New teams in 09-10

[brandy38]

Aside from East Ridge and Chanhassen, will there be any new teams this year, varsity or JV? Personally, I'm hoping for a team or two to break out of the first-ring suburb/St. Paul-Minneapolis co-ops, but I know that's unlikely to happen.

[breakout]

I would think it would be difficult for Chanhassen to field a team. Are you sure that is going to happen? Maybe in a few years??

[chrissimonsguy]

With whoever hasn't gone off to the Holy's......

They will field one Varsity and two JV teams.

Kennedy does not have a JV, so one of the Chaska/Chan. teams might play the Kennedy JV schedule....

Eventually they will field two varsity teams in the Missota.

Red Wing is so close to Chaska......

[Goldy Gopher]

With whoever hasn't gone off to the Holy's......

They will field one Varsity and two JV teams.

Kennedy does not have a JV, so one of the Chaska/Chan. teams might play the Kennedy JV schedule....

Eventually they will field two varsity teams in the Missota.

Red Wing is so close to Chaska......

Maybe you're talking about something different than I think you're talking about, but since when does one school ever field two JV teams?

[chrissimonsguy]

Chaska and Chanhassen will each have a varsity level team in the '10/'11 season or beyond, so the plan is for two JV teams in order to have enough "High School" level experienced players to feed each team.

Nobody gets cut.....

[nickel slots]

Red Wing is so close to Chaska......

Chaska and Chan have both been accepted into the Missota conference starting in 2010-11. It will be a shock to their systems to have to travel outside of the metro area for some of their conference competition, but with the entire conference - except Red Wing - within an hour, it makes some sense. I heard some talk that Red Wing has applied to a different conference for 2010-11, but I haven't heard if that has gone anywhere or not. Hutch will be leaving the Missota starting that same year. The 2010-11 Missota conference will consist of:

Chaska
Chanhassen
Prior Lake
Shakopee
Farmington
New Prague
Northfield
Holy Angels
Red Wing (possibly)

If Red Wing is no longer in the conference, that's not a bad travel schedule at all. Get over it. Just imagine traveling from Red Wing to Hutch (or vice versa)!

[brandy38]

I would think it would be difficult for Chanhassen to field a team. Are you sure that is going to happen? Maybe in a few years??

oops I forgot about chanhassen not being an independent team this year.

[hockeydad]

Any idea if the Chaska/Chan coop is for more than one year? Usually coops have to be two years or longer, but with Chaska and Chan moving to the MIssota after this year, woudl they split up at that time?

Also - updating hte list of Missota teams - Prior Lake is moving to the new South Suburban Conference starting in 2010-11?

As for Red Wing - I have heard they are considering their options, but the options are limited.... Big 9 would be the only one that woudl make sense to me.

[goldy313]

Red Wing would be the second smallest Big Nine school behind Mankato East and roughly half the size of the Rochester schools. Travel wouldn't be lessend, it's still 100 miles to Mankato and Albert Lea which are both further than Hutchinson and Chaska is 70 miles from Red Wing, less than the 90 to Austin and the same distance as it is to Owatonna. So the reality is 4 Big Nine schools are further away than all but 1 Missota school. Plus the Big Nine has 10 schools, 11 would not make any sense.

Red Wing is probably better suited for the 9 team Classic Suburban with SSP, STA, HM, Sibley, Mahtomedi, IGH Simley, Richfield, NSP, and Tartan than they are with the 10 team Big Nine. Travel there wouldn't be over 60 miles to any school which would be nice, plus aside from Tartan and NSP all schools are pretty comparable in size.

That said I doubt Red Wing leaves the Missota as long as the Missota stays configured as it is now..

[Teak]

Plus the Big Nine has 10 schools, 11 would not make any sense.

I have a hard time getting my head around this statement: The Big Nine has 10 schools. Hmmm, what is wrong with me???



Could be that its Halloween....

[Mac15]

Sort of like the Big Ten college having 11 teams?

The Big 9, like all conferences, changes and evolves. Northfield used to be in the Big 9. Red Wing was in the Big 9 when there was only one Mankato school. Century made the 10th school. Suppose they could just give it a name like SE Minny?

[Teak]

Sort of like the Big Ten college having 11 teams?

The Big 9, like all conferences, changes and evolves. Northfield used to be in the Big 9. Red Wing was in the Big 9 when there was only one Mankato school. Century made the 10th school. Suppose they could just give it a name like SE Minny?

Exactly. Why do conferences name themselves with a NUMBER when it may change in the future? Better to call it the Root River Conference, or Minnesota River, or something that will not change.

Pac-10, Big 10, etc. all made the same mistake. At least the Pac-10 went on and changed their name to the Pac-12.

Or, just change the Big 9 to Big 9++.

Looking for humor on a dour day.

[huville]

To be honest, Red Wing going to the Big 9 would probably be a good thing for them. They would have a legitimate chance at winning their conference every year unlike now with AHA in the Missota.

[hockeydad]

the original Big 9

Albert Lea
Austin
Faribult
Mankato
Northfield
Owatonna
Red Wing
Rochester
Winona

Rochester split into JM and Mayo in the 60s. Northfield left sometime in the late 60s or early 70s, Mankato split into East and West in 1973. Red Wing left in the early 1980s, Century opened in 1997.