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If Darlington had stayed, this game may have remained on the schedule. Hopefully Lakeland/Manatee can gain steam and become a rivalry again.....and the weather doesn't wash that game out like it did 2 years ago.

Madison though is playing 4 dimensional chess while the rest of us are playing checkers. The use of the charter school to siphon enough students away to lower their population numbers is darn near criminal in my opinion. If Madison played in the classification that their numbers are this wouldn't be an issue. As for Pahokee, they are who we thought they are. They couldn't even beat Hawthorne last year. Imagine if every school could do this. Take every kid who could care so little about sports, band, cheerleading and put them in their own school and your population numbers is only kids who want to play sports, cheer, dance, do band, or just come to games. All of a sudden, we might get very different classifications.

if hs football is about like-mindedness now, maybe we should have liberal and conservative leagues, too

"like-minded" schools...interesting word choice

As I seem to recall back in 2005-2006, the message board over on Flavarsity was buzzing with how many transfers Lakeland was getting and a lot of accusations were coming from the STA fans.

Ehh there have always been transfers. I just don't think they were as big of a deal back then as they are now. Obviously there are more now than before though. I think the youth travel teams and 7v7 are the biggest factors.

I think during that 4 year run for Suwannee, Columbia still won 2 or 3 of them, just to give you an idea of how lopsided the rivalry has been even when Suwannee was good. (I am sure you can check CHS's record)

This is exactly what a team needs to go deep in the playoffs. Good opposition. Pretty good looking schedule so far. Venice and Viera are gonna be tough this year.

that's a good assumption I kid I kid