{"id":1083,"date":"2012-01-18T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T19:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2012-01-19T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:18:56","slug":"class-a-football-2002-vs-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/class-a-football-2002-vs-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Class A football: 2002 vs. 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding on my post from yesterday, here&#8217;s a more expansive breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002-03, Class A had 67 teams. The 8-man (technically &#8220;8-player&#8221;, since girls play football too) class expanded from 26 to 40. In 2012-13, those classes will have 63 and 70, respectively. Teams that used to be in 1A have fallen to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Of those 67 teams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>25 have moved to 8-man, <a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/sports\/n-k-going-to--man-football\/article_e7c00006-0c1c-11e1-9441-001cc4c002e0.html\">including 3-time semifinalist Northwood-Kensett<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>23 have either merged schools or share teams, many with each other. North Butler (Allison-Bristow\/Greene) is the only one that merged but remains at Class A; the rest moved up. The majority have fully merged districts.<\/li>\n<li>16 will be playing in Class A next fall.<\/li>\n<li>Three (Le Mars Gehlen, Treynor, Van Meter) move up to 1A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whereas the early 8-player districts were in western and southern Iowa, the class now extends the width and breadth of the state, from Nishnabotna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamburgreporter.com\/news\/education\/x10542603\/Hamburg-board-approves-school-sharing-with-Farragut\">(Hamburg\/Farragut)<\/a> in the southwest to Kee High in the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>The smallest class now has the most teams. From 4A on down, the breakdown is 47-56-56-56-63-70. (The 47 will become 48 in 2013.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2012\/01\/18\/where-did-all-the-class-a-football-teams-go\/\">A version of my writeup on this was posted on the Register&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding on my post from yesterday, here&#8217;s a more expansive breakdown. In 2002-03, Class A had 67 teams. The 8-man (technically &#8220;8-player&#8221;, since girls play football too) class expanded from 26 to 40. In 2012-13, those classes will have 63 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/class-a-football-2002-vs-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}