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@Dog 21…when did Wood beat NP at Crawford? When LaSalle beat them there last year it was their first loss there in 50 someodd games. How can anyone complain about recruiting and use Wood as an example? Wait til next year when their D1 all star team graduates…
Butch and PCL
It is quite possible that after this year LaSalle and Wood will have the same # of State Championships. I will check back in 3 weeks.
That is total BS that Wood did not want to sign up for a 2 year commitment. That’s a flat out lie. Because AAA only has 4 teams in their league, they were scrambling to get additional games.
Regardless of our differing opinions, i will be pulling for all PCL teams this weekend. Go PCL!
Chucky,
The NG game was a league game. LaSalle has three open date and they were filled this year. The real question to ask is why after the 2009 season Wood did not not want to sign up for a two year commitment.
Dog21:
No one expected Lasalle to be good last year or this year given what they lost but they are back again and without any transfers. Come back on here in three weeks after you in the championship and tells us all about it. Until then keep your boys focused and win the games you are suppose to win. If Lasalle draws kids from all over EasternPa you have to admit they do a bad job. No D1 players who are undersized. After 3 straight years of top teams don’t you think they would have more coming in?
Couldn’t agree more with Dog21.
While this AW hasn’t won a state title yet, or accomplished anything really significant (let’s be honest, the district title doesn’t mean squat), I believe this it the year they do it. If not this year, then it will be a long time before they do, because all the pieces are there. I think the team knows the same thing and will be out to prove it. Two phenomenal games on tap at Northeast this Friday and Saturday, and I’m excited to be able to watch both.
For the record, West Catholic is far from subpar!
@ Dog 21: All you have is what was the Prep/LS score compared to Wood?? Really?? Prep/LS is a rivalry game that goes back generations, the intensity level no matter what the records is off the charts. Wood lost to a PCC team that is not a top 8 AAAA team having lost early in the AAAA playoffs. Gordon and Devlin are close friends?? Is Devlin coach Gordon’s mailman??
Butch
Yes Wood has 3 players outside of the old boundaries. How many does LaSalle have? Oh wait Lasalle has kids from all over Easternpa and always has.
I normally would root for LaSalle but you and your arrogant friends about the Almighty Lasalle make it quite difficult. It is your pompous remarks that make others inside and outside of the PCL dislike you.
By the way Wood is going nowhere. They will be there in 5 yrs for sure. They are building a multi sportsplex on campus and stadium. They will be playing LaSalle in years to
come. They will be attracti g the best athletes in the area. So we might see Wood vs La salle down the road.
PCL FAN, I heard the same thing that Lumpkin wrote. They could have switch that NG, Egan games. Its all water under the bridge now, I sure hope they both win states.
PCL Fan and hsfootballfreak
It is that arrogance that makes others, especially in the PUB, despise LaSalle. AAA is the minor leagues? Stop. Last year’s ACC team would have blown the doors off LaSalle, and most other teams in A AA AAA or AAA. Just because you have an extra A on the end of your classification doesn’t make you the King. This year PCC would have handled LaSalle as well. This LaSalle team is not nearly as good as in previous years. In most years, i would agree that LaSalle would beat Wood. But if you have seen LaSalle and Wood both play this year, and you know anything about football, you would know that it would be a heck of a football game. I do think this year Wood would beat them because they have too much size and speed for LaSalle. Athletically at skill positions, LaSalle would not be able to keep up with the skill kids that Wood has. But we will never know because they will not play. So the only thing we could do is look at “like opponents”. Wood destroyed the PREP, probably could have scored 85 points if the Mercy rule was not put into effect. What was the LaSalle/Prep score? Look, Gordon is a great coach, and because of that you can never count LaSalle out. He is probably the best game day coach in the area. But no need on your part to downplay the job that Devlin has done at Wood since he arrived, or criticize who he has played. Devlin is one of the best coaches in the area as well. He did not have 6 D1 kids in 08 and 09 and they made a run. Especially the 09 team was not expected to do anything and made it to the semi finals.
Wood has played AAAA teams before, like NP, a few years ago and beat them at Crawford. The problem Wood has is that it is hard for them to get AAAA teams who want to play them. Nothing positive can come out of it for a good AAAA team to get spanked by a AAA team.
Lumpkin-That’s crazy talk and you are wrong. Gordon would have played Wood if it was feasible. Gordon and Devlin are good friends and would have loved to play each other. Gordon would not back down to playing anyone, and neither would Devlin.
@ T. Lumpkin: My friend you Wood people have such LS envy. They have already won a Big Boy (AAAA) Championship without plucking kids from other high schools. D. Peoples 3 schools in 4 years, didnt’t do too well against LS while @ Prep, escapes to JV/AAA ball. B. Peoples N. Smith need we say more. Little Stevie wants to win at all costs and that’s fine…he’s made his bed. When Wood is a memory in 5 years I hope you guys can look back on a JV Chamionship this year. Good Luck!!
