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get over it and yourself. only making you sound miserable. talk about the good things your new squad is doing, not a full paragraph as a watcher. Id assume your new HC would be pretty upset since you talked very little about what your great new team did and their win and bash the old team for their ineptitude(it is poinciana, so whats the real expectation here). and by saying not hating, means your hating. move on, they have!

The hype and crowd attendance for the west is going to be insane this year. The talent that’s on the roster. Bridgewater as the head coach. The media coverage is going to be out of this world each and every week. I see the west going 9-1 maybe undefeated this year. But you can never underestimate the rockets so that’ll be a must see matchup like always. 2024 is going to be a great season for high school football in Florida I can you tell that much.

Miami Northwestern Bulls 2024 Football Schedule 08-22 Coconut Creek 08-30 Venice 09-06 Carol City 09-13 Norland 09-20 Columbus 09-27 Jackson 10-04 Central 10-11 Key West 10-18 Booker T. Washington 10-25 St. Brendan

I assume this is in jest, but I would be curious to hear feedback from all the kids who transferred and if they felt like it was a good move for them in hindsight, or do they regret it. If the consensus is it was the right move, then who can gripe about that especially if they have no skin in the game?

South Lake 49-14 over Foundation Academy

some Suncoast area scores Mitchell 59, Hudson 0 Gulf 35, Land O Lakes 14 Nature Coast 22, Tavares 21 East Lake 14, River Ridge 0 (3 quarters varsity). (14-14 final)

NOW THAT S--T WAS FUNNY!!!!!!!!

Carter Smith could be playing MLB next year but opted for football. As a sophomore pitcher, he was clocked over 90mph+ with his fastball. Here in Lee County, we have plenty of great athletes. Most people think of Deion, Jevon Kearse, Jammi German, Earnest Graham and Sammy Watkins etc. But the area is full of talent, however, most don't end up at the same school.

I cold be wrong, but I'm thinking there's no way this team competes with Good Counsel, MNW or STA this year. At least right now. So that's three losses right there. Throw in South Dade or Miami Palmetto who always plays us tough - it's not hard to see 4 losses on the season right now before playoffs. But it's early. On the positive side, we do have a stud receiver returning in Bryce Fitzgerald, I just hope we can settle in on a QB to get him the ball. Young kid from Palm Beach transferred in this spring looking for a starting QB job, but he was the least impressive of the 4 I saw. We have 1 or 2 notable playmakers on defense (including Fitzgerald who plays DB too) - but we graduated 8 starters (3 playing D1 next year) and our best returning player Chavez was out injured - and they are moving him to a receiver/slot back position anyway, so let's see if that opens things up for 4* Fitzgerald at WR. We just have limited playmakers and smaller OLine than we have had in a while. The coaches always do well with what we have, so I should be careful not to overstate how much of a rebuilding year this is - but when you lose your Dade County player of the year QB and the majority of an impressive defense, I need to be realistic. If you watched it, you'd feel similar. I do feel a bit better after reading BV's QB Carter Smith is apparently the #1 rated QB in the state. That explains why he torched our young guys so badly with 27 straight points before the boys had an answer. But it's clear we had some real inconsistencies on offense. I'm hoping with time and the selection of a starter, things will settle down there.

Don’t throw in the towel yet Columbus, rumor has it, off the street, not from the administration or coaches, that Central & Chaminade are holding a recruiting seminar , of course for pay. Topics like 1) How to recruit the Nation & make it look like “your team was sought out”. 2) How to get over 20 transfers without the FHSAA questioning it. 3) How to reach over to Naples & other out of countyFlorida non powers & snatch their best players for the betterment of high school football. Etc……

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7-4 implies losing in the first round of the playoffs. Based on the brackets in the south, I can't see Columbus going one and done in the playoffs. Maybe 8-4 or 7-5 with a loss to Palmetto or similar team in the second round if you have really dropped off a lot.

Thanks @Wavebb!

Oh, they tried we just looked bad. Looks like a big drop off this year. We have a 4 QBs battling for a starting position and our OLine lost quite a bit. Defense was suspect against a scrambling QB all night. We need a lot of work if we want to survive this schedule we have coming up. If you asked me right now, I'm thinking 7-4 season on the way.

My new team, South Lake H. C. Brad Lord took a very heavy underclassmen squad into Foundation Academy, which personally as a H.C, im 0-2, beat them convincingly 49-14. We only had 36 offensive plays. Q. B. Trey Kelly Rising Sophomore went 7-9, 1 dropped and 1 blocked, 212 yds and 2 Td's, The running backs rushed for 202yds 3 TD's in only 27 carries. Where my old school Poinciana lost to Horizon 20-30. Poinciana only had 33 players on the official roster ( all time low, I had over 60). Cameron Brown Had a great game throwing for 2 TD's and ! rushing TD, (great effort) IMHO Horizon , while being a great program, was down from last year, Also include that 32 didnt play in the first half. (he drove the ball right down the field in his first possession in the 3rd 1/4 and they scored ( not to take away from the efforts of their other running backs, they will be a force to be reckoned with. Horizon is not as good as they were last year (up front only). I am sure the coaches will make corrections and become way better in the fall. At the end of the day, PHS, still needs discipline on defense (too many stupid penalties) and a direction to work for. Yes, I am being super critical, after spending 10 years trying to fix that program, what they (administration) did hurts. Not the new HC. fault, In fact I try to help him any way I can. PHS looks like a team led by a first year head coach who hasnt found his way yet. I truly hope they do. the HC is a great guy, just young and needs a lot of help understanding the ins and outs of HS football. Im not hating, (for the PHS head coach). I just want to see this different direction we are looking for!

You may be right Observer but it didn't look that way to me. And I am not a Verot fan. FM Green Wave only but support all the Lee County athletes despite the school they attend

Yep, this is a pretty surprising result. I assume the Explorers tried like BV and SR tried, although I assume "the narrative" will be that Columbus was the only team that didn't try

He is doing well Nulli and his index will return this year

For any in the know, is there any chance that the index gets an update this year? I hope he and his family are doing well. I hope the FHSF posters and your families are doing okay also.

Yes KeemD321

Columbus as in Miami Columbus?

Three team jamboree at Bishop Verot Catholic High School, Fort Myers: Verot 34 Columbus 21. ( Verot went up 27-0 to start). Sarasota Riverview 14 Columbus 6. Verot 21 Riverview 10. Vikings qb, Carter Smith, is unreal. All games were for a half.

They managed to move the ball fairly well against both teams as the QB made good decisions with his feet and his arm but errors cost them. In the Edgewater game with the score 7-0 Deland moved the ball right down the field and the QB hit a wide open receiver in stride from about 20 yards out and he dropped it for which should have been a sure score. They had some other miscues against both teams that would have probably put points on the board, just wasn't their night. I think our defense has a chance to be extremely good again this year despite losing a half dozen very good players to area teams like Jones, DP, The First Academy and even Poinciana. We did manage an excellent transfer from St. Cloud HS that will be a great addition to our O-line, 6'6" 290 lbs. Connor Howes who is eligible starting on June 1. Wouldn't read too much into the scores as this was a Jamboree and the work over the next 3 months will tell the story.

Sounds like a good night for the Kowboys! It is a bit suprising to see Sexy Beast's offense shut out for the night, but those are probably two really good defenses he had to face.

Appreciate it homie