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1 minute ago, DarterBlue2 said:
Orlando area, yes:
Edgewater 10 Osceola 7
Dr. Phillips 28 Winter Park 21
Timber Creek 16 Lake Nona 14
Apopka 2 Atlantic Coast 0, Raines 6 Apopka 0
Spruce Creek 28 Atlantic Coast 7 Spruce Creek 17 Raines 7
Those are the games I saw except for Edgewater.
Why are you mixing in scores of baseball games with the scores of the spring football games?
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Worth noting that the award is intended to honor the best high school player. It's not a "most likely to succeed at the next level or the level after that" award. Similar in some respects to the Heisman Trophy. Both reward the player for what he did over the course of a particular season (and, in some cases, influenced by his career). Let the recruiting services dishing out stars and the Mel Kipers of the world predict success at the next level. Oh, by the way, they'll miss on several players too.
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10 minutes ago, Pipe Dreams said:
Yes, that's the game.
That DP team had enough to win it all.
That was a very good DP team. Arguably better than the 2012 team that beat Plant the year before.
I think the 2013 DP team would have gone on to beat Ft. Pierce Central, as Plant did, but would have had two very tough games after that (against Apopka, who beat Plant, and against South Dade, who beat Apopka for the 8A title).
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Or, if you just prefer to see "the play," here you go:
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13 hours ago, Pipe Dreams said:
I’ll rank them:
1t) Dr. Phillips
1t) Plant
3) Osceola
4) Sarasota Riverview
5) Lake Nona
6) Boone
7) Olympia
Plant and Dr. Phillips will renew their rivalry. Those were classics from 2011 to 2014. The 2013 OT game was a nightmare as a sure DP pick was tipped and the Plant WR took it ~80 yards to force OT in the last 2 minutes.
Do you mean this?
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Thanks, all. I just needed to know whether to agree with your brilliant observations or be offended by your ignorant, uninformed conclusions.
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Just out of curiosity, where do the central Florida teams fit into this debate (i.e., Orlando teams, Tampa Bay teams like Armwood and Plant and Lakeland)? Are they part of South Florida? North Florida? Or do they get left out of the debate all together?
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4 hours ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:
I do expect Columbia to win the district again this year and I'm sure they want payback on Lee for not only knocking us from playoffs under questionable circumstances and taunting us during the game and than bragging about it all week on social media after it
Let me know if you need any help carrying that grudge.
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On 5/10/2019 at 9:28 AM, OldSchoolLion said:
"an undefeated state champion in back-to-back seasons."
Dang, I guess I wasted my time looking for for a team who went undefeated and won a state champion one year (the year after going 4-7) and then went undefeated and won a the state championship the following year.
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23 hours ago, Floridatech said:
I see on their roster they have alot of seniors and juniors on their team
I'm not sure I understand this question. Isn't it pretty much the case of every high school in the state that you see a lot of "seniors and juniors on their team?" Are you looking at last year's roster or the roster for the 2019 season (that may or may not include current freshman and sophomores who may be playing varsity next year)?
I'm not trying to nitpick; I'm just trying to understand how the roster composition plays into the question of how good AHD will be in 2019.
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Who is Billy Turner (Chamberlain)?
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2 hours ago, Cjm04 said:
Hillsborough County plays good football. Talent is aggregated in certain programs. But most of the schools are in the same classifications. Like Plant has not lost a district game since 2003. The only two in county programs to beat them since then are Tech and Lakeland.
CJM, when did they move the Hillsborough/Polk County line?
Me thinks you meant to say [Tampa Bay] Tech and Armwood.
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1 hour ago, DarterBlue2 said:
The article was an interesting read. While it did not conclude that the changes to the brain observed resulted in changes in personality or cognitive functions, it did point to significant observed changes in the brain. The size of the sample (16), raises questions. However, with that said, it clearly points to the necessity for more research to be conducted.
While I have been a fan of the high school game for over 20 years now, I would not want my entertainment to be at the expense of the young players' futures.
Agreed.
The other thing worth noting about the study was the acknowledgement that the second "snapshot" was taken at the end of the season. The article states: "It is yet unclear whether these changes in the brain are permanent . . .." I don't know nearly enough about the human brain to pretend to reach any conclusions, but I know that there are many parts of the human body that heal with time. I'll be particularly interested to see what the 16 MRI's show after a couple of years, 10 years, 20 years, etc. Does the brain heal itself (assuming no more football for the subjects) or is the damage irreversible?
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So, not being a football coach myself, but knowing quite a few of them, here are the types of things that I hear them saying.
1. "Reward" for the kids for 20 tough days (on top of all the conditioning that the kids may have been doing since last season ended).
2. For returning players, it's probably not that big of a deal (unless a player is going through a position change). For new kids - even kids coming up from JV - the spring game is great for evaluation purposes. Every coach has had a kid who looks like a frickin' all-state player in practice but shrinks up under the Friday night lights. Similarly, there's usually a kid or two that can't quite put it together in practice, but turns it up a notch or two in a game. Spring games help identify both.
3. Some coaches will use a spring game to make decisions on who a starter at a certain position will be, which is helpful with the short time before fall football starts and the short time between the start of fall football and the first regular season game.
4. Last, but not least, for some schools, a spring game helps them identify what their summer recruiting priorities will be. Wait, did I just say that? How insensitive of me.
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Five in the first round, huh? Pretty impressive.
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I'm guessing there aren't too many players on this board; I would curious what their response would be.
