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  1. On 10/7/2020 at 8:52 PM, WhoopWhoop!! said:

    Yeah, that drive for Gulf Breeze is a haul to Daytona, and currently, Santa Rosa County has a policy of no overnight trips due to COVID. Curious if county allows them to leave on Thursday or have to drive that 7 plus hour trip on Friday. 
    In recent years, I would agree on Navarre over Niceville, but this year I don’t think Navarre has the cats to stay with Niceville. I’ll go ahead and say Niceville wins that by 2 to 3 scores. 

    Well we get to see about the Niceville v. Navarre question this Friday. Wish I could be there should be a good one.

  2. Check out that travel for Gulf Breeze (6a, 2).  I don't think niceville is a getting to the regional final. There will have two teams that have been tough on them to get there. Navarre is pretty good this year. Crestview not so much but they are a cross town rival.

  3. 7 minutes ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

    Is that why several years back a few of those so called panhandle powerhouses requested to move down to 6a when they were gonna be assigned to a Tallahassee district which left that Tallahassee district as a 3 team district??

    At the risk of ruffling feathers I will answer this the teams in tally don't support their teams. They are 200 miles away and want to play games on Thursday night?????  Go to a game at niceville, Crestview, Navarre, Tate and then go to a game in Tally and try to figure out what people who make the money work out we're trying to protect.  Yes the administrations would have rather kept  the goose laying the golden egg.

  4. 1 hour ago, 181pl said:

    Listen, the world doesn't revolve around N. Florida. 90 percent of the teams in the state are within a reasonable distance of say six other similarly sized high schools to make real districts. Adjust. Maybe the FHSAA can kick in some travel stipends if a team has to go over 75 miles. There are ways to get the system correct.

    I think the 75 miles is funny. You know their are currently teams that have 2 district games a year over 200 miles.

  5. 32 minutes ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

    Our travel ain't that bad

     

    It's those panhandle teams who whine about travel 

    No we don't all whine about travel out here in the panhandle. We do complain about teams that bring no gate at all. No one out in the panhandle complained about knowing every other year KNOWING the regional final was an overnight trip. I guess I do complain about rpi being used for anything. Any system where a school with 2500+ kids gets more credit for playing a public school with 400 kids than school with 2500 kids is just garbage. I know most of the coaches in the panhandle would like no wildcards win your district to get in. If you have WCs have 7 or 8 team districts and you have to win or be runner-up in your district. You know actually decide it on the field.

    I would bet the way teams are classified is a much more important to coaches in the panhandle thàn playoff travel. Hell we have always had to travel.  Over the past decade I have watched schools that supported he football lose interest leading to no gate. Schools have become feeder programs. Players and player agents have been allowed to not be loyal, not to be part of the community and not learn the lessons football used to teach. The current structure is about the individual if the individual was blessed by God. Football is better when it is about team and community, but what do I know?

  6. On 2/5/2020 at 5:36 PM, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

    You have no clue what effort I put in to the Columbia program so who are you to tell me I don't lose any?

     

    Nobody here  on this message board realizes the level of effort and sacrifice I put into what I do so don't put words into stuff you don't know or understand anything about 

    Ok genius the "you" I was talking about was CHS. Not you personally. CHS has not won a playoff game in more than 15 years that meet the criteria that you said was the strength of your program. In 15 years CHS had one game that did meet the criteria and got their ass sent home. 

     

    But this is part for the course with you. I coached in Florida for a good long time. I don't get you at all. CHS is very much at a disadvantage with the current situation in Florida football. You constantly act like anyone who points out that the current system is completely broke is whining. It is not whining to point out that the Fhsaa is so inept that it rises to the level of corruption. 

    I love the game and I always try to do what is right for the game. THE GAME IS DYING.  Nobody wants to honestly address the problems. You have a little pulpit to speak from that Josh has provided you and you waste it. 

  7.  You don't play those games so yes you don't lose any. The only playoff game that fits in the past 15 years CHS lost. So while you think somehow making this move is fine it is just another stupid proposal made by dummies that are ruining HS Football in Florida.

    It will not fix the best two teams meeting in the semi problem because rpi did not project the best teams accurately statewide and it will not in the future either. It is very flawed.

    The crowds get smaller every year. Football is dying because nobody will fix what needs to be fixed.

  8. 46 minutes ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

    And I'm saying selective memory on the idea of seeding the semifinals for travel and moving away from 1 vs 2 and 3 vs 4

     

    Because I see many who say the system was at it's best in 70s and 80s but that idea of statewide travel was used those years and even had to use neutral site games for state championships so you didn't have a team making a 10+ hour trip from Miami to Pensacola or vise versa 

     

    Again you are wrong about what used to happen. For example in 80 Tate played Columbus in final at a "neutral site", that being Escambia high. Which may be ten miles closer to Dade than Tate is. 

  9. You are simply wrong. Teams from large counties did not have 20 + players from other schools boundaries back in the day. Sure teams tried to get players but it was much harder. No one wants to say it but the free for all came From the forcing Lakeland to forfeit seasons when they decided they were going to play by STA's rules. Again the idiots did not address the real problem then either.

