No different than any other class. Andover, Moorhead and Rogers will be 6A next year. This might help your favorite team. Minnesota gives the greatest flexibility to compete equitably at the HS level. Some just need to get better with the students they have. If Hopkins basketball kids played, they’d be much improved. It’s a local conundrum not the rest of the State’s probto fix
Then why did the state try to fix the problem by creating a 7th class and taking over scheduling
How are they changing it up at lower levels? The state dictates the class we play in regardless of a school's success?
I admittedly don’t follow much northern Minnesota football. But in southeastern Minnesota schedules and assignments have changed rapidly. Teams like Lourdes, Pine Island, Byron, PEM etc
They've changed because enrollments can change drastically in smaller schools. Byron used to be AA and have grown rapidly to AAAA. Conversely, schools like Southland and Kingsland went from AA to 9-man in a matter of 6 years. Those massive swings in enrollment just don't happen as quickly in those larger schools. (That I'm aware of.)
The metro always worked well for all but a half dozen schools or so.
I think Edina takes a little step back. All the talk about their QB but their RB is who made that offense go.
Thank you!
That was proposed 2 years ago and the schools said no. The MSHSL is the schools
What was proposed?
Not really a debate. Glad you chimed in though. Who are your favorites in high school football this year? Got any dark horse candidates?
How does that help the teams in Class A? Doesn't it just discourage them and make it a bigger problem for schools that have less enrollment to begin with? Or do people just not care about Class A football?
Very true. And something I think you will continue to see more and more of at the lower levels. It's not just the "losing" schools whose football numbers are dropping. It's happening even at schools that are highly successful.
And good timing with new Districts a year from now.
What class is Byron? What do they have? MH has 6A enrollment in 5A. They play teams like Sartell and Tech that win one game a year. They are playing the coaches kid as a freshman at QB and a 160 freshman RB last year.
Byron was 4a second place next year
Byron is basically a suburb of Rochester now, and as Rochester continues to grow, so will its' outlying areas.
Obviously we've been over this before, but I maintain that the single biggest reason for decline in football isn't fear of injury/concussion/CTE. It's specialization.
Yeah. The best thing about football is you can’t really specialize but that also leads to its demise for a lot of kids who want to specialize and pick something else
I think you're probably right on this. Soccer, even at U9 can be about a 10-month season (including September) if the kids decide to play fall season (most do).
And whether right or wrong, those sports (soccer, hockey, even swimming) will put the hard sell on parents to have their kid in year round programs. Neighbor kid plays soccer, and they basically tell you, if you aren't in the 10 month program, we don't see your commitment and you get to be put on the worst team.
I will say that can vary from club to club (and coach to coach) as far as the hard sell. I never hold it against a kid if they are playing a winter sport as long as they show up when they can. I'm speaking about club soccer... I'm guessing hockey is less flexible.
They took over the statewide schedule they just don’t want to tell people what it is
That the MSHSL doesn't publish schedules, stats, records, accurately is a joke.
It's not that hard with technology. Each conference typically has a complete schedule posted and you would think it could tie to MSHSL and auto update to that site.
I am aware of high school coaching staffs strongly suggesting to their prospective players that if they aren't playing year round, their chance of making the team, let alone actually playing, will be very low. The most reliable source was a bigger school volleyball program more or less telling a player they couldn't go out for basketball and expecting to make the volleyball team the following fall. The player is/was good at both sports. So it isn't necessarily the club, its the school coaching staffs.