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    Perspective got a reaction from Longtime Observer in The WORST team to have on your schedule the rest of the season?   
    So, if they're not associated with the FHSAA and they don't have to play by FHSAA rules, why are they playing teams that are associated and do play by FHSAA rules?   If memory serves me correct, when a Florida team wants to play an out-of-state game, they can only play against teams that are part of an official state athletic association.   Why is it any different for playing a team in state?
    So, CAI can recruit.  They can provide housing for athletes.  They don't have to meet academic requirements.  There is no age limit.  Essentially, it's a remote Canadian all-star team playing down here where the weather is nice and playing against teams that can't do any of those things.   So how does a game against CAI factor into another teams power index/ranking?
    Serious question:  can Bradford High School schedule a game against the Raiford Prison All-Star Team (it would probably need to be an away game for BHS)? 
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    Perspective got a reaction from Longtime Observer in The WORST team to have on your schedule the rest of the season?   
    Just curious . . .  how does a small school in Pinellas County, Florida, go about attracting kids from Canada and Europe?
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    Perspective got a reaction from Longtime Observer in The WORST team to have on your schedule the rest of the season?   
    So, I ask my question again:  how are they 'focusing' on international players?  How are kids from around the globe finding out about and developing an interest in attending CAI?  I'm genuinely curious.  
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    Perspective got a reaction from nolebull813 in The WORST team to have on your schedule the rest of the season?   
    I have asked that question many times (on this site and others).   It just doesn't make sense to me. 
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    Perspective got a reaction from Dr. D in The WORST team to have on your schedule the rest of the season?   
    "The school receives public funding through voucher and tax credit scholarship programs as per a 2017 Huffington Post investigation where it was disclosed the school received more than $500,000 in taxpayer money for student scholarships between 2012–2016."
    (compliments of Wikipedia)
     
    Founded in 1984 Serves grades Preschool through 12th Grade, starting at age 2 Open all year and enrolling year-round Current enrollment is 250 7 to 1 student-to-facutly ratio Over 50 international students Over 23 countries represented (compliments of CAI's own website)
    TUITION
    Annual Tuition  – $13,345.00
    International Annual Tuition – $16,800.00
    (also from CAI's website)
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    Perspective got a reaction from DarterBlue2 in The WORST team to have on your schedule the rest of the season?   
    Just curious . . .  how does a small school in Pinellas County, Florida, go about attracting kids from Canada and Europe?
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    Perspective got a reaction from Jullian in Week 8 Pick ems!!! (THURSDAY GAME)   
    I'm back in town, but swamped.  So, I'll have my picks to you by Saturday noon (and I promise I won't look at any of the scores from Friday night).  
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    Perspective reacted to DarterBlue2 in Week 8 Pick ems!!! (THURSDAY GAME)   
    Precedent has been set, hard for him to say no. I sense a deep objection followed by an appeal coming here!
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    Perspective reacted to DarterBlue2 in The WORST team to have on your schedule the rest of the season?   
    The Reverend @nolebull813, now that has an interesting ring to it! LOL!!!
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    Perspective reacted to SportsFan in EXCLUSIVE: FHSAA Classification Task Force Committee proposes changes to classification system to help address competitive balance   
    Also could use point differential in district games if you don't want the RPI format to decide it 
    Anything better than what the FHSAA has on the table currently
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    Perspective got a reaction from DarterBlue2 in Week 8 Pick ems!!! (THURSDAY GAME)   
    I'm back in town, but swamped.  So, I'll have my picks to you by Saturday noon (and I promise I won't look at any of the scores from Friday night).  
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    Perspective got a reaction from KeemD321 in Week 8 Pick ems!!! (THURSDAY GAME)   
    I'm back in town, but swamped.  So, I'll have my picks to you by Saturday noon (and I promise I won't look at any of the scores from Friday night).  
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    Perspective reacted to nolebull813 in Week 8 Pick ems!!! (THURSDAY GAME)   
    @Perspective you have 5 more minutes to get your picks in starting 5 minutes ago. 
     
    Everyone else, Thursday by 6 please 
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    Perspective got a reaction from Hwy17 in EXCLUSIVE: FHSAA Classification Task Force Committee proposes changes to classification system to help address competitive balance   
    I generally agree.  
    Quick question:  how would you handle two-team and three-team ties?   Head-to-head ?   This would work for a two-team tie, but what about those situations where A beats B, B beats C and C beats A?  If both/all the teams would otherwise make the playoffs, we're only talking about seeding (but it could be the difference between getting a 4 seed and hosting a game vs. getting the 8th seed and playing the number 1 seed on the road).  But there could also be situations where only the district winner makes the playoffs and the other one or two teams would not.  I think I'd rather see a 1-quarter playoff on a Monday than have the 'who makes the playoffs and who doesn't' decision left to the computers. 
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    Perspective got a reaction from DarterBlue2 in EXCLUSIVE: FHSAA Classification Task Force Committee proposes changes to classification system to help address competitive balance   
    I generally agree.  
    Quick question:  how would you handle two-team and three-team ties?   Head-to-head ?   This would work for a two-team tie, but what about those situations where A beats B, B beats C and C beats A?  If both/all the teams would otherwise make the playoffs, we're only talking about seeding (but it could be the difference between getting a 4 seed and hosting a game vs. getting the 8th seed and playing the number 1 seed on the road).  But there could also be situations where only the district winner makes the playoffs and the other one or two teams would not.  I think I'd rather see a 1-quarter playoff on a Monday than have the 'who makes the playoffs and who doesn't' decision left to the computers. 
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    Perspective reacted to Dr. D in EXCLUSIVE: FHSAA Classification Task Force Committee proposes changes to classification system to help address competitive balance   
    Here are the states that use the current Florida model for selecting/seeding playoff teams:  Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina.  These are some of the states that use large districts, head-to-head, decide-it-on-the-field process for selecting/seeding playoff teams:  Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama.  Which group has more in common with Florida?  It's not that hard, but Florida is going in the opposite direction.   
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    Perspective reacted to FSULOVER in Retiring from everything football   
    He retiring so he can work on his new baby accessory line.  

