Both schools will be in the CML in the next 10 years or less, the growth of those districts over the past 20 years has been amazing. Throw in Waukee will be needing another school by then, and also maybe Ankeny. The 5 metro schools are never going to have a chance to compete with the growth of the suburban districts.
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And they shouldn’t have to. This is how it goes in large and growing metros. The suburbs play the suburbs and the city schools play each other. The city schools in C-Bus all but gave up on state accolades minus some men’s bball teams that pop up with a Sullinger or Trey Burke. Mostly from Northland.
The city championship is the big deal for the city schools.
Carlisle was 8-14...Bondurant was 11-12.
I don't think who might be playing for DMC was the issue.
DMC recruits? They haven’t historically so that must be brand new.
3A DMC didn't even win their conference. 1A Madrid did and 1A ACGC was second.
Norwalk, indianola, and DCG are 4A basketball but there is generally a big gap between them and the CIML (0-9 this year). That being said DCG beat waukee in bb last year in playoffs i believe.
Exactly. Anyone who has watched them play FB or Boys BB would be easily convinced they don’t recruit. They have 100 kids on the waiting list per grade. Pretty sure if they were recruiting they could hand pick much better athletes. Again, I don’t know if this has changed recently but I’m pretty confident this hasn’t been a practice historically. Do they have other significant advantages? Absolutely.
I’ve seen the email discussing an invite to Van Meter. You may not be as well connected as you think.
Crazy to think when I was at osky, we were the smallest “big” school. Always quite the awakening to play 2/3 a all year then play dowling, Lincoln, Iowa city city high etc.
Didn't make the playoffs in 4A last year, and have had multiple kids transfer out...
Little late to this but catching up on the thread. I live in the AP area and the heavy majority of the community was not fans of that situation. There were a lot of negatives from all that that far outweighed the positives in my opinion
Just talked with my RRC person and there has not been an invite. Van Meter was discussed with a handful of other schools and that happens every year. Congrats on seeing an email.
Well, it is a email in which the RRC ADs are saying they’d like to extend an invitation to Van Meter for the 26-27 school year and are asking the conference administrators for their blessing to begin discussions.
