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1993 South Regional Final Glades Central vs Lake Wales. Down 35-14 at halftime, Lake Wales comes back to win 40-35.

Good win!

My first chance to post since the storm. They are telling us 10 days without power. Hardee, Desoto, Highlands, Charlotte, Lee and Collier were hit hard but not as bad as hurricane Charley in 2004. No gas anywhere. A lot of down trees and power lines, some flooding and the rivers are past flood stage. Don't know if we have football this week or not. School cancelled until further notice.

Are you from Tampa?

Typically both programs have winning seasons and make the playoffs. No major media outlets cover this part of the state

Wasn't there but my son texted me through out the game and from what I can tell this game was pretty back and forth.

Just announced due to the hurricane. I figure if this one was moved others will soon be following.

Final score Sebring 50 Hardee 29. After basically spotting Sebring 28 points. A lot of disappointed fans tonight knowing that this wasn't our best effort.

So, I haven't seen my Hardee Wildcats play in person yet. I listen to the kickoff classic and first game broadcast and finally get my chance to see a game tonight. I've heard so much about our qb and some of others that I had high expectations. I go to the game tonight, which was away against Sebring, wait through the weather delay and take my seat in the rain only to learn that several of the best players on the team would not be starting, apparently for being late to practice. I watch as the backups are getting killed. Finally I ( and a lot of others) leave as the weather got worse and Sebring up 28-0. After I leave the starters get put in and now Hardee is making a comeback. 28-14 in the 3rd.

Play the game at Hardee, one hour drive for both parties.

No word yet if there will be a make up or not. Bad lightning in the area.

Good job!

It had rained prior to the game, which didn't start until 8 due to lightning. Good thing the game was in Port Charlotte and not Hardee because that storm moved northward and a tornado touched down in Wauchula. The fumbles were due to lights out play by the Hardee defense forcing bad snaps and keeping pressure on the Port Charlotte QB. An impressive job by a group of underclassmen for Hardee; 3 sophs and a freshman on the defense against mostly seniors for Port Charlotte.

https://suncoastsportsnow.com/2017/08/18/football-port-charlotte-falls-to-hardee-in-preseason-game/amp/

Great job by a young defense to hold an experienced offense to only 6!

Plant 46 Venice 42

Hardee 16 Port Charlotte 6

Happy birthday! And just as I told Mighty_Dillard, stay single!

1 AHP 2 Cardinal Gibbons 3 Ponte Vedra 4 Bishop Moore 5 Tampa Jesuit 6 Trinity Christian 7 West Florida 8 Palm Bay 9 Rickards 10 Immokalee

The point is, it goes both ways, not really a public vs private issue. Back in 2013 I got into a conversation with Mr. Highschool Steve Berry about AHP. He wrote an article about AHP, having over 20+ Division 1 prospects. They also had a roster size nearly double that of any of the other 5a school. The top 5 public schools in class 5a all had roster sizes of about 40-50 players with 4-6 division 1 prospects. Go figure that.

There never was a problem with the occasional kid that moved into a school's zone so now he's transferring in. That wasn't the issue. What's now the problem is that we are seeing schools getting an excessive number of transfers in from neighboring schools for one reason, to play football. Remember 2006 - Lakeland got transfers in from all the neighboring schools in Polk county and there was a huge fuss, not only from the other Polk schools but particularly from the STA fans. Same in 2011 when Armwood got busted. Now this stuff is basically becoming sanctioned as the way to win a championship. In 2013 I talked to a fan at Southeast who told me that all best athletes in Manatee county were using the county's school choice program to go over to Manatee HS. Since then, Braden River has taken over that spot. Also in 2011 Palmetto made a state title run, that had a number of transfers in from neighboring Southeast high because the head coach at Palmetto was a former assistant at Southeast. Last year the Cocoa fan on this board comes on here and brags about the transfers their getting from neighboring Brevard county schools. Seems they couldn't win 4a otherwise. Please note that these are all public schools, so I'm not saying its only private schools that "assemble" all the talent.

To me, matters not if its private or public, but when a program can somehow assemble twice the talent and roster size of other schools in their respective class, it defeats the purpose of why we have classification to begin with. I think there should be a limit on the number of transfers a school can accept based off class size, or be forced to move up. Example: When a school with about 1000 students gets to play in class 4A but manages to have an extra 10-15 athletes transfer in to play football; IMO they aren't a true 4A school anymore.

I've never had a problem with school choice for academic reasons, but sports is totally different. In my opinion, it compromises the whole reason we have classification in the first place. When a 4a or 5a school can "attract" twice the number of players of any other school in their class, they should be moved up, but the rules don't do that. The original intent was to allow kids that are either home schooled or attend a small private or charter school that doesn't offer a certain sport a chance to play at a school which does.

25? That means I finished high school the year you were born. Have fun! Stay single!

So how does this work? I thought FHSAA by-laws state that a school can only have one varsity team? Do these games count if other Florida schools play the "B" squad?