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District 1 6A Report Cards/The Man in the Glass

SUMMA CUM LAUDE: North Penn, Neshaminy, Pennsbury, Ridley

MAGNA CUM LAUDE: Garnet Valley, Downingtown East (DTE), Coatesville

CUM LAUDE: Perkiomen Valley (PV) and Spring-Ford

SLEEPING GIANTS/GIFTED BUT LAZY: Downingtown West (DTW), CB East, Conestoga, CB South

HIDDEN GEMS/INTRIGUING JOBS/UNDERPERFORMERS: Pennridge, Boyertown, Souderton, Owen J, Roberts (OJR), Avon