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    Sharkbait reacted to BrowardHandicapper in Down and Dirty   
    Sounds like a great camp.  Next year if possible please feel free to post a couple weeks in advance.  Are there any other upcoming camps dedicated to lineman coming up in FL?
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from BrowardHandicapper in Down and Dirty   
    Down and Dirty lineman camp started today in Lake Wales.  Great camp for the guys in the trenches.  If you are able to make it they have individual competition (board drills, one one pass blocking/run blocking etc) and awards on Thursday for the first camp and Sunday for the second camp. I don't know if there are any slots left for the weekend camp if you have a player interested give them a call. There is a lot of D1 talent there so it is a good measuring stick for your guys.  It will give you that football fix if you need one.
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from DisabledAccount in Down and Dirty   
    Down and Dirty lineman camp started today in Lake Wales.  Great camp for the guys in the trenches.  If you are able to make it they have individual competition (board drills, one one pass blocking/run blocking etc) and awards on Thursday for the first camp and Sunday for the second camp. I don't know if there are any slots left for the weekend camp if you have a player interested give them a call. There is a lot of D1 talent there so it is a good measuring stick for your guys.  It will give you that football fix if you need one.
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from DisabledAccount in Early season title game predictions   
    I imagine if you looked closely at all championship caliber schools from  rural areas that they are all using a very similar recipe for success.
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    Sharkbait reacted to DisabledAccount in Early season title game predictions   
    http://m.jacksonville.com/sports/high-schools/2015-11-26/story/offensive-shakeup-has-worked-well-qb-davin-schuck-columbia#article=6816593EC30A3CCF002DCEF5B63CB4E10F68
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from DisabledAccount in Early season title game predictions   
    You guys are obviously doing a lot of things right you just have to find what it is that's keeping you from getting over the hump. Most schools would trade places with you right now and be ecstatic to have the quality of program you have. Some schools are only satisfied when they hoist a trophy and only 8 out of 600 schools are going to do that. There is a formula but usually your talent will ebb and flow over the years.
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    Sharkbait reacted to Tigerfan1 in Early season title game predictions   
    It's going to take more than just a system that is similar to the varsity, If you dont already do this then yall need to get started and by that i mean get the middle school kids in the weight and conditioning room every day during their PE class and get them to make all the summer workouts with the varsity and JV players, You have to make it hard and they will be surprised at what they can accomplish. The guys that win championships never have a off season. I know a lot schools that go in the weight room year round but a few schools take it to another level. Trenton is one of them, They get challenged mentally and physically year round.     
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from DisabledAccount in Early season title game predictions   
    That is exactly what you will have to do to get to that next level. Columbia has a rich tradition and lots of talent but you are at a disadvantage to teams that can recruit.  Get everyone(Coaches, Players, Administration,and Community) to buy in to the fact that to contend you are going to have to work harder than any of your competitors and not settle for less than the top.  If you can cherry-pick your players it's less difficult to win but you guys will have to develop elite players and that starts with your youth league coaches being in sync with your high school coaches.  The good news is y'all  a very close.
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    Sharkbait reacted to DisabledAccount in Early season title game predictions   
    We have been getting state of art facilities as of late and our coaches work 6-7 days a week to put us in best position to win so you summed it up perfectly
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from DisabledAccount in Early season title game predictions   
    Columbia is in the unenviable position of being a rural 7A school. It does make it tough to compete for titles with the schools that can recruit.  On the plus side with a school with that kind of community support you can raise the money needed to hire quality coaches and keep state of the art training facilities. You will always be successful and be in the hunt for titles when the cards fall right and that's more than 90% of schools could hope for. 
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    Sharkbait reacted to 09mrslick in 2016 Football Schedules   
    Just thought I'd name a few
     
    Miami Jackson Generals
    8-26 Columbus
    9-2 Bolles
    9-10 Booker T. Washington
    9-16 Cardinal Gibbons
    9-30 Hallandale
    10-8 Central
    10-14 Stranahan
    10-21 American Heritage (Plantation)
    10-28 Coconut Creek
    11-4 Northwestern (Soul Bowl)
     
    Booker T. Washington Tornadoes
    8-19 American Heritage (Plantation)
    8-26 St. Thomas Aquinas
    9-2 Pace
    9-10 Jackson
    9-26 Southridge
    9-24 Central
    9-30 Keys Gate Charter
    10-7 Northwestern
    10-13 Gulliver Prep
    10-20 Columbus
    10-27 Edison
     
