Knowing quite a few Dowling grads I hate to break it to you but, this is not the case.
A Des Moines school is going to win the title again in football I see
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Knowing quite a few Dowling grads I hate to break it to you but, this is not the case.
Waukee wasn't growing 5 years ago like it is now. In fact the last 3 years and they aren't land locked.
Because it's about success? What if he wants to be on the team playing or not? Isn't it about having fun?
but on AVERAGE, they are so much better than those non churchy public school pukes!
It’s an off period for those who do early bird PE so they can get out of class an hour early. It’s been around for years it’s nothing new. Before it was offered to upperclassmen as first come now I think it’s athletes.
They have the two best coaching staffs in the state. Thats not what people want to hear but that’s the reality.
You are forced to specialize in a sport by age 12 if you want to play in a large urban school. True for music too
So Dan Sabers is a bad coach now? He was great when AJ Derby or Tim Dwight was there?
Ankeny by 2040 will have 130K people. It is in the top 20 fastest growing cities in the US of any size.
And you have Dallas Center Grimes who is a big 3A with Grimes growing like weeds. It won't be long till they will be 4A, and with Grimes not being land locked I can see them booming.
Please tell me about all of the recruits?
You do realize the best football players might actually CHOOSE a school like Dowling on their own rather than play for whatever school their address dictates they'd go to?
Their band, choir, and arts programs are NOWHERE near what the public programs are in the area.
Seriously? He wasn't going "cause-and-effect", but to deny that the end result is what it is, would be wrong.
I had a weightlifting class daily over the lunch hour 20 years ago at a class A/1A school. It happens at a lot of schools.
Guess they better start recruiting better LOL.
BTW - Xavier's top show choir and jazz band could hang with anyone in Eastern Iowa most years. Considering the difference in enrollment and resources, it's actually pretty amazing.
Not to hijack the thread (or turn it in to a pissing match), but Linn-Mar, Kennedy, and Jeff all are far ahead of them annually, especially in SC. Not bashing Xavier, as you said they have a lot less kids so logic would dictate....and they still do a fine job.
Humorously, it's a like a culture thing there too. I've seen half the parents leave a LM football game after half because the band is done!
Probably Carlisle as well. I graduated from Dallas Center Grimes way back in 1982. We were a 1A school and in the same conference as Waukee who was also a 1A school at that time. Norwalk I think was 2A for the first 3 years and I believe had moved up to 3A my senior year. I think Norwalk growth had stagnated, but is growing again. But man has Waukee grown. LOL
Yeah Waukee is on another level.
Van Meter is going to keep growing really really fast out there on the west side as well.
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Xavier Varsity had 45 boys on the squad this year and that number includes the 8 players hurt and sidelined. So at the end of the season, they were fielding a varsity team of 37 available players. Your statement is not accurate.
Are you saying that your kids have the same risk of concussions playing the oboe as they do playing football? Band practice must have changed since I was there.
that was in reply to a poster that said he didn't want his kid playing because he wasn't very good, not because it's dangerous. who said football was as safe as band? (answer=nobody)
but since you post seemed like a smart ass reply, i'll answer it with the same.
GO ASK THE IOWA BAND HOW SAFE IT IS!
Xavier's varsity show choir has beaten Kennedy and Jefferson head-to-head at least once the past 4 years. They've had close, controversial 2nd place finishes to both Washington and Prairie. Linn-Mar is the only program in Eastern Iowa that could accurately be described as "far ahead," in the category of the Central Iowa giants (Waukee, Johnston, Ankeny Centennial, Urbandale). Same goes for jazz band, although that's difficult to argue objectively, since they generally don't "compete" against each other.
I believe alaric only played 2 years of football before coming to iowa.
of course his size helped him a little
Regina football has really taken a nose dive in quality. Back in the early 2010's Regina was fielding teams as a 2A/1A school that frankly were probably better than Dowling. Now they struggle to get to the dome in 1A. I think it has something to do with enrollment dropping and less kids playing football in general maybe because of injury concerns. Maybe the same thing is happening at Xavier.
You really think if you put the Dowling coach in charge of Des Moines Hoover he makes them a contender?
Better than Dowling get serious.
I don't know old he is (energy level), but if it's still there, and given time, then yes.
The 2011 team was in that league, better? Not sure I would be that confident but they would have been a 4A dome team with a solid chance to win
If it hasn't already been said, the OP is completely wrong. A WEST Des Moines team is going to win. Big difference if you live west of 63rd Street.
The 2011 Regina team would lose to Valley the state champs by at least 30 points.
