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@ Garfield: Wood v NP and/or LS would be a great game.PCC obviously was the all-hype team as winessed by their early exit in the 4A playoffs.Wood has some big boys that were home grown. AW’s other D-1 prospects are basically mercenaries for lack of a better term who are on their 2nd and 3rd schools in 4 years.
It is amazing how Lasalle and North Penn never produce any D1 players yet wood this year is filled with D1 players. I know Wood is a great team but they would not steam roll either Lasalle or North Penn. Theres also probably a handful teams out west that could take down Wood (PCC, USC, Na).
@ jake:
I don’t think one has to wear a “jock” to determine talent. However, you have to see the players play, gather their stats, and note the competition they play against to make a judgement. I know that NP ( not sure ’bout LS), almost never sends anyone to the Big 33. Once again………. who cares!?!
@ rccat88: Great post. Another reason besides the great coaching is those websites are meaningless. First off, most of the people who write for those websites have never wore a jock in their life. Second, they have never seen any of the players they are commenting on actually play. They look at ht, wt, 40 speed press clipping’s from their local papers and make a determination from there. Total “herd” mentality. When was the last time LS or NP sent a player to D-1?? Who cares??
LaSalle and North Penn will be an interesting game, I’m kind of amazed that Reeves is the only player on Scout.com from either team (help me out if I’m wrong), and he isn’t even rated (#13 MLB in PA). How do you have two teams of Quad A in semi-states without multiple players in the college scouting database? Good coaching, that’s how. LaSalle may be 3-0 against NP, but I’m sure the coaches at NP are looking at it as 0-1, if we learned anything this year, regular season games are meaningless (other than to get into the playoffs).
Predictions for acc-wood game? Its too close for me to call i say the over/under is gonna be 100
NP/LaSalle should be another classic. Gotta hand it to NP coming back like they did, especially after their coach through them under the bus after the season opening loss to LS.
Northeast HS, About 10,000 at most, seat stadium. Parking is not good. Too bad that Villnova U., was asking too much.. That would have been a great atmosphere. Good Luck to all teams. AW 37-27.
newman107 where did you get that number for capacity? Ther Germantown supersite holds 4,000 and NE is much bigger but I can not find an official number. I would think 8,000 is capacity based on past press reports. There will be plenty of seats for the Wood game. The 4A final will be a sell out.
If you want to complain about proximity, both Hatboro-Horsham HS, CB West and CB South are all closer to parts of the North Penn school district than North Penn High School. Should Dan Gevirtz be going to CB South because it is closer than North Penn?
District 12 was incorporated into the PIAA with full knowledge that the high schools in the District have open enrollment. It’s too soon to expect that to change.
The stadium seats 4,000.
NORTH PENN ALL OVER LASALLE .. TIME FOR A REMATCH , EVERYBODY IS ON LASALLE’S BAN-WAGON. GIVE CREDIT TO BOTH TEAMS MAKING IT TO THE FINALS. IT WILL BE A GOOD GAME . HOPE THERES A GOOD TURN OUT . NP 35 LS 31
Dan,
Not great at this but i think you can compare the seating at NE to Naz. Might be a little more at NE. Dont hold me to it tho. I was at the Lasalle/Ridley game there 2 years ago and there didnt seem to be too many empty seats. For this game i will expect SRO. Just my opinion
ACC vs Wood at Northeast on friday night at 7. Does anyone know how much this stadium holds? We’re coming down from Allentown.
@ GoldenKnight:
You are obviously making things up. Yes, Private schools don’t have official “boundaries.” But you’d be surprised to know that just about every single player on that team’s roster lives within a 10 mile radius of the school.
@ everybody else:
Everyone whining about how private schools recruit and whatnot, stop. Please. This argument is getting old. If the public schools were winning and beating the private schools (not just football, but in all sports) do you think there would be any whining? No.
Predictions for next week:
West wins by 17.
Wood wins by blowout.
La Salle wins by 20.
Put it on the board! Let’s go boys, we’re going for the trifecta this year.
Why isnt anyone complaining about the PPL? There is just as much “recruiting” there as there is in the PCL. Players roll into George Washington and Frankford from all over the place. The same open enrollment policy is in effect for both PPL and PCL schools. But nobody complains. I think i know why. Because everyone beats the crap out of the pub schools!! If Frankford or GW made deep runs into the state tournament every year would everyone cry like this? Remember, this is what the PIAA wanted! The PCL schools didnt care about state titles until they were pushed into it by the diocese. They where perfectly happy winning the catholic league and calling it a season.
Goldennight you really do not know what you are talking about in terms of where the LaSalle players are from. Most of them live closer to school than many of the students who live in the eastern part of the North Penn school district. If you use your 4 parish example you would find only 2 of the starters live outside. Tim Wade and Sean Coleman live in CB East school district. Wade’s uncle is the offensive coordinator and has been a coach for some time, I am sure he was highly recruited, all 5’7″ of him. I don’t know if Coleman instead went to Wood you would be any happier. By the way both of them Played CYO football and Coleman was never in the public school system.
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Wood vs ACC is at Northeast HS Friday night 12/9.
General
I present these number to make of what you may. There have been 184 teams playing four championships a year for 23 years. Just scanning the school names it appears that 28 of the 184 were private (or Catholic) shcools for 15% of the total. The 28 entries were by 16 different schools. Prior to 2009 the most Catholic schools in one championship year was 3 in 1990. The 4 for 2009 and 2010 are the most ever so far. There were no private schools in eight different years, 1 in seven other years. Eight of the 16 schools have only appeared once. I see 15 wins in the 28 entries. There are no absolutes, and many cycles.
Golden Knight , As far as boundary’s most of the parish schools that used to feed into West are closed . Mt parish when I went there had 3500 students and my senior class 410 grads now the school doesn’t have that many in the whole school. That’s why they get students from all over , Just to stay afloat.
The LaSalle-NP game is at noon on Saturday at Northeast HS.
I’m sure most of lasalle players aren’t recruited but some are deffinetly being “helped out” big time
Ol coach,
Thanks but I Played football with many of the kids that won lasalle state title in 09 and there were atleast 4 students that I played with in 7th and 8th grade who barely passed each school year and got into lasalle with financial aide. Two of those players went to lasalle and are still playing college football …..
@OL Coach
I’m going to take it that you didn’t mean to type my name in.
I still think LS is going to beat NP regardless of how different the team is.
AW vs ACC is going to be one hell of a shoot out. If ACC puts up 40+, AW is going to put up 60+. It’s going to be one of the most exciting games of the year for sure.
@LVC:
Melosky should be ashamed at himself to allow those referees to literally keep Nazareth in that game. La Salle is 28 points better than that team. I was embarrassed as to how blatant it was. Anyway, doesn’t matter. The scoreboard is the great equalizer, and La Salle had more points on the board. Way to go boys! Time to put a beat down on North Penn. I would certainly love to see Dick Beck cry again. Also, let’s go Wood and West. Let’s go for a sweep this season!