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blueblood wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:28 pm Kniven - if you were alive in the 20's that would have you older than elliott.

Duluth_Topper wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:42 am I agree with Schotzy as I am also a parent of a current Topper. Yes, there are probably a ton of stats about private vs. public. I am a graduate of one of the local high schools and back in the day though it was insane that someone would pay for high school. But what everyone needs to remember it is about the family and what they think. Do I think my kid would have done OK in his prior school - mostly likely yes. But first, off I am not a fan of standardizing testing. Next would be the large class sizes. Most of the public classes are over 30 kids where at Marshall most of the classes have 10-15 kids so they get more one on one time with the teachers. One of the things I always bring up is my son took Algebra 1 in 8th grade and when we came to Marshall all kids have to take a placement test to see where they want to put them. So he had to take Algebra 1 again in his freshman year. He was in a class with 11 kids and did very good so in his Sophomore year, he took Algebra 2 and Geometry at the same time.

We also never came to Marshall believing that we would be playing in the state tournament. But we did know that we would play a very aggressive AA schedule against teams like East, Minnetonka and St. Thomas Academy vs. playing teams like Ely and Moose Lake twice a year. And yes you look at the team 2 years ago with both Staubers and Grannis as Seniors and then even throw-in Krenzen that left 2 years early we lost a ton of top-end talent as well as skaters in general.

I also know first hand that Flaherty was starting to set up talks about Marshall going Tier 1 as he already saw the writing on the wall and with Marshall having dorms it could have housed students as potentially the Shattuck of the North.

Our family needed a change and could have just as easily transferred to Hermantown, East, or Cloquet but it was more than just hockey for us and there wouldn't have been any academic benefits for us to go to another public school. To this day we truly see first hand the benefits of the schooling at Marshall. But it will be interesting to see what happens to the program in the next couple of years as if you look at just the enrollment at Marshall and the class sizes they are trending way lower year after year and that also affects the number of hockey players.

Duluth_Topper wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:20 am By no means was I trying to throw any of those teams under the bus. I should have just said high-end AA programs vs. lower A programs. Ben Johnson is a personal friend of mine and we are currently looking at playing Ely in place of our canceled game vs. Mounds View.

BP wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:08 am
Are they allowed to move down to A - wouldn't it be the following year during the every two section change?

kniven wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:36 am Duluth Marshall is going to figure something out for next year. I trust this. Lots of options, 1 option, or very little in options. Move back to A is a certainty. Co-op with Hermantown or Denfeld or Proctor or nobody. And just build back up on your own. All the best, Hilltoppers

HolyGrail wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 8:50 pm

kniven wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:36 am Duluth Marshall is going to figure something out for next year. I trust this. Lots of options, 1 option, or very little in options. Move back to A is a certainty. Co-op with Hermantown or Denfeld or Proctor or nobody. And just build back up on your own. All the best, Hilltoppers

It won't be Proctor . . . . and you can write that one down!

Jeffy95 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:40 pm

HolyGrail wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 8:50 pm

kniven wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:36 am Duluth Marshall is going to figure something out for next year. I trust this. Lots of options, 1 option, or very little in options. Move back to A is a certainty. Co-op with Hermantown or Denfeld or Proctor or nobody. And just build back up on your own. All the best, Hilltoppers

It won't be Proctor . . . . and you can write that one down!

What makes you think that? I’m hearing there has been some preliminary talks.

Usthockey13 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:12 pm Denfeld isnt an option why would DD ever want that? Im hearing that DM and Proctor are in the preliminary talks and rumor has it Scott Pionk would be the new coach

Usthockey13 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:12 pm Denfeld isnt an option why would DD ever want that? Im hearing that DM and Proctor are in the preliminary talks and rumor has it Scott Pionk would be the new coach

kniven wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:15 pm

Usthockey13 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:12 pm Denfeld isnt an option why would DD ever want that? Im hearing that DM and Proctor are in the preliminary talks and rumor has it Scott Pionk would be the new coach

I love the idea of Proctor-Marshall. I just hope it would be permanent.

Jeffy95 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:31 pm

Usthockey13 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:12 pm Denfeld isnt an option why would DD ever want that? Im hearing that DM and Proctor are in the preliminary talks and rumor has it Scott Pionk would be the new coach

I think Denfeld would want that but the School District could be an obstacle. Things are great at Denfeld now but it will be tough again in a few years. I think Scott will be the Head Coach in Proctor at some point it just depends on when Stauber is ready to step down. It might make sense for Proctor to co-op since it’s such a small number of kids left at Marshall. They could use a few kids over the next few years. But their numbers shoot up after that so who knows?

kniven wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:51 pm

Jeffy95 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:31 pm

Usthockey13 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:12 pm Denfeld isnt an option why would DD ever want that? Im hearing that DM and Proctor are in the preliminary talks and rumor has it Scott Pionk would be the new coach

I think Denfeld would want that but the School District could be an obstacle. Things are great at Denfeld now but it will be tough again in a few years. I think Scott will be the Head Coach in Proctor at some point it just depends on when Stauber is ready to step down. It might make sense for Proctor to co-op since it’s such a small number of kids left at Marshall. They could use a few kids over the next few years. But their numbers shoot up after that so who knows?

Stauber quit everything at UWS to come coach and build something at Proctor. I can’t imagine he wants out of coaching? He is the AD as well at Proctor....

goldy313 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 10:39 pm Duluth Marshall tragically lost their coach who was building something, that has to be taken into account doesn’t it?

Usthockey13 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:14 pm Sounds like the merger with Proctor and Pionk being the coach. If this does happen I’d assume they’d drop down to A