Next month we will count down to our number one team in our Super 10 Rankings. Who are your top 5 teams in Class AAAA, AAA, AA and A? Pick from any of these Districts – 1,2,3,4,11 and 12 teams.
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193 Responses
My top picks in AAA and AAAA are as follows:
AAAA – Pittsburgh Central Catholic (Western Bracket) and LaSalle (Eastern Bracket). LaSalle champion.
AAA – Bishop McDevitt (Western Bracket) and Allentown Central Catholic (Eastern Bracket). ACC champion.
Dan, good luck this year. See you in church! So that team has been in the same grade in the same elementary catholic school all those years and all those kids on the team now are practicing Catholics too right? If that’s the case, wow,then we all owe you an apology, but we all know better. God’s watching you and Don Bosco 🙂
@mio, does tamaqua actually have a team this year? They’re picked 6th in the anthercite league this year. I am a 2003 graduate of tamaqua and my cousin is one of the lineman coaches. They lost quite a few good players. I don’t really see them winning the D11 2-a title this year.
@Warez
I understand that he has offers. All I’m saying is that there’s a reason he doesn’t have offers from those programs…
@Eastbetterthanwest
Over the last decade, Alabama, Florida, USC and Oklahoma would definitely be 4 of the top 5 elite programs… Do the research. Also you can say they only lost by 9 points but even Coach Matta said they got manhandled and the score was much better than the actual game. Besides, North Penn are the only words that need to be said. Top 4A team in Eastern PA? Yeah right.
Hey Gus –
Our guys went to catholic grade schools all their lives and played CYO all the way up to high school. I don’t want to hear your crap about recruiting either. I’ll tell you what. Tune in on December 16th on the PCN channel around 10pm and I’ll be waving to you from the stands after we hoist the state championship trophy up again as AAA State Champs!!!!
I can’t say much about top in the East, but watch for Tamaqua to make a run at the D11 title.
IMO Wood is the best team on the eastern side of the state this year and perhaps the entire state. My knights will be a close second. Of course health is always a key factor. D.Peoples N.Smith, B.Peoples, Benji and U.Jordan will be ready for ACC this year.
Lets hope that all players remain healthy and we get an opportunity to crown a true champion. Remember with out Peoples and company it was a tie game at half time last year.
Dog21,
I to know the coaches at Wood very well, I’ve been following local HS football for the past 40 years. Wood has a tremendous coaching staff and I’m not against recruiting, I am a true conservative and believe in school choice just as much as the next person even if it is a disadvantage to the public schools. But dont tell me catholic schools dont recruit, my father who is now 81 years old informed me it been going on since the 1940’s were he played in the Philly HS program.
I agree with David Mika its time to get back on track.
My revised pics:
AAAA
1. LaSalle
2. Souderton
3. Pennridge
4. North Penn
5. Liberty
AAA
1. Wood
2. ACC
3. Berwick
4. McDevitt
5. West Scranton
Bert
It is High School Football. Upsets occur all the time. It would surprise me if ACC and Wood do not meet again, but I would not be shocked if one of them was upset. There are a bunch of good teams out there for sure. It is a long season and injuries happen etc.. The best team does not always win.
Bert
All you guys do is argue who is better, Wood or ACC, or who is going to win the post-season match-up between those teams. Contrary to what you think, there are some pretty good teams in AAA in District 2 and 3, and and some good ones in AA in District 2 and 4. The whole world doesn’t revolve around these two teams. It would be a shame if that dream match-up doesn’t occur due to an upset in the first round.
Mike
Well Said.
Brian Hope,
If you are going to make a post and say Wood recruited, please tell the Board the exactly the information that you have that shows they recruited. I know this team very well. They DID NOT go and Recruit anyone. Des Peoples father called Devlin a year ago and asked if Desmon switched to Wood, would Coach Devlin give him a fair shot. What the heck is Devlin going to say?? Uh, no thanks Mr Peoples but we do not want one of the most dynamic players in the area. Nate Smith’s family saw what was going on at Wood and called for the same reason. On a roster of 50+, 4 kids on that entire team did not come from a catholic feeder school. When you build a good program, kids from the area want to come and play for your team. Especially since the Wood coaches do an unbelievable job of exposing their players to college coaches.
Stop making it sound like in the Off- season the Wood coaches sit around a table with a whiteboard and target great players from other teams. It’s nonsense and it is ridiculous. In the 90’s when Wood sucked every year, you never heard a peep from whiners like you. Now they are good and kids want to play for them and there is nothing wrong with that.
Dont tell me Public schools dont recruit either. My son is a Lax player in the Buck area. He attends the local Catholic grade school as an 8th grader. He is constantly being hounded by a local Central Bucks HS team to attend their HS for LAX and to NOT go to Wood for Lax because their Lax program is not that good. Two of his friends are also very good players and they will most likely go the the Public HS for Lax because it is a good program and the coaches get kids into college. I do not have a problem with that if that is the best thing for the kid’s future.
