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To be held Dec. 23 in Phoenix, AZ at Grand Canyon University on ESPN. Bingham (UT) vs. St. Frances (MD) at 6p ET Chandler (AZ) vs. Northwestern (FL) at 9:30p ET

No surprise here: Benjamin OC Eric Kresser has been tabbed to lead the program.

Yea I'm hearing that either he or a few dudes on his staff is heading to American Heritage (Delray)

Cardinal Newman (West Palm Beach) thanked Coach Brian Pulaski for his 5 years of coaching. Cardinal Newman is moving forward with football program and will be announcing changes soon. --- According to Facebook

Yeah I was trying to be coy... I remember Top telling me about XT back in the day LMAO. They just rep the same team they not hanging out after LOL.

NO hire has been made. Shane Matthews was a UF QB and was the head coach at a few years ago. Just throwing out the name as a possible choice

He is the perfect coach for DP. I hope all the players use the title as a teaching point that they can apply to academics. If you prepare like a champion you will win! Tangelo Park, Bay Hill, and the greater DP area are all unified by this team and this athletic program and it has always centered around Football since the schools inception (went 8-2 opening year). It has become a football-focused community especially with "I Love Dr. Phillips" promoting the games so much. Alumni are starting to have kids that go to the school (which opened in '87). I'm just so happy for the coaches, players, administration, long-time teachers, my former teammates and anyone who has worked the chains, concession stand or the Pop Warner games on Saturday. It means a ton to the community. I can't understate that. Football brings the community together like few other things can! My first DP game was a 30-27 OT playoff loss to Oviedo in 1997... had just moved here and I was 9... I fell in love w the program that night in excruciating defeat... Saturday was the exclamation point! AWWWWW DP!

He was a terror for that Bartram Trail secondary. Congratulations to Venice on a sound victory in the 2017, 7A State Championship.

Was sharing the talent outlook for next year just for kicks. I find it ironic that some of the bigger, public schools will not play some of the small privates now. I share the following for some of the younger folks on the forum who may not have a limited historical perspective. For MANY years, some private schools "played up" and got the snot beat out of them by the bigger public schools or had tremendous odds against them to ever win a state championship. The existence of multiple, small, powerhouse private schools dominating in one season is a relatively new phenomenon. As you'll see below, except for Bolles and Aquinas, no private schools ever got past the public schools in the larger classifications for many years. 1969-1984, 4 classes, no private school won a state championship outside the lowest classification 1985-1993, 5 classes(1A-5A), below are the state titles won by private schools in classes 2A-5A 1986 2A Bolles 1990 2A Bolles 1992 4A Aquinas 1993 3A Bolles 1994-2002, 5 classes(2A-6A), below are the state titles won by private schools in classes 3A-6A 1995 4A Bolles 1997 5A Aquinas 1998 3A Bolles 1999 4A Aquinas For many years, some private schools were the doormats used to fill the schedule. Between 1980-2000, Chaminade had poor-to-average teams for the most part. I don't believe Cardinal Gibbons had a lot of success then either. For years these teams sucked it up and got beat, and now that the tables have turned, it sounds as if some of those teams who pounded them in the past are saying "no thanks." I can hear some saying, "But playing them nowadays has higher stakes with the playoff scheme." Rest assured, there were big stakes back then. There were some small, good private school teams playing in the big boy leagues whose choice to do so likely cost them a trip to the playoffs. So, some of the older private schools having success now paid their dues. If it was OK to beat up on them for 20 years, it should be OK to give them a chance to exact some revenge for a while. We usually don't get to stack the deck in our favor in adulthood, so why not let the kids learn some good life lessons-the exhilaration of winning against the odds and the pride in knowing you chose to face the strongest foe, even when things don't work out. Must be a bitter pill this year for those kids at Booker T, but bet they will look upon things with a different perspective when they get older. Bravo to that coach for taking the high road.

I have watched, coached and cheered him on since 5yrs old. Javion and my son started back when they were 5. Its great to see this come to this many years later. In case anyone cares ( some may not ) Javion is a really good basketball player. Was at practice today. Javion played baseball basketball and football his freshman year. His future is very bright.

That flip for the TD was all that!!