Former Gopher Kim Royston named HC at Cretin

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They dropped 1 or 2 classes in order to maintain a good record. Which they are entitled to do, but shows they aren't what they used to be.
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They had a really good senior class this year which led them to USBank Stadium in 4A. Can't compete at 6A anymore.
 

Some guy said:
From what I have heard for weeks he was one of two finalists with Burk.

He has zero HC experience and he has very little coaching experience generally. Will be interesting.

Cretin has hired for their last 3 hires:
Brooks Bollinger
Steve Walsh
Kin Royston

It’s almost like they make their hires based on who gets them the most media play vs who has proven they’re a good HS football coach.
It has led to their program really falling off since Scanlan retired. Maybe Royston will be better. Walsh did get them to state but out of a dog crap section
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From the Strib

"Royston, a 2006 Cretin-Derham Hall graduate, was a Gophers safety from 2009 to ′11 after transferring from Wisconsin. He later coached at Armstrong High School in Plymouth and at Hamline and Temple universities. He also worked in athletic administration at Shakopee and Minneapolis Southwest."
 

MaxyJR1 said:
From the Strib

"Royston, a 2006 Cretin-Derham Hall graduate, was a Gophers safety from 2009 to ′11 after transferring from Wisconsin. He later coached at Armstrong High School in Plymouth and at Hamline and Temple universities. He also worked in athletic administration at Shakopee and Minneapolis Southwest."
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I knew I liked him ;)
 


MaxyJR1 said:
From the Strib

"Royston, a 2006 Cretin-Derham Hall graduate, was a Gophers safety from 2009 to ′11 after transferring from Wisconsin. He later coached at Armstrong High School in Plymouth and at Hamline and Temple universities. He also worked in athletic administration at Shakopee and Minneapolis Southwest."
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Yup he has like 2 years of coaching experience and was part time-ish both from what I heard
 



Bob_Loblaw said:
I don't know how true this is, but I think DeLaSalle is somewhat similar to Cretin now. DeLaSalle used to pull a lot of the Catholic kids out of the traditionally Polish neighborhoods in North / NE / St. Anthony. But by the late 80s / mid-90s, the demographics had changed and those families went out to the burbs. So then DeLaSalle was less connected to a deeply Catholic base - it was more of a private school that happened to be Catholic. I think the exact same thing has now happened to Cretin (just 10-15 years later).

These are all just generalities and I have no idea how true they are. I read a couple weeks ago that like 65% of Cretin went to a Catholic grade school - that number seems much lighter than it was when I was in HS. But I don't know if that was just my perception.
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Yep the percentage of kids from Catholic schools has not changed much but the size of the pool has shrunk… so many Catholic grade schools have shut their doors the last 10-20 years.. the demographics of the city has really changed
 




Word on the street is that after the original hire of Burk there was some drama by a person who didn’t get the job… just what I heard FWIW
 

Some guy said:
Went from 1-8 in 6a to state championship game appearance in 2 years


So when people say consolidate classes we probably shouldn’t consolidate by more than 1 class (which I would love by the way)
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Thanks! It's been like 3 to 5 years since I've been to a prep game. Hope to make a couple this fall.
 




STPGopher said:
Yes. St. Marks, Nativity, St. Columba, St. Peter Claver, and others I missed. I didn't name St. Agnes, nor St. Bernards (No longer has a school?) because they were/ are k-12 schools. I am sure there are others in St. Paul that I missed. I assume De LaSalle gets many of the Minneapolis athletes?
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St Joes WSP, Highland Catholic, St Jude's, Holy Spirit, etc etc.
 

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