While I agree that it's pretty lame Boise schools don't play at home like schools in Canyon County and Meridian, the real reason Boise Schools stink at sports is because all the young families bought homes outside of Boise. The junior high teams in Meridian and in canyon county are loaded, with lots of depth. In all sports. Meanwhile, Boise junior highs have to combine schools to field teams in some sports.

I am pretty certain that it wasn't Carberry that was not all for schools building their own stadiums on campus. If you recall, the super Stan Olsen, was very convincing when he gave away the current East JH site to BSU to build a track/HS football facility for BSU and maybe the BSD schools. If you want to blame anyone, blame Stan Olsen, he is an absolute idiot. I even recall a meeting with Carberry nearly three years ago that gave BSD schools permission to build stadiums on site. If I remember correctly, Carberry, Todd Simis, Brian Compton, Bob Clark, and Vince Mann were all in attendance as were numerous other district officials including principals and area directors.

From what I hear, Capital is in the works for building a stadium, Borah is too, Timberline has a good start but now are trying to figure out how to put in turf and lights without pissing off their neighbors, and Boise is getting turf within the next year or so with the possibility of adding telescoping bleachers that would roll over the track as well. Look at the NEW East JH, they already have turf installed.

Blame Stan Olsen not Jim Carberry!

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The American choice to live in suburbia has changed the demographics of Boise! Jim Carberry has done what any rational person would have done. If you want to talk about not enough facilities, let's talk about not enough enrollments. Maybe Meridian would like to donate some of theirs?

The student population in Boise is decreasing. All that talent is being raised out west. I live in Boise. My kids are in Boise schools, I'm not anti-boise. I was just trying to put a different perspective out there. They aren't building too many houses in Boise school district. Most young families are tying to buy affordable housing, lots of Corey Barton and Hubble homes. Where are they building those homes? Where are they building all the nice homes within beautiful subdivisions? As long as there is growth in East Boise, Timberline can get better. Borah gets all the kids from the Bench which has affordable housing and south of the freeway. Boise is going to start getting some help with the boundary changes, they get Hillside Jr high now and Capitol will suffer because of that. Capitol has a lot of history, they tend to get all the kids that transfer using the open school district loophole.

I drove by the new Rocky Mountain High the other day. Have you seen the houses around that school? Talk about rich kids. The kind of kids whose parents will pay to send them to camps. Mountain View has no tradition, yet they are already elite in many sports. Why? Because they get all the kids that live between Overland and Lake Hazel. Have you seen Eagle High? The facilities are pretty amazing. The rich boosters pay for everything.

I follow wrestling. The Boise junior high city championships were weak. Some weight classes only had 5 kids. You go to Meridian or Canyon County and each school has a junior and varsity kid for each weight class.

And state baseball last spring...