GREEN BAY – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control passed a statewide football-only conference realignment proposal at its April 16 meeting.
The plan, which will be implemented in the 2020 season, gives uniformity to the number of schools affiliated with a conference and makes certain programs have enough conference games for playoff qualification.
The board unanimously approved the football-only conference proposal set forth by the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association.
First approval of the plan was granted by the board with a 9-2 vote at its meeting in March.
Membership rules required a 40-day window for schools involved in realignment plans to appeal the first consideration of the board before final action was taken.
Fifteen schools filed concerns or appeals of the initial vote by the April 10 deadline and were presented to the board.
Locally, the Fox River Classic Conference and Bay Conference will see significant changes.
The FRCC will now have 14 teams and be broken into two divisions.
The Bay Conference, which currently has nine teams, will be reduced to seven and will lose current members Green Bay East, Green Bay West, Menasha and West De Pere.
Those four teams will join the FRCC.
The FRCC North Division will consist of Green Bay Preble (enrollment 2,184), Bay Port (1,894), De Pere (1,360), Green Bay Southwest (1,193), Pulaski (1,077), Ashwaubenon (992) and West De Pere (951).
The South Division will have teams Sheboygan North (1,801), Manitowoc (1,491), Sheboygan South (1,347), Green Bay East (1,261), Menasha (982), Green Bay West (848) and Notre Dame Academy (767).
Besides the four new members of the FRCC, the remaining 10 teams are already members of the conference.
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