I agree with @HokeaheyCoach...no friend I know undermines my child's accomplishments.

I would say KS is far from a bottom feeder, mainly due to the results we have against many states. It's hard to measure at the kids level because the nationals level tournaments because of the club level registration.

If you look at the Cadet & Junior level results for FS/GR be it duals or at Fargo; Minnesota was consistently higher than Kansas last year.

If that is an indication, you could say they are better...but as always there is more to the story.

Look at their Fargo participation, it's far higher (2x-3x higher) than we have in KS. Their population is about 3x of ours so I guess that makes sense.

The only thing to go on I find is how you end up in a tournament or dual and MN was above us on pretty much all cases, epseically when we consider their "A" team (they bring multiple dual teams) vs. ours.

Another option is to look at how many AA's each state produce at these levels but I'll leave that to someone else that want's to collect that data.