a boys first dream and a man's first loss. Hope you both enjoyed the ride buddy.
Iowa HS football playoffs set
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Last night's Centennial game was really weird. Centennial kept killing drives with turnovers and penalties. Bett didn't even really move the ball, just hit a couple plays. 14-0 Bett at half. After half, it totally flipped. Bett turned it over five(?) times and Centennial executed very well. Smith hit Schutty with two or three perfectly thrown corner routes downfield right on the sideline and Porter and BJ were doing their normal thing. Ended up 41-14.
Is schutty getting power 5 looks? Seems like the kind of kid Iowa would use as a TE…
Not sure if it was the same record but the same thing happened last year. They made the championship game after a 5-4 or 6-3 regular season and getting in as like the 15 seed.
Thanks man. Kind of up and down year for my son son. Man we were about a yard short of skating Goliath but life goes on. Funny thing is that I was discussing with JR in this very thread about most schools in the state don’t stand a chance against the DM powerhouses. For a half that was true. It was really cool to see us continue to battle. Oh well, on to rugby baby!
Very good game. As a former Tiger, I was watching even though my allegiance is now to another school. Was really hoping a MVC school could pull the upset.
The CIML is just so brutal and most of the teams are so evenly matched that you could have a 4-loss team that could beat every other non-CIML team in the state.
The DM metro is a magnet for economic reasons and families have the resources to have their kids do club teams, personal youth coaches, and strength training.
And there's obviously some "recruiting", unofficially.
This is not any sort of intended brag, but my grandkids are pretty good athletes and their folks have both been approached by parents from other schools dropping suggestions that they consider certain other schools...specifically Dowling/Valley/Waukee.
Cedar Rapids, Quad Cities, and Waterloo/Cedar Falls will never compete with that.
And there's obviously some "recruiting", unofficially.
This is not any sort of intended brag, but my grandkids are pretty good athletes and their folks have both been approached by parents from other schools dropping suggestions that they consider certain other schools...specifically Dowling/Valley/Waukee.
Cedar Rapids, Quad Cities, and Waterloo/Cedar Falls will never compete with that.
Absolutely.
There are certain schools that have pretty influential, well healed parents closely connected to coaching staffs.
My personal opinion is that within the next 3-5 years, both Waukee Schools will be in the convo as State Champs in football.
I miss my youth when the powerhouses were on the east side of the state.
Could be. My son is a freshman in college and my high school daughter doesn’t play or care about sports, so this is the last season I have a sense of how good each class is per school in the area, so I have no idea.
Waukee youth programs have really elevated their approach in last few years.
Another observation is Urbandale has fallen off the map being competitive in most sports. In youth football, they don't allow any "tackle football" until 7th grade. Right or wrong, it's hurting them.
I haven't talked to him or dad about it lately, but last spring things were shaping up to maybe be a preferred walk on at a bigger program or full scholarship someplace smaller. His dad was also pretty lean when he graduated from high school, but got a lot thicker in college. There's a good chance Chase would be the same. He's the right type of kid who will put in the work.
If your asking if I am Chris, no I am not. I'm guessing you didn't graduate around me. I was an 03 grad.
Right on man. I hung out with a CF guy for awhile that lives in DM just didn’t know if he posted here.
Got ya. Still coaching in the MVC. Just not football or for CF.
Lol...that's funny.
Yep...us over here in the Corridor are poor rubes to the greatness that is the DM metro...Puhhhllleeeeasssseeeee
I'm not trying to rag on cities outside metro DM.
Really am not.
But unless you know what the area looked like at the turn of the century and see what it looks like today, the growth is unbelievable.
You can't overestimate what having two major interstate systems intersect the region is doing for commerce and drawing families.
No other larger city in Iowa can compete with that. No fault of city leaders.
Location Location Location
BTW...I live near Iowa City.
Lol...that's what CR and IC have. JC was was 75,000 people when I graduated HS...its now over 150,000.
Marion has exploded as well. Now over 45,000.
Its not unique to DSM
CR and IC have two major Interstates?
Give me a few minutes to check my Google maps!
I see a big difference in style of play on the defensive side of the ball in the east. The fronts of most west teams control gaps and try to play to the heels of the OL. (Ankeny plays upfield and blitzes more than most.) The fronts of the four east teams I've seen in person and/or on film come upfield as hard as they can on almost every play. (CF, Bett, City, and Kennedy) It's feast or famine, and it allows the offense to influence the front.
80/380, yep for IC, but hasn't really resulted in Fortune 500 companies moving there. What is IC's largest employer outside UIHC?
380 is basically St Paul to St Louis.
Not sure what difference the companies make. The IC-CR area has had growth every bit as dramatic as DSM.
DSM metro is busting at the seems in every direction with growth patterns to push a million metro residents in the not too distant future. It’s sucking residents from across the state and beyond.
Good God it's nowhere close to 1 million.
I get it. Its a fast growing sterile suburban wasteland.
It did suck before they changed the turf. The few times I played there I wore basketball shoes instead of cleats. Yes, I’m old.
I played in late 90s. It was old and decrepit and the turf was green sandpaper. Hopefully it’s better now.
I played in the early 90s. I hat they have now is the kind at all the schools here in the metro.
Yep…they changed the turf a few years back. It used to be like playing on green concrete with cracks in it.
