New Districts

[PNation]

The new districts are released, as always it's like a every other year Christmas, as few surprises I saw.

Iowa City Liberty is 3A, I can't say that this was a huge surprise, but I think Mason City was hoping that they would be big enough for 4A so that Mason City would be 3A.

Benton is a 2A, I knew that they would be close but I though that they would stay in 3A

Osage is 1A, I really never thought they would be that small

North Linn is 1A, growing area but they have been A for a long time.

Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire playing 11 man, hadn't heard that this was going to happen.

 

[uimathguy]

Where do you see this? Have an in with an AD?

 

[PNation]

State website, the IAHSAA tweeted out a link also

 

[roosterk]

https://www.iahsaa.org/football/2018-2019-district-football-assignments/

 

[uimathguy]

https://www.iahsaa.org/football/2018-2019-district-football-assignments/

 

[MepoDawg#]

Mediapolis down to 1A with a 3 old Southeast Iowa Super Corference rivals and no Regina which is also separated from West Branch.

 

[studman1]

Did anybody see danville in a district

 

[KidSilverhair]

I haven't gone through the list in depth, but I will later today. A bit surprised Benton dropped to 2A; also a bit surprised Assumption stayed in 3A.

The district assignments look a little kooky, too. Solon gets thrown in with the southeastern teams again, Clear Creek-Amana is paired up with the Quad Cities, and Xavier gets thrown in with Wahlert, Maquoketa, and Western Dubuque. I don't think they went with purely geographic districts.

I'll have maps and stuff up on my blog later today (thirdandamile.blogspot.com, if it's okay to mention it here).

 

[brain2biceps]

Wow, look at 1A - 4 with West Branch and Cascade - both undefeated regular seasons and then Bellevue, 8-1 and whose only loss was to West Branch. Then Beckman should be competitive. Tough district.

 

[PNation]

The state loves to split up Regina and West Branch, although Regina DNH could be interesting.

And Silverhair I have mapped out a few of them, and geography isn't terrible, but they do wiggle it a bit to pair up some teams and avoid some other match ups.

 

[DawgPoundGreat]

How about 1a district 1 with West Lyon, West Sioux and Western Christian. Ouch.

 

[allsport05]

How about 1a district 1 with West Lyon, West Sioux and Western Christian. Ouch.

And a very good Emmetsburg that returns a very good junior class!

 

[Anonymous2002]

Danville joined with Mt. Pleasant.

 

[troutstamp1]

Class A district 7, Hudson, Wapsie Valley, East Buchanan and Grundy Center, first 3 teams all playoff teams the last few years. Also this district has a crossover game with district 4 witch has St Ansgar, South Winn, MCN and Nashua, that will be some interesting match ups.

 

[MepoDawg#]

Danville joined with Mt. Pleasant.

Not with WBND? Or even New London? That’s odd.

 

[PNation]

Personally I think that it would have been better for New London and Danville to go back together like they used to be back in the day. But maybe New London was looking to go 8 man and WBND didn't want to go up to 3A to take on Danville.

 

[roosterk]

Disagree, like the idea of more districts, don't get why they didn't carry it over to 8-player. 16 teams in playoffs is plenty, need ND to figure out who should make it.

8-player Fup it will come down to 7 of 8 2nd place teams will make it with better teams staying home.

I don't think they need a RPI, but this way they wouldn't have to make any choices, good scheduling Head to Head could have made it clear, and it still could/will.

 

[C-Town Card]

Looks like Clarinda is driving to Des Moines every other week. So much for geography.

We can debate all day about the pros and cons of 16 teams. What I hate is that the association didn't listen to their coaches, lied about the goals, constantly flip-flopped and then used "safety" as an excuse. Tharp and Beste need to go. This is unbelievable. Enough lying.

 

[roosterk]

High School football is for Friday nights because these are High School Students that have to go to school the next day except Saturday. Any more than 16 brings weekday games back in.

 

[Hwkfn1]

High School football is for Friday nights because these are High School Students that have to go to school the next day except Saturday. Any more than 16 brings weekday games back in.

Then there better not be any basketball games during the week or track meets during the week. Small schools drive many miles to make it to these games on weeknights. If the state is saying that, what a poor excuse.

 

[UnionFootballFan]

High School football is for Friday nights because these are High School Students that have to go to school the next day except Saturday. Any more than 16 brings weekday games back in.

Not necessarily. Reduce the regular season by one game (a non-district game), add an extra week for playoffs.

 

[allsport05]

For the non-4A classes, you could go an 8 game schedule. Week 9 the playoffs start for the 32 teams that make the playoffs. Top three of each district automatically make it with 5 at-large bids (Keep the 9 districts). Bottom three teams of each district that do not make the playoffs play a final game week 9 vs each other.

 

[warriors dad]

Does anyone know when schedules will be released?