So it works both ways!
Sepa your argument is garbage. Oklahoma,USC and Bama are not the only elite programs as you seem to think. Drew will rush for 2,000-2,500 yards this year behind a very good o-line. Downingtown east will rock ACC in the opener.Drew’s speed has ever been an issue, btw he didn’t run track this year where are you getting your info? Funny how the haters come out the woodwork.
I’m going to say this one more time. You are getting away from the topic. Enough already about recruiting and stuff. Thanks!
Let me start off by saying that I am a grad, former assistant coach and fan of Souderton HS.
1. I hope all the majority of the people reading this can sort throught the BS being written. Most fans not but most are giving Allentown Central Catholic and Archbishop Wood terrible names. I actually have some knowledge of both coaching staff’s and I can tell you this. They BOTH respect each other very much. They are not thinking about each other because thats not how they go to each other last year. I’m sure that ABW is worrying about PCC and ACC is worrying about DTE. They are both class act coaching staff;s who respect each other and would not promote the nonsense being written by these ignorant people.
2. All the recruiting BS is nonsense. Do catholic schools get kids yes they do but to compare them to Don Bosco and Bergen is simply nonsense. They recruit from a 4 state radius that is more of a territory than some D3 programs. There were periods where both ACC and ABW were not succesful, did anybody complain then? Just beat them work harder its that simple.
Aww they cherry pick they do this that and the other thing grow up. Read a morning call article about ACC there are about a dozen written about that team last year being home grown through the CYO system. As far as ABW have they gotten kids? yeah but guess what SUCCESS recruits itself. Win and and kids will come to your school as well yes even the publics because happens just as much there! and I’m a public school guy
SEPA GURU
He’s fast enough for over 20 offer’s . He’s a big back not a scatback . I guess you need something to say , but it sounds like sour grapes to me .
@Warez
The illiteracy continues. All I said was that Drew Harris lacks elite speed which is a completely true statement. He certainly has other factors like the great balance and power that I pointed out but he doesn’t have that elite speed. That’s all.
obviously other people will continue to be ignorant and keep saying acc recruits. you honestly don’t know the truth and say nothing on how athletes like allens tajmire flood can transfer to freedom without any complaints but as soon as catholic school has success they get bashed for supposedly recruiting.
Dan, it’s guys like you that will eventually have the Catholic Schools separated. Bosco or Bergen Catholic… are the same as ACC. Cherry Picking kids and pretending they are all good catholic boys who just happened to wind up on the same team. Go back to your fantasy world and pretend all you want.
SEPA GURU , I DONT HAVE A DOG IN THIS FIGHT , BUT IT SOUNDS TO ME THE YOURE TRYING TO BASH A GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYER & Hard worker . Drew Harris has over 20 collage offers . He’s fast enough to get those offers and be ranked 23 in the nation . Please stop BASHING a PA Football
player’s .
Thanks
Buddy,
Your right about N Penn its hard to tell what they have with 120+ kids showing up for 2-a-days. They will always be a force to contend with.
@eastbetterthanwest
I’ve actually seen Drew Harris in action many times and I can tell he’s is a nice power back with great balance but far from elite speed. You can submit whatever 40 yd time you want, but the track doesn’t lie. Additionally, I’m always amazed at the illiteracy of people posting on forums. I stated he didn’t have offers from Bama, Florida, Oklahoma or USC (Southern Cal). That happens to be a true statement.
I also have two words for you. North Penn. Remember the score midway through the second quarter? 35-3 I believe? I’m not a hater, I simply see flaws in arguing D-Town East as one of the top 4A schools in the state.
Hey Gus –
The only Bosco I know is the chocolate drink. And as far as Bergen Catholic goes we don’t deal with those crappy jersey schools. Like I said earlier today we ARE and will continue to be the NUMBER 1 team in the state. CASE CLOSED!
You’re right, Mercer has graduated. Heard differently from an erroneous source. NP may not dominate this year. That makes the Souderton & Pennridge games w/ NP potentially very interesting, unless Beck has some “sleepers” hidden somewhere, which he might. Could be , by NP standards, a long year.
To Buddy: Wyoming Valley West plays Whitehall in AAAA sub regional championship. To Dan: If ACC’s that good, go play Bosco or Bergen Catholic… That is who you should be playing anyway to put things in perspective.
Hey Steve be careful what you wish for. Allentown Central Catholic is WITHOUT A DOUBT! the number 1 team in 3A this year. Nosovitch is overrated huh? Well wait till we play you guys this year. That is if you get that far. Hey how are all your recruits from the southern states that you recruited doing? What can’t you get guys from your own area? I hate to think what’s going to happen this year when we play each other. Nosovitch might hang 1,000 yards on you this time.