Are you ready for some football?
Welcome to the official blog on high school football for the 2012 season.
We want to know what game you are going to each week and let’s talk about matchups and how teams did.
Let us know what player(s) stood out each week.
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Charter School recruiting is even worse in Basketball, no wonder Charter Schools win State Championships year after year , read this fact:
Eight of the nine top scorers among the top three Public League charter basketball teams this past season transferred in before or shortly after the school year began. Half of the eight came from private schools outside Philadelphia. The other half came from non-charter city public schools.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/high_school/20140412_Legislator_questioning_basketball_transfers.html#w83AQ4fyVHfjJiTX.99
David, after a down year for Council Rock South football in 2012, we have some good news to start 2013. 2009 Golden Hawk alum, Justin Pugh, has decided to forego his senior season at Syracuse University to make himself available for this years NFL draft. We are very proud of Justin and wish him the best of luck and will hopefully get to watch him play on Sundays!
I am going to keep this up for one more week. Than we can start the 2013 Football Season. I will have lot’s of fan blogs during the off-season.
Happy New Year!
@ Jay. Yes I own WesternPAFootball.net site. We do have a pick’em panel. http://www.keystonesportstalk.com/pickem/
Thanks for your ideas.
@Jonny. We are starting to name our players and coaches of the year this week. Next Monday and Tuesday we are releasing our all-easternpafootball team.
@ David Mika
Sorry, I don’t mean to hog the message board, but I also thought about maybe providing readers with the option to create a User Profile, and maybe even having ranking systems for users based on their level of overall contribution to the site. I’ve seen this on several other websites and I imagine it could have a positive impact on the site. Anonymity shouldn’t be an issue, as the profiles would be very basic and focus less on personal information and more on general contribution to the site. User profiles could also cross over to WesternPAFootball.net, which may increase interest and traffic to that site, if anything. Using myself as an example, I frequently visit the Western site, but I comment only occasionally since there is very little dialogue that goes on in the forums.
Again, this would be completely optional, but nonetheless something to consider as it is a great way to continue building the EPAFootball.com community.
@David Mika
How about some sort of EPAFootball.com-style “pigskin pick’em” where you or one of your columnists would pick a handful of good matchups each week, give your predictions, and then instead of (or in addition to) simply a forum below, the end-user would actually be able to select their own picks (including an actual score for one game, as a tie-breaker), which could then be recorded week-by-week to see which readers rank among the best when it comes to making picks? The same amount of games would be used each week to give each regular-season week equal weight. In this scenario, there could be a “winner of the week” as well as an “overall season leader” each week.
After the first 2-3 weeks are over, since a large portion of non-league games are played early on, you could start to split the selected matchups up by district to give each district equal weight as well. For instance, let’s say the weekly number of games is seven, since EPAFootball.com represents six districts (1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12) plus independent teams… you could have some weeks where the seven selected matchups cover all seven districts, including independents. This is a good idea not only because it represents all seven districts, excluding bias, but also because it would separate the “good” prognosticators from the “really good” ones. Of course, the issue of bias in this case is kind of sketchy since some districts are much larger than others and naturally in the larger districts there will be more high-profile matchups to choose from. For that reason, I wouldn’t use the “7 districts, 7 games” format more than two or three times… especially as we get to weeks where, for example, there may be 2 (or more) high-profile matchups in a given district that each determine a league title and/or are huge rivalry games.
This could get especially exciting around the playoffs, which, of course, could either be done as a separate pick’em or as a continuation from the first 10 weeks! You could have both, for instance in a similar fashion to how you have both regular season AND playoffs leaders for Points, PPG, Pts Allowed, & Pts Allowed Per Game on the Home Page. My personal choice would be a continuation. The number of playoff matchups chosen per playoff week should either be four or eight, once again giving equal weight, only this time to PIAA Classification. A point system could be applied to give playoff games a greater weight than regular season games. There are about 100 different ways to make a point system, and pretty much any point system has its pros and cons, so you would need to figure that part out. Or you could do it without a point system.
Overall winner gets an EPAFootball.com tee-shirt and bragging rights for the off-season.
Just a thought. Happy Holidays!
when will you be releasing your all state player listings? interested in seeing your selections
May this Christmas fill your hearts with warmth, peace and joy! Merry Christmas from the EasternPAFootball.com family!
@ David Mika
How about having a window with rolling scores for Friday night and Saturday games similar to what rally does at philly.com. It would be a lot easier than going to the team schedule link for all the teams.
Any chance you guys could do a game of the week live video/audio stream each Friday night similar to what 6abc.com used to do but stopped doing?
Are you guys affiliated with westernpafootball.net? If so, have been wondering for a long time why nobody ever blogs on that site. You would think there would be all kinds of comments considering the renowned western PA high school football tradition, but when I check from time to time there’s nary a post. Ironic in a way.
I don’t know. Have a funny feeling St. Joe’s Prep could be a beast next year. They have a lot coming back and could start peaking. Be fun to see.
What would you like to see new on the site next year?
@jive the point is the penalties called at least 2 of them i seen kids do fifty times this year and not get flagged, and the third still nor sure what they called. I just didnt think that Clairton was being unsportman like,now if their were comments that went with the action that I Don’t know