(Here would be a good spot for a Duffy cartoon: The Adair water tower with a frowny face.)
The school district that won the first two state championships in Iowa’s current 8-player-football classification is no longer able to continue on its own. Adair-Casey has approved a whole-grade sharing agreement with Guthrie Center, starting next school year. This news is an outgrowth of last week’s blog post about football classifications through a reader e-mail.
PDF documents on A-C’s website show the district has been looking for a partner for two years (March 2014 FAQ, June 2015 FAQ, survey with sideways-scanned results [UFF DA -Ed.]) and took the next step in the fall.
The schools set the record for the highest-scoring football game in state history in 2014 when the Guthrie Center Tigers (literally the second-most generic name ever) beat the Adair-Casey Bombers (awesome name) 99-66.
Depending on how you treat AGWSR (acronym or spelled out), Adair-Casey is the first/second name alphabetically of all Iowa school districts. I suggest a very obvious combination for a new name: Adair-Guthrie, a name that (1) keeps the alphabetical place, which has benefits, (2) is firmly geographic, only now referencing the two counties instead of the cities, and (3) throws a bone to the district losing its high school (of course, this isn’t helping Gladbrook-Reinbeck at the moment but I digress).