The safety who was out of the game will be in North Dakota when this game is played. One more year under our belt and I’d imagine we score 60 this year. Last I checked Grant NoLand in NKC for your candy as is gonna be walking through that door. Price of real estate in beutiful NKC just went up!
Uh no.
A decent game MAYBE. Grain Valley, because of HC and overall program, maybe. The others I don't see being close at all this regular season. Still looking for another "signature" C4 public that will be able to challenge them in November/early December in STJ.Of the regular season teams with a chance to beat K this season, I would say Park Hill is the leading candidate. Turbo?
11 All Conference Players coming back. Starting QB, RB, entire D line. What’s unproven? The new middle linebacker that had two pick 6s last season? Bahaha.
I have a friend who lives in Nixa, met up with him when they were at Carthage last year and he said basically the same thing. His comment at the time was "As good as we are now I think we may be better next year. And pretty good the next year. But after that it might be back to reality".
Nixa will have their way with Jasper/Newton County teams this year. Webb City will be DOWN this year (they could lose another 7 games this year) and Carthage will be lucky to reach .500. Joplin will be putrid. Not a good year for Southwest Missouri. The COC road definitely goes through Springfield metro.
Webb will be significantly better than last year if they can keep everyone healthy. They will have their best backfield in many years
I agree Nixa will have their way with anyone in SWMO but I just don't see WC losing 7 games again as much as I know some people want that. I think they have a legit chance to win the coc west, only losing to Nixa in the east. I see worst case for them 6-3 regular season and rack up a few more after that provided they get Carthage and not Republic in district. As others have said, the quality and quantity of talent over the next few years is remarkable. Much of this is the result of what I call the "gold rush" era of move-ins that occurred around the early 2010s.
Nixa will very likely be the C6 preseason #1 but will that schedule (not a knock on the rest of the COC but compliment to what KC-STL is bringing to the 2025 table - especially in this metro) prep them to win it all?
Nixa will be fortunate to get past Webb , losing Dylan Rebura is going to slow their offense down he was a game changer, and I think their top 3 receivers were lost to graduation
21 years since a non KC/StL Class 6 team won state. And Nixa will not make it.
That would be a hell of a feat since Class6 has only been around for 5 years
Kearney's first title year remember it like yesterday. Friends and I who went to the Dome that weekend called it the Kansas City Metro Invitational.
Also already lining up a "tentative" attendance schedule looks like I may have them all filled if teams I think will contend do:
Who knows. Last year they dominated the COC, appeared to be a once in a generation collection of talent all at the same school at the same time. They could compete with the top of C6, but barely got into the final game and then came up short. But they were competitive unlike most C6 schools outside the big metros. The question is how much of them coming up short is due to lack of experience or do these other urban C6 just have access to this type of talent on the regular instead of once in a generation? How much does the regular schedule matter? COC isn't the top of the top but it's not like they are playing nobodies either.
Interesting take. I actually kind of thought the same thing, Nixa is losing some major play makers. But my guy in Nixa is certain this season will be better than last. If I recall the explanation was yeah they lose some talent but they will be so powerful up front that it will make everyone else's job easy even if they don't have quite some of the same skill. Overall they will be ahead, all things considered. Or so he says. It would be interesting to be siting next to him if WC did indeed get them as you suggest.
I "think" early as it is KC in particular will be up from last season. Lots of returning talent especially at the QB position. The main players here, in again my early opinion, will be Blue Springs South, Lee's Summit and Liberty with a host of others who could jump up on any given night and perhaps 1-2 of these will rise to the top rung of this murderous ladder: Blue Springs, Liberty North, Lee's Summit North, Park Hill and Rockhurst. The huge question here is whether they will all beat each other to death..............
That’s when Webb got moved into Class5, everything before is of no particular consequence
