >>
Cranbrook= 770
Lutheran North = 622
Clarenceville = 614
Harper Woods = 405
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Cranbrook has 470 more students than Northwest and almost 570 than Westland
How is that not a "much bigger" school???
The same for North and C'Ville & Harper's enrollment keeps going up.

Yes I agree the level of competition would not be the same but how long should these teams be the doormat and struggle to field competitive teams with schools that have 60 - 80 players in thier football programs?
Northwest enrollment is not growing and Westland's is shrinking > >>
And I heard that Liggett would start up football once again after they joined the smaller league.

-- You can't really fault them can you?