It's a safety issue for us. Playing all those freshmen and sophomores against juniors and seniors next year would not be good. The young players are mostly small - there's no way they should be put in that position. They're just physically not ready.

Kirk Ham

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We'll present our facts. Then we're at the mercy of what the board decides. We just don't think it would be fair to (dissolve the co-op) in the middle of a two-year classification cycle.

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We're happy from the standpoint that we won't have to compete with 9-man numbers in 11-man football next year. We're disappointed that we're losing Finley-Sharon in all the other activities. We were happy with our relationship with Finley-Sharon.

You have to be responsible, and I don't think viewers expect us to take chances with safety. Nobody wants that and we don't allow it.

— Steve Capus

With Chris back we have a heavy hitter at safety, and he also adds to us in pass coverage. We missed him last year, so we are definitely happy to have him back. He's a bigger safety, and he can help us stop the run.

— Paul Posluszny

It just doesn't make sense to us to address one safety problem and along the way create a new one.