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It’s the only true way to be state champion.

So rules have to be altered based on something STA has no control over. Sounds like they are being punished.

The argument you are making contradicts itself because the fact that there are so many other teams means STA would have to fight for and compete for talent with about 100 teams they are just more successful at it than others

Who has 1/7 of the population of us? Georgia has half the people we do. Georgia has about 100 less teams than we do so they should only have one or two less classes

Pennsylvania has 6 classes with the exact amount of teams as Florida Ohio has 7 classes with 200 MORE TEAMS than Florida!!! 9 classes is a watered down embarrassment

My system would have looked like this Enrollment 100-500 class 1A 501-900 class 2A 901-1,300 class 3A 1,301-1,800 class 4A 1,801 and above class 5A i don’t have all the enrollments in front of me but those numbers could slightly change based on the amount in each class. I would scale it to be around 100 teams per class

In my system, Lakeland, Venice, Columbus, Mandarin, Edgewater, Jones, Buchholz, Lake Mary, Seminole, St Thomas Aquinas, Homestead all would have been in the same class. Playoffs would have been epic.

Teams are being punished because the system is so watered down that the competition suffers. The top dogs are gonna win no matter the system, but 9 classes is an embarrassment. If it was 6 like it should be the same top teams will win, only the early playoffs games would be infinitely better. All the horrible teams would be gone by round 1. It’s pathetic that the state top 10 has teams from 7 or 8 classes. That is a travesty

But they are under the same rules. Columbia could attract talent from all over if the players were talented AND wanted to go there. Even the rural schools are close to each other relatively speaking. The issue is there isn’t a lot of talent up North. The South has talented oozing out everywhere. Talent literally all over the place. North Florida not so much. Kids that transfer to Chaminade or STA most likely come from the same proximity as kids who are the same distance to Lake City from Live Oak, Branford, Fort White, Alachua etc etc. Only difference is the kids going to Chaminade and STA are D1 studs and all those other places up North not so much. But that isn’t South Floridas fault

Hell I actually wouldn’t care how they did it as long as there was only 6 classes. Public/Private. Metro/Suburban. Animal mascots/human mascots wouldn’t matter to me one bit if there was only max 6 classes in the state

I would do enrollment simply because every public team has the same luxury of attracting talent. And for the people who say what about the public teams in the middle of nowhere that aren’t close to a lot of talent I would say sorry. Teams in areas with lots of talent shouldn’t be punished by playing in watered down brackets because you have no talent

No 10 classes for 500 teams would have been an abomination. The fact we have a rural class is embarrassing. Hawthorne and Madison County would have been favored over OTC and Mooney in my opinion. Florida needs 5 classes realistically with 6 being the absolute max. 6 classes with 500 teams is 83 per class. With 16 districts per class that’s 5.2 teams per district. Please tell me how that’s unreasonable????

Horrible. So South Florida supplies most of the teams and has to drive 7 hours to play.

The problem with this system is the finals are actually semi finals games. 9 classes was an embarrassment. Stop punishing South Florida for having more talent than the rest of the state. Every team operates under the same rules. You can attract talent just like anyone else. But it shouldn’t be South Florida’s fault their talent is better than North Florida. Because it sounds like the only way to stop the crying is to split the state into 3. North, Central and South. And each region only plays teams in their region. Because you won’t stop hearing the crying from North FL they can’t compete

Cardinal Mooney and Hawthorne are better than Miami Central, Norland, Edgewater, Seminole, Lake Mary, Venice and Mandarin. change my mind

Just know whatever the correct decisions are, the FHSAA will do the opposite.

What’s funny is I watched the game and was cheering for Berkeley to win the whole time. I’m a Hillsborough guy through and through. (Yeah I live in Pasco now but I’m a family man. Gotta put their safety over my own. Lol) It’s Hillsborough vs everybody. But that is not gonna cause me to be biased and emotional when it comes to ranking teams

Bet on what? Lol

Would love to see Chaminade and STA play for one true State championship or Chaminade play IMG for the national championship

Lol what is your opinion? im sorry I won’t apologize for erasing an entire seasons worth of top notch A plus wins over a 1 score one off game. im ranking the entire body of work. I’m not a prisoner of the moment and I don’t rank off emotion. Sorry you can’t see it that way. But I won’t sway my thought process based on how you think it should be done

I would have liked to see Chaminade try and get payback against Bishop Gorman

They won by 1 score in the one of the biggest upsets in finals history. I’m not gonna discount everything Norland did up to that point. They beat Miami Central twice, Columbus and Lakeland! They beat the 4S and 4M State Champions by a combined score of 64-37!!! I am ranking a total body of work. Not just one epic upset especially when there are endless amounts of examples of teams losing a game to a team and then beating them later down the road. Meaning you can have a bad game but that not define your entire season of how good you are/were. Just because you beat a team doesn’t mean you should always be ranked higher than them no matter what.

I get it but if that’s the case then Cardinal Mooney should be ranked ahead of Edgewater, Lake Mary, Seminole etc etc

If the system wasn’t so screwed up these would have been semi final games. STA should be playing Lakeland for the STATE championship. Instead both won regional championships. sad

Edgewater pounds Jones 31-13 in the regular season then Jones beats Edgewater 28-24 in the playoffs. How is that possible? If you lose to a team then there is no way you can win a rematch. Norland could never win a rematch with Berkeley. Columbus could never win a rematch with Homestead. Homestead could never win a rematch with Palmetto