{"id":4436,"date":"2014-01-24T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2014-01-24T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T22:51:25","slug":"further-notes-on-the-new-football-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/further-notes-on-the-new-football-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Further notes on the new football districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odds and ends of observations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The redesign of the IHSAA&#8217;s website completely bollixed up links to anything older than a couple years. Fortunately, with the Internet Wayback Machine, it is possible to recover old district lists.<\/li>\n<li>Number of teams\/schools by class (private): 8, 64 (5); A, 62 (4); 1A, 56 (6); 2A, 56 (3\u00bd) (West Burlington and Notre Dame are sharing); 3A, 56 (4); 4A, 46 (Dowling). Class 4A now has districts like everyone else.<\/li>\n<li>In 2000, the first year of the six-class era, 82 teams played in Class A. For each two-year period since, here are the numbers for that class:\u00a02002-03, 67; 2004-05, 77; 2006-07, 68; 2008-09, 58; 2010-11, 52; 2012-13, 63; 2014-15, 62. Numbers may have differed slightly in odd-numbered years because of programs sharing\/dropping out.<\/li>\n<li>In Class A, districts 3 (north-central) and 4 (northeast-central, NT&#8217;s district) have seven teams and the rest have eight.<\/li>\n<li>In all, by my count, 35 teams went down a class and 23 went up a class. Clarinda Academy had a double-drop from 2A to A.<\/li>\n<li>West Marshall got hosed.\u00a0After a drop from 2A to 1A, it&#8217;s the northwesternmost school of a southeast-Iowa-ish district that includes defending champion Iowa City Regina. On the other hand, West Marshall could be just the team to end Regina&#8217;s 56-game win streak.<\/li>\n<li>South Tama fell to 2A and will now be in the same district as Aplington-Parkersburg, Union, and East Marshall. (That&#8217;s kind of weird to me.)<\/li>\n<li>Class A now has private schools Council Bluffs St. Albert and Le Mars Gehlen (which now includes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemarssentinel.com\/story\/1927746.html\">Granville Spalding<\/a>) in addition to Algona Garrigan and Mason City Newman. The latter two are in the same district.<\/li>\n<li>A quasi-reconstituted North Union, which is Armstrong-Ringsted plus Sentral with North Kossuth sharing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairmontsentinel.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/525681.html\">it&#8217;s complicated<\/a>), and Easton Valley, which is Preston plus East Central (it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonherald.com\/local\/x6223464\/Easton-Valley-responds-to-lawsuit\">legally complicated<\/a>), will also be in Class A.<\/li>\n<li>English Valleys dropped to 8-man football, in the same wide-ranging district as both Don Bosco and Des Moines&#8217; Grandview Park Baptist. Meskwaki Settlement School is there too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds and ends of observations. The redesign of the IHSAA&#8217;s website completely bollixed up links to anything older than a couple years. Fortunately, with the Internet Wayback Machine, it is possible to recover old district lists. 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