DarterBlue2
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41 minutes ago, VeniceIndianFan said:
I fully expect Vero to win this game and maybe even by 14 or more. Said it on Scorestream too. TC is heading in the wrong direction.
Sadly, TC brought its basic singe wing and a hybrid spread and VB had no answer. After facing the basic single wing for several years, VB has not figured out how to stop it as they got hit with counters time after time. Now VB faces the possibility of DeLand in the first round. If you can't stop TC, then you will have a tall order stopping RD. That and VB having no offense at all in the second half did you in.
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26 minutes ago, SportsFan said:
In reality it just shows a lack of discipline and shows that if they can't win in the playoffs they just weren't good enough to win state anyway
That may be a little harsh. 4S has multiple teams that could win the state title.
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Unfortunately, stream froze. VB was up 10-9 at the time.
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This is unfortunate. I am not sure what else to say.
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I left the game with just over 6 minutes left and Lake Mary leading 28-14. I get home to find out that Seminole had come back to win 29-28. All I can say is: more power to them. I left early because the stadium was sold out and I had to watch the game standing behind a goal post. I wanted to avoid the traffic jam I envisioned as I had a long drive home.
For the duration I was there, I will maintain that in my opinion is Lake Mary is the better team. They did not dominate the game while they were leading, but looked more fluid on their drives. It was gutsy of Seminole to go for 2 on one of their final scores. But I am not surprised they did.
Being behind a goal post gave me a different angle of the game. For a sophomore Noah Grubbs really impressed me. I noticed that on his accurate passes, he managed to place the ball where only his receiver could make a clean catch. That left the DBs with the option of: 1. Committing a pass interference penalty; 2. Waiting till the catch was made and tackle immediately, thereby conceding the yards; or 3. Waiting till the catch was made and hitting the receiver immediately causing either a fumble, or an incomplete pass. That a sophomore already has this ability is very impressive.
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3 hours ago, Jambun82 said:
Oh, all right. Well, you could look at it this way: one of the great positives to staying involved with high school football and posting on this message board is that you get to interact with me! That is some great incentive for you right there!
I will give you this; you have one of the most exaggerated opinions of one's self that I have ever encountered. And I have been around the block a few times.
I will acknowledge, that you have clarified a few football rules for the benefit of the message board.
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12 hours ago, Jambun82 said:
Yes, but don't you have some Grandchildren going through school? You probably will stay interested in High School Football for many years to come.
My only grandchild lives on the other side of the planet. He's being brought up in a bilingual family setting.
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29 minutes ago, muckboy561 said:
Lake Mary
Armwood
Rockledge
Zephyrhills
Orlando University
Spruce Creek
Tarpon Springs
Godby(only because my son goes to Godby lol)
Zephyrhills Christian
First Baptist
Is he on the team?
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5 hours ago, Jambun82 said:
I always wondered what happened to OU112, and a few others from Southeast Florida/Dade County.
I believe some of them occasionally read but no longer post. Other posters move on when their kids graduate or when their team has multiple down years. I have been fortunate in that Apopka has remained consistently competitive over the years.
If the team started to really suck, it would test whether or not I am just a Fairweather fan. So far, I have not had to deal with that.
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After looking through the most recent ranking of the FHSAA, I can say it has gotten better by a fairly significant amount. However, there are still some serious discrepancies. I have listed a few examples:
Teams clearly ranked too low: Miami Central at 35, Jones at 99.
Teams clearly ranked too high: Williston at 9, Walton at 12, Bradford at 14, Eu Galle at 15, Orange City University at 16, Atlantic Delray at 18.
I could cite many more examples. Many of the underrated teams are in great positions to secure playoff spots. For them, I shed no tears as they will have ample opportunity in the playoffs to show their mettle.
Likewise, many of the overrated teams have also secured playoff spots deservingly, as they are slated to be district champs which are automatic births.
Where I have concerns are for the deserving teams that will likely be left out because of quirks and/or errors and for the undeserving teams that may benefit at their expense.
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14 minutes ago, Jambun82 said:
Yes, thank you. It seems like certain areas of the state are well-represented by message board posters on this and the Fla Varsity Football Central message board in the past. The Tampa-metro area seems to be one of those areas.
