DarterBlue2

Happy New year to all. Perhaps the old saying it's darkest just before the dawn will come true and we will have an happy ending and bright future.

According to someone who knows more about the system than I do, the school they would attend would depend on how they were classified. If the RV site address was used, they would normally attend the school/(s) within the RV camp boundary. However, if classified as homeless, under OCPS rules they could attend the school of their choice within Orange County. Note that Orange County rules may vary from the rules of other school boards within the state of Florida.

I don't know the answer but would suspect that the same rules would apply as to the homeless. But in Florida today, does it really matter? They would probably get assigned to a school that was not at capacity.

Hope you are right. Somehow, I feel they may just be the creatures referred to in a children's nursery rhyme:" ... see how they run." I hope I am just being cynical and that you will end up being right.

Before there were rampant transfers, that's not totally true. Yes, the MNW, CC and SR had their fair share of titles. But with the talent spread among more schools the Jacksons, NMBs, MS, CG, etc., etc. used to have decent teams (in the case of Jackson very good teams) too. What we have in large metro areas now, and I won't limit it to south Florida, as it includes Tampa Bay, Greater Orlando, Jacksonville area, etc., are stacked teams where 5 to 6 schools have 90+% of the elite talent and many of the others have a hard time winning a few games each season. It goes without saying that this is not a model for the health of the sport at the high school level. It needs to be addressed one way or another or there will likely be mass exodus from the FHSAA tournament in the not too distant future. I won't hold my breath.

Is Polk the other? I remember small schools like Fort Meade and Bartow, as well as Haines City used to be very good in the 1980s and 90s.

Dade and Broward.

CG no longer handing out the scholarships they used to. Kids left likely because of that.

You lost to a very physical team. When Osceola is held to only one big running play in the whole game, you know you are facing a very good defensive front.

Sorry things didn't work out for the Kowboys.

I feel exactly the same.

I am glad you didn't make the trip too. The game was not worth it.

That was it right there. Very difficult to run against Osceola, difficult but not very difficult to pick up big chunks of yards passing against them. The difference in the game was that the Kowboys have almost no passing game while WB, though they prefer to run the ball is capable of throwing the deep ball effectively. That and the fact that WB's front 7 are really, really hard to run on.

I got out of the gate slowly but picked up the pace in the playoffs. I had a hard time with many of the obscure games @nolebull813selected for us early. But for me, it was a lot easier to sort out the teams that had a shot at a deep run.

Short answer, no. They looked very bad. They are not the team I saw live early in the season. Not sure what happened. Manatee gave STA a much better game last week.