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Dan, your point is well taken. I was, however, referring to the 8th grade kids that play football who are trying to decide whether to attend their local public school or the local Catholic school. I didn’t think of the transfers.
@ Colin:
Agreed. Good idea.
Don’t follow A & AA too much. Wood seems to have alot of depth, they will be a contender.
North Penn loses a whole lot. But they always seem to re-load as opposed to re-build. LaSalle’s coach is just too damn good to ever be out of the hunt. Prep is Prep, always seems to garner players from somewhere. Many others in the PCL seem to be getting their act together ( Judge, Roman etc.)
The usual suspects out of Sub. One, Central, Chesmont: Neshaminy, CRSouth, D-town East etc.
You’re right about CD ( from the west), I do believe they bring back quite abit.
By-the-way, I guess you already heard they are not changing the playoff scenerio for next year. Will still go with 16 weeks. Talkin’ AAAA here, the one side of the bracket ( PCL, D-11 etc), apparently will still have a bye. I can gaurentee they don’t like that. The other side ( D-1) will still bring 16 teams to the table, I really dis-agree with that.
Wood is the greatest!!! Wood Sux!!!! ok lets move on. Its all so last week. Lets look ahead little to next season. Who do you think can contend for the title next season. Doesnt matter which class.Any darkhorses? I’l start with CD. Looks like they have most of there playrs back next year so the will be an instant contender. Not sure what Lasalle and NP havecoming back but im sure they wont suck.AAA ACC loses everyone so they should take a step back. Wood loses a lot too but there back ups looked pretty good as well. AA may look vastly different with west closing and LAnc Cath moving to AAA. Single A is hard because i dont know too much about the teams but SC and Dunmore always seem to be in the mix.
Lets be nice. Try to steer away from the “Well Wood loses a lot but theyll just recruit again” stuff.Would like to hear everyones opinions
College coaches don’t miss kids. Doesn’t matter where you are they will find you. Recruiting starts so early these days has absolutely nothing to do with that. Ever college coach will tell you that. Nice try!!!
@ Dog21:
Wow, you do have a knack for making a fool of yourself don’t you? Obviously, my opinion means something to YOU, or why respond?
Most of the recent comments below are all you Wood fans, not satisfied being the state champs ( also the best team in the state this year in my opinion, as I have stated before), but many of you seem to need best team ever status. Some get upset when others point out many teams we might believe have could rate that same status.
That’s why I made that comment below. Believe this, I’m certainly not jealous of the PCL.
I don’t go all bragart before, and after, my team plays a big game like you do. Just look at your comments .
When the team I support plays anyone from another league ( Central, Chesmont, LVC, PCL etc) , it’s obvious who I support. But I don’t get all arrrogant about it.
We been in the PIAA too long, and realize that no one team, or league, will dominant for an extended period of time.
You wanted a PCL sweep this year. Didn’t happen. Because of that, I believe the bug is firmly up your a**.
@ newman107
Not sure if you realized it when you said “Because they’re winning? If you lived within this area where would you want to play? At the school where college recruiters are showing up on a weekly basis?”, but this is transferring for athletic purposes which is against PIAA rules. You may want to stick with the “they transferred for the excellent academics” arguement.
If you don’t believe the Wood fans and all the people who believe it to be true, read what ESPN had to say:
The Vikings’ season began with a close loss to cross-state foe Pittsburgh Central Catholic (Pittsburgh), but the team didn’t lose again, having outscored opponents by a 699-to-124 margin over the course of the season. Wood drubbed Bishop McDevitt (Harrisburg, Pa.) 52-0 over the weekend in the PIAA AAA championship to secure the school’s first state title. Even as a team on the AAA level, the Vikings proved to be the class of the Keystone State for 2011.
Wood has drawn kids from Neshaminy, Hatboro-Horsham, Abington, Upper Moreland, Central Bucks and Centennial (Tennent)school districts since it opened in 1969. Why is this now an issue? Because they’re winning? If you lived within this area where would you want to play? At the school where college recruiters are showing up on a weekly basis? Sounds good to me. H-H, UM, Tennent, CB West and CB East were horrible this year, and in recent years. Right now the program sells itself.
Buddy- Jealousy! get over it! When i go back and read your posts it is quite clear you have a bug up your ass for PCL. Your opinion means shit! Get used to PCL being a force.. Three Championships from AA AAA and AAAA already and PCL has only been in PIAA since 08′. Love it!
It’s the truth
Pittsburgh Central Catholic defeated Wood this year. They’re ranked 10th in the west according to Funkster. That means Wood is about 11th in the state. Other than PCC and the last couple of playoff games Wood’s schedule was cupcake city.
@Dog21 I am not saying that Wood was not a great team. Easily the best team in PA. They way they finished they might be 2-3 TD’s better than anyone in the entire state. That being said they are not in the argument of best PA teams since 1988.
not in any order:
Berwick 1988
Upper St. Clair 1989
CB West 1991
CB West 1997
CB West 1998
CB West 1999
Berwick 1992(National Champions)
North Hill 1993
Allentown Central Catholic 1993
Berwick 1995 (National Champions)
Pittsburgh Central Catholic 2004
Berwick 1996
McKeesport 1994
Penn Hills 1995
I’m not 100% sure but I would bet all these schools were ranked in the top ten in the country in every poll. I think USA today has archives going back to 1982 where in the 82 or 83 Berwick won the national title as well.
Do you Wood fans want it to be the greatest team ever in Pa. football? Well hell then, it is.
@realist99
That BS man, your just a little bitter because your team lost
When you can draw kids from a number of school districts in the Philly area, I really don’t think it matters who the coach is. They were pretty much an all star team, not high school football team
James
The best team of all time debate is obviously opinion based. Wood may or may not be, but to say “not near” the top Pa teams of all time? Come on, this team had everything Size,speed, athleticism etc. Not a weakness on this team.
Sorry…here’s link…http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/highschool/12/15/high-school-all-america-team/index.html
Heres SI’s HS All-America…Lotta Wood!!!Congrats!!
Last years ACC > this years wood.
Wood was a great team, hands down the best team in PA this year.
Not near the top of the all time great teams in PA.
@ Football fan: Right on. Carey did a wonderful job. Hopefully local kids get a crack next year, wouldn’t count on it. Offseason just beginning, God only knows how many transfers are on their way to Warminster.
@hsfootballfreak
I have to agree with you on the job Carey did with that line & the defense. Devlin did a good job but I think Carey helped make the difference with this team. You can’t go wrong having him in your camp. I also think they should have given more of the kids that have been there since their freshman year some time when the game was long decided. There was some good local kids on the sideline that should have experienced playing in the championship game at that point. One heck of a team.
@ div 1:
Pettine coached those teams, not Carey. That’s why he (Carey) says it’s the best team HE ever coached.
There are a lot of you saying some of the cbwest teams were better than wood. Belive me they were great teams but the thing is Carey coached them and personally said Fri night that this was the best team he ever coached..
CDiz. The 72 Dolphins are the only undefeated team in the history of the NFL. Not a single person beside Mercury Morris thinks they are the greatest team in NFL history. I know Wood has a loss but it goes a liitle beyond that. 1 loss does not exclude them from being talked about with some ofthe best undefeated teams. When a team is great it clearly shows on the field. To say 1 loss doesnt make this team as great as an undefeated team is clearly selling Wood short. But that is your opinion and i’ll respect it.makes for great banter tho doesnt it?