Time for the Northland to have their own Conference

[JNreturns]

Northland Conference Black Division
Park Hill (Class 6)
Park Hill South (Class 5)
Liberty (Class 6)
Liberty North (Class 6)
Staley (Class 5)
North Kansas City (Class 5)

Northland Conference Blue Division
Smithville (Class 4)
Excelsior Springs (Class 4)
Platte County (Class 4)
Kearney (Class 4)
Oak Park (Class 5)
Tonka (Class 4)

Possible adds: Lafayette, Savannah

 

[deacon jones]

Northland Conference Black Division
Park Hill (Class 6)
Park Hill South (Class 5)
Liberty (Class 6)
Liberty North (Class 6)
Staley (Class 5)
North Kansas City (Class 5)

Northland Conference Blue Division
Smithville (Class 4)
Excelsior Springs (Class 4)
Platte County (Class 4)
Kearney (Class 4)
Oak Park (Class 5)
Tonka (Class 4)

Possible adds: Lafayette, Savannah

Interesting thought. But not sure why the Missouri River should be such a geographic boundary. There are at least 6 bridges, just on the MO side of the metro area, that all carry multiple lanes of traffic in each direction, making travel from one side to the other fairly convenient and safe.

 

[NoahJB]

I wonder if they’d consider this once additional schools around the Northland are built. Platte County is opening up a second high school near the Costco on 152-E within 20 years and Liberty and Park Hill both may build a third high school.

 

[JNreturns]

Interesting thought. But not sure why the Missouri River should be such a geographic boundary. There are at least 6 bridges, just on the MO side of the metro area, that all carry multiple lanes of traffic in each direction, making travel from one side to the other fairly convenient and safe.

Do you live near the triangle?

 

[JNreturns]

I wonder if they’d consider this once additional schools around the Northland are built. Platte County is opening up a second high school near the Costco on 152-E within 20 years and Liberty and Park Hill both may build a third high school.

Liberty will have a Liberty South High within 6-7 years. How about a naming contest? They have Eagles and Bluejays covered. Gotta go with Cardinals.

Jesse James High school.
Liberty Landing HS.
Doniphan HS

 

[JNreturns]

I wonder if they’d consider this once additional schools around the Northland are built. Platte County is opening up a second high school near the Costco on 152-E within 20 years and Liberty and Park Hill both may build a third high school.

Excelsior Springs beat Oak Park last year...so they would possibly survive. I think they like their little Class 3 conference though.

 

[NoahJB]

Excelsior Springs beat Oak Park last year...so they would possibly survive. I think they like their little Class 3 conference though.

Another possibility could be to remain in the KC Suburban Conference but realign the four divisions based on north/south and then school size.

 

[Rufus R. Jones]

Excelsior Springs beat Oak Park last year...so they would possibly survive. I think they like their little Class 3 conference though.

Yeah if they wanted in the Suburban, they already would be.

 

[Rock Hard Corn Frog]

Liberty will have a Liberty South High within 6-7 years. How about a naming contest? They have Eagles and Bluejays covered. Gotta go with Cardinals.

Jesse James High school.
Liberty Landing HS.
Doniphan HS

Marvin Burks Memorial High School

 

[anon_utvqikut1knht]

Liberty will have a Liberty South High within 6-7 years. How about a naming contest? They have Eagles and Bluejays covered. Gotta go with Cardinals.

Jesse James High school.
Liberty Landing HS.
Doniphan HS

Ravens..............

 

[deacon jones]

Do you live near the triangle?

No. Over by the square.

 

[JNreturns]

Ravens..............

 

[WaggleQB]

Excelsior Springs beat Oak Park last year...so they would possibly survive. I think they like their little Class 3 conference though.

Oak Park is awful at football, just horrid!

 

[Mike*Honcho]

Liberty will have a Liberty South High within 6-7 years. How about a naming contest? They have Eagles and Bluejays covered. Gotta go with Cardinals.

Liberty South Chickenhawks

 

[WaggleQB]

I wonder if they’d consider this once additional schools around the Northland are built. Platte County is opening up a second high school near the Costco on 152-E within 20 years and Liberty and Park Hill both may build a third high school.

Is the new PC school going to be a 2nd HS are simply a new one?
If Kearney continues to grow like they are, they could need a bigger HS at some point as well. Their Freshman are currently not in the HS, not much room to add on to current school. They will hold off as long as they can.
I vote Liberty South Ravens

 

[JNreturns]

Oak Park is awful at football, just horrid!

This year Oak Park was 4-2 in the conference, and in 3rd. Belton, Ruskin and Chrisman were horrid.

 

[JNreturns]

Liberty South Chickenhawks

 

[CaptainBackslap]

Oak Park is awful at football, just horrid!

No they aren’t. Now that the Nkc district has better aligned the middle schools to the high schools, less kids are leaving to go play football elsewhere in the same district. So oak park actually has a fighting chance of being competitive now.

 

[WaggleQB]

No they aren’t. Now that the Nkc district has better aligned the middle schools to the high schools, less kids are leaving to go play football elsewhere in the same district. So oak park actually has a fighting chance of being competitive now.

I'll believe it when I see it

 

[WaggleQB]

This year Oak Park was 4-2 in the conference, and in 3rd. Belton, Ruskin and Chrisman were horrid.

