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.
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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.
Agreed that West Hancock is the HEAVY favorite in that district. Belmond-Klemme returns nearly everyone from a VERY young squad though. I look for them to be an easy #2 in that district.
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?
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.
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