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So my question is....If Norland has to forfeit to AHP, Does that mean I get rewarded the win on my pickems? Cause I took AHP! I'm close to the bottom I need every win possible! lol @nolebull813

I’m gonna start drinking for my picks!!!!! GOOD HEAVENS

I might start drinking to do my picks.

I make a motion that all the games this past weekend be stricken from our records! The stress of the hurricane left me perplexed & impaired in all directions of thinking & decision making…….I have 3 solid witnesses: my wife, my pastor, & my cat.

Due to weather impacts, Georgia has added another week to its regular season and pushed the playoffs back a week to allow for makeup games that cannot be played during the regular season. Hopefully the FHSAA is thinking proactively, as one can imagine potential problems with unplayable stadiums, lack of officials, etc. In any event, thoughts and prayers sent from those of us in the panhandle.

Living in Central FL has cushioned the blows of most hurricanes over the past 60+years living here. In my lifetime, the 2 most significant impacts to Kissimmee were in 1960 by Hurricane Donna and then 20 years ago in 2004 by Hurricane Charley that devastated the gulf coast region around Port Charlotte. This current storm brewing on the far side of the Gulf and its projected path looks very worrisome even where I live, but much more so for the folks in the Tampa Bay area. Praying it will encounter enough wind sheer to minimize its strength and weaken it to some extent. If that doesn't happen, it might turn into our biggest catastrophe in recent memory hitting a highly populated area. Again, hoping and praying for everyone that possibly will have their lives turned upside down by Milton. Cancelling a game on Friday seems insignificant with that prospect.

By 9-1 you mean 6-4

In the spirit of Halloween, Jesuit is Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde!!!! SMH. I’m gonna start not drinking the Darlington koolaid…..HE’s NOT AT APOPKA ANY MOE!!!!!!

As I recall, the spread was 33, so Lely really needed that last TD to cover.

To us who didn’t have a dad/father at any time( not in our lives, let alone under our roof), your story leaves us (me) envious…..& at times bitter(even at 67 yrs old). But I had a HS coach that acted like a dad to me. I was in middle school & my future coach walked into my classroom, asked the student in the desk in front of me to get up. He sat in the desk, put his arm on my desk in position to arm wrestle. I was expelled from the school I started in & of course he knew that. He smiled & said to me,”I hear you’re the strongman!” I put up my arm & gave him a match but he put my arm down. He laughed but not at me, then he put his hand on my shoulder that I still feel till this day, & I knew I had a man in my corner! Fast forward: we won the championship my sophomore year with him as head coach. He loved on me with affection, discipline, & covered me. He died 3 years ago. Every year I would go up to visit my mom, I would visit coach for hours. The last time I saw him he was in a hospital bed in his living room, I knew that was the last time I would see him. I prayed with him, thanked him, & told him I loved him. when I coached in Broward, I coached(in every way) like him.

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I'm fine here in tampa didn't lose power and not alot of damage where I'm at

South Florida clear as hell. Today & yesterday. No rain, no floods & 89 degree weather

I'm good in Tallahassee no damages and I have power.

Hard to believe! 1106 days since South Lake Eagles have won a home game. Finally did it tonight by beating Ocala Forrest 38-27, this is the second district win of the season. Beat Davenport 28-7 earlier. Still have Horizon and Minneola to go. But ! This team has come a long way, very young. The future is bright.

South Lake just clinched 6a district 6 championship tonight! 4-0 in district play! first district championship since 1996!

Kowboys starting to pound the interior of Lake Wales line 7-3. Early 2nd quarter. Halftime LW up 10-7. Kowboys have made a lot of mistakes. Lake Wales passing attack has led to their 3 point advantage. Kowboys TD drive was when they primarily ran between the tackles. Lake Wales can score quickly via the air. 1:15 left in 3rd. Kowboys drive about 80 yards in their classic ball control style. Kowboys up 14-10. As soon as I stopped typing Kowboys block punt and recover it in the end zone. Now up 21-10. 20 yard TD pass puts Osceola up 28-10. They have controlled the tempo pretty much the whole game. 8:30 left. LW passes it way down the field to make the score 28-17 Kowboys. Osceola running out the clock. Osceola 28 Lake Wales 17

