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Steve Hutchinson (Coral Springs)

I could see Vero losing the following: Clearwater, Venice, Chaminade, Treasure Coast, and potentially losing to Centennial and Lake Minneola. All the teams mentioned were playoff teams last season (as was Viera) except Clearwater for obvious reasons.

As a Vero fan, I can say this, don’t expect much from them this season, it looks to be a down year. I hope I’m surprised, but offensively they will struggle mightily unless they get some transfers in over the summer. Defensively they return some key players, but in their district you have to be able to score often if you hope to win. I can see Vero losing 4+ games this season and potentially not making the playoffs.

Per MaxPreps: 8/14 KOC -TBD 8/21 Clearwater Academy International 8/28 Ft Lauderdale 9/4 @Venice 9/11 Lake Minneola 9/18 @Hardee 9/25 @Centennial 10/2 BYE 10/9 Treasure Coast 10/16 Chaminade Madonna 10/23 Fort Pierce Central 10/30 @Viera

Stop trolling, quarantine must be getting to you. Darter is right, if Vero played a schedule like that they’d be sub .500, and I say that as a longtime Vero fan, teams in this area don’t have the talent pool to hang with large class powers like that. To be honest, I’d pump the brakes on any Vero talk this upcoming season (if there is one.) They defense looks solid, but they will struggle offensively if they don’t pickup any transfers this summer (and your talk of Jay Allen from JC doesn’t appear to be happening.) From all indications, this year will be a down year in Vero and I’d be surprised if they even won the district, they certainly will finally lose a regular season game and end that streak (which I think is good, most around the state don’t respect it, due to Vero’s playoff woes.)

Unless Vero gets some transfers over summer I think they’ll have a down year, might not win the district.

Home vs Palm Bay Bayside -May 21 6pm

I agree, while scheduling quality teams is a good thing, scheduling a murders row just for the sake of doing it can also have adverse effects on a team also such as injuries, diminished morale and exhaustion both physically and mentally. I tend to think playoff success has more to do with coaching, preparation and execution.

Coach, I wanted to say how impressive the Bucks were last night. Vero has been exiting the 2nd or 3rd round for years, but I’ve always felt they were in the game and if a play or two had gone their way, it could have been different. Last night this was not the case, you guys were simply on another level and Vero struggled just to avoid a running clock. Best of next week against Columbus and moving forward.

What’s the reason for the early start?

Vero was completely overwhelmed, outclassed and out coached in this game. They had no answers on either side of the ball. DB was bigger, stronger, faster and controlled every facet of the game. Congratulations to the Bucks.

These officials are from the Orlando area tonight

The sad thing is he was tossed at the beginning of the 2nd half, it could have had a huge impact on the game, after all- these two teams played to a one point win in OT a month ago. Zero checks/balances on what a referee “thought” he saw- a punch that never occurred. It’s a good thing Vero and their fans film a lot I guess, lol.

Appeal is approved, Jermaine Dawson is eligible to play on Friday (according to Jon Santucci of TCPalm.)

I’d be very surprised if their appeal was approved, most video would be from the home side of the field and since this incident occurred on the visiting side it will be hard to see exactly what happened, the FHSAA will most likely defer to the officials call on the field. Dawson will most likely get a 6 game suspension and be out next week against Deerfield Beach.

The VB/TC rematch should be fantastic, the regular season game was won by VB by a point in OT, had TC converted any of their 5 two point conversions they would have won. This one will be played at Vero. In all reality this is a 1 vs 2 matchup in 8A south in terms of RPI. Vero had 8A South’s best RPI, TC was 2nd, (2nd and 4th in 8A, ) but because they’re in the same district, TC was relegated to a 5 seed.

There was some talk about a 4-6 Braden River should not have been in the playoffs over a 6-4 Sebastian River team, despite the loss, I think the RPI system got it right this time. Having seen Sebastian in person, I think they would have gotten blasted by Palmetto, at least Braden River made it a competitive game.

The Davis brothers from Southridge?

That was Boca before alot of their playmakers transferred out (Deerfield Beach, AHD, Champagnat, etc...)

Lets let the teams get past Boca Raton and Santaluces first, but it’s tough to beat a team twice in one year, Vero was lucky to do it the first time. Vero appears to be more balanced offensively than when they played the first time, however. Hopefully Vero’s run game will be at full strength the whole game this time around (McMillan was gimpy the whole game, and Meizinger didn’t play most of the 2nd half.) Treasure Coast won’t be affected by the change in venue, all those kids and coaches have played in the citrus bowl many times. TC will be fired up for this game for sure. I know the regular season loss left a sour taste in their mouths as they felt they were denied a timeout on Vero’s tying touchdown during regulation when TC’s Coach Jones was 15 yards into the field of play screaming for one and the refs say they never saw or heard him.

Sebastian River coach Tony Perry told TCPalm he was not interested in playing a bowl game this year (they beat John Carroll in a bowl game last season.)

Lots of impressive districts, you can see why a change was needed to allow strong districts to be represented to get the best teams in and weed out weaker runner ups, any instances where every team in the same district are going (or went) to the playoffs?

As a Vero fan, this should be the 2nd year straight that 3 of the 4 teams in 8A-9 should make the playoffs (Vero, Treasure Coast, Centennial.) It got me wondering, since the adoption of the points based systems they are using, is there or has there been a district in which all member teams went to the playoffs?

Possible 2nd round rematch with Treasure Coast may await...

The FPC he is talking about is Fort Pierce Central