Arizona’s eight-man football programs are islands, scattered across deserts, mountains and hundreds of miles of highway. There are two shortages pressing against eight-man football in Arizona. “I fear we’re seeing the beginning of the end of 1A or eight-man football in Arizona,” Davis said. If southeastern Arizona had a dense cluster of programs, the loss of Valley Union’s varsity team would not carry as much weight. Every varsity program matters because every varsity program fills someone else’s schedule.