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No public schools made it past the second round in 1A. It's completely unfair for a small public school to have to play in the same class as private schools. This got me wondering why they couldn't drop to Rural class? What's the difference/requirement for Rural classification?

I posted a summary of the current HS recruiting landscape on r/HSFootball and nobody there believed me. They were stuck in pre-portal, 2005 era recruiting. I got downvoted into oblivion with dumbass responses like "three-stars are still being recruited, etc." I'm like bro, you are stuck in a different era. Why would any D1 coach take a chance on a HS prospect when they can simply portal in a proven commodity? The reality now is you will get a D1 scholarship offer if your measurables are can't miss. Film doesn't matter anymore. Who you play for doesn't matter. You could be a stud for STA with great tape but if you haven't been to a camp where HT, WT, 40, etc. are measured and confirmed, you aren't getting a D1 scholarship offer. Not only that, all these HS kids that have multiple D1 "offers" will get a hard reality check when they actually try to cash that check in. That's when they will realize these verbals are non-binding and given out like candy at camps to keep kids on the radar. As the Rise Preparatory Academy owner/recruiting coordinator likes to post on social media, you better commit early to the team/coach that loves you rather than hold out for a better offer.

How is a point earned? I'm surprised Charlotte County is only at 3 with it's two strong programs, Charlotte and Port Charlotte.

I'm only familiar with RPA but I'm sure there must be others. For those not familiar with RPA, they are a private school that enrolls high caliber athletes and their mission is to facilitate an environment that allows these athletes to train and focus on their sport while placing them as free agents at various high schools in the state but mostly in south florida. The curriculum is very athlete friendly with mostly online courses through Dade County CC. You can be a real student or a fake one, it's up to you. All you have to do is maintain a 3.0 average which is very easy due to DCCC being weighted on the 5.0 scale since it's considered dual enrollment. RPA intentionally does not field any sports teams to allow them to exploit Florida's rule where you can play at any school of your choice if your school (or home school) does not field a team. Here's what I like about RPA: They do a great service for their athletes and the RPA owner is highly connected with college coaches They stress GPA >3.0 What I don't like about RPA: By far what I don't like is they are exploiting the rules which was intended as a small amount of students, not 100s of athletes from the same school They are a private school so they are exploiting the private school voucher program, costing us taxpayers significant $$$ Due to this abuse of the rules, some schools are loaded with RPA athletes. No exaggeration, West Boca HS might have all 22 starters that don't even attend West Boca. It's not just West Boca. Literally every bigtime school has many RPA athletes to fill their holes This is definitely not in the spirit of fair play, which is a key value in high school sport I think the FHSAA needs to review this exploit and close the loop hole tightly. Maybe only allow a maximum of 5 athletes per team that don't attend your school? Something must be done because not only is it not fair play, it's not fair to students at those schools who want to play but can't compete with D1 recruits constantly transferring in.

I absolutely love watching Dillard, MNW and Central bands and their dance teams. High skill and entertainment.

Mathematician here. There is no greater measure of strength than margin of victory/loss. Now there are some valid criticisms people have posted here about big margins vs weak competition. Any statistician would put in dampening factors such that running it up vs a weak opponent does not give you any more strength beyond a cutoff point, with a logical cutoff beginning at the running clock margin. On the other side of coin, there should be significant bonus for a win or close loss to a strongly ranked opponent. The one challenge to a power index like this is the small sample size (10 game season) makes it hard to drive out the preseason biases (i.e. initial weighting needed to start the season) which can be wildly incorrect due to teams changing strength one year to the next. Nothing is perfect so I would adjust the algorithm to remove early season weighting once a significant number of teams have played each other, usually mid season. Anyway, I work with statisticians who any single one of them could come up with something better, including myself. That being said, I think the rankings are much better this year so it would appear to me that they did in fact include some sort of MoV into the algorithm.

I watched the Wiregrass Ranch - Palmetto stream because I suspected WR would not go down easy and just as I predicted, they were a failed OT 2-pt conversion from the win. Incredible back and forth game.

yeah I think we all would prefer a single bowl game rather than a 4-round tournament for deserving teams that missed the playoffs

They've definitely made some adjustments to the formula this year and seem to have incorporated (secretly) some form of margin of victory, based upon the results I'm seeing. The rankings are much better this year than last year even if they still have big room for improvement.

12 games is too much. 10 games is too much for these students, honestly. I wish the season were 8 or 9 games + post season. This NIT is going to stress us (Palm Harbor) to no end academically if we win vs Chiles tomorrow and have to travel to Jax the following week on a school night. My son says pretty much hardly any non-senior player wants to win this game and extend the season so you can see how much of a reward the NIT is for the players.

Did I mention FUCK THE FIRST ACADEMY yet?

PHU vs Chiles (but I hope we lose so we dont have to travel 4 hrs next week) Matanzas vs B Trail PBL vs Royal Palm PBG vs Centennial Weeki Wachee vs And Jax Palatka vs Wolfson Oasis vs Inlet Grove Jefferson County vs Wildwood Milton Central vs Wewa Booker T vs Miami Springs

Wow so is that a middle ground agreement or did Garcia not have an available field thurs night? Oh wait, google shows that is an east coast location. My bad.

I'm stunned. The whole purpose was to get STA, Chaminade, AHP, CCC, MNW, Miami Central, Venice, etc. into their own bracket. The open division does not solve this at all.

So absolutely dumb question here. How are you allowed into the playoffs if you didn't play any district games? Without being in a district, you aren't assigned a region so it seems like you should be ineligible since you don't have a region to qualify in? Excuse my language, but FUCK THE FIRST ACADEMY! They cheat, break all the rules, and then wreck everyone else's playoff experience. There are teams still in limbo as they sort this out. FUCK THE FIRST ACADEMY! I have never written a swear word in any post on this forum so for me to start posting language like this, it really means I truly hate that team. They recruited, broke rules and then decided to be IMG and play a national schedule. Great, a national team has a different mission than the rest of us who roll with our student body. GTFO of our playoffs and go play with the other recruiters. I personally know a kid who transferred into that school this year. This kid has not played for the same team two years in a row since I first met him in youth ball. He is home schooled (so no school essentially), has reclassified to develop more, and is the perfect fit for those no-school, sports only mercenaries who play for TFA. He somehow transfers 100+ miles to another school too? I guess that's legal... looking at you Lakeland and Venice lol. Anyway, did I mention FUCK THE FIRST ACADEMY yet?