Archbishop Wood - The 2nd best team in the state - any division
Been first for 8 years cyo loser! Figured we give your program a shot at trying to win something!
Hey prep nerd, I find it telling of your insecurity that when Wood gets nationally ranked it means nothing but yet prep plays the "hardest schedule in the country" (smile) with ranked teams! So which is it, rankings mean everything? or Rankings mean nothing? man you will tell yourself anything, absolutely anything to strut around as the biggest midget in the circus! Can't even win the PCL - wow! out coached by a first year head coach and punched in the mouth by a rebuilding LaSalle team, ouch! Looks like another 5 year run by LaSalle! prep nerd! Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face! You my little nerd just got punched in the face by a team in flux and rebuilding with a first year head coach! But I give you credit personally, for being able to speak up, unlike when you walked the halls of the prep and were too afraid, you've come a looooong way baby!
If I have a big mouth, why in the world would I need a megaphone? - You def went to da prep - dope! You sound illiterate? or just a dope! Maybe next year prep won't be scared to schedule the 3 time, back to back state champ! back to being the dormat of the PCL 4A, LaSalle's little bioch for the next 5 years as b4! If playing an out of state schedule makes you better, why are the prep football players already in their 2 week of basketball practice, once a prep nerd always a prep nerd! All my kids got into college going to high school, It's a shame that your kid needed the extra help from a prep school! Lots of hand holding! ("Preparatory" to assist, to help)! wow my kid is so much smarter than your kid! You must've known your kid was a little different or slower than the other kids, that's why you sent him to a special school that helps and assists! My kid just did it on his own! but don't worry My kid still might give your kid a chance at an interview when your son graduates from West Chester! You're like a large mouth bass diving for that rubber worm! you just can't resist! Was that lesson in last night's 4 hours of nerdwork aka homework? Always get the last word in? INSECURITY! I should be paying you for this entertainment!
It's hard to see the split as anything but seven and seven, so I see the larger school group including SJP, LaSalle, Judge, Roman, Wood, Ryan, and O'Hara. It's possible O'Hara could be in the smaller school group but I'd have to take a look to see which class they're in next year. As I understand it all the other teams I named will be in 6A or 5A.
That may well happen, but it would be a shame. It's very possible in a seven-team division that two schools would finish on top with the same record, e.g. 5-1. But if they're not in the same PIAA class, they would not meet in the playoffs and so you'd end up with co-champions of the division and no real division champion decided the way it's always been decided.
Roxy, So there wouldn't be a playoff? Or, if the regular season determines the the class rep for PIAA, any playoff results would have no bearing on PIAA rep? Either would seem very strange.
But if there are seven teams in each division, there would have to be less time for playoffs and any bye weeks.
I'm assuming there would be no semi-final round of playoffs, then, i.e. only two 6A teams are in the playoffs.
This is actually being proposed to AD's on Thursday at their meeting. The former 4A's would still have 4 teams make the playoffs, winner moves into states.
The coach isn't the AD. Also, teams will have opportunity to continue to schedule non league games. It maintains the continuity and integrity of PCL for now. If there is a playoff embedded into this as btm stated, then it seems consistent.
This would not be a good solution, at least for the former 4As. Very rarely has one of the semi-finals produced a truly competitive game. And I think any playoff system with integrity should require teams to clear at least a low bar. The PCL basketball structure has the first 6 of the 14 teams make it automatically into the quarterfinals with the next 4 playing a "play-in game" and the bottom 4 not making it. That gives the top 6 teams a bit of a reward for their accomplishment while having a big enough playoff pool that nearly every team has a shot of making the playoffs till near the end of the season. I realize football is different but if the system you describe is approved, we could have a team that's 0-6 in league games making the playoffs. Does that make sense to anyone?
Yes it could be Wood and Ryan but Carroll is now going to be 5A as well so they have a chance to play in said game.
The 3 schools voting against it were Carroll, Ryan and ARCHBISHOP WOOD, Ryan's HC voted for it but was overruled by his AD.
