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SPCjessica2004 All-State 1st Team

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Darter, you're 100% thinking what I'm thinking. It's not cheap, so when athletes are getting in for pennies on a dollar and the non-athletes are essentially paying for cost it tends to be magnified.  It's a tough break for a program that had finally broken through to the state championship game.

It's an interesting story since Oxbridge had all the pieces to be successful and become a year in, year out top 15 team in Florida and top 50-60 program in America.  They might need to follow the same path as U-school, another 3A team that caught fire quickly, but couldn't sustain the program. Shut up shop for a year and re-open with an all new mindset.



 

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51 minutes ago, SPCjessica2004 said:

Darter, you're 100% thinking what I'm thinking. It's not cheap, so when athletes are getting in for pennies on a dollar and the non-athletes are essentially paying for cost it tends to be magnified.  It's a tough break for a program that had finally broken through to the state championship game.

It's an interesting story since Oxbridge had all the pieces to be successful and become a year in, year out top 15 team in Florida and top 50-60 program in America.  They might need to follow the same path as U-school, another 3A team that caught fire quickly, but couldn't sustain the program. Shut up shop for a year and re-open with an all new mindset.



 

That is exactly what they may need to do. If they regroup, they could still field a competitive team. Jesuit, Clearwater Central Catholic, Bishop Moore, Trinity, Bolles, Melbourne Central Catholic and a number of other parochial and private schools do this with varying degrees of success. 

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They wanted to go into that direction a year ago so it's no surprise locally of the move to de-emphasize the "athletic program" which means football all other athletics will be untouched but the football program they did not want anymore. When they didn't bring back the first coach on the renewal of his contract they was sending the statement then that the direction of the school did not include football. I feel bad for the coaches at that program who committed to the kids and program giving there time and the school moving away from that ideal   

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3 hours ago, Mashburns said:

They wanted to go into that direction a year ago so it's no surprise locally of the move to de-emphasize the "athletic program" which means football all other athletics will be untouched but the football program they did not want anymore. When they didn't bring back the first coach on the renewal of his contract they was sending the statement then that the direction of the school did not include football. I feel bad for the coaches at that program who committed to the kids and program giving there time and the school moving away from that ideal   

I was just about to get Vero to play them next year but guess it ain't happening 

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I know it's pre-season and more based on last years results- but according to Maxpreps had Oxbridge played football without transfers they would have started #2 in 3A, #12 in Florida and #167 in Nation for 2018. 

They really did build that program up quickly. Hope the players all land on their feet- I especially feel for the seniors, hard to go to another school for one year.

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2 minutes ago, SPCjessica2004 said:

I know it's pre-season and more based on last years results- but according to Maxpreps had Oxbridge played football without transfers they would have started #2 in 3A, #12 in Florida and #167 in Nation for 2018. 

They really did build that program up quickly. Hope the players all land on their feet- I especially feel for the seniors, hard to go to another school for one year.

They would have went back to state in 3a had everything stayed intact

 

Its a shame but question is now where does everyone end up at

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1 minute ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

They would have went back to state in 3a had everything stayed intact

 

Its a shame but question is now where does everyone end up at

Columbia,

According to the reporter, the players saw this coming a while ago and multiple players that hadn't announced their transfer had indeed left Oxbridge already. I think now that the official announcement is out about Oxbridge the players who kept quiet will open up about where they are going.

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