Dog Coleman came to lasalle to play lacrosse and the lacrosse coach didn’t know he existed. When he was in 8th grade he was 5’5″ 125lb and has a May birthday which made him a very young 14 year old as a freshman. Come on, ya everyone wanted him.
Lumpkin get a clue. LaSalle was on the second half of Home/Home games with NP, Bergen and WC they had no open dates. Think what you want about Gordon but Wood still needs to get it done on the field. They have been this far before lets see if they can win the big one for once.
hsfootballfreak
How about you ask Gordon why he didn’t take the game against Wood this year. Devline wanted that game but Gordon declined. they could have played. when this Wood team leaves I bet Gordon will want to play then.
@SEPAGURU, I hate to break this to you but AAA is the minor leagues nobody takes AAA serious the big boys play AAAA .
Lasalle isn’t Bonner,Egan,Carroll,West Catholic or any other sub par team Wood had on their schedule . Devlin would actually have to coach against Lasalle and I put my money on Gordon . Maybe you can talk to Devlin about stepping up next year and play Lasalle , Roman ,Judge, North Penn and we’ll see how that steamrolling thing works out ?
As far as Wood destroying LaSalle and/or North Penn maybe so maybe not. That would be like a good JV team(AAA) beating a below average varsity team(AAAA).We will never know but the heavyweight champ is always considered the baddest man on the planet. I have seen the crowd at Northeast High (Charlie Martin Memorial Stadium)listed in the paper and/or boxscore as high as 10,000 in the past but that would have to include standing room. The home stands are like at least 100 yards long or more and the visiting stands go from about the 10 or 20 yard line to the other 10 or 20 yard line. It is a good place to see a game but the last time I used the restroom (not pleasant) was before they put the few million into it to make it a D12 supersite. I guess anywhere that has 10,000 people the bathrooms are not pleasant.
Archbishop Wood would absolutely steamroll Lasalle or North Penn this year. No offense to either program, but that’s just the truth.
PCL Fan
STOP. I am a PCL fan and Wood follower and I will be rooting LaSalle on like I do every year. But please, to say LaSalle does not recruit 8th graders is comical. And to say nobody wanted the kids on the current team is even funnier. Coleman set the CYO record for TD’s as an 8th grader and was undeniably unstoppable. You have a very good lineman there as well that played with Coleman that was a stud as an 8th grader and was highly touted.
I agree with you on the coaching. There might not be a better coach in the business today like Gordon and crew. The gameday adjustments are remarkable. Great coaches and staff.
Sorry, the 4,000 seat capacity I stated in an earlier post is for the Germantown site. I can not find an official number for the Northeast site. My apologies.
LaSalle has 4 kids playing D1-AA ball from 2009 season at William and Mary, Delaware, Penn and Lafayette. 2010 has two, Villanova and Penn. Only 2 from both 2009 and 2010 are playing D3. That’s it. LaSalle is all about coaching. What their staff does with the kids who come through the door is something. And let me tell you no one is recruiting those kids in 8th grade because no one wants them.
Johnny Mo
I agree the over under will probably be somewhere around 100. Wood 99-1:) LOL. kidding
Garfield
Wood demolished ST Joe Prep , who in turn torched NP. In terms of the Western teams, Wood vs PCC was a sclose as it gets. They play 10X, they split 5-5. I would think the same with the other teams out there.
@ Garfield
I’m sure there has to have been at the least been a dozen or so that played D1 ball, maybe we can’t remember. Ryan Geiger who graduated last year I know plays football for Bloomsburg right now, I’m unsure if he gets playing time or not though
Wood would destroy Lasalle and NP this year. This a very special wood team that has been assembled. Lasalle and NP are great programs but they wouldn’t be able to deal with Wood this year. Wood is explosive, powerful and play light out defense! To much for either team to handle.
The only thing that North Penn has going for it is the “law of averages” as it is tough enough to beat a program as good as North Penn twice in a row let alone three times in a row trying for four. I went to LaSalle but this is going to be a really tough game for us as North Penn has a lot of motivation to beat us and I only hope we don’t take them too lightly because as I said…North Penn is more than due to win…they are way over due.
I think folks like scout and rivals do a good job providing information on D-1 talent across the country and these HS around here provide a very exciting brand of football. It just goes to show though that if you can establish good teaching programs at a junior high level and carry it to a solid coaching staff in HS for instance, you can produce solid teams year in and year out. And both of these programs have provided good talent recently, LaSalle has many players at D-1 and D-2 level and so has NP- Akins, McManus and Bucknels Smith (who by the way, had a solid year this year) to name a few.