{"id":6449,"date":"2015-08-21T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2015-08-16T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T04:59:09","slug":"top-of-iowa-conference-takes-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/top-of-iowa-conference-takes-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Top of Iowa Conference takes effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superconferences (and the threat of them) aren&#8217;t just for the college level. This fall, the North Iowa Conference and Corn Bowl Conference come together as a <a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/sports\/north-iowa-conference-corn-bowl-conference-agree-to-merge\/article_2ef2df5a-9f0c-11e3-a535-001a4bcf887a.html\">16-team Top of Iowa Conference<\/a>, spanning the north-central part of the state from Armstrong to Nashua.<\/p>\n<p>One ripple from this superconference&#8217;s creation is that Riceville will become part of the Iowa Star Conference. The number of members in that conference won&#8217;t change, though, since Northeast Hamilton has lost its high school. The closest Iowa Star teams to Riceville are Janesville and Clarksville, but much like North Tama&#8217;s departure from the NICL, the disparity in size compared with most of the conference made a change necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The Corn Bowl Conference should not be confused with the Corn <em>Belt<\/em> Conference, which\u00a0saw its members fall off left and right over the past decade and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornbeltconferenceia.org\/g5-bin\/client.cgi?G5genie=174\">(despite still having a functioning website!)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0was put out to pasture after the Iowa Department of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educateiowa.gov\/sites\/files\/ed\/documents\/book26dec368.pdf\">found Clay Central-Everly a home<\/a> (PDF). Now both are defunct, and Iowa no longer has any high school conference with <em>Corn<\/em> in its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconferences (and the threat of them) aren&#8217;t just for the college level. This fall, the North Iowa Conference and Corn Bowl Conference come together as a 16-team Top of Iowa Conference, spanning the north-central part of the state from Armstrong &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/top-of-iowa-conference-takes-effect\/\">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":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","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=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6452,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}