Back in the day, Osage folks always seemed like entitled arrogant babies, as a whole. Kind of like hawk fans actually.
Charles City looking to form new conference after racial issues
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Do wonder who will want WSR. Being in southern Iowa, we only run across them at statewide things, usually academic competitions. I think one of my kids played them at state tennis in doubles.
They were always unpleasant at things like math contests or quiz bowls, but nothing that seemed racially motivated. Just challenging forms of answers and such when they were losing. Some academic competitions like Science Bowl are not broken down into class sizes. Others may break things into a large school and small school grouping in which WSR always seemed way bigger than the rest of the small schools.
They were always unpleasant at things like math contests or quiz bowls, but nothing that seemed racially motivated. Just challenging forms of answers and such when they were losing. Some academic competitions like Science Bowl are not broken down into class sizes. Others may break things into a large school and small school grouping in which WSR always seemed way bigger than the rest of the small schools.
I would guess trying to group with the Waterloo schools would be best. They would be huge for the NCC and small for most others. Waterloo typically has some decent and some weaker school so they should fit and travel would be reduced.
Waterloo East is joining Ames and the others that left the CIML. West I think is pretty set in their league, and Columbus is with some pretty small schools like Aplington Parkersburg which seem like that would be too small.
WSR is right at 600 for BEDS. Would fit well with Mason city, fort dodge size schools. Maybe they can get into those still?
I think they may have considered moving with East but they seem to be in the right conference. Travel isn’t great for the Waterloo schools no matter what.
The “we hate Valley and dowling” conference.
I don't see how WSR won't end up in the Miss Valley to replace waterloo east.
The miss valley will require some sort of training, etc before joining the league and that will be that. The good thing is WSR will have a much, much, much harder time winning conference titles which may shut their fan base up a bit. on the other hand it will make them tough in the 3A tournament. we deal with cedar rapids xavier in that league all the time and they are much more battle tested than other 3a schools.
this would be like DCG joining the CIML. the only difference is DCG is growing out much faster.
The miss valley will require some sort of training, etc before joining the league and that will be that. The good thing is WSR will have a much, much, much harder time winning conference titles which may shut their fan base up a bit. on the other hand it will make them tough in the 3A tournament. we deal with cedar rapids xavier in that league all the time and they are much more battle tested than other 3a schools.
this would be like DCG joining the CIML. the only difference is DCG is growing out much faster.
Iowa Alliance. Two divisions:
Ames
Ft Dodge
Waterloo East
Marshalltown
Mason City
East
Velt
Lincoln
Hoover
North
Ottumwa
Could use another Northern team to even it out, but given the reason for WSR being booted that sure doesn’t seem like a good cultural fit.
I'm not seeing other schools welcoming WSR into their conference. Subjecting your students to racist wouldn't be a wise move.
KidSilverhair
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A bit off topic, but it’s crazy how North Liberty has exploded.
Here‘s an aerial photo from the 1980s:
And here‘s 2004:
And now 2021:
Yeah, it looks like all the superintendents are saying it's just a numbers issue (and that very well could be the case). That being said, the racist incidents don't help because that is going to be brought up if they are brought into a conference.
Being a racist high schooler directly correlates to having racist parents (not an absolute but I would bet it's at least 90% correlated). My question is how does a town in NE Iowa become so racist?
The big incident happened what, 3 years ago? Why wait until now to boot? If it is due to them being too big, and they are talking to Osage, Decorah is showing their hypocrisy by wanting a school they are twice the size of.
