Jack Campbell? Granted he only was a 3 star but obviously much better than that. He is the best high school linebacker I have ever seen
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Jack Campbell? Granted he only was a 3 star but obviously much better than that. He is the best high school linebacker I have ever seen
Looking at the article, it said that Tiffin was the fastest growing city in the state, at 11 percent for that year. The Iowa City metro as a whole grew 0.8 percent for that year, 2021-2022.
That they didn’t list other towns near Iowa City doesn’t mean they weren’t also growing — and Iowa City itself wasn’t as well. That so many Des Moines suburbs were listed is probably a function of both how fast they were growing and how much bigger the Des Moines metro area is (many more suburbs). It did say the city of Des Moines lost population.
Keep in mind that this is all just for a single year, the most recent data. What is notable is the trend started before that — Des Moines as the fastest growing major Midwest metro.
I agree with you and everyone else that Eastern Iowa high schools were long dominant, with the exceptions of WDM Dowling and WDM Valley.
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Who was the lineman from Cedar Falls that played at Alabama just a few years ago?
Played at Cedar Falls, I would say they have been the best 5A school in the Eastern part of the state the last decade.
The last time IC High won a championship was 2009, Bettendorf 2007, IC West 1999, Xavier won a title in 2006, since 2010 Dowling has won 7 championships. SEP 1, Valley HS 1, Ankeny 1 and Waukee 1.
Mostly agree but eastern Iowa still churns out serious talent. Solon w/ Linderbaum. Cedar Falls with Jack Campbell. Mt. Vernon with Wirfs. Those are 3 recently drafted, first-round NFL studs from within 60 miles of each other in eastern Iowa.
True but Mt. Vernon and Solon are not large class schools, that type of talent used to be coming out of IC High, or Bettendorf, now its found in the smaller schools in the east, not the large schools. I think Wirfs was highly ranked, but weren't the other two 3-star recruits by most of the rankings?
I knew Scherff bought all the farmground around Denison but I didnt hear about him helping the football team. Good on him. I also hadn’t seen a Harlan team lose 3 games before playoffs in the 20 years I was in the area. The old times can’t always stay the same I guess
Going from memory...my Class 2A district in 1995:
North Polk
Clarke-Osceola
Carlisle
Roland-Story
Dallas Center-Grimes
Perry
Ballard
Waukee
Real divergence among these schools in the generation since.
I don't know the exact number but I think it was 7 figures he donated to build a new weight room and some other facilities. He's a great dude, I was in the same class as him. Played basketball and baseball against him through middle school and high school.
Yes, it is, but not when we are talking about why the large schools from the eastern part of the state used to dominate the field and now, they have not won a championship since 2009. I said the talent at the large schools is not what it was in the past and the talent in the DM metro areas has been better.
Now if Solon and Mt. Vernon were in the large school class you would have a very good point, but they are not.
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Growth in Tiffin doesn’t put those kids in the Iowa City district, it puts them in Clear Creek Amana, which would be along the lines of the Dallas Center Grimes/North Polk/Bondurant-Farrar types of districts; fast-growing, but not up to 5A.
Iowa City did divide their students up some by opening Liberty, which mostly cannibalized West. Still, Ankeny and Waukee have done the same, without that much of a hit to their football successes.
I don’t have the answer to why the DSM suburban schools have dominated since 2010; there’s some combination of coaching, investment, and population trends at play, but I think it’s population that’s the biggest factor. In the east, I think the districts benefiting from the move away from rural areas and inner cities are still 3A and 4A; in Central Iowa, where there were more people to start with, 5A schools like Southeast Polk and Ankeny and Waukee are reaping those population trend benefits instead. And of course, the built-in benefit of being a large private school like Dowling in the population center that is West Des Moines gives them a boost.
(That said, even 4A is starting to see a power shift to central Iowa, with schools like Bondurant-Farrar and North Polk and ADM and even smaller districts like Van Meter are getting pretty powerful.)
EIGHT-PLAYER QUARTERFINALS
Bedford 36, Lenox 24
Glabrook-Reinbeck 32, Clarksville 20
Bishop Garrigan 26, CAM 16
Winfield-Mt. Union 34, Don Bosco 29
Pairings for the semis will be reset based on the rankings at the end of the regular season.
EIGHT-PLAYER SEMIFINALS (Wed., 11/8)
10 a.m. - #1 Winfield-Mt. Union (11-0) vs Bishop Garrigan (10-1)
1 p.m. - #2 Bedford (11-0) vs #6 Gladbrook-Reinbeck (10-1)
Bedford 36, Lenox 24
Glabrook-Reinbeck 32, Clarksville 20
Bishop Garrigan 26, CAM 16
Winfield-Mt. Union 34, Don Bosco 29
Pairings for the semis will be reset based on the rankings at the end of the regular season.
EIGHT-PLAYER SEMIFINALS (Wed., 11/8)
10 a.m. - #1 Winfield-Mt. Union (11-0) vs Bishop Garrigan (10-1)
1 p.m. - #2 Bedford (11-0) vs #6 Gladbrook-Reinbeck (10-1)
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4A: Bondurant-Glenwood
3A: Webster City-Creston
3A: Mount Vernon-Williamsburg
2A: West Lyon-Spirit Lake
1A: Regina-MFL
1A: Dike-Grundy (Grundy won 7-6 in week 1)
A: Madrid-ACGC
A: West Hancock-Wapsie
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