{"id":9137,"date":"2017-08-26T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2017-08-26T22:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T03:03:03","slug":"update-gladbrook-reinbeck-dropping-to-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/update-gladbrook-reinbeck-dropping-to-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Gladbrook-Reinbeck dropping to 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0Friday’s football post<\/a>, I remarked about a prediction that Gladbrook-Reinbeck would drop to 8-man football next year. Turns out that is indeed the case, and I was unaware. GR is playing 8 at the junior high and JV levels already and had its final\u00a0game in a century-long series<\/a> against Grundy Center Friday.\u00a0(The print version of the Courier<\/em> story said it’s the 100th game against Reinbeck, Gladbrook, or Gladbrook-Reinbeck; the online version said 97th, and each had the record tied before GR’s 28-7 victory Friday.) More coverage with much more history at the\u00a0Grundy Register<\/em><\/a>, including quotes from current GC and former North Tama coach Brent Thoren.<\/p>\n

This would be yet another school that, in the last 20 years, was in a district with North Tama and later dropped to 8-man. The nearest opponents would be Meskwaki Settlement, one of the two northernmost teams in a district that goes down to the Missouri line (Seymour\/Moulton-Udell), and Don Bosco, the southernmost team in a district that goes up to the Minnesota line (Kee High).<\/p>\n

Don Bosco has lost one regular-season game ever<\/em> since dropping to 8-man<\/a>. If the Rebels do well this year, they’ll need as many resources as possible in the next.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Story from WHO:<\/a><\/p>\n