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Who Is Switching Classes Next Cycle?

District 1
West Sioux
Akron West
Gehlen
Sioux Central
Woodbury
Westood
W Monona

District 2
Sibley
HMS
S OBr
MMCRU
W Hancock
Lake Mills
Belmond-K

District 3
Newman
W Fork
St. Ansgar
N Butler
Nashua
AGWSR
S Winn

District 4
Postville
Wapsie
Starmont
C Ridge
E Buchanan
Maq Valley
BCLUW

District 5
N Linn
Midland
North Cedar
East Marshall
BGM
Sully
North Mahaska

District 6
Riverside
Columbus
Wapello
Danville
Van Buren
New London
Pekin

District 7
Colfax Mingo
Madrid
M St M
C Decatur
Mt Ayr
Earhlam
Nod Valley

District 8
ACGC
AHSTW
SW Valley
Riverside
IKM
St. Albert
Log Mag
I dont think your district 4 and 5 will be accurate as in district 5 North Cedar and Midland would have nothing less than 1 1/2 hrs other than to North Linn. No matter how anyone guesses that SE district is really poor and tough to add anyone with any signifigance that wouldnt have to travel.
 
Wow some really stacked districts as well as some very poor districts in class A. I see they did split up SA and WH but holy crap District 5 is what you would say is piss poor.
District 2 has West Hancock but nothing else overall that is a very weak district as well.
 
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2A D6 - a lot of offensive production lost from teams in that district. Based on that I’d give Mid-Prairie the edge due to their RB returning if they have at least a decent OL returning. Don’t know much about the teams other than looking at stats and returning players. Any ideas how their JV teams did?
 
Looking forward to PNation's breakdown of district assignments.
I'm not sure this is what you are wanting but here are some of my thoughts. District predictions will come in May or June.

4A
The biggest thing I don't like is sending Denison south, Fort Dodge West and Mason City east. Personally I would have sent Fort Dodge and Mason City to the DSM area, as both have had a bunch of travel the last 4 or so years. Nothing really sticks out overall, I think district 2 with Xavier, WSR and Decorah should be tough, and the DSM area schools always seems to beat up on each other. But I haven't even bothered to see what teams bring back yet.

3A
I liked sending 3 schools from SW Iowa north, but they sent the 3 north Iowa schools out west, which is fine. To me districts 1, 2, 3 seem stronger top to bottom then 4,5,6. District 2 with Clear Lake, Benton, Indee and West Delaware sticks out especially. I think we knew those SE schools would be put together with one stronger team from the CR/IC area, which is what we got. 5 should be taken by Williamsburg pretty easily, and 6 overall seems like it has teams that were down last year, but Harlan and Creston can always contend for the Dome.

2A
Overall 2A is pretty similar to what I thought. District 1 was about a guarantee, District 2 as well, I don't like District 2 because it is a meat grinder, but I don't know what else the state could do. District 3 is a typical NE district, and I think most of those schools should be improved over the last couple of years. District 4 even though Roland Story may not fit the greatest I like them instead of South Tama for balance. District 5 and 6 are pretty much as expected. District 7 is South Tama instead of Chariton, which geographically doesn't make sense, but going back to district 4 it does, and District 8 is Charition instead of Roland Story. Overall I think I only missed 3 schools. Overall I think it is the best that the state could have done.

1A
Not too many complaints from me for 1A. District 1 and 8 have to be that way. I was a little bit surprised to see South Hamilton go to district 2, but I like putting them in that district for balance purposes. District 3 makes a lot of sense, I kind of would have like to see Grundy and South Hardin be separated as I think South Hardin could be a dome team, and Grundy is Grundy. District 4 seems like it could have been made stronger, put Grundy or MFL in that district stronger. District 5 is fine, although quite a bit of travel. District 6 and 7 are kind of the same way, but make sense.

A
I had district 1,5,6,7 and 8 correct, all of those make sense. I will say that District 5 is about the weakest district we've seen in a long time, I don't think that Pekin is too bad, but they lose enough as well, it would not surprise me if we didn't see any schools from that district reach the round of 16 next year, that of course is dependent on who the #1 seed plays. District 2 my main complaint is that overall it is very weak. Yes West Hancock is a power house, but outside of them I don't see anyone who will reach the round of 16. I fully get separating Saint and WH but send someone like Nashua Plainfield or North Butler there and BCLUW and AGWSR out. District 3 is very tough, Saint Ansgar I think will be better than West Hancock with what they return, NP was a round of 16 team that should have won a district title, and then North Butler who beat NP and brings back a bunch, along with South Winn and Starmont who have been solid the last couple of years. District 4 I think is just as tough, Maquoketa Valley returns basically everyone from a quarterfinal team, Wapsie is Wapsie and North Linn has been very good the last 5 years, Saint is probably better than all of those teams but then they are the next 3 in line of the two districts. I would also say that East Buc has made the Dome a bunch recently. my other complaint is East Marshall being on an island, give them BCLUW or someone as at least 1 shorter trip. Overall, I can't complain too much about what they did with A, but a couple of changes would have made things make more sense.
 
