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How about PPL Park??
@Buddy
I know that there has been talk of using Villanova’s field for the D1 or Eastern final, but the cost is prohibitive. (I remember hearing rental between $10,000 and $20,000, but that was probably just a rumor) Bottom line is District 1 is too cheap to give the host school enough money to make the game attractive. I would imagine that the available sites for the Eastern final would be the same 4 considered for the D1 final: PW, HH, Souderton & Tennent. Hatboro-Horsham might not be too bad.
I’ve also wondered if hosting the D1 final at West Chester University might not be a good idea. This is a state subsidized facility, so there is no reason that they would have to make a profit off of PIAA.
Why do they constantly go to PW? It is terrible on traffic & parking is really limited. Seating ain’t the best either. Don’t some of these other schools warrent attention? I mean, they make $ if they host a game right? The semi-finals will not go to Hershey. Never have, never will. The semi-final will probably be at PW again. Of course if LaSalle is involved, it shouldn’t be at PW, that’s their home field. But that never seems to matter( like last year). This is definetly bulls**t!!
PW is small with poor traffic, seating, and parking issues, but if that’s the site, so be it. I hope folks in the state office make the decision to have the semifinals in Hersey, especially for us folks who love high school ball. 2 games of quality opponents this time of year, why not?
@Mike
Yeah the fanbase at Garnet Valley has always been crazy, even though they have one of the smallest enrollments. Garnet Valley has 540 male students enrolled, 90 of them are on the team and another 50 are on the freshman team. it just goes to show the excellence that a little school like Garnet Valley does
I’m curious to see how well the CRS crowd travels. I was shocked that they couldn”t even fill thier own stadium last Friday. GV brought a better crowd than CRS did and they came 60 miles to support their team. Very impressed by the GV fan support!!
@ Big C
Understood, Big C; I read nothing negative in your comments. I agree you should be back again. If I lived in the Glen Mills area I would LIVE at Moe DeFrank Stadium. For the first time I have ever seen the Jag’s I would love to follow them, but the travel is just too much after follwing high school football for the last 61 seasons!
It has been confirmed. NP vs CRS Friday night at PW. Start time pushed back to 7:30 because of traffic concerns.
@Kmac
I was not taking anything away from crs . They have a great program and a lot of tough kids. Gv would have had to play great to beat them. Just making a point to suburban1 CRYBABY about the program at GV we don’t cry .and we will be back
NP vs CRS at PW on Friday at 7:30… as per Kevin Cooney. Have not heard official word.
Kevin Cooney (@KevinCooney) and TJ Smink (@tsmink77) just tweeted PW at 7:30 on Friday.
@Rciffo
Winterized fields is not a recent excuse. D1 has been using it for years. PIAA District 1 has no control over when schools winterize their fields. It is decided by the school district facilities staff. Some facilities cannot stand a hard freeze, and need to be winterized by early to mid-November. (I believe War Memorial is one of these facilities).
Kyle Berger (@bergerkg) tweeted that the 4 sites under consideration for NP-CRS are Tennent, Souderton, H-H, or P-W.
@ Ed
Good information on enrollments; thanks. Like you I always felt that if you get 108 out for football, you have a better chance of having a “great’ team, than if you get 50 out. But it’s not automatic. I do not know for a fact, but always heard that in the glory days of C B West, they were one of the smallest of the 4A schools in the league.
@ Big C
I do not think there is any doubt about GV having a quality program and quality QB. I was at the GV/CRS game and was very impressed by GV overall. But in the end they had no defensive answer for CRS’s triple option offense. Six possessions six scores for the Rock South. No matter how many more times GV might have scored, they had to find a way to shut Rock down. Maybe???
Suburban One SHOULD be the best league, because the biggest male enrollment is there. Number from PIAA.org.
