Showing posts with label Iowa High School Athletic Association. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa High School Athletic Association. Show all posts

Sunday, October 27, 2019

I would like to see key Iowa High School Football Improvements

I do not want to start with "Room For Improvement", but, I believe the key improvements in Iowa High School Football I would want to begin with on this Blog is key and crucial.

1. I'd want to see District Semifinals and Finals en route to the Dome

I feel like with this year's 4A, the Western Iowa Membership is outnumbering the Eastern Iowa Membership the same way as the Other Way Around. I would like to see such a move exist to at least remark who won the Regular and Post Season District.

2. I would want to see 4 Classes than 6.

This is not logical, but, I would think that 4A and 3A would be the Top 96 In the State and 2A and 1A would be 8 Schools Per District. I think this would grow out of why for reasons, why you'd have 8 vs. 8 make as much sense as all get out, and this is not designed to be an 8 vs. 11 War, but, I'd feel the marquees would not be missing.

3. Have Mt. Vernon and Solon in the Same District and Week 9.

I'd feel like the Office would need to settle into some form of Rivalry Week. I would rather'd see if Solon is in 3A and Mount Vernon is in 2A again, I would want to see a Week 1 Labor Day Friday Weekend or a Week 9.

4. District Lines should stay non-negotiable.

I'd feel School Districts should stay in consideration for District Championships, in the event of a City or a District Championship. I don't know if this would change the whole redistricting process, I'd love nothing more than Des Moines North and Davenport West formally making Deep Playoff Runs.

5. What to do with RPI.

RPI has been a cause of R-Peevance in this State and many other states across this Country. I would say in any event, any Win-Loss Quotient has to be of -21/+21, Real Wins-Losses, School Culture, Discipline/Injury Problems, Academic Ineligibilites would have to stick.

Friday, June 21, 2019

Would Single Stating High School Sports Help Restore the Pride in High School Sports in Iowa?

I've been kicking around the ball, for a lack of a better word, about Single Stating High School Sports in my Home State. We are in a time where everything and everyone got expensive because of a few recriminants toking away bottomless resources, and I don't want to kick the Self Esteem Matter around, but, the pervasiveness of the Gang Culture is worrying in my territory, and Council Bluffs be the Traditional Big that had to circle Free and Reduced Price Lunch is even more problematic.

I would start with Football, where a Single State would fly a District Championship Series. If we had Des Moines East at Des Moines Roosevelt at Drake Stadium where the Biggest Chips would be down with a West Des Moines Valley vs. West Des Moines Dowling Drake Stadium lidlifter or a Thursday Night Playoff Game to crank up the energy.

I feel like a Single State Championship would pay for a UNI Dome II, as much as I'd want Minnesota to be a muse, but, I feel like Weather Losses and not letting the Farmers Slide would be an issue.  I'd really feel the cut line for each district would be 8 and I'd want to see preservation of District Lines so the Hottest Games go with the Longest Nights.

I don't think this is an Amendment X matter, but, I don't want to see Playoff Qualifying become the only thing to your School's Treasury or mishandle the Mississippi Valley Conference when we know there is no Conference without Dubuque Public and Parochial.

Bad Habits are too deep, and it be one thing if you tried to pocket Sponsor Paydays to make your money and someone else entirely is driving the bus and everyone knows the Bus Driver is not a Happy Camper. And, heaven forbid, we'd need to consolidate to make payroll and everything you know is a mess because of languishing books, apatheic people and a couple free willies taking the Toughest Region for High School Sports (Northeast Iowa) out of real, tangible, liberating, spirited and animated discussions around the NCAA Rulebook.

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Could the Tri Rivers 4 (Alburnett, Central City, Springville and North Linn) Make a Bruising Substate in the Future?

What I think is both raw and awful is having a bruising Substate where it could be anywhere where either you'd win half the State Championships or none of them depending on how the upsets broken down. And, I think North Linn's enrollment bump is not forever, nor having to play West Branch or Aplington Parkersburg as potential, but, I feel potential 2023 to 2019 are two different things.

And, we'd have ourselves the roughest Substate Scenarios anywhere in the United States, and not just Washington and Kennedy having to play Bett and Pleasant Valley, and Prairie and Jefferson having to play Marshalltown and Ames, and that would make for a bruising and very uncomfortable State Tournament Round when the chips are down.

What is awkward is instead of having to steal a Runner Up from Legitamate State Champions had it been anything but Alburnett, it would sate having to be the De Facto Favorite by the time we'd hit the Arena, and, it would be akin to Lisbon-Lincoln-Solon-Mount Vernon (All 4 Not In Conference, but, still very raw and rough battles.)

And, even for Conference Realignments and Consolidations, said block would be as omnipresent as the Prison Block of No Intoxicated Persons on a School Property. I know we are used to rivalries as much as family, and I feel that they are forever in thick like they cut too deep.

I don't know if the Tri Rivers 4 would be a better cluster name b/c Center Point was the 5th in the Room and since has grown bigger and it'd be tough if it was 0-6 Wins, and it'd be tougher when it was Valley-Dowling-Ankeny Community-SE Polk Stakes and Chips

Thursday, February 28, 2019

I'm wondering if Mr. Cooley and Mr. Saggau would want a Single State Championship?

I don't think we'd keep playing eeney-meeny-miney-mo without twisting a decent answer or the word go, either. I am thinking in Fantasy Island Problems is Mr. Cooley and Mr. Saggau would want a Single State Championship in Every Sport more than to be plastered.

To be frank, it still is a big shock the Worst in the West (Glenwood) popped up on our end of the State's Top 10 and that was Last Winter. And, Alburnett's lack of Barn/Arena expertise is shocking and a lot of that chest is Kane Thompson's Alburnett Pirates.

What is an air raid, is at least have our state ABC Affliates have a say in our State Championship or their Back Channel. Even though what is off is not having extra commercial break (An Actual FCC Complaint), and I feel even though I never was in lights, but that doesn't mean I'd care about Goose Lake (Northeast) any less than Madison Square Garden (Iowa Big East to Big East).

I think if I had 35 Different Matchups, I feel One has to be movable to Nantucket or Barrow. One!

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