When I was in school, we would split in basketball and baseball. Yea, football and track they would kill us but that's where their huge school enrollment was a factor. Valley also has a successful football program where Mason City has only won the championship once, when Barry Alvarez was the coach. Success breeds success in athletics.
Fairfield is dying? Mount Pleasant is dying? West Branch is dying? DeWitt is dying? Osage is dying? Maquoketa is dying? Decorah is dying? Shenendoah is dying? Yeah, that just isn't true. You continue to miss the point. When influential school parents and administrators meet in a bar to shut down a conference...just so they can win a state football title...THAT sounds like manufacturing.
Davenport Assumption. They ended MAC conference football at that meeting. Met at Jersey Grille. The AD, who is the football coach, was feeling the pressure because most of the other teams at the school were winning state titles, and well football is king...so they decided to get out of the MAC for football which allowed them to drop down to 3A. It's just a matter of time before it works out for them too. They have been a very good 4A team for years...but very good isn't good enough. They would rather beat up small towns to get the title than do what others on here suggest public schools should do...get better.
Absolutely they have, in multiple sports, especially football. Multiple west and city kids have moved to Regina in recent years.
Wow. That's crazy.
This is pretty much true. The goal there is to beat West and Central...who are also generally terrible.
Some of the toughest kids you'll find are the North or West kids who play football for 4 years. At some point, when a school has 28 losing seasons in a row, or averages about 1.5 wins per year in that time, they ought to be able to drop down a class, because they are YEARS from being competitive at 4A. They actually have their playoff banner displayed proudly, after making the playoffs with 1 win in 2015. It's sad and I feel bad for the kids. They just get physically whipped every Friday.Yea.
West and North rotate who gets to go 1-8
One would think...but these schools don't. I had heard that numerous times about Xavier.
Yea. It is sad.
West isn't loaded with athletes as far as the guys are concerned. I know coaches would love to get some of the basketball players out for football to play some skill positions for them, but it doesn't happen. North gets screwed because it has only one main feeder school and a small part of another. Then the kids in northeast Davenport go to Bettendorf or PV. I have heard 2 parents in the last week tell me they live out there, in Davenport, but have their kids go to Bettendorf. I do think, and its going to take awhile for football, North will have a chance with several of their athletic teams. If they can continue to have small successes they will be able to build on those. Good feeder programs going right now, but can't lose the kids to the surrounding schools, because that still happens way too much. North Scott has been taking more and more Davenport kids in recent years.
Not naming high school kids, figure it out yourself if you think people are just making it up.
It should be noted that I played in between the Dean Oliver years and the Jeff Horner years.
I kind of feel there is a difference between families pushing their kids to greener pastures and coaches actively recruiting teens to a certain high schools.
Of course the troll who does nothing but argue for the sake of arguing can't understand someone not wanting to post high school kids names.
Whether or not private schools are recruiting and hurting Iowa High School competitions is an UNARGUABLE position?
Whatever you say boss
You forgot to add that Xavier girls have won 9 of the last 10 2A girls soccer championships (or something very close to that).
Today's world is about "fairness, equality, and binary genders." Changing the rules is the only way to achieve it.
Public schools have set boundaries (district lines), private schools do not.