North Penn (Lansdale) Suburban One 1538
Upper Darby Central Leag 1498
Pennsbury Suburban One 1395
Neshaminy Suburban One 1295
Abington Suburban One 978
Central Bucks South Suburban One 930
Pennridge Suburban One 927
Bensalem Suburban One 872
Council Rock North Suburban One 858
Ridley Central Leag 850
Coatesville Ches-Mont Le 823
Central Bucks East Suburban One 807
Souderton Suburban One 807
Council Rock South Suburban One 789
Downingtown East Ches-Mont Le 781
Conestoga Central Leag 760
Central Bucks West Suburban One 732
Haverford Central Leag 719
Perkiomen Valley Pioneer Athl 702
Avon Grove Ches-Mont Le 700
Quakertown Suburban One 670
Downingtown West Ches-Mont Le 650
Penn Wood Delaware Val 638
West Chester East Ches-Mont Le 597
Garnet Valley Central Leag 567
Unionville Ches-Mont Le 539
@ SEPA:
Where you hear the D1 final is at PW? Forward the website that has that info. Thanks
District 1’s latest excuse for the location is that other schools are “winterizing” their turfs. That’s what was reported for the Pottsgrove-Phoenixville game when people wanted it at Spring-Ford which is an excellent facility and approx 9 miles from both schools. District 1 heads need to show a little leadership, pick out candidate fields and tell them not to winterize until notified. The PW folks were very nice and very gracious. Yet it was a tough location for last nights championship. I think they were understaffed a bit. The guy taking tickets moved to the concession stand. Germantown Pike going from 2 lanes to 1 at the Chemical Rd intersection made for quite a nasty traffic backup when coupled with the Mall traffic on the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Parking was tight, the concessions were limited to soda, philly pretzels and hot dogs. Thank God it wasn’t cold because there was no hot chocolate or coffee.
CBW field is always shut down this time of year. And no, it’s not too close to NP. Just about in the middle of the 2 schools. But it’s a moot point. Looks like PW, much to my dismay. Tennant’s field just can’t handle the crowd. Souderton would be ideal ( if still open), but CRS would cry that’s not neutral enough. This would be no problem if it just went to the higher seed, like other districts do. I’ll bet it’s tennant. Get there early if you wanna sit.
@Suburban1
Gv won 11 games with a never quit bunch of kids. They were down and came back every game. If their qb played the entire game against crs the outcome could of been different.by the way that qb was 21 of 28 for 268 yds with 2 tds and 83 yds rushing in one and a half games against your great suburban1 teams. You should really do research before you talk.
Great game last night between Easton and Nazareth, Nazareth has a great 1-2 punch, should be solid game with LaSalle. LaSalle has a great chance to redeem last year’s loss to NA, who barely won last night in OT against an excellent Upper St. Clair team (UStC maybe 3rd or 4th best in state). This is a great Quarterfinals everyone, get out and see some games this week!
NP/CRS game should be at War Memorial since its roughly 12 miles between both schools. PW is a bad location, the field/seating is too small, plus it would be a much greater drive for the #1 seed, makes no sense. Who ever thinks Coatesville (2008 and 2009) for ANY tourney games for Suburban 1 teams should be put in a white coat, lousy drive, lousy location (especially when NP played Liberty in 2008- yeah lets make all the fans drive 1-2 hours). Souderton has a nice field.
I think the Suburban One league overall is the class of District 1. I don’t really think any other argument can be made. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of other phenomenal programs out there like Ridley for one, but year in and year out the SOL produces.
@bruce
Just an opinion. I think a big reason why the final margin of the CRS-UD was 34-7 was due to the fact UD has so many players going both ways and because UD is pretty undersized. UD would have been tied at half if not for a bad center snap. Gained the most yards against CRS’s first team D so far in the playoffs I believe. One of these years they’ll get some size.
Projections:
LS over NP
NA over SC
NP over CRS
Wilson over CD
Don’t really know too much about the last match-up though.
Just read that the D1 final will be at PW so that’s for everyone that wants to know.
@suburban1
Jeff smith is definitely right
@Suburban1
You know nothing about high school football