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Lake Minneola is a Lake County all star team. The rest of the teams in the county are not very good at football. Think Osceola and Osceola County. 
 

This should be an attractive gig unless it was the former coach who brought all the talent from everywhere. Still a nice area to live. 

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1 hour ago, nolebull813 said:

Lake Minneola is a Lake County all star team. The rest of the teams in the county are not very good at football. Think Osceola and Osceola County. 
 

This should be an attractive gig unless it was the former coach who brought all the talent from everywhere. Still a nice area to live. 

looks like they've lost some good players in this offseason, though. The new-ish private school looks like it's taking some good players from area schools.

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11 hours ago, Longtime Observer said:

looks like they've lost some good players in this offseason, though. The new-ish private school looks like it's taking some good players from area schools.

What school? Mt Dora Christian? First Academy-Leesburg? Out of county? 

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2 hours ago, Lake Sumter Observer said:

A lot of Lake Minneola players have hit the high school portal and landed at TFA, also word was when he had his first team meeting Monday he only had 30 kids 

Wow. That’s crazy. Their should be an entire team working out now getting ready for the spring game in a few weeks 

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They were a Lake County all star team because they were taking all of the Lake County players.  First Academy hired the Lake Minneola recruiter and he took a bunch of the players with him to First Academy.  Now Lake Minneola has a depleted roster with a tough schedule.  The coach wasn't aware of this until he arrived and saw the roster.    

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1 hour ago, badbird said:

They were a Lake County all star team because they were taking all of the Lake County players.  First Academy hired the Lake Minneola recruiter and he took a bunch of the players with him to First Academy.  Now Lake Minneola has a depleted roster with a tough schedule.  The coach wasn't aware of this until he arrived and saw the roster.    

Consequently, Lake Minneola has just announced it has cancelled spring football.  What goes around comes around. 

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1 hour ago, FBGUY1989 said:

Will Lake Minneola even have a team come August 

There is 1,750 kids in the school. That would be their fault if they can’t field a team of 40-50 players. I know it sucks about the mass exodus. I get it. But even though they won’t be competitive for the time being they should at least have enough varsity players returning, JV kids, and newcomers to field a team. 
 

They should have had an assist at coach resume spring workouts, and maybe got in on a jamboree with lesser teams or held an inter squad scrimmage. But to cancel everything seems a bit erratic 

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12 minutes ago, nolebull813 said:

There is 1,750 kids in the school. That would be their fault if they can’t field a team of 40-50 players. I know it sucks about the mass exodus. I get it. But even though they won’t be competitive for the time being they should at least have enough varsity players returning, JV kids, and newcomers to field a team. 
 

They should have had an assist at coach resume spring workouts, and maybe got in on a jamboree with lesser teams or held an inter squad scrimmage. But to cancel everything seems a bit erratic 

There are zero coaches on campus, every single coach left 

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Welcome to the new wonderful wild west of high school football in Florida. We need to create a new position at each school. Recruiting coordinator. Because that is the only way to win big in this state now at the highest levels. The haves can turn into have not by losing one cheater coach. 

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6 hours ago, Floridaatlantic1 said:

Welcome to the new wonderful wild west of high school football in Florida. We need to create a new position at each school. Recruiting coordinator. Because that is the only way to win big in this state now at the highest levels. The haves can turn into have not by losing one cheater coach. 

Post the link to the cheating please 

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11 hours ago, nolebull813 said:

There is 1,750 kids in the school. That would be their fault if they can’t field a team of 40-50 players. I know it sucks about the mass exodus. I get it. But even though they won’t be competitive for the time being they should at least have enough varsity players returning, JV kids, and newcomers to field a team. 
 

They should have had an assist at coach resume spring workouts, and maybe got in on a jamboree with lesser teams or held an inter squad scrimmage. But to cancel everything seems a bit erratic 

Football isn't the kind of sport where you can just walk the halls and assemble a team. You can get a couple decent kids maximum that way. The rest of the student body would be putting their health at risk if they decided to "go out" for football.

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11 hours ago, Lake Sumter Observer said:

There are zero coaches on campus, every single coach left 

shocking if true. Just goes to show you that, in an era of unlimited transferring with instant eligibility, ANY program could go from great to awful- and vice versa- in the blink of an eye. There almost aren't any real PROGRAMS left. No one is sticking around long enough to be developed in the specific ways of a program. It's terribly sad. 

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10 hours ago, Floridaatlantic1 said:

Welcome to the new wonderful wild west of high school football in Florida. We need to create a new position at each school. Recruiting coordinator. Because that is the only way to win big in this state now at the highest levels. The haves can turn into have not by losing one cheater coach. 

Idea: make recruiting legal for all schools AND enforce a full year of sitting out for transfers. So, you can recruit the middle school kids-ok, the parents- all you want. But, transfers aren't worth sweating over because they'll have to sit a year out, effectively ending senior year transfers.

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20 hours ago, Longtime Observer said:

Idea: make recruiting legal for all schools AND enforce a full year of sitting out for transfers. So, you can recruit the middle school kids-ok, the parents- all you want. But, transfers aren't worth sweating over because they'll have to sit a year out, effectively ending senior year transfers.

This is theoretically the answer but it will never work.

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On 5/3/2024 at 8:33 AM, Floridaatlantic1 said:

Welcome to the new wonderful wild west of high school football in Florida. We need to create a new position at each school. Recruiting coordinator. Because that is the only way to win big in this state now at the highest levels. The haves can turn into have not by losing one cheater coach. 

And just wait until NIL is enacted at the high school level.

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4 hours ago, FBGUY1989 said:

I have a question for all of you guys. Before all the turmoil happened with Lake Minneola were they even going to be competitive this year 

They definitely would have been competitive. They had a really good and really young OL coming back. They also had settled into a pattern of getting plenty of transfers.

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