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  1. Hey, why can't we just have the FHSAA and MaxPreps come up with a secret formula to rate all the teachers and then pay them based on that?
  2. Nolebull, just out of curiosity, how many of these games are away games vs. a non-district opponent?
  3. Understood. But how does this impact or affect the FHSAA's position on recruiting? Do the powers-to-be want schools to be able to recruit?
  4. According to Raymond's X account, Raymond has official visits scheduled as follows: 3/7: USF 3/23: Syracuse 3/29: West Virginia 3/30: Rutgers 4/1: Venice High School (Note: 80% of this post is factually accurate)
  5. Serious question (for everyone): I know the FHSAA had to back down on the school choice issue, but has the governor, the legislature or anyone else in Tallahassee explicitly or implicitly threatened the FHSAA for cracking down on recruiting? In other words, why can't the FHSAA be more proactive when it comes to investigating schools that recruit? If memory serves me correct, the FHSAA was very active a decade or so ago with respect to making sure kids went to the schools for which they were zoned (and making sure there were no apartment deals or other impermissible benefits). Why can't they do the same thing now with recruiting? Is someone putting pressure on them to turn a blind eye to recruiting? Who? And if you believe that to be the case, please be as factually detailed with your response as possible. Thanks.
  6. I'm struggling to find the "Yeah, that's funny, but it's also really sad because it's true" emoji.
  7. See, I knew not being able to play 8 home games this year would come back to haunt Venice.
  8. Interesting. I look foward to hearing "the rest of the story" at some point in the future.
  9. I just don't see you can reconcile NIL, on the one hand, and recruiting, on the other hand, in high school sports. Colleges are allowed to recruit. It's a major part of whether a team/coach is successful. And once a school has signaled its intent to recruit a particular player, the collective affiliated with that particular college or university can then step in and try to negotiate a NIL deal with the player being recruited. Somewhat oversimplified, but I think that's accurate. High schools are not allowed to recruit. If anyone associated with a school (coach, parent, booster, etc.) offers/promises to do anything for a prospective transfer student to lure that student to their school, that's recruiting. And, as the rules are currently written, that's illegal. Similarly, if anyone (most likely a parent or booster) does anything for a particular player that isn't done for all other students, that's considered to be an impermissible benefit. And that's also illegal. So, how do you re-write the rules to allow NIL without removing the "no recruiting" and "no impermissible benefits" sections of the rules? Almost by definition, anyone that forms a collective or who personally signs someone to an NIL deal would be considered "a representative of the school’s athletic interests." If you re-write all these rules to allow NIL, what will you be left with?
  10. Sadly, NIL is about to ruin high school football in Florida | Commentary
  11. nolebull, thank you for taking the time to post all of these. And, thank you to gatorman-uf for posting the coaching updates.
  12. Four road games?!?! How is Venice going to make their numbers work??
  13. Any time something is "all about perspective," I'm in favor of it! Joking aside, I'm OK with the idea of 'more football,' and completely agree that you can call the successful teams almost anything you want as long as you don't call them 'state champions.' Ironically, the concept is being tested in the rural areas, where kids are more likely to play multiple sports. This idea may actually get some push-back from high school basketball coaches in rural areas, as prolonged football seasons will keep kids off the basketball court that much longer.
  14. Isn't this basically what the Sunshine State Athletic Association did at the end of this past season -- where every team participated in some form of post-season play and the teams were grouped together based on their records/rankings? I'm wondering if this is a proactive effort to keep football alive and kicking in the rural areas. Regardless, I'm not a fan of the 'bottom half' of any classification being able to compete for a "state championship."
  15. So, the Rural B State Champion would, at best, be the 17th best rural team in the state, huh? Hmmmm.
  16. My answer to this question is pretty simple: If IMG is willing to play by the same rules as all other FHSAA member schools, whatever those rules may be, then, yes, they should be able to compete for a state title. If IMG is not willing to play by the same rules as all other FHSAA member schools, whatever those rules may be, then, no, they should not be able to complete for a state title.
