east hockey wrote:The State League regards Edina East as a seperate school from Edina. This is why they list their championships seperately. This is why they don't show them with nine.
Is this topic about Edina or Roseau, anyway? I understand your deep affection for Edina but you need to understand it's not shared by many on this Board. Or anywhere else, for that matter.
The link I posted, which you then tried to respond with "yabbut", is the record. Why are you trying to confuse the issue? Why is this so seemingly...vital to you?
Lee
Lee, this is pretty simple. Edina has won a certain number of titles. What is the number? That number is 9. If you want to split hairs between what schools are called go ahead. If the state HS league has policies regarding how schools register with them that's great. If it really matters to people that Edina chose the intriguing names East and West instead of Harriet Tubman and John Glenn that's their hangup.
There is a city in Minnesota named White Bear Lake. It has a school district. And a hockey program. If someone asked me about good players to come out of White Bear Lake I'd surely include Fishback (I think that's his name). Is he not from White Bear Lake because Mariner was located somewhere else? No, he's from White Bear Lake.
If you or anyone else doesn't like Edina, that's your hangup. I haven't done anything in the two threads I started other than point out an obvious (strong cases can be made for considering Roseau or Edina #1) and ask
opinions on questions designed for require thought for
historical perspective. If Roseau faithful don't like the fact they've
only (probably not the right word choice) won 7 state titles - a remarkable achievement - while Edina has won 9 or if they choose to ignore history that shows
both communities have sent great teams to state that failed to win it all that's their damage.
THIS topic was a questionnaire to gauge sentiment, which was pretty telling. Several opinions are grounded and vary quite different from a lot of the drunk-guy-on-the-barstool type braggadoccio seen in other "smack" type threads. What has triggered this inane discourse is that I made an off-the-cuff comment about how trash-talking directed toward Roseau generally works better when your community has won more titles than they have, and some dain bramaged folks have tried to explain to me how 7 is more than 9. IMPORTANT TO NOTE -
I haven't trash talked Roseau at all! They have a great team, a great chance to repeat, and the whole town should be proud.
This isn't
vital to me at all. Quite the contrary. There is nothing to argue here because it is impossible to change a fact. Edina High has 9 trophies in it (or they might have them on display at Braemar...I can't recall) - where did they come from? Williard Ikola was coach for a long time. Where? Edina. If your wife changes her name to Jan Brady tomorrow you wouldn't say I've been married to my wife for less than a year. She's still your wife. (*rimshot*)
You posted some link and I haven't argued at all. You seem to want to change the topic to something else. If you want to talk about what a Minnesota State High School record book recognizes as most titles won by a school go ahead. Just leave me out of it and you can go debate with the effin' wall. I've seen the programs where they list by school and that's fine. I've never mentioned anything about counting by school, that's something you and BIAFP did. The question is how many titles has Edina won and that answer is 9. Really, I wish I could give you another answer like 2 or 4 or 6 or 3 so people in Roseau feel better. Edina's won 9. Bloomington's probably won 7. Does it really matter? Not to me. I just like following sports.
Be kind. Rewind.
as the Gold (Minnetonka 2, Hill-Murray 4, Centennial 7, Duluth East 10) if you measure by the same PS2 rank. Gold had more between 11-20 though.