As a parent, I don't have a problem with coaches and teachers texting my son. Perhaps I have too much trust/faith in my son. I feel pretty confident he would come to me and/or my wife if he ever got something inappropriate from a coach or a teacher.
My son has one teacher (chemistry) that uses text messaging on a regular basis. And by regular, I mean once or twice a day. But (as far as I know), he always sends his text messages out to the whole class. And at the initial parent/teacher night, he allowed/encouraged parents to sign up, which I did. So, I get constant reminders about homework assignments, quizzes, tests, etc. My son thinks it's a pain, but I've tried to turn it into a running joke when I ask him if he's done his assignment or prepared for the test (knowing that we both received the same text message).
Getting back to what I think your primary question/concern is: I know my son exchanges text messages with his coaches (head coach and position coach). Mostly it's logistical stuff, reminders and an occasional motivational message. Some are part of group texts, but a few are individual text messages. Knowing how many times my fairly-responsible teenage son has forgotten to make his bed, clean up his room, take out the garbage and recycling, etc., I'm OK with coaches sending out reminder text messages. I understand your point about boundaries, but it's not like the coaches are stopping off at our house late at night.
Just one dad's perspective.
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5 hours ago, Muckcitypride1 said:
You DO NOT CALL A FOUL IN THAT INSTANCE!!!!! Let the 4 seconds play out and pull the kid to the side and explain to him that he can't do that. Swallow your whistle ref and your pride!!!!
Muck, are you saying that the refs shouldn't have called a foul on the drive/shot by the Wildwood player or that they shouldn't have T'd up the Wildwood player for arguing the no-call? I suspect the latter. Here's the thing: I wasn't at the game. I didn't see the game. I don't know what, if anything, had happened prior to that last play. To me, it looked like the Wildwood player got bumped a little just as he caught the full-court pass and that, as a result, he was a little off balance when he went up for his shot. That said, if there was a time for the ref to swallow his whistle, it may have been then (the no-call on the drive) - especially with the amount of contact that occurred back at the other end on the shot/rebound. For all I know, however, the Wildwood kid who missed the layup had complained about prior calls/no-calls earlier in the game and perhaps even been warned by the refs. The final time may have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Who knows? But, I'm guessing that when the Wildwood kid threw his arms up in exasperation, one of the magic no-no words came out of his mouth. Perhaps one that starts with "bull" and ends with "hit." Just guessing.
Having no skin in the game whatsoever, I'd hate to lose a game this way, especially a state championship game. And good refs (i.e., the ones who typically get assigned the championship games) tend to give the kids a little leeway in emotional moments. But, at times they're left with no choice but to assess the technical foul when the conduct is blatant and obvious to everyone.
All that said, I think we need to be careful about putting the blame on an official for a mistake made by a player. Did the official miss the call on the lay up? Possibly. But the player overreacted and/or said one of the words that you just can't say.
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2 hours ago, LakelandGator said:
1. You have Lakeland confused with Plant.
2. You're a clown act.
3. All of the above.
Um, I could be wrong, but I don't recall any of the 'really good players in Polk County' ending up at Plant . . . at least none in the last ten years. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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Um, I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate it's because all the really good players in Polk County all end up at Lakeland.
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42 minutes ago, OldSchoolLion said:
Graduating
Thanks. Still, to have a QB, two receivers and a RB totalling 14 stars is pretty darn impressive. I'm not sure I can recall ever seeing four 3-star (or better) skill players on the same side of the ball for a high school team.
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On 4/12/2019 at 7:19 PM, OldSchoolLion said:
Sorry, had to correct my post above with returning players at Deerfield. Some serious weapons returning on offense, but Deerfield is losing some key players on defense, including Oregon commits Ge'mon Eaford (LB) and Brandon Dorlus (DE). They are also losing speedy Utah commit Donte Banton(WR).
"Losing" these kids because they're graduating or because they're transferring from Deerfield to some place else?
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10 hours ago, SportsNut25 said:
No - STA learned of the violation on its accord, investigated and then submitted the findings to the FHSAA.
The "response letter" back mentioned at the start of the portion you posted is regarding the response the FHSAA sent to STA letting them know the sanctions being handed down.
OK. Thanks for the clarification. But I'm still confused. I just ran across an article that said this:
" St. Thomas -- one of the premier football programs in both the state and the country with 10 state championships — received an allegation of improper conduct from the FHSAA, containing the text messages from Wilson to the Dwyer student. St. Thomas investigated the allegation, determined Wilson had sent the messages and turned the messages over to the FHSAA, according to the report."
So, it sounds like someone sent the information (i.e., a copy of the text message) to the FHSAA, who then forwarded that 'allegation of improper conduct' to STA -- basically saying 'OK, STA, here's what somebody sent us; please investigate this and let us know what you find out.' Knowing that they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar and that somebody has the pictures of the crumbs to prove it, STA conducts its own internal investigation, concludes that the text was authentic, and then self-reports what was originally reported to the FHSAA from the outset.
Or am I still missing something?
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20 hours ago, VeniceIndiansFootball said:
I don’t know much currently. I know that we will have two good upcoming wide receivers named Zach Calhoon and Fox Catarinichia, and obviously Weston Wolff is staying. We have a new running back named Jayshawn, and a new starter on offense named Matt Cochrane (O-lineman.) New starter on Defense, Fred Breyer. Maybe a linebacker named Austin Burt.
So, who ends up under center this year? DallaCosta or the Weldon kid from Tampa?
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How would a coach at a private school know that "good talent [is] joining the team over the summer" if the kids haven't registered yet?