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The move to Saturday D1 playoff games is a good one. However, EP and LaSalle have played in playoff games before, so it's entirely within reason that they could play three times in one season. Not good.

The looming issue is this: What happens to division alignments when Warwick has two high schools? It will be hard to justify anything but D1 for two schools with enrollments of 1500 or so. But it gets even more concerning. For the last few years, let's suppose Warwick had just one high school. Call it Warwick High. With an enrollment of 3000 or so, it would have been 50% larger than the next largest high school in RI, and one of the five largest high schools in New England. Yet (and here's where it gets quite troubling) Warwick High would NOT have been competitive in virtually any D1 male sport other than wrestling and baseball over the last 3 or 4 years with no signs of pending improvement. This, with an enrollment of 3000! Beyond shrinking enrollments and a diminished talent pool, there is every reason to believe that Warwick's public high schools have developed a culture of apathy when it comes to athletics, especially on the male side. When TG, a suburban school with nearly 500 boys, almost cancels it's Thanksgiving football game (a move without precedent) due to deplorably low numbers it speaks to a much deeper institutional poison, the message of which is: "We don't care." It is truly sad to observe the utter decay in a once-proud and successful athletic department.

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