  10. 5 minutes ago, gatorman-uf said:

    Using Google Map Directions:

    2019: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2018: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2017: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2016: Defeated Escambia (40-20)
    2015: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2014: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2013: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2012: Lost to Navarre (28-21)
    2011: Defeated South Lafourche (LA) at Nichols State University (30-19) (not exactly a home game for South Lafourche)
    2010: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2009: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2008: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2007: No away games over 2.5 hours away
    2006: Defeated Niceville (18-14)
    2005: Defeated Choctaw (28-21)
    2004: Defeated Orlando Jones (35-7)

    To be fair, it is not like Columbia has played a ton of games that are over 2.5 hours away and they have done well. Of course ColumbiaHighFan is going to point to Apopka and IMG to bolster his argument, but those are pre-season games that do not count in the records. 

    Yes he chose 2013 to avoid the only example in over a decade matching the criteria, lol.

  11. First it is not  a selective memory, I understand why the panhandle used to fair better and why they struggle today. That changed with open enrollment, imo. Currently Dade county has a population larger than the entire panhandle. The entire county is easily accessible by public transportation. The are no barriers to transfer to any school you like. Who would guess the Dade all-star teams end up with great players. I don't have a perfect answer but I do understand the real problem. Acting like the real problem is not what needs to be addressed is not going to fix the problem, imo. 

  12. On 1/30/2020 at 4:09 PM, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

     

     

    I am never concerned with travel on Columbia end as normally we do better on long travels anyway

    Can you let us  know what you base this on? Not the history I see?

     

     

    BTW this is another stupid idea by the fhsaa, to fix a problem that is not the real problem. HS Football in Florida is dying and the idiots driving the bus just keep driving toward the cliff. 

  13. On 11/30/2019 at 11:28 AM, Cat_Scratch said:

      It is too bad a lot of Central Florida and North Florida teams do not schedule South Florida teams. I think many South Florida teams would travel to play decent Central and North Florida teams, Cocoa and Rockledge.

    It's the economics of it. If you do a home and away you know you will have a terrible gate for that game, plus the huge expense on the away side. What for???? If your from the panhandle it makes more sense to play a team from AL or MS economics wise. With the panhandle districts like they are now (larger) there are also not a lot of weeks open for these types of games. Also the increase in expenses with the 4 hour travel to a couple of district games a season and the terrible gate when they are heading this way have tightened everyone's budget. It is not always not wanting to play these type of games it is there not being enough to gain to justify paying for it.

  14. That crew was not for Escambia they are awful every week. The one call that was big to me is when they called your lb for a personal foul when all he did is stumble over the Escambia player after making a great tackle. It was right after GHS had brought it back to a one possession game, it was on third down, and if GHS gets the ball then they had a shot. The white hat called it from 40 yards away and it was a bad call, imo. A few plays later Escambia scored and the game was basically over.

    I know it is hard for you to believe but Escambia is capable of play MUCH better offensively. With your online it was a bad matchup for you. Escambia can be beat with misdirection if your big enough to play them upfront which you are not. I will give you guys credit with the physical mismatch upfront I thought you pass block really well.

  15. 1 hour ago, gatorman-uf said:

    Let's be honest on what blame goes on the coaches:

    A Delay of Game Penalty on the switch from defense to offense on the first play of OT is on the coaches. 
    Players consistently having to be repositioned before a play is on the coaches (either a player was unprepared, too many new formations this late in the year, or a lack of getting the play in).
    Not gaining a single yard in 3 OTs vs Lee is on the coaches. 

    Let's be honest as well.
    Now, Columbia isn't going to clean house. Coach Allen is well-liked in that community. There would be a backlash from the entire community if he was fired. (If he left for a job at a higher level, I don't think people would be upset). I think this team is exactly what they show us year in and year out. A good, consistent team with a star or two, but nothing that is world beater. (The last year with Tunsil was probably the last truly state caliber team). This year's team lacked size across the line and looked small in comparison to several teams in comparison. I would be willing to bet that this same schedule next year and Columbia is 4-6. 

    At the same time,  I would bet that if Lee and Columbia play 8 more times the results would be very similar. Close hard fought games that either team could win.

    I think chs had the talent to be a team with a chance. But I saw film early in the year and knew they would fall short again. Btw it is the coaching. Watching backside guys and receivers taking plays off is always a sign that high level big schools will not allow a team to go on 3 game winning streaks much less 5,games.

  16. 54 minutes ago, Vaquero said:

    I hope Escambia falls but everyone of their next opponents (if they keep winning) has to travel to them an average of just over 6 hours. 

    Mileage and travel time approx depending on route & traffic:

    Mainland (this week) 431 miles 6.25 hrs

    Columbia 308 miles 4.5 hours

    Mainland 450 miles 6.5 hours 

    Lee 358 miles 5.25 hours 

    Tampa Bay area teams (Gaither, Largo, Clearwater) 500 miles 7.25 hours (day after thanksgiving so maybe tack on another hour). 

    On the bright side, the traveling teams pass through a timezone and gain an hour LOL 

    Any team traveling over to Escambia the day of the game is going to lose, imo.

  17. Dillard, Escambia is not going to be an easy road for anyone. They are the product of Bennett gathering up players over the past couple of years. They are very fast, very big and play with a nasty edge. 

    As to the hand wringing about the travel panhandle teams have dealt with this for decades. I will tell you like we have been told for years just deal with it.

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