ANALYSIS : AS PRINCIPALS FUMBLE, PRAY FOR NOTRE DAME.Byline: Eric Sondheimer Daily News Deputy Sports Editor Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper It might take a phone call from the Pope to force Catholic schools from the Mission and Del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
For months, the leagues' principals have been battling it out, trying to come up with a plan. One principal called the whole process ``chaotic.'' Last week, the principals got real serious, imposing a news blackout after becoming unhappy that several proposals made it into a newspaper story. The real dilemma is that three schools - Loyola, St. John Bosco "Don Bosco" redirects here. For other uses, see Bosco (disambiguation). Saint Don Bosco, born Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, and known in English as John Bosco and Bishop Amat - want to play Division I football while the other nine schools don't, particularly those in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Under the latest proposal being passed around - someone thankfully broke the silly news blackout and leaked the proposal - the schools are considering breaking up into four three-team leagues. That would probably pass if one team would volunteer to join Loyola, St. John Bosco and Bishop Amat in one league. But one of the proposals has Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame joining the big three, and Notre Dame principal David Doyle David Doyle can be
In the 1980s, the Knights' football program was struggling in Division I when school officials made the decision to leave the Del Rey League. Crespi and Alemany decided to stay. Notre Dame has gone on to excel in Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. . The Knights' record the past four seasons is 46-7. But Crespi and Alemany have now decided they no longer can compete successfully in the Division I Del Rey. Put Notre Dame back in Division I and the Knights will soon have the same problems as Crespi and Alemany. The facts are clear: There are no longer any Valley schools that can compete year after year in Southern Section Division I. Smaller enrollments and changing demographics are the reason. Loyola, located in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , wants to keep playing and keep beating up on Valley schools, because it's good for recruiting and the travel is easy. But the Cubs, with an all-boys enrollment of 1,150, have become too big for local private schools. As the principals have learned after weeks of discussion, there are no simple solutions. But meeting secretly among themselves and then refusing to discuss the proposals is no way to build a consensus. Parents will be soon deciding where to enroll their sons for football. The re-leaguing decisions will have a big impact on certain schools. The parents deserve answers and not ``no comment'' from school administrators. |
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