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Why do they have to play Division 2?

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because of the equal 1/3 rule the VHSL has in place. But there is what is now called the Rye Cove rule. If the largest school has double the enrollment of the smallest the small school can drop a division.
Others can explain it more thea i can but that is the basic thing. The VHSL, in trying to keep the Equal 1/3 equation. Because when they build bigger schools in the East that puts more schools into the bigger school's forcing them to move schools like Rye Cove and Pound into bigger Divisions down here or something like that.