What happened to Lincoln sports

[highschoolfootballnut]

Football, Basketball and Track are the top 3 sports in the Nation, and over the past 10 years a decade, lincoln sports have been lost, gone not even close to the top. What is wrong, how does the States 2nd largest city become so shut out for a decade. I have heard the argument that things cycle but this is beyond a cycle this is irrelevant. Anyone have a reason why the are so far removed from competing for a title ?

NSAA FOOTBALL PLAYOFF CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
CLASS A

2015-Millard North (11-2) 21, Millard West (12-1) 14

2014-Omaha North (13-0) 41, Creighton Preparatory (11-2) 0

2013-Omaha North (12-1) 23, Omaha Westside (11-2) 21

2012-Millard North (13-0) 17, Omaha North (10-3) 14

2011-Lincoln Southeast (12-1) 21, Omaha Burke (12-1) 9

2010-Millard North (11-2) 28, Millard South (11-2) 20

2009-Millard South (13-0) 45, Millard West (10-3) 17

2008-Millard West (13-0) 21, Millard South (9-4) 8

2007-Omaha Central (11-2) 26, Millard North (10-3) 21

2006-Kearney (12-1) 41, Omaha Westside (12-1) 21



NSAA BOYS BASKETBALL STATE FINALS RESULTS


Class A

2015-Creighton Preparatory (27-2) 46, Omaha South (23-4) 41

2014-Bellevue West (21-6)56, Omaha Westside (21-6) 50 OT

2013-Omaha Central (26-4) 69, Papillion-La Vista (24-4) 44

2012-Omaha Central (30-0) 55, Omaha South (20-10) 38

2011-Omaha Central (26-3) 52, Omaha Bryan (25-5) 48

2010-Omaha Central (23-4) 71, Norfolk (22-3) 58

2009-Creighton Preparatory (22-5) 34, Lincoln Southwest (22-3) 31

2008-Omaha Central (25-3) 59, Bellevue East (18-10) 58

2007-Omaha Central (19-7) 93, Bellevue West (18-10) 85 OT

2006-Omaha Central (24-4) 84, Bellevue West (26-3) 79 OT


NSAA BOYS TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS--PAST CHAMPIONS

Class A

2015 Creighton Preparatory

2014 Kearney

2013 Kearney

2012 Kearney

2011 Omaha Central

2010 Omaha Central

2009Kearney

2008Kearney

2007OmahaCentral

2006OmahaNorth

Eleven-player football remains the runaway leader in boys participants with 1,083,617, followed by outdoor track and field (578,632), basketball (541,479), baseball (486,567) and soccer (432,569). The remainder of the top 10 is wrestling (258,208), cross country (250,981), tennis (157,240), golf (148,823) and swimming/diving (137,087).

 

[northeastNebraska]

I had heard they were having issues with Junior High/Middle School sports. Like organizing them and development. I think it back on the uptick. Lincoln High might be the best team in the city next year.

 

[ThereIsNoPlace]

I had heard they were having issues with Junior High/Middle School sports. Like organizing them and development. I think it back on the uptick. Lincoln High might be the best team in the city next year.

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And ignorance by administration & purchasing to the importance of athletic training. Purchases for their wt. rooms have always been budget decisions not results oriented. Sad leadership in the past. The addition of full time strength & conditioning coaches will help. Then again, if these coaches don't get the tools to compete with athleticism being trained across the state they will remain a step behind.

 

[Sean Callahan]

Some things I've heard/seen:

1 - LPS does not allow private donations to specific schools to boost facilities. So if you were a booster of Lincoln Southeast and wanted to build them a football stadium or give them field turf, you could not do that. It has to run through the district office. They wouldn't even let Lincoln Southwest parent booster club I was told build a permanent restroom facility on their lower level football fields for fan usage during freshman and JV games. They are forced to use porta potties.

Compare that to Omaha....Omaha Central's foundation got them a new weight room and stadium...Omaha South's foundation got them a new stadium....Fred Petito made a few phone calls to former players and got the money for field turf on the practice fields. To my knowledge every OPS school or Class A school in Omaha has field turf to use for practices. LPS does not, other than at the two stadiums.

2 - No junior high athletics. No feeder programs into the high schools. Lincoln has one big giant city football league, and some other select teams. But nothing uniformed or organized by the high schools.

3 - 1 football stadium that is of Class A standard for LPS and it's six high schools, which means lots of Thursday games and 4:30 pm and 8 pm games at Seacrest stadium. That kills the Friday night HS football tradition in my opinion. 4:30 pm games are very hard to get people to and often times the 8 pm games start later than 8 and that's very difficult for the casual fan to want to take young kids to and not get home until after 11 pm.

They really need a second stadium built on the land next to Lincoln North Star. Then you could have Northeast, North Star and Lincoln High play there and Southeast, Southwest and East play at Seacrest. The scheduling could be set where there's never more than two games at the stadium for week, meaning on those weeks you could do 7 pm Thursday and 7 pm Friday (like Millard does). No more 4:30 and 8 pm double headers or worse...using Beechner at Lincoln High. This year Lincoln East (which sits next to Seacrest) has to play Norfolk on a Friday at Beechner. That to me doesn't make sense. There will also be big city games this year that bring nice gates played at 4:30. To me it's an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed because this is not in the best interest of athletes, coaches, parents and fans.

 

[Sean Callahan]

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And ignorance by administration & purchasing to the importance of athletic training. Purchases for their wt. rooms have always been budget decisions not results oriented. Sad leadership in the past. The addition of full time strength & conditioning coaches will help. Then again, if these coaches don't get the tools to compete with athleticism being trained across the state they will remain a step behind.

I was told on the strength coaches they hired two, and they have to work with three schools each. So that coach has to split their time at each of the three schools.

 

[highschoolfootballnut]

To agree with your point, Find me another place in the USA where 6 schools from the largest class in the state use the same football field, Lincoln Public schools is a joke on all of Lincoln Residents and an embarrassment to the state

 

[Sean Callahan]

To agree with your point, Find me another place in the USA where 6 schools from the largest class in the state use the same football field, Lincoln Public schools is a joke on all of Lincoln Residents and an embarrassment to the state

It seems like a misuse of funds not to have that in the plans. Three to me is the most you should see at one stadium, and if boosters from a school want to build them a stadium or a facility, that should be allowed. I guess I don't understand why LPS can tell alumni from school A or B they can't give something.

 

[northeastNebraska]

Seems like Norris/Waverly/Malcolm could keep growing because of stuff like this in LPS.

 

[Sean Callahan]

Seems like Norris/Waverly/Malcolm could keep growing because of stuff like this in LPS.

No LPS is only getting bigger. They grew 1,000 kids year over year from 2014-15 to 2015-16. Plans for at least one more HS have to be in the works, if not too. This city is growing like crazy on the outskirts.

 

[northeastNebraska]

No LPS is only getting bigger. They grew 1,000 kids year over year from 2014-15 to 2015-16. Plans for at least one more HS have to be in the works, if not too. This city is growing like crazy on the outskirts.

Have you heard where the new school will be?

 

[Sean Callahan]

Have you heard where the new school will be?

No idea, but most think in the far Southeast area. Probably 70 to 98th and Yankee Hill area. They could even build a far Northwest one some day as well, as that area is really growing and North Star is at capacity.

 

[cyberprepsker]

Sean Callahan is right on with everything he stated here. LPS is a minimum of 10 years behind every other Class A district. All in the interest in fairness within the district, they have handicapped the entire district. LPS was the last in Class A to outfit all their high schools with synthetic tracks. The need to be real progressive just to catch up.