    Miami Killian Couguars
    8-19 Winter Haven
    8-26 Sandalwood
    8-2 Central
    9-9 Coral Reef
    9-16 Coral Gables
    9-23 Felix Varela
    10-7 Southridge
    10-14 South Dade
    10-21 Homestead
    10-28 Palmetto
    11-4 Norland
     
    Columbus Explorers
    8-25 Jackson
    9-1 Northwestern
    9-9 Southridge
    9-16 Miami
    9-24 Belen Jesuit
    9-29 Miami Coral Park
    10-6 North Miami
    10-14 Miami Beach
    10-20 Coral Gables
    10-27 Booker T. Washington
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    Sharkbait reacted to Captain Morgan in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    Your last paragraph gatorman is exactly my point. Something should have been done prior to the multitude of schools going independent.
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from Captain Morgan in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    After watching the video I think that they are about to screw up high school football for a while. I felt like he was trying to talk everyone into a pyramid scheme or a time share condo.  It baffles me that Nebraska is going to be the standard of high school football that we need to pattern ourselves after. Oh and 70% of the schools don't like the system as it is,  I would imagine thats the 70% that didn't make the playoffs.
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    Sharkbait reacted to gatorman-uf in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    You won't see that in 1A-4A. Regions still exist. It will be a bigger issue in 5A-8A for travel during playoffs, but 1A-4A should look very similar to what it always does so no worries there.
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    Sharkbait reacted to Tigerfan1 in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    I just cant understand how this is going to make anything better, I also cant understand that of all places to model a playoff after is Nebraska? Come on now really Nebraska. How about California or Texas, We all know the best football is in Florida, Texas and California.
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    Sharkbait reacted to Captain Morgan in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    So the FHSAA sent out stuff and coaches voted what they wanted. Here is what I don't understand, have 70-80 independent schools and they sent them these votes also to try to convince them to join back in. They are NOT a part of what we are doing so why would they have a say. They chose to do their own thing so why do they have the same influence as a St Joe or Dixie Co that hasn't walked away from the FHSAA???? Just makes no sense to me.
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from gator boy in Dinner with Coaches   
    Okay here goes. Since sflacoach is picking up the check we will be dining at Berns Steakhouse.
     
    John Palmer -(Port St Joe)  my son plays for him
    Sean Callahan-(Armwood)  my alma mater
    Kerwin Bell-(Valdosta State) favorite player 
    Steve Spurrier- made the Gators relavent
    Bobby Bowden- someone has to say dadgummit 
    Lou Holtz- The most entertaining speaker you can find
    Tony Dungee- great man and we will let him bless the food
    Don Shula- legend
    Rex Ryan- when dinner is over gotta have somebody to run the streets with
    Wil Muschamp- Somebody has to park the cars and wash dishes
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from Tigerfan1 in Dinner with Coaches   
    Who is paying for this dinner?  If I have to pay I'm inviting light eaters.
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from BrowardHandicapper in Dinner with Coaches   
    Okay here goes. Since sflacoach is picking up the check we will be dining at Berns Steakhouse.
     
    John Palmer -(Port St Joe)  my son plays for him
    Sean Callahan-(Armwood)  my alma mater
    Kerwin Bell-(Valdosta State) favorite player 
    Steve Spurrier- made the Gators relavent
    Bobby Bowden- someone has to say dadgummit 
    Lou Holtz- The most entertaining speaker you can find
    Tony Dungee- great man and we will let him bless the food
    Don Shula- legend
    Rex Ryan- when dinner is over gotta have somebody to run the streets with
    Wil Muschamp- Somebody has to park the cars and wash dishes
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    Sharkbait reacted to DarterBlue2 in 8A?   
    I would never want STA to be in the same class as Apopka. They have a manifestly unfair advantage. I feel less strongly about Central. For while they are dominant now, as a public school the tide will shift to another school in due course.
     
    But no such restraint on future dominance exists where Aquinas is concerned. They have the philosophy and the financial resources to dominate year after year, in any class they compete in. At the very best, an Apopka, with its talent base, would be able to compete against them maybe once every twenty seasons. 
     
    The elite privates, STA, IMG, etc. should have their own league much as the do in New Jersey, Ohio and certain other states. Or like IMG currently does, they should play a national schedule and not play in the regular playoff system for the rest of us. Either that, or totally open up recruiting which is the direction we seem to be going in anyway. But if that is the route we take, it won't help the public schools from smaller cities and rural areas as much as in most years they would not be able to assemble the talent to compete against an STA type program anyway. 
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    Sharkbait reacted to gatorman-uf in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    Come on Joshua, the easiest step?
     