On this board, Tampa and to a lesser extent, the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area are well represented. Then there are a few posters from the extended Orlando area including Volusia and Broward, and then a smattering of posters from the rest of the entire state. On the old Florida Varsity board, most of the remaining posters are from SW Florida beginning in Tampa Bay and working itself down to the Ft. Myers area.
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24 minutes ago, Jambun82 said:
Is that North of Tampa? I am not very familiar with the West Coast of Florida.
It is just north of Tampa.
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7 minutes ago, SportsFan said:
Mainland has played close with a few teams this year and honestly I think St Augustine is a significantly overvalued team that won't make it out of regionals
You may be right about St. Augustine.
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5 minutes ago, SportsFan said:
Slight correction there I think as someone ages they learn how to be diplomatic but it's up to the individual if they choose to use the skill or not
I agree.
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32 minutes ago, SportsFan said:
Most of those teams have played far better teams than Buchholz too
I would also say Sanford Seminole and Coconut Creek both have impressed me more
We will see what Seminole has on Friday of this week. My guess is that their weaknesses are amplified, but I could be wrong.
Buchholz beat Bartram Trail much more convincingly that either St. Augustine or Mainland did. Now maybe BT has fallen off, or maybe Buchholz is the real deal. Time will tell.
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1 minute ago, cribboy305 said:
Its a slippery slope when it comes to comparing so i’ll still say you punished columbus worse than Lakeland. As those two losses are to two completely different caliber of teams. As you did say homestead stamped CAI so how can A lakeland team that just lost this game be better than columbus in any way? Thats my confusion but Once again I respect your opinion nolebully.
Freudian slip or intentional, that's hilarious!
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1 hour ago, SportsFan said:
In reality I hope not and what I said was more poking fun at it but I can't say with absolute certainty that there wasn't seemingly random "last week" shifts before the playoffs that defied logic
For example I saw examples last year during baseball seasons of the top team in the region losing during district play to a lower seed than the number 2 team beat during district tournament play and despite being neck and neck the team who lost actually finished with a HIGHER gap over the #2 team who won then they entered the week
Could it be a simple bad data point being entered that caused it or something off with the formula that seems to inconsistently reward a team for losing/winning at certain times? Probably
But when we don't know the formula we can't say for certain that it won't be rigged from time to time in "close races" when they prefer a certain team hosts instead of another
And that is why the current system is inappropriate. It is totally lacking in transparency.
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At least they did play and beat schools from a bunch of different locations including a team from Georgia. Not sure if that was good enough to crown them state champions unless I saw the schedules and results for a bunch of other top teams that year.
But clearly they were a very good team unless the competition above was a bunch of scrubs.
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Latest rankings updated to reflect last week's games below:
https://fhsaa.com/rankings.aspx?path=football
I have not looked at them carefully yet, so I reserve comments till later.
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20 minutes ago, SportsFan said:
Because nobody knows the formula so they want to make sure "certain flavored blue bloods" get their "extra boost"
I hope to God it's just ineptitude or lack of staff and that what you speculate above is not the case.
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30 minutes ago, nolebull813 said:
Dillard was an all black school prior to segregation. In 1967 they joined the FHSAA.
In Apopka, the all black school was Phyllis Wheatley. They played football from 1959-1968 when they integrated with Apopka High
Phyllis Wheatley is now an elementary school that is about equal numbers of blacks and Hispanics with about 10% whites.
The old, pre-desegregation, Apopka Memorial school is now one of two middle schools that feed into Apopka High, the other being Wolf Lake Middle.
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24 minutes ago, nolebull813 said:
Congrats on the Panthers win. Always good to beat the local teams.
Fun fact; This is Dillard’s 86 year of football. First year was 1937
Almost as long as Apopka.
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12 minutes ago, THIS_IS_DILLARD said:
B.a playing dirty big fight take place on the field with coaches and players from both sides , game called game over smh
Was the final score 34-7?
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That's the potential downside of having a large number of transfers especially when they are juniors and seniors. I think Miami Central is also suffering from a similar situation. I have always preferred to have my kids come in from the 9th grade as I think in that it's a lot easier to get them to buy in to the program and gel as a team. I don't know how many of VB's current starters are recent transfers in, but that could be a part of the reason.
Their last big chance was when your defender stripped the ball and set VB up inside the TC 30. To get no points off of that situation had me shaking my head.