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I'm guessing the 5 kids weren't quintuplets.

I would say Jacksonville hasn’t really had a public school do anything. First Coast was getting tons of transfers but never broke through now it’s Lee and they didn’t break through. Lakeland and Cocoa have multiple championships. Mandarin caught some heat last year. Let Mandarin become a dynasty and see what happens. as far as Miami goes they are their own world. They do what they want.

You are crazy if you don’t think community support and resources don’t factor in. So if a town is all crazy about football and every parent gets their kid to play it doesn’t help the school when they enter high school? It increases the number of players and starting earlier will give them an advantage. resources for equipment and training and diet make players reach their potential quicker. Florida has a lot of raw talent not developed talent

I'll try. Suppose you are a fan, possibly an alumni, of a school that is in the same county as Lakeland or Cocoa and you have to play them each year. You have kids come up through the youth football leagues in your town and expect them to go to the local high school. Cocoa or Lakeland come raiding your programs and recruiting your best players. Your team become non-competitive, fan support disappears, and soon you may have trouble even fielding a team. Several schools in our Central Florida no longer have full programs (Freshmen, JV, and varsity), others have depleted varsity rosters. Then, you have the added chance that teams with smaller rosters are risking injury to their kids because the kids have to play more, growing tired, adding to their injury chances, especially when they have to play the teams that have loaded up on recruits. Simply stated, the competitive balance has been destroyed.

One day, I don't travel for games much anymore (If I go at all these days LOL) and Charlotte is closer to me and we have played them a few times so its easier for me... Also Silver has the casa on peace river and always serves the best homemade Seafood dishes prior to hitting up the fishbowl. YOu will have to come with it to beat The Silver Hospitality House LOL.

I'll throw in a lunch if you want to come check out a game in Lake City Everyone that has came to see a game up here has left bragging about my hosting skills lol

Welcome to the club. I'd send you a membership card, but we ran out about 500 members ago.

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9 of the 17 Georgia "wins" above were by more than 14 points. That's arguably more than just home cookin' at play. Below are 14 games played in Florida versus out-of-state schools in the past decade(this is not an exhaustive list). Florida was 12-2 and won by a combined score of 341-191. A number of the OOS teams were nationally ranked. Any chance schools coming to Florida think there is some home cookin when they visit us'? Not that we should not have won some of these games, but 12-2 is awfully good going up against teams like these. St Thomas Aquinas 9 vs St John Bosco (CA) 3 St Thomas Aquinas 30 vs De La Salle(CA) 6 St Thomas Aquinas 42 vs Byrnes (SC) 34 St Thomas Aquinas 42 vs Camden County (GA) 28 American Heritage(PL) 21 vs Don Bosco (NJ) 0 American Heritage (PL) 31 vs Liberty (NV) 0 Dematha (MD) 23 vs American Heritage(PL) 22 Booker T 34 vs Bingham (UT) 28 Glades Central 6 vs Skyline (TX) 0 West Point (MS) 14 vs Mainland 0 Belle Glades Day 24 vs Twiggs County (GA) 12 Cocoa 14 vs Olive Branch (MS) 7 Pahokee 34 vs Wayne Hills (NJ) 23 Kissimee 32 vs Carson (CA) 13

Here is a situation that recently occurred. I won’t use team names. A team got 5 transfers from one school. They all used the same kids address. They were turned in to the fhsaa. The superintendent of the county allowed the kids to go to that school. That’s how it happens.

That's simple. Anyone interested in Florida HS football knows that South Florida schools have been cheating for decades. I know that every time I hear someone brag on South Florida high school football, my filter goes on and I just figure that's the South Florida school that happens to be the best cheater at the time.

That's true, and most of the time, the whistle blower is another coach. It doesn't go unnoticed though; the kids on the team know the coaches are cheating. What does that say for the integrity of the people coaching our kids?

The things that restricted transfers here in Central Florida was the student had to stay in the county in which they lived and they couldn't transfer to a school that was considered "full" unless it had a magnet program in which they were enrolled. Winter Park, for instance, is the only "A" rated HS in Orange County and is considered full, so transfers in to that school were very difficult and were closely monitored. Last year, a transfer in from Timber Creek had to sit out about four games before they ruled on his transfer. Parents still try using phony residences to get around the policy because if you live in that school district, you have to be admitted.

In Orlando yes. A kid had to move into the schools zone to be eligible. Now a kid has school choice but a school can't be at capacity. Guess what two schools aren't at capacity? Yup Edgewater and Jones.

Stop it Old School. Columbiafan thinks Florida football is the best. I'm sure facts won't change his mind. We have the best talent but we don't have the best teams. Coaching, community support, resources all play a key part. Florida is way behind in those areas.

The season Cocoa lost to Colerain they also lost to Dallas Skyline and West Monroe. They also lost to Hoover this season but the game was only competitive for a little over a quarter. Score was brought closer as the game was ending.

Don Bosco also won @ Fort Pierce Central 41-14 in 2014

the REAL reason behind their success...coaching swag

There are about 15 HS teams in Baltimore area; six are very good; all recruit, but not to same level as St Francis. Starting last season and continuing now, none of the high schools in Baltimore area will play football against St Francis because they are considered an all-star school similar to IMG. St Francis has to play a national schedule. This is what is happening in Florida with the free transfer policy of state legislature passed.

http://trackthetropics.com/ I like this one.

at least they didn't lose to Georgia St

Last year Mississippi had the highest representation per capita of any state on the ESPN 300 list, with 14 players. For some perspective, south FL (Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties) had 18 players on the list and the population in south FL is 6 million people... double the population of the entire state of Mississippi. From a per capita standpoint, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida are all quite close in terms of talent.

Mad respect for st johns they had a ice bath and everything on deck for the young man from dfb who was having a heat related illness.

Well I meant unnoticed by fhsaa but I get that But yeah that's what tends to happen, normally the coaches all know about it but some will eventually get tired of losing to a transfer loaded team and blow whistle on them It's just weird that if they know from start why wait until after the team beats you to blow the whistle