what are your thoughts on the Class A champion. Do you really consider them state champions? Does your opinion change if its a private compared to a public?
Watching the A games today, a few co workers were complaining about STA (who doesn't) and that the A title means nothing, unless its truly a small community school like Hermantown, Little Falls, Warroad, etc....
and that the real State champ is the AA winner
Do you respect the Class "A" champion?
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Poll option number 2 is right on. If Hermantown wins this year, great for them. They are a public school that is in the class A parameters, and a deserving class A champ. If STA wins, it really means nothing to me. Just another example of a private being scared to play with the big boys.
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Re: Do you respect the Class "A" champion?
Absolutely the Class 'A' champion is a real state champ...but...
All private schools should be 'AA' (or have their own championship like Shattuck)...and then this discussion never happens again.
Small towns like Roseau want the big crown so all the power to them...its up to them to go up. Can't opt down though even though there are plenty of AA teams that wouldn't stand a chance at the state tournament too.
All private schools should be 'AA' (or have their own championship like Shattuck)...and then this discussion never happens again.
Small towns like Roseau want the big crown so all the power to them...its up to them to go up. Can't opt down though even though there are plenty of AA teams that wouldn't stand a chance at the state tournament too.
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I basically agree with this word for wordHockeyMN1 wrote:Poll option number 2 is right on. If Hermantown wins this year, great for them. They are a public school that is in the class A parameters, and a deserving class A champ. If STA wins, it really means nothing to me. Just another example of a private being scared to play with the big boys.
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Yeah, Class A teams led by the likes of TJ Oshie, Brock Nelson, Blake Wheeler, Jordan Schroeder, Adam Krause, Ben Hanowski, Drew LeBlanc, Matt Niskanen, Keith Ballard, etc wouldn't be able to beat Eden Prairie's or Edina's JV team.BodyShots wrote:Let's be P.C. here. Everybody is a champion.....
Class A is the JV, and I can't even call them the JV champs, because they don't allow the AA JV teams to compete in a state tournament.
Nuff said.
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Some of those guys must agree since they left early.warriors41 wrote:Yeah, Class A teams led by the likes of TJ Oshie, Brock Nelson, Blake Wheeler, Jordan Schroeder, Adam Krause, Ben Hanowski, Drew LeBlanc, Matt Niskanen, Keith Ballard, etc wouldn't be able to beat Eden Prairie's or Edina's JV team.BodyShots wrote:Let's be P.C. here. Everybody is a champion.....
Class A is the JV, and I can't even call them the JV champs, because they don't allow the AA JV teams to compete in a state tournament.
Nuff said.
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