    So on one side we have a complete overall of districts champions/runner-ups, two separate rule systems for small schools and large schools, a seeding system based on power points, which are based on things a team has no control over
     
    OR  
     
    we can reduce classifications, which would expand two-team districts, prevent examples like NFC and FAMU.
     
    Sorry, not buying that it is easier....
     
    Again, I get the reasons... I just think it doesn't do anything that it is trying to do. Nobody has ever explained to me how the current system prevents Powerhouse vs Powerhouse from playing which is what the new system is supposed to create.
     
    I am for change, but this doesn't create the very thing you are trying to change. All it really does is allow teams to avoid playing Trinity Bolles STA Manatee
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    Sharkbait reacted to Tigerfan1 in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    If or should i say when this new system passes and takes affect does this mean that the southern teams like Ft Meade or Pahokee will have to travel to the panhandle to play a first round game? Providing that say Ft Meade is ranked #16 and Northview ranked #1 ?  Just a question.
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    Sharkbait got a reaction from Tigerfan1 in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    The problem I see is that you don't know how good someone will be 2 years from when you schedule them.  Should a school be punished for an opponent falling on hard times.   District play has worked for years. Power shifts from region to region over the years and that's okay.  What we don't need is a BCS type system for high school.  We are all biased to teams in our particular areas and there's no reason to believe that whoever determining the strength of schedule and power rankings won't have a bias.  If you want to introduce a wild card or something like that then we could take a look.
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    Sharkbait reacted to gatorman-uf in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    Look, I have been outspoken in that I don't think the district winner/runner-up format is broken. I actually think it works and encourages teams to schedule difficult teams because there is no reason not to. If you are an above average team why not schedule the local powerhouse in an out of district game, it doesn't hurt your chances of making the playoffs. Now, scheduling and losing them to them could actually hurt my seeding or playoff chances. 
     
    Well, the FHSAA voted for the changes... I get it. I do.
     
    Maybe it is the fact that I don't see the problem nor how this solves the problem.
    I see an exciting playoff system each year, even if you consider that a 5-5 Booker T Washington made the playoffs and won a state championship, which I guess is a bad thing according to the powers that be because they prevented a team with a winning record from getting in.
     
    I see a game like Dwyer and STA happen in the 2nd round in 7A (which was essentially the state championship game) and think if we have regional seeding in happens in round 3? To me that is not going to "save" the playoffs.
     
    I think this is going to make it so that it matters less what happens on a field that you control vs a field that is 100 miles away. All of a sudden you have to hope that the teams you play are good. As a fan, you will have no clue how your team is doing because it won't matter until week 11.
     
    I would point out again the old system vs new system had 7 of the same 8 playoffs teams (Region 1, Class 7A) in the simulation they ran. So it is not like the old system wasn't choosing good teams.
     
    I will continue to say the reason that we have blowouts in the regular season is that the FHSAA tries to create a level playing field by only looking at school size. They forget that certain schools put more/less emphasis on certain sports and this creates the imbalance. Do I want to be a small school and play Trinity Christian, Bolles, University Christian, American Heritage-Delray? Nope, so I get why an average small school wants this change.
     
    The reality is that this will be our system for the next 11 years at a minimum. We will still have the same "good" teams winning state championships. The same teams that can't compete, still won't be able to compete. 
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    Sharkbait reacted to gatorman-uf in Playoff Changes (Sigh)   
    I also dislike one of the stats that they gave that 16 losing teams made the playoffs and 35 winning teams missed the playoffs.
     
    First, even if we assumed that all losing teams missed the playoffs and they all went to the winning team that would still leave 19 "winning" teams out of the playoffs. Additionally, nothing says that the losing teams and winning teams are even in the same region.
     
    A quick look at 1A shows Northview had a losing record and made the playoffs, but there were 2 teams in Region 1 that had winning records, so one winning record team is still sitting home. In Region 2 and 4 there were a combined 3 additional "winning" teams and no losing teams. The system still sends winning teams home.
     
    Again, losing teams make the playoffs because of small districts. Small districts happen because the FHSAA expanded classifications and has a couple of classifications that are too small. Shrink # of classifications, increase minimum # of teams in a classification and losing playoff team cease.
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