And they get to play SJ Central, even more horrid than OP

 

[deacon jones]

I'll believe it when I see it

Yeah. The NKC school district will continue to be the Have's and the Have Nots. Always has been. Rich kids go to certain schools, normal kids go to certain schools.

 

[JNreturns]

Yeah. The NKC school district will continue to be the Have's and the Have Nots. Always has been. Rich kids go to certain schools, normal kids go to certain schools.

See Lee's Summit for the uproar caused by trying to re-district 4-500 kids out of LSW and LSN to Lee's Summit. Liberty High school is becoming the next Oak Park. But they have the area split pretty good as far as family income average goes.

 

[CaptainBackslap]

I'll believe it when I see it

Well they’re not going to be competing for a state title this year but they’re far from the disaster they used to be.

 

[WaggleQB]

Yeah. The NKC school district will continue to be the Have's and the Have Nots. Always has been. Rich kids go to certain schools, normal kids go to certain schools.

Well they’re not going to be competing for a state title this year but they’re far from the disaster they used to be.

When they play a team with a pulse, they are simply bad, with the exception of Raytown, that's a fairly nice win for them.

 

[deacon jones]

See Lee's Summit for the uproar caused by trying to re-district 4-500 kids out of LSW and LSN to Lee's Summit. Liberty High school is becoming the next Oak Park. But they have the area split pretty good as far as family income average goes.

Yes. We did not build a half million dollar house on this cul-de-sac to still have to go to school with THEM.

 

[Mike*Honcho]

Yeah. The NKC school district will continue to be the Have's and the Have Nots. Always has been. Rich kids go to certain schools, normal kids go to certain schools.

When I was growing up in the district, Oak Park was where the rich kids went. Normal kids went to NKC and Tonka.

 

[deacon jones]

When I was growing up in the district, Oak Park was where the rich kids went. Normal kids went to NKC and Tonka.

Right. Now it's the Taj Mahal of the Northland, Staley.

 

[CaptainBackslap]

Right. Now it's the Taj Mahal of the Northland, Staley.

And then Liberty North opened up with their new field. And now the ball is in the court of Park Hill school district. It’s basically an arms race.

 

[CaptainBackslap]

When they play a team with a pulse, they are simply bad, with the exception of Raytown, that's a fairly nice win for them.

Any team that’s overmatched will run the ball, try to keep it close and hope to win it at the end. See what Staley did with Park Hill. Sometimes it works out, sometimes the other team puts their foot on your throat.

 

[deacon jones]

And then Liberty North opened up with their new field. And now the ball is in the court of Park Hill school district. It’s basically an arms race.

Oh, I'm talking about the school as a whole. And the NKC district.

 

[Mofan79]

Excelsior Springs beat Oak Park last year...so they would possibly survive. I think they like their little Class 3 conference though.

The conference is split between class 4 and 3 schools and most years has some pretty good teams in it.

 

[Wally389]

Is the new PC school going to be a 2nd HS are simply a new one?
If Kearney continues to grow like they are, they could need a bigger HS at some point as well. Their Freshman are currently not in the HS, not much room to add on to current school. They will hold off as long as they can.
I vote Liberty South Ravens

The second PC school is just a pipe dream right now. The growth the district projected just isn't happening.

 

[WaggleQB]

Oh, I'm talking about the school as a whole. And the NKC district.

The District heads screwed up IMO when they built that HUGE "district" stadium @ Staley. It was a perfect opportunity to try and find a way to build 3 good size stadiums @ Tonka, OP, and Staley. HS kids do not like having to share stadiums at other schools. Liberty did a really good thing by breaking away from Jewell and getting their own stadiums, PH South should do the same too, IMO. They all find $$$ for other things, I think they could make this happen.

 

[deacon jones]

The District heads screwed up IMO when they built that HUGE "district" stadium @ Staley. It was a perfect opportunity to try and find a way to build 3 good size stadiums @ Tonka, OP, and Staley. HS kids do not like having to share stadiums at other schools. Liberty did a really good thing by breaking away from Jewell and getting their own stadiums, PH South should do the same too, IMO. They all find $$$ for other things, I think they could make this happen.

The point was to build it for STALEY kids. Making it a "district stadium" was just cover for "see, it's for you all, too." The powers that be didn't give a shit if the kids at the other schools got a new stadium or not. For decades, they all played at the district stadium in Northtown. But not the Staley kids......they don't even know where Northtown is. They just heard it's where the immigrant kids go.

 

[WaggleQB]

The point was to build it for STALEY kids. Making it a "district stadium" was just cover for "see, it's for you all, too." The powers that be didn't give a shit if the kids at the other schools got a new stadium or not. For decades, they all played at the district stadium in Northtown. But not the Staley kids......they don't even know where Northtown is. They just heard it's where the immigrant kids go.

Well, Staley has the highest ACT and other test scores in the district, I bet they know where Northtown is ;-)

 

[deacon jones]

Well, Staley has the highest ACT and other test scores in the district, I bet they know where Northtown is ;-)

They must just be teaching things better than the other schools.

 

[anon_utvqikut1knht]

This year Oak Park was 4-2 in the conference, and in 3rd. Belton, Ruskin and Chrisman were horrid.

And the Northmen defeated Raytown (second year in a row)........