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Sorry I misspelled Polk.  I respect Lakelands success and even saw you beat St Thomas in
last championship. However, I think you rep was a joke and submitted some crazy proposals just because you guys got caught cheating.  What has been passed by state legislature has ruined high school sports where either you’re forced to cheat and recruit or get drilled.  Then they pass this dumb suburban plan and they conveniently do closed door changes to actual plan and sneak super large counties into suburbs to benefit certain counties and POLK was one of them.  I said when they passed this that it be for the elite suburb schools who already made semi finals at the expense of 100’s of schools. What do you know. The teams in state are the same ones who were great before but could not win state. So great news for about 16 schools and screw tons of others. 

Fun fact about PLOK county. Their state representative is what started this open enrollment crap that ruined hs sports with easy transfers. Another fun fact, they somehow got their county and lee put in the suburban when their population is bigger than other metro counties and pulled the old switcheroo between the first proposal and the one that actually passed to dodge st Thomas Aquinas and other metro teams. Screw them and I hope Venice beats them by thirty. 

One last fact. Lakeland was the biggest recruiters and cheaters and were busted which led to crazy state rep messing with the fhsaa and high schools. Just telling the truth here. Go Venice 

Congrats to Apopka. Really nice. Win and you are district champs and get home games throughout regional final probably. You might have a tougher time beating Seminole next time though when their starting qb is in. Still great win though. 

I was showing how horrible maxpreps rankings are when they count margin of victory. If you end up with a 4-5 team at number 9 in 4m and another 5-4 team who did not not beat anybody in top 16. Then something is wrong with your  ranking formula. The one team lost 37-7 a week ago and rose three spots in the state. SOS is weighted wayyyyy too heavy in maxpreps.  Go back to rpi which makes sense a lot more than this dumb ranking .

So I want to get this straight.  Your telling me that a 4-5 team Palmetto is the 9th best team this year.  It seems maxoreps does not count losses if you lose to a solid team at all. They have a 5-4 team lake Brantley rated super high too. What a joke. End this crazy rankings next year and go back to rpi.  The rankings don’t really match up that much anyway when the fhsaa ones come out.  Whole things is maddening because playoffs will be determined by this. 

There will be issues with any system. I just have a problem with the lack of transparency of maxpreps ratings. I see a team with four losses ranked super high and they got beat bad in three of them. The latest. A 27plus beat down and they rose four spots in regular maxpreps rankings of the state. The regular rankings must focus too much on Strength of schedule for that non sense to happen 

I have seen examples where teams get run off field and rise a few spots in the maxpreps rankings and other times where the drop like a rock. Using maxpreps without knowing their formula is a bad idea. The system was better when it was a third record and the. Opponents record and a third and opponents opponents record for a third but that is too easy. No money to be made off that 

The old system of district winner and runner up was much better 

I am ready to go back to district champ and runner up

I am ready to go back to district champ and runner up

I am ready to go back to district champ and runner up

Columbia is bent at me for saying suburban is a lower division and that Columbia is not favorite to win 3s. My whole point from beginning is that the new plan will not  create parity at all because really awesome teams like Naples Columbia. Venice mainland. Lakeland and Osceola who already make semi finals and finals will roll on suburban and the same teams there will win every year and crush rest of division. So solution does not solve problem but screwed many non cheater metro schools by squeezing 8 divisions into four. 

So after ten pages of posts what have we learned. Broward and dade have best teams in the state most of the time and it’s because of recruiting. True
The fhsaa let’s Polk county run away from metro schools with bs density change. True
the fhsaa ignores recruiting and even when they busy a team nothing real happens. True
The real fixes to make competitive divisions like throw privates in own division is illegal in Florida and mo one agrees on any other fox like promotion. True
columbia posts more than anyone else’s true. 
naples will go further than Columbia in 3s. We will see 

The collateral damage is metro schools squeezed into four divisions creating some crazy enrollment differences and putting the non recruiting schools in impossible districts. The new plan does even taint the metro title a little since not a state title but metro schools did not push for this idea and they do win most of title especially dade county and broward privates. 

Last time mainland played Naples it got ugly. Mainland will be one of the few who could beat them. Kramer not head coach there but the team seems about the same. Naples gave Central and Northwestern some tough games but could not get over the hump. They should be favorites with maybe two others. Cocoa has no competition. If Venice is anything like last year no competition except from super recruiter Lakeland and maybe Osceola. When I say triple a.  I am not ripping these great schools. I am ripping dumb suburban idea in general where state made them second rate and ruined state champ idea. State just needed some balls and enforce a one year ban on transfers if not really moving in. Idea of getting parity was propaganda as we will see same schools win every year in suburban in Most divisions . Blow up system so a few annual state finalists or semi finalist get to get trophy seems dumb to me .

Last time mainland played Naples it got ugly. Mainland will be one of the few who could beat them. Kramer not head coach there but the team seems about the same. Naples gave Central and Northwestern some tough games but could not get over the hump. They should be favorites with maybe two others. Cocoa has no competition. If Venice is anything like last year no competition except from super recruiter Lakeland and maybe Osceola. When I say triple a.  I am not ripping these great schools. I am ripping dumb suburban idea in general where state made them second rate and ruined state champ idea. State just needed some balls and enforce a one year ban on transfers if not really moving in. Idea of getting parity was propaganda as we will see same schools win every year in suburban in Most divisions . Blow up system so a few annual state finalists or semi finalist get to get trophy seems dumb to me .

Last time mainland played Naples it got ugly. Mainland will be one of the few who could beat them. Kramer not head coach there but the team seems about the same. Naples gave Central and Northwestern some tough games but could not get over the hump. They should be favorites with maybe two others. Cocoa has no competition. If Venice is anything like last year no competition except from super recruiter Lakeland and maybe Osceola. When I say triple a.  I am not ripping these great schools. I am ripping dumb suburban idea in general where state made them second rate and ruined state champ idea. State just needed some balls and enforce a one year ban on transfers if not really moving in. Idea of getting parity was propaganda as we will see same schools win every year in suburban in Most divisions . Blow up system so a few annual state finalists or semi finalist get to get trophy seems dumb to me .

The suburban state title is like winning a triple A title in Major League Baseball. King of the the dipshots.

My take on you analysis is that listing a few star rated players on various 3s teams and seeing how numerous have some star rated players makes me feel you are not a real knowledge fan or coach of the sport. 3 s will be won by Naples High School and it will be a total shock if they don’t. They only lose to super teams from Northwestern or Miami Central in 6a now. 3s will be a snooze for them and they can start ordering their state rings along with cocoa in they substandard minor league division.

Last time mainland played Naples it got ugly. Mainland will be one of the few who could beat them. Kramer not head coach there but the team seems about the same. Naples gave Central and Northwestern some tough games but could not get over the hump. They should be favorites with maybe two others. Cocoa has no competition. If Venice is anything like last year no competition except from super recruiter Lakeland and maybe Osceola. When I say triple a.  I am not ripping these great schools. I am ripping dumb suburban idea in general where state made them second rate and ruined state champ idea. State just needed some balls and enforce a one year ban on transfers if not really moving in. Idea of getting parity was propaganda as we will see same schools win every year in suburban in Most divisions . Blow up system so a few annual state finalists or semi finalist get to get trophy seems dumb to me .

From the genius wizards who brought us a State championship a and B. Now they are going to reseed the regional in football according to power ranking which means a district champ can be a 8 seed and face the number one team in first round. Real nice that a district winner is seeded lower than wildcard. This board is full of idiots and simpletons. This is what happens when the backwoods areas of Florida control the FHSAA. 2 crummy ideas passed in one year. Way to go board. Barney Fifes are running our state association now. 

So he screws up the state football playoffs whining about his school not being able to compete with the big bad metro schools and then gets his way and goes to the biggest winner in 1a as is. Real nice. 

So he screws up the state football playoffs whining about his school not being able to compete with the big bad metro schools and then gets his way and goes to the biggest winner in 1a as is. Real nice. 

The FHSAA should never went to 8 and now 9 divisions. It was fine with 6 divisions and yes the same teams won most of the titles juist like today and nobody whined because you had to be great to win a state title. The districts were not 2-3 teams and their were a few wild cards to make playoffs if you were in a stacked district.  The FHSAA just caters to a few people from Lakeland whose state legislature blew up any real competition by pushing for total open enrollment so her team would be good again when they could recruit. led to super recruit teams which gave us this crazy suburb plan that creates two levels in football. The elite Metro and the lower minor leagues except for the 2-3 teams that will win all those titles now and lead to same state champs in all 9 divisions. same problem they are whining about now.