I'm not sure this is what you are wanting but here are some of my thoughts. District predictions will come in May or June.

4A
The biggest thing I don't like is sending Denison south, Fort Dodge West and Mason City east. Personally I would have sent Fort Dodge and Mason City to the DSM area, as both have had a bunch of travel the last 4 or so years. Nothing really sticks out overall, I think district 2 with Xavier, WSR and Decorah should be tough, and the DSM area schools always seems to beat up on each other. But I haven't even bothered to see what teams bring back yet.

3A
I liked sending 3 schools from SW Iowa north, but they sent the 3 north Iowa schools out west, which is fine. To me districts 1, 2, 3 seem stronger top to bottom then 4,5,6. District 2 with Clear Lake, Benton, Indee and West Delaware sticks out especially. I think we knew those SE schools would be put together with one stronger team from the CR/IC area, which is what we got. 5 should be taken by Williamsburg pretty easily, and 6 overall seems like it has teams that were down last year, but Harlan and Creston can always contend for the Dome.

2A
Overall 2A is pretty similar to what I thought. District 1 was about a guarantee, District 2 as well, I don't like District 2 because it is a meat grinder, but I don't know what else the state could do. District 3 is a typical NE district, and I think most of those schools should be improved over the last couple of years. District 4 even though Roland Story may not fit the greatest I like them instead of South Tama for balance. District 5 and 6 are pretty much as expected. District 7 is South Tama instead of Chariton, which geographically doesn't make sense, but going back to district 4 it does, and District 8 is Charition instead of Roland Story. Overall I think I only missed 3 schools. Overall I think it is the best that the state could have done.

1A
Not too many complaints from me for 1A. District 1 and 8 have to be that way. I was a little bit surprised to see South Hamilton go to district 2, but I like putting them in that district for balance purposes. District 3 makes a lot of sense, I kind of would have like to see Grundy and South Hardin be separated as I think South Hardin could be a dome team, and Grundy is Grundy. District 4 seems like it could have been made stronger, put Grundy or MFL in that district stronger. District 5 is fine, although quite a bit of travel. District 6 and 7 are kind of the same way, but make sense.

A
I had district 1,5,6,7 and 8 correct, all of those make sense. I will say that District 5 is about the weakest district we've seen in a long time, I don't think that Pekin is too bad, but they lose enough as well, it would not surprise me if we didn't see any schools from that district reach the round of 16 next year, that of course is dependent on who the #1 seed plays. District 2 my main complaint is that overall it is very weak. Yes West Hancock is a power house, but outside of them I don't see anyone who will reach the round of 16. I fully get separating Saint and WH but send someone like Nashua Plainfield or North Butler there and BCLUW and AGWSR out. District 3 is very tough, Saint Ansgar I think will be better than West Hancock with what they return, NP was a round of 16 team that should have won a district title, and then North Butler who beat NP and brings back a bunch, along with South Winn and Starmont who have been solid the last couple of years. District 4 I think is just as tough, Maquoketa Valley returns basically everyone from a quarterfinal team, Wapsie is Wapsie and North Linn has been very good the last 5 years, Saint is probably better than all of those teams but then they are the next 3 in line of the two districts. I would also say that East Buc has made the Dome a bunch recently. my other complaint is East Marshall being on an island, give them BCLUW or someone as at least 1 shorter trip. Overall, I can't complain too much about what they did with A, but a couple of changes would have made things make more sense.
Explain to me on why you say Nashua should have won a district title last year? Just curious because Wapsie was definitely the better team.
 
A lot of schools JV teams might be able to win district 5
I really thought they would try to even out the districts a little more and not worry about travel but I guess if you were East Marshall they didnt worry about travel as I think everyone of their away district games will be at least 1 1/2 hr trips. If the state did that then they could have put a couple tougher teams in that SE district 5 or had a couple of them split up but holy crap that is weak. I think D4 might be toughest with MV and Wapsie at the top not only in the district but in class A, throw in North Linn and a East Buc team that struggled last year but has been a dome team a couple times in the last few years and a East Marshall team coming down from 1 A. I also think the ST Ansger district is pretty good as well with them and I think South Winn will be pretty good as well as Nashua and Starmont new to that district returns a lot also.
 
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Explain to me on why you say Nashua should have won a district title last year? Just curious because Wapsie was definitely the better team.
I meant to put could of, but it was a 14-13 game, and on KWWL they made it seem like there was a call that was controversial, like on 4th down, I don't remember the specifics, and I wasn't there, but I think you can agree it was a close hard fought game.
 
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