I’ll take this a step further and say this: TJ- There is one person on your list of “who to watch” that SHOULD NOT BE there. He can’t even contain his man.

Nice try Percy.”

Both Cretin and Benilde have comparable enrollments and both field competitive sports programs because of the nature of the two school’s athletic cultures and their inherent ability to attract athletes. Rather than continuing to push MG to join, (something it will never do, time to end the pipe dream, Dave), this is where one potential solution lies. Another solution would be to merge Armstrong and Cooper (restoring “Robbinsdale” High??).

I would say the superintendents are by nature political animals and their quick decision generally reflects the feelings of the majority of their constituents in their respective districts, who have known this was coming for a long time. This was a good move for the Lake (and Prior Lake) to stand up to the League and the inherent inequities involved in going up against the super-district schools. They created a new conference that makes more geographic sense and has about the right number of teams in it.

School boards take 9 months to decide to use the toilet… This was all decided months ago by the supers of these schools…

Now - Come ON MAPLE GROVE - MAN UP!

I think this is one of those cases where a basically good kid made a really terrible mistake in judgement. Do we throw away the rest of his life, or give him a chance to make something of himself?

And for people who don’t know the whole story - he apparently let a friend talk him into being the get-away driver for an attempted bank robbery. Admittedly a bad choice, but he was not the instigator and, to the best of my knowledge, never entered the bank.

And as the article said, his HS coach vouched for him. I don’t think Kenny Novak is going to go out on a limb for a bad kid.

Don’t jump to conclusions when you don’t have all the facts.