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    Perspective reacted to ExplorerHomer2 in Saturday Night Football: Columbus 16 vs Homestead 32 FINAL   
    You may be, or may not be more qualified than anyone on this board, but either way you really need to get over yourself. Coaches make mistakes (ask Cristobal) and referees, being HUMAN, do as well. If you are unwilling to concede that, you are absolutely delusional.
    And no one needs your stamp of crotchety approval.
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    Perspective got a reaction from KeemD321 in Week 7 pick ‘em results   
    Personally, I think we ought to just call it a day and end the season now. 
    Oh, and any tiebreakers should be decided by who got their picks in the earliest this past week.  
    All kidding aside, my only concern with 2 and 3 is that the regular season results become meaningless (aside from "making the playoffs").  There's no reward for regular season performance - no home-field advantage, if you will.  (Perhaps you could spot the higher seed with one point to serve as the tie-breaker).   Yeah, yeah, I know that probably won't fly with the rest of the group, but that's what happens when you try to come up with a solution midway through the season; folks have a way of voting based on what's beneficial to them when the vote is cast.  Kinda like Congress. 
    At the end of the day, I don't really care.  I've just got to hope my guessing streak and my lucky 'flipping quarter' continue to pay dividends for me. 
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    Perspective reacted to FSULOVER in Saturday Night Football: Columbus 16 vs Homestead 32 FINAL   
    Well i was a male stripper and know more about exposing than anyone on this board so please leave the exposing stuff up to me.
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    Perspective reacted to DarterBlue2 in Lookout 4S, sleeper slipping in   
    @Jambun82 there was no need to post this three times. I am not dimwitted. I also happened to be at that game. I will keep my opinion of the officiating to myself. 
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    Perspective reacted to PinellasFB in Everything comes around   
    This is almost 40 years ago.  Things were so vastly different back then.  The private schools had not yet invested into athletics (for the most part) to enhance their school's profile so most of their players were rich white kids.  I remember playing against Bishop Verot and Cardinal Mooney back then and laughing at these kids trying to catch our speedy skill players.  The public schools had strict transfer rules so they were at the mercy of whichever group of kids were moving through their system at any given four-year interval.  That's why schools would rise and fall a few times per decade.  The traditional public powers were a little more resistant to the down periods because they tended to be in a talent rich areas but even they would miss the playoffs some years.
    Fast forward to today and the only time you see a public power down is if they had forfeits or suffered from a mass transfer exodus out (see Lakewood this year... live by the sword, die by the sword).  The privates never have down years and load up on kids who probably wouldn't be attending their schools without a free ride.  Non-powers develop kids only to see them get stolen once they are productive, repeating their cycle of staying down and the powers staying up. 
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    Perspective reacted to Longtime Observer in Bartow figures to remain atop its region rankings...   
    Let's also not forget George Jenkins was the founder of Publix, which has very fine deli sandwiches.  If we're ranking teams based on the quality of sub sandwiches made by grocery stores founded by alumni, George Jenkins will DOMINATE all others. 
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    Perspective got a reaction from DarterBlue2 in WEEK 7 PickEms!! (Thursday Game!!)   
    I'm headed out of town bright and early tomorrow morning and will be out the rest of the week with questionable Internet service/availability, so, much to my chagrin, I've got to get my picks in early.   I'll miss out on those last-minute injury updates, suspensions, etc.  Nevertheless, here are my picks (subject to change on Sunday when I text NoleBull . . .  apparently that's a thing):
     Norland (Thursday)
    Cocoa
    Carrollwood Day
    Miami Palmetto
    Jesuit
    Venice
    South Sumter
    American Heritage Plantation
    Palm Beach Central
    Titusville
     
    For Cribboy, I'll take Western and the 90 points for 500 Dollars (real or Monopoly - your choice). 
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    Perspective reacted to Thunderpig in Sumner 5-0. 4M contender?   
    Sumner's starting QB was out for the game with an ankle injury. I know injuries are a part of the game but If Gregg plays, Sumner wins by three touchdowns, easy.
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