Dave,

If you wind up with an odd number, perhaps that would allow us to be
the unofficial team to allow everyone to play every Sunday.

Eric
On Monday, February 7, 2005, at 09:13 PM, yhbdave wrote:

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> With CP message from Georgetown Prep that brings our total up to 11.
>
> 1      Sidwell            javirgan@...
> 2      Yorktown      davelovesbikes@...
> 3      JDS            jonathan.sachs@...
> 4      The Heights      qutzal435@...
> 5      BCC            Ripkenbird@...
> 6      TJ            katie_mercer@...
> 7      Magruder      Benjamin_Johnson@...
> 8      Churchill      reddevil0013@...
> 9      Georgetown Day      klek@...
> 10      New School      matt@...
> 11      Georgetown Prep      kiipii@...
> 12      Wilson           
> 13      Blair           
>
> G Prep is one of  5 new schools expressing interest in playing 
> That's great news for the growth of ultimate here in the DC area. But
> it creates for us some interesting questions.
>
> 1)      Two of our cornerstone teams have not yet replied: Wilson and
> Montgomery Blair.  Should we hold spots for them? (Opie and NAte of
> Wilson started the league, they moderate this page).  If the 2 of
> them join that puts us up to 13.
>
>
> 2)      How big do we want to get?  Last year we were 8 teams.  12
> seems like a reasonable number for this year to me.  Do we think we
> can sustain 16 teams?  Do you know of others we could get tin order
> to reach 16.
>
>
> 3)      If we don't get bigger and both those teams want back in how
> do we choose?  Do we encourage smaller progams to merge?
>
>
> 4)      Where can we play? Silgo last year was great BUT WE DON'T
> HAVE ANY GAURUNTEE OF IT AGAIN THIS YEAR.  I've emailed the powers
> that be of WAFC but we can't just take them for granted. Can we get
> fields from out Athletic directors? How many of our schools even have
> decent fields?
>
> 5)      WetnWild18 has posted several messages on our group site but
> it's not clear this person even has a team, or what school they
> belong to.  Some sort of internet based photography institute it
> appears; should we count them as a regular high school team?
>
> 6)      Even if we get Silgo, and even if we limit ourselves to 12
> teams, when do we want to play.  Last year with 8 we went from 10am
> to 2pm, with an hour of skills clinic in between.  Do we think we can
> wake high school students up even earlier on the weekends, how late
> into Sunday pm can homework burdened high school kids work? Do we
> want to sacrifice some skills work and squeeze in another game in
> between our old times?
>
> 7)      Number 5 was a joke in case you didn't get it.
>
> 8)      We should probably have a meeting to sort all this out rather
> than try to dialogue here online.  We could use my school room in VA
> but on account of there being so many MD schools maybe we should meet
> more centrally.  Any of the DC schools have decent parking and want
> to host a 7:30pm meeting?  Wed or Thurs of next week?
>
> Dave Soles
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