Capitol Hill and U.S Grant High Schools scored a combined 83 points last season.OKLAHOMA CITY -
Two lawmakers join
the fight of two metro schools that are pushing the OSSAA to allow their
football programs to go independent from the organization.
Capitol Hill and
U.S Grant High Schools scored a combined 83 points last season. The
Capitol Hill football coach tells News 9 his team of 33 boys simply
can't compete in class 5A.
Although football
class are determined by school population, folks fighting for the independent
label say the rosters at U.S. Grant and Capitol Hill do not reflect the schools
size.
"Our kids have to
work a whole bunch to support mom and dad at home, so we also have to have
practice over at a certain time because our kids have to go to work," said
football Capital Hill's Coach Jason Webster.
The coaches and two
state representatives are working to shuffle the odds by making their football
teams independent. They say this way the games wouldn't be so predictable.
This season record Capitol Hill was outscored 480 to 53. U.S. Grant
players were shut out 8 out of 10 games.
The OSSAA issued
a statement which in part said: OSSAA
member schools obviously concluded that allowing a particular school to switch
to independent status in only one sport was not necessarily the best means of
improving the school's chances for success in that single sport.
Rep. Morrissette plans on holding a community meeting about the matter and says they have made an exception
to this rule in the past.
