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http://www.mnfootballhub.com/news_article/show/590266?referrer_id=338086

Coon Rapids pulled a football coup, landing one of the most successful high school coaches in Wisconsin.

Greg Malling broke the news to Hartland Arrowhead players Thursday morning.

Under Malling, Hartland Arrowhead remained a powerhouse, reaching the past four Division I Wisconsin state championship games, winning the title in 2012 and 2013 and finishing second the past two seasons. He shared the coach of the year honors for the 2015 season.

Overall, Hartland Arrowhead has won six state titles since 1993 and took runner-up seven times playing among the largest Wisconsin schools. By comparison, Eden Prairie, the gold standard in Minnesota prep football, has reached the big-school title game 11 times and won 10. Hartland Arrowhead beat Minnetonka 41-21 in 2012.

Coon Rapids activities director Kelley Scott said Malling considers himself a program builder. The success-starved Cardinals will provide a challenge. They won just six games overall in the past five seasons and went 0-9 twice. They have not won a playoff game since 2010.

Previous Coon Rapids coach Jon Young, a 1994 graduate and former Cardinals’ quarterback, resigned. He coached his alma mater for nine seasons and posted a 27-57 record.


Arrowhead has a 4* OL committed to Michigan.
Had 5 D1 signees in 2014.



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I live in C.R. but in the Blaine School District, where my kids went to HS.....
The Coon Rapids program could use a boost.
 

Anything that improves MN HS football is a positive. The rise of programs like Eden Prairie and East Ridge has them producing more D1 players. This move is just more proof Prep football is getting better in MN.
 

Two notes for coach Malling in signing on to the Coon Rapids program.

MaxyJR1 said:
http://www.mnfootballhub.com/news_article/show/590266?referrer_id=338086

Coon Rapids pulled a football coup, landing one of the most successful high school coaches in Wisconsin.

Greg Malling broke the news to Hartland Arrowhead players Thursday morning.

Under Malling, Hartland Arrowhead remained a powerhouse, reaching the past four Division I Wisconsin state championship games, winning the title in 2012 and 2013 and finishing second the past two seasons. He shared the coach of the year honors for the 2015 season.

Overall, Hartland Arrowhead has won six state titles since 1993 and took runner-up seven times playing among the largest Wisconsin schools. By comparison, Eden Prairie, the gold standard in Minnesota prep football, has reached the big-school title game 11 times and won 10. Hartland Arrowhead beat Minnetonka 41-21 in 2012.

Coon Rapids activities director Kelley Scott said Malling considers himself a program builder. The success-starved Cardinals will provide a challenge. They won just six games overall in the past five seasons and went 0-9 twice. They have not won a playoff game since 2010.

Previous Coon Rapids coach Jon Young, a 1994 graduate and former Cardinals’ quarterback, resigned. He coached his alma mater for nine seasons and posted a 27-57 record.


Arrowhead has a 4* OL committed to Michigan.
Had 5 D1 signees in 2014.

Two reason Coon Rapids has struggled so much in football. There weight room and strength and conditioning program coaching are not at a competitive level compared to the rest of the Anoka Hennepin schools. So those CR kids are behind from the freshman level up due to the strength and conditioning programs. That and they lack numbers in youth football.
Andover, Blaine, Champlin Park and Anoka all poach away kids that live in Coon Rapids enrollment area but enroll at those schools because of how down the Cardinals have been and the lack of competitiveness on the field. Andover, Blaine and Champlin Park especially get CR kids to cross over. It's not recruiting either it's just better facilities and winning traditions.

Coon Rapids has a lot more rental housing then their fellow AH district schools, this leads to a lot more kids moving in and out of the enrollment district area, due to transient nature of some parents and kids academics suffer from all of that moving so it is harder to keep kids focused and grades on track. They have lost program changing kids due to academics. Not saying academics is a bad thing but some of those kids even have to work jobs rather than participate in extra curricular activities, just to have a place to live or eat.

Coon Rapids has a lot of really good athletes that live in that City's borders, but you will find the youth programs in baseball because of success and tradition keep a lot of kids that will only play baseball in CR.
There will be kids that will come out for football at CR that have little playing experience in the youth programs another challenge. Arrowhead has been a powerhouse for a long time in Football, Coon Rapids has not had success since the 1980's, my other big piece of advice is to check out what Osseo High School has and how they have rebuilt S&C, youth program, all of that, would be a good model for Coon Rapids High School. They might be a rival school, but in the brotherhood of coaching I am sure they would at least share a few things without giving away secrets. Elk River high school too has done some rebuilding that may be relevant too.
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Coincidentally I live in the Arrowhead school district and my 2 older kids attend the high school.

Malling is a great coach but Arrowhead has been a football powerhouse for years. Exceptional (really too nice) facilities and a huge feeder program that begins in 3rd grade. By the time players are actually on the high school team they have been running the schemes for years.

Malling is from ND and he says he wanted to move closer to his family and his sick mother. It will be interesting to see what he can do there.
 



Coon Rapids has a really nice little league program I'm not sure how the transient portion of that would also not affect the baseball program. I am more inclined to believe that Coon rapids kids are playing football in other associations.
 



How things have changed. In the 80's and 90's, schools like Coon Rapids and Park Center were major big school powerhouses, but demographics have changed so much that they're considered also rans. I was surprised to see Osseo come back this season after years of being down. The school I can't figure out is my alma mater, Forest Lake. They've lost something like 39 in a row. I don't see how that's possible.
 



badgerdoc said:
Coincidentally I live in the Arrowhead school district and my 2 older kids attend the high school.

Malling is a great coach but Arrowhead has been a football powerhouse for years. Exceptional (really too nice) facilities and a huge feeder program that begins in 3rd grade. By the time players are actually on the high school team they have been running the schemes for years.

Malling is from ND and he says he wanted to move closer to his family and his sick mother. It will be interesting to see what he can do there.
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This is how Becker does it..
 

discochris said:
How things have changed. In the 80's and 90's, schools like Coon Rapids and Park Center were major big school powerhouses, but demographics have changed so much that they're considered also rans. I was surprised to see Osseo come back this season after years of being down. The school I can't figure out is my alma mater, Forest Lake. They've lost something like 39 in a row. I don't see how that's possible.
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SOCIO-ECONONMICS

Osseo was an incredible story this year. Their coach did one of the best jobs in recent history.
 

discochris said:
The school I can't figure out is my alma mater, Forest Lake. They've lost something like 39 in a row. I don't see how that's possible.
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I assume it's possible by being really, really bad at football.

My alma mater, Armstrong, knows all about that too.
 

MinneStoa said:
I assume it's possible by being really, really bad at football.

My alma mater, Armstrong, knows all about that too.
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Armstrong had a nice team, are well coached and won more games this year than FL has in 10 years. You should be a proud alumn. Barber is going to be another Gopher great.
 

Mvgopher said:
Armstrong had a nice team, are well coached and won more games this year than FL has in 10 years. You should be a proud alumn. Barber is going to be another Gopher great.
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Ah, good to know, thanks for the info. Honestly, I stopped paying attention soon after I graduated--but we were terrible before, during, and immediately after I was there.

Yep, I'm very excited to see Barber in maroon and gold.
 

MinneStoa said:
I assume it's possible by being really, really bad at football.

My alma mater, Armstrong, knows all about that too.
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Well, yes. But you'd think a team would luck into a win once in a while.
 


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