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Its time for these Privates to all play against each other in their own division. Time to level the playing field.

State Championship 2A University Christian vs Champagnat Catholic

3A Trinity Christian Academy vs Chaminade-Madonna

4A Jacksonville Bolles vs Cardinal Gibbons

State Semi Final 5A Jesuit vs American Heritage Plantation

7A Bloomingdale vs St Thomas Aquinas

 

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10 minutes ago, MarcusFL said:

Its time for these Privates to all play against each other in their own division. Time to level the playing field.

State Championship 2A University Christian vs Champagnat Catholic

3A Trinity Christian Academy vs Chaminade-Madonna

4A Jacksonville Bolles vs Cardinal Gibbons

State Semi Final 5A Jesuit vs American Heritage Plantation

7A Bloomingdale vs St Thomas Aquinas

 

I would encourage you to search this Forum.  There are a lot of threads on this topic.  There is not a simple solution.  The vast majority of private school football programs in Florida are nowhere near the talent level of the schools on your list. 

If there was a 32-team private school playoff, the first round games could be utter annihilation.  Imagine St Thomas Aquinas playing Somerset Academy in a first round private school playoff game.  As it was, Chaminade-Madonna beat them 52-0.

And amongst the elite private schools, of which there are relatively few, there are substantial differences in school populations.  For example, Chaminade-Madonna has about one quarter the population of St Thomas Aquinas, so its potentially an unfair fight.   

We have a somewhat unique situation in Florida concerning our private schools.

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16 minutes ago, SubZero said:

Some of the publics here in Broward & Miami-Dade can hold their own water vs. the Elite [Aquinas, Heritage, Columbus, but i think they just need to cut the classes down to 5 or 6 then it would be fine. 

I agree.  And if we had a relegation system, as discussed in other threads, the elite privates would work their way up in class, where they would not be as dominant. 

If the Broward privates were routinely facing the Miami-Dade powers in the playoffs, we would see fewer state titles out of those private schools. 

-STA's last playoff game versus a strong Miami team was in 2003 versus Edison, and STA lost at home.  South Dade gave STA battles in the 90's and Homestead did the same the 80's.  

-AHP got taken out by Miami Jackson in 2011 and 2012 and Northwestern last year.

-Cardinal Gibbons is 1-4 in their last 5 playoff games versus Miami-Dade schools

 

 

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