What the bottom line is, which usually gets buried, IF THE TEAM (allegedly) BROKE RULES, THE FAULT IS WITH THE TEAM!!!! END OF STORY!!!!! You can woulda, coulda, shoulda till your lips fall off……SMH

I’ve never been a fan of those huge stadiums for high school. Prime example STA & CM was played at fiu for the ONCE & a lifetime matchup & the stadium was 70% empty. it’s something about playing at home standing room only crowd with the on lookers who couldn’t get in cheering from outside the gate I’ll prefer that anyday

Right. The fact that they already had a planned open week between the state semis and the finals n it took them this long to make that decision is wild tho.

About dam time , I c the fhsaa got atleast 1 brain cell.

My power finally just came back

Lots of rain, flash flood warning in Atlanta but otherwise everything is good up here. How is the Big Bend area?

DRV Pink Stadium would be perfect! In Broward and Inter Miami isn't playing.

Here’s an example that might help MY HUDDLE brothers understand “our game” (Broward county) , that we’ve waited for a long time, being played outta county: Next year we’ll host the Miami Central vs NW game at Lockhart Stadium in Broward County! Ya wanna hear some NOISE! Lol I’m thinking the main concern is fan capacity. STA used to bring in portable bleachers in the playoffs. Chaminade coulda done the same thing. Switch the game to Aquinas! You think the same amount of Lion fans wouldn’t make the 20 minute drive? Plus it would be in central Broward county. There might b a more diabolical reason: It’s been put out there that the state championships for 1a-7a are going to be at FIU stadium. Is this a trial run? Regardless, it’s still wrong for the fans of Broward County & that seems to be the last thought in this decision……

If you live on that threatened gulf coast, concentrate on preparation not Friday night.

The difference is TFA's opponent, Rabun Gap-Nacoochee, is upfront about what they do. It is a boarding school (a beautiful campus in northeast Georgia) that has players from all over the southeast, and Canada, Europe, and Asia (much like IMG and Clearwater Academy before it shut down). But they don't compete in the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) because Georgia's rules are far stricter than those of the FHSAA when it comes to transfers and recruiting. I say let schools recruit, offer financial aid, offer free lunches or whatever, but at least have the dignity to compete with others of the same ilk, and leave the FHSAA to those who want to play on a level playing field.

Thanks a lot Cocoa smh lol what happened

Hey! It’s before the trade deadline. Come on!!

The week I went 9-10, I just found the paper that had my REAL picks on it! I presented my other paper. Can I be credited because of my mistake? Oh I was 17-2……..

I had 4 feet of water in my house. Coastal Tampa Bay. Been one hell of a mess to clean up.

Chilling in Johnson City TN. Wind and rain earlier. Bright and sunny now

Game went as I expected as it would be competitive but LW wouldn't score more than 14 points and that might have been the case if not for questionable PI late in the game that led to their last TD. Did get our big OL back as he got good reps throughout the game and pound the rock was the difference. Thanks for your take and would have enjoyed seeing you again. Recommending the LW vs Columbia game only made sense if you wanted to be on the winning side. Local paper (Lakeland Ledger) and the Polk'sters all were wrong.

I think this really shows us what we have in our society that people are upset that a potential cheater was told on instead of BEING PISSED THAT SOMEONE CHEATED IN THE FIRST PLACE People rather defend the cheater because winning above all else runs people's mindsets then they sit there and whine about trophy chasing in a society mess THEY CREATED People create the problems that they bitch about

So far I’m hearing norland will have to forfeit games and face a 1 year postseason ban starting this year. I’ll keep you posted as I find out more.

Interesting…….Couple things if it’s true: *Who blew the whistle? AHP? No one knows South Florida football, like South Florida! * Norland expelled from the playoffs? I don’t think so. FHSAA hates to cross the WPB border, entering in So Flo, to try & stop the runaway train!!! Hand slap! * So Flo feels impervious to the impotent & weak arm of the FHSAA, so they’re gonna do what they want!!!

We made the trip down from Fort Pierce to this one. It went smoothly until we hit Broward, and then it was a white knuckle ride from there as the rush hour(s) traffic started to pick up. We ate at Havana Harry's in Coral Gables. I highly recommend this place, but the parking is a little tight (I was driving a RAM 1500) and the portions are ENORMOUS. After supper, it took us about 45 minutes to travel the 14 miles to Traz Powell. That's a nice facility. Good game, but the wind was crazy and played havoc with the passing and kicking games for both teams. Columbus missed an early opportunity with a deep pass that the WR dropped, but NW had the better team. They are big, physical and have plenty of speed. They put a little freshman in at RB named Deuante Gatlin who only got 2 or 3 carries, but he looks so explosive. Anyway, we had a great time and I liked listening to the old timer NW fans discussions during the game. We'll definitely make another trip for a game there. We wound up getting a room in Kendall because my night vision isn't what it used to be, and we had breakfast the next morning at a solid no frills Cuban cafe called Munchies, and then grabbed some churros to take back home at Pinecrest Bakery. Those things hit the spot for a Friday night postgame snack after watching Westwood v Inlet Grove.

Some of us actually liked the system that was used last year.

Contingency plan...LOL. C'mon man were talking about the FHSAA here. Throw all LOGIC out the window.

That just tells me that they never planned to use it and had there not been so many people publicly getting angry about them they would have kept their mouth shut This is just them saving face after taking a beating in the public eye once again

QUICK @nolebull813! Lock the thread before everybody NOT NAMED @TreyS and @Zachk1003 changes their STA/Chaminade picks!!

It's projected to make landfall South of Tampa and cut across Florida west to east. Hillsborough schools currently closed Monday through Wednesday and looks like brevard is closed Wednesday through Thursday. I'm more inland in Plant City so currently not in the evacuation zone

I've seen Tampa Bay miss many a hurricane since I have lived in Central Florida. They may well elude this one once again. It does not look good at the moment, but it's still too soon to conclude with accuracy where this storm will actually land. My biggest hope is that loss of life is kept low. Beyond that, hope there's minimal property damage. The latter is probably too much to expect.

Bullseye Darter. The best jockey has never won the Kentucky Derby on a Jackass…….

No matter how good a coach you are, you need a certain basic talent level. Apopka has always been blessed with very good athletes. Hence, the trick is to keep them home and buy into your system. Accomplish that, instill discipline, and get the kids on board that a deep run is not only possible but your birthright, and you have a recipe for winning a lot of games.

The school in question got 30+ Transfers this year with that number not being disputed. Multiple opposing coaches and even some of their own coaches and administrators believe the "RECRUITING" to have taken place and said as much. The FHSAA dropped those original allegations for what they called a lack of "HARD EVIDENCE". I assume that literally means you need that smoking gun that actually perpetrated the crime and they don't have that. Although, I am not a lawyer I have seen people convicted with strong circumstantial evidence and NO GUN! These other minor charges was something they did have hard evidence of so they used that to re-charge these folks. This private school should be made an example of to prevent this practice from continually getting worse, but the decision made only encourages the misbehavior. It is especially hard to swallow for schools like Lake Minneola and Leesburg that each lost 6 or 7 key members of their team to this particular school. The particular coach that has spearheaded this effort has a track record for committing these violations at other schools he has been employed. Should not be a hard case to prosecute. Pretty pathetic.

So 15 went down to 11 games this week. Shout out to @PinellasFB for getting 10 right. @PinellasFB 10 @Nulli Secundus 8 @ColumbiaFan 8 @Jullian 8 @Joshua Wilson 8 @DarterBlue2 7 @Longtime Observer 7 @Trelle 7 @KeemD321 6 @muckboy561 6 @Perspective 6 @Holy Moly 5 @CoachGraham 5 @VeniceIndianFan 5 @imjustafan2 4 @nolebull813 4 @ohs vargas 4 @DILLARDBOYZ954 4

The best credit we can receive is the one where mistakes were made and learned from, by your own admission! Week 5 pick ems crying room. (Join me)

Good here in Knoxville. Light rains cleared out around 1 pm.

Jones vs Auburndale won't be a game, whereas Columbus vs South Dade should be. Don' know about the other 2 teams if your other considerations are a wash.