Roethler kid ran over them in the 2nd half. 4 touchdowns
***2023 Iowa High School Football Playoffs***
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I watched SE beat Garrigan the first game of the season, I didn't see this coming
are they, though? even with YTTV? i feel like it says they were on before but then when i went to it, it was basically "blacked out"
They are on the OTA local channels Blacked out on YTTV, Hulu, and other streaming services to make you pay the streaming fee.
It's scheduled to be on Fox in the CR area.
The site that promotes the pay for stream also shows tthose available channels.
I really do wonder how much they make on sub only vs getting title sponsors and stream for free.
Iowa High School Sports Network | Broadcast Television
Watch Iowa High School State Championship Finals on the Broadcast Television Network.
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Iowa High School Sports Network | Broadcast Television
Watch Iowa High School State Championship Finals on the Broadcast Television Network.
Those are the channels for the championship games next week. The semi finals are being aired on Mediacom 22 and on smaller towns/rural cable companies across the state. I live 80 miles east of Des Moines and the local telephone co-operative which offers cable t.v. service has the semi finals on their cable system.
LOL the boys athletic union has screwed up championship games for so long it is comical, for a while they had it all sold to some channel in Chicago that only like 1/4 of Iowa could get. Let IPTV cover like the Girls Athletic union does and they would get good production standards and announcers that actually like it. IPTV does a great job with the sports that it gets.
The IHSAA is a joke. They only care about making more money.
No, they sold it to IHSSN -- who then turned around made a deal with NBC Chicago.
As for "letting" IPTV do it, who says they want to?
If you like stats ? All the stats from the games are on the Iowa Boys web site.
In the BGHS WMU game the kid going to Iowa had like 40 yards rushing, but he wasn’t 100%. The Bears took over in the 2nd half. They had the ball 16 min out of 24. The Bears had 270 net rushing yards, WMU had 10 yards rushing.
In the BGHS WMU game the kid going to Iowa had like 40 yards rushing, but he wasn’t 100%. The Bears took over in the 2nd half. They had the ball 16 min out of 24. The Bears had 270 net rushing yards, WMU had 10 yards rushing.
That may be true, but the whole TV thing isn't benefiting the IHSAA. They want free access to watch these games and the IHSSN says no.
Imagine that. The DSM suburb teams have such an advantage with enrollment numbers and funding. The new 5A was supposed to some what fix this but towns like Marshalltown, Ottumwa or even DSM metro will never compete.
Hoover and I believe North were 4A and they still can't compete.
I agree that it is not just the numbers but the fact they are fast-growing suburbs.
Here are the schools by football class for 2023-2024:
Football: 2023 & 2024 Districts & Groups | IHSAA
DES MOINES, Iowa – Following Monday’s Zoom meeting of the IHSAA Board of Control, district and group assignments for the 2023 and 2024 football seasons are now available. Districts and Class 5A groups are effective for a two-year cycle. The 2023 football season will be the first with a...
www.iahsaa.org
When I played HS football in the 1970s, Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson were routinely at or near the very bottom of the Omaha Metro league IIRC. Probably there were other high schools about the same size in the conference, but I imagine it had to do somewhat the same kind of issue -- faster-growing Omaha schools.
I don't think Iowa did districts like they do now -- even after they started the Iowa state championships in the 1970s -- but the issue resolved itself once they started playing Sioux City and other Iowa schools instead.
The issue then being that they might possibly be permanently consigned to the bottom of the Omaha Metro league (and never an Iowa playoff team).
There was an obvious out once they started play in Iowa districts (whenever that was).
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