The booster clubs who have no money because the crowds are small care. st Francis who had to play 6a coon rapids cares.
St. Francis cares that the worst 6A team in the state, that is a border district, is on their schedule? They would rather Andover get bumped to 6A in reality. No one comes to watch the teams other than student section and parents. Dance teams, youth night, and bands fill the stands and everyone leaves after halftime. Booster clubs get the gate?
Booster clubs get the concessions. In some districts programs directly get the gate.
I do think it's a bit ridiculous that teams within the same district are not playing each other or in the same class.
I can think of a couple examples where it actually does make sense for teams in the same school district to not be in the same class/conference. When Elk River opened Rogers and Zimmerman high schools, if I recall, they intentionally kept Zimmerman much smaller - it's about half the size of the other two.
I for one am glad that the MSHSL recognized the blatantly obvious: that Coon Rapids demographics look nothing like the rest of the 6A schools, and had zero football tradition to even have a chance at surviving. At least Anoka had some tradition to live off of.
They made the correct and objectively fair decision, to move CR down to 5A and give them a chance.
Good. Correct.
Enrollment is meaningless, in of itself, unless you're talking Coon Rapids vs some 9-man school in farm country.
How about Armstrong and Cooper? Or Jefferson and Kennedy?
Armstrong is Eastern, older, not McMansion Plymouth. Not at all Wayzata Plymouth.
Yes, we know you hate 'McMansion" people.
Were they? That definitely matters now.
So you probably would have hated the people and the houses there at the time too, since they would be new, and might have three car garages or something.
So you are essentially in the "everyone gets a trophy" camp. I see.
Forest Lake is K-6, 7-8 for FLMS and 9-12 for FLHS
Interesting (that's where I went to school). Did they do that when they consolidated the two junior highs into one school?
Coon rapids in the state semi finals in 2019
Speaking of that, Rochester JM has dropped off the map. Schools like Kasson-Mantorville, Byron, and Stewartville have become in essence suburbs of Rochester and are taking off. John Marshall for years was unbeatable in the Big 9.I know they haven't been good for a long time. I graduated from there ('85). My Senior year I think they won two games, but one of those was against John Marshall. They had a pretty decent RB at the time named Darrell Thompson. I heard he did OK.
Good
Yeah. Population shifts hit hard. Rochester built century high…were still good for a few years but it’s a different clientele at the Rochester schools. Mayo had a resurgence thi s year.
Well, you constantly use your weasel words to describe suburbs like Blaine, Plymouth, Medina and Woodbury because they're newer and wealthier. I assume when CR was newer and wealthier in the 1980's you'd have hated them too.
Hastings playing Rosemount is the same % difference as Lakeville north playing Wayzata
PJ wished all the teams luck in the playoffs in his Monday presser last week, literally his opening statement
Just for perspective there are conferences in Texas where EP would have the smallest enrollment
About to say Spring Lake Park, takes from the southern part of the Blaine, most of the houses are in the North. Would any of those houses be Centennial in the NE or Andover in the NW?
The joke my friends say is they live in BP, but North of 610