Minnesota HS soccer fight

[Laker]

http://www.insidemnsoccer.com/2012/10/20/prairie-seeds-academy-totino-grace-section-final-ends-in-melee-unfortunate-ending-to-a-great-game/

The Minnesota State High School League is still "investigating". They better do something before someone gets seriously hurt. The Prairie Seeds goalie punches the Totino coach from behind when he is holding back his own player. Then he kicks someone from behind and bravely runs away. What a wuss.

[MorgantonAPPAlum]

Do you people have to make everything like Hockey?

[Laker]

Do you people have to make everything like Hockey?

Actually, in hockey they drop the gloves and face off. If someone came up from behind and kicked someone, players from both teams would pummel him. Unwritten rule.

I'm still ticked that the MSHSL hasn't banned those involved from the state tourney. They keep delaying and delaying. My fear is that the dreaded PC is involved.

[NoDak 4 Ever]

I bed they would never pull that **** on Minneapolis South.

[Laker]

I bed they would never pull that **** on Minneapolis South.

The Minneapolis schools must really be getting small. Last night North lost in the playoffs at Kerkhoven Murdock Sunburg where I taught for three years- northwest of Willmar. It just seems odd for them to be playing a small rural school.

[MplsBison]

Prairie Seeds is going to court.

http://www.startribune.com/sports/preps/175967621.html


My guess is they'll get their injunction and will in fact play Duluth Marshall, who has been practicing as if they were going to play.

It's interesting to note that the fight was not the reason they were disqualified. Didn't know that.

[MplsBison]

The Minneapolis schools must really be getting small. Last night North lost in the playoffs at Kerkhoven Murdock Sunburg where I taught for three years- northwest of Willmar. It just seems odd for them to be playing a small rural school.

Quite an interesting dispairity in the Mpls district high schools, which isn't completely surprising giving the socio-economic diversity of the district.

You've got Southwest, which is basically as affluent as Edina (especially the Calhoun lake area).

South is actually in 6A because it's got such a large enrollment. They're trying to get in the same conference as EP, Minnetonka, Wayzata, Hopkins and Edina and become something like a "magnet team" for the city's top talent to face off against those titans.

Then Roosevelt, which is also on the east side of the city, is just getting enough players to start fielding a team again.

Then Edison is up in NE, which is a trendy area for people who don't really have kids.

Then you go up into North Mpls where people are getting murdered and you have Patrick Henry and almost closed but now newly resurrected North, which has very few students.

[Laker]

I can remember MPLS Central, Marshall U High and Vocational. Quite a change since the 70s.

[Laker]

http://www.startribune.com/sports/preps/175967621.html?refer=y

A judge denies Prairie Seeds injunction request- they won't be playing in the state tournament. The ineligible player was also involved in the fight.

[MplsBison]

I can remember MPLS Central, Marshall U High and Vocational. Quite a change since the 70s.

There is a nice timeline of the school openings and closures on the Mpls PS wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Public_Schools

Looks like Miller Vocational closed in 1976 and Central, Marshall-University and West all closed in 1982.

[MplsBison]

http://www.startribune.com/sports/preps/175967621.html?refer=y

A judge denies Prairie Seeds injunction request- they won't be playing in the state tournament. The ineligible player was also involved in the fight.

Well I have to wonder if they had not gotten in the fight if they would've played? Probably.

[Laker]

Well I have to wonder if they had not gotten in the fight if they would've played? Probably.

I'm saying yes. I think that they were looking for a way to get rid of them instead of suspending half of the team. I was hoping that they would rule on individual players so that they could set a precedent. I don't want anything like this again.

[MplsBison]

Quite an interesting dispairity in the Mpls district high schools, which isn't completely surprising giving the socio-economic diversity of the district.

You've got Southwest, which is basically as affluent as Edina (especially the Calhoun lake area).

South is actually in 6A because it's got such a large enrollment. They're trying to get in the same conference as EP, Minnetonka, Wayzata, Hopkins and Edina and become something like a "magnet team" for the city's top talent to face off against those titans.

Then Roosevelt, which is also on the east side of the city, is just getting enough players to start fielding a team again.

Then Edison is up in NE, which is a trendy area for people who don't really have kids.

Then you go up into North Mpls where people are getting murdered and you have Patrick Henry and almost closed but now newly resurrected North, which has very few students.

I just realized I completely forgot Washburn. They're just down the road a ways from Southwest, still in a pretty nice part of town.

They also easily have the best football program in the city.

[MplsBison]

I'm saying yes. I think that they were looking for a way to get rid of them instead of suspending half of the team. I was hoping that they would rule on individual players so that they could set a precedent. I don't want anything like this again.

No I'm thinking if there had never been a fight, that one person who recognized one of the fighters being from Richfield would've never seen that video and perhaps just some suspensions would've gone out. Rather than the whole team being disqualified for using an ineligible player (the guy from Richfield).

[NoCoDanny]

They're soccer players, that looked more like housewives with handbags...