  17. I watched very few of the bowl games myself, but I did watch the three CFP games. That said, I must say I find it a little bit ironic that the poster who confesses to having watched zero college football post-season games goes by the moniker "SportsFan."
  18. Nulli, I did think about that. I actually started going back to the FHSAA archives to look at the scores from the state playoff semifinal games playoff games (going back to 2010). And then I remembered that I actually have a day job. In any event, we may just have to respectfully agree to disagree on this point. I think that's still allowed . . . even on message boards.
  19. But if the top 12-16 teams are playing in the Premier League, I think the rest of the divisions would be more competitive. Think about it, if you take teams like Chaminade, Cocoa, Central, MNW, U of STA, Columbus, Venice, Lakeland and a handful of others out of the mix, I think it would even out the playing field in the regular divisions. If we're still seeing blowouts on a regular basis, then I'm open to promotion/relegation. By the way, I'm guessing you don't care much for the College Football Playoff National Championship games either . . . since 2017, when 'Bama beat UGA 26-23, the average point differential in the champion game has been 28 points, with the smallest margin of victory being 15 points and the largest margin being 58 points.
  20. I continue to believe that there ought to be a "Premier League" of 12-16 teams. However, I think the teams ought to be determined in advance of a given season and teams should be committed to staying in the Premier League for some predetermined period of time (say, 3 years). After that, the team can drop out if they choose and a new team can join. I'm even OK with relaxing recruiting rules for the teams that choose to play in the Premier League. It's happening anyway - might as well allow it, if not embrace it. Require the PL teams to play a minimum number of regular season games against other PL teams; the remainder of their games can be played against non-PL teams (old rivalries, out-of-state opponents, etc). All teams (or perhaps just 'most' of the teams) participate in the PL playoffs, with seeding based upon an established formula, to crown the PL state champion. All other teams in the state get placed into six divisions based on student body size, as has been the case for many years. I'd hold off on the idea of promotion and relegation to see if the Premier League concept evens out the playing field in the non-PL divisions. Just my two cents.
  21. To the contrary. I'm all about parents and kids having all the information that they can get. And if they want to reach out for information, that's fine. But until the FHSAA changes the rules, it remains illegal for schools/coaches to reach out to parents and kids to encourage them to consider their school. And that happens. And that's wrong.
  22. Well, I know that I, for one, can go to bed tonight and rest peacefully knowing that no coaches, assistant coaches, handlers or other representatives of any Florida high school football program will reach out to any of these players or their families to 'discuss their options.'
  23. You are correct. But here's the point that I think is being made. 'Back then' the teams in the metro areas were, in theory, constrained by district boundaries. A kid could only go to Central if they lived in the Central district (again, in theory). So, Central's talent pool was limited to the kids who lived in the Central district. Just like Pahokee's talent pool was limited to the kids who lived in Pahokee's district. Now, with school choice, and as a practical matter, Pahokee's talent pool (and the talent pool of all the other rural schools) is essentially still limited to the kids who live in that relatively-sparse geographic area. Contrast that with Central, who now has the ability to legally pull in any kid from Dade County. Yes, they are competing against other schools, like Northwestern, for that top talent, but recent history seems to suggest that only a small handful of teams are going to end up with the vast majority of the top talent. To oversimplify, if one rural high school football team has a thousand kids to pick from (including gamers, trombone players, theater buffs, etc.) and a metro high school football team has a hundred thousand kids to pick from (because district lines really don't matter any more), which team is more likely to end up with a group of thirty talented football players? Now, it wouldn't surprise me at all if a rural team, like Pahokee, could beat the bottom-feeder teams in the metro area, because all the talented kids from those metro teams ended up at the super-power de jure. But when it comes time for playoffs, the rural team likely won't stand a chance against the metro power. And, yes, there will be exceptions along the way, but for the most part, the numbers won't lie.
  24. Circling back to the original question: does anyone know if the FHSAA publishes the results of its investigations into programs that recruit or provide impermissible benefits? If so, when and where?
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