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It's a tough line to draw. At some point even if he's a better player going both ways inevitably wears down a kid and their performance suffers. There were times I wondered how a few of the kids on my son's 5A team who were basically playing the whole game (one played both DE and OT at around...

Even at 6A when you have more kids sometimes you just have to get as much as you can out of your best guys. Superior athletic ability sometimes carries the day.

Tim Brando appears to be stuck in 1982. Potential concussions, which he thought it was, are no longer referred to as getting "dinged". And pretty clearly it was a knee injury that may be serious.

That is a good point - if you scan the results in the Friday paper wholly uncompetitive games are pretty common at all levels, unfortunately. I would still have to think some kids who have big-time dreams won't at least consider whether constantly winning blowouts in which they're not tested...

The thing I wonder is if this might eventually make some kids think twice about going there if that's the football experience you get in terms of game action. While the culture there is not necessarily my cup of tea STA is a very good school and there are plenty of other good reasons to go...

Yeah, as much as they make it hard to like them I do have to admit they're in a tough position. Throw in the fact that, um, their development program is a bit different than that of a public school where all the kids came up through the same youth association (I'll stop here . . .), so that...

Pretty much the last thing I want to do is take the side of a team that runs a trick play up 35-0 in the section final and then celebrates like they won the Super Bowl when they initially though it worked (refs ultimately ruled it an incompletion) . . . but I will admit that St. Thomas is in a...

St Thomas loses to Mahtomedi, something I did not see coming. Perhaps only playing one game that was competitive all year - first Mahtomedi game - wasn't exactly the best way for St Thomas to prepare for close games in playoffs.

If you happen to see a St. Thomas game, prepare to be impressed by Savion Hart. Best high school running back I have ever seen in person. There are rumors that he's going to leave for IMG Academy or someplace like that for his senior year, which quite frankly makes sense if they are going to...

The ride will end Friday, unfortunately, but Two Rivers is somehow doing this with one of their two best players (6'4", 250 lb junior DE) out injured, and with their regular QB out with a concussion. Starting safety added QB duties for Hastings game after not having taken an offensive snap all...

St. Thomas is the big one. 33 of their last 58 games they have won by 24+ plus. Only one game this year was competitive and they won that one by 14. At some point they're doing a disservice to their own high-end kids with DI aspirations by having them play inferior competition week after week.

6A brackets are out and Stillwater gets a #1 seed but is set to face Lakeville South in the quarterfinals. If there was such a thing as betting on HS football I would be in heavily on South there.

The injury thing would potentially explain how Shakopee surprisingly lost last night to Eagan (which has made a very nice turnaround and won 5 games this year after strugging for quite a few years).

Geographic sections are a necessity in 5A, I suppose, but the disparity between sections is remarkable. Three teams from last week's 5A Top Ten (Chanhassen, Waconia, and Mankato West), plus Chaska, which just beat Armstrong, are in the same section. Meanwhile, St. Thomas's toughest section...

Rosemount is very good. And they were helped by LS's coaches. Carsen Hansen is the best player on either team and he only carried the ball 13 times.

I have been led to believe by what I think are credible sources that St. Thomas Academy is getting a lot of kids who might have gone to Cretin in the past (one of their two star running backs was actually at Cretin as a freshman). And some of those records for private schools are a bit illusory...

You can see from hockey (looking directly at you, Hermantown) that the self-selection model is far from perfect. And sometimes it's understandable - St. Thomas Academy will play one competitive game at 5A this year, against Mahtomedi, before the state tournament, but on a year-to-year basis...

I think it's important to remember that those of us more interested in sports may have a different perspective on the size of the suburban schools than others. A friend of mine had kids attend Wayzata schools who were not into athletics, but were more artsy/bookish; her view was that a school...

The rest look good but the OL needs quite a bit of rethinking. Fahnhorst was definitely overlooked. At the other tackle, John Williams started for the Super Bowl champion Colts in 1970 and had a 12-year career. Greg Larson started 153 games at center for N.Y. Giants from 61-73.

I believe Love Adebayo is a junior, and he is the real deal. I have never seen a HS back who was harder to tackle. STA's sophomore RB, Savion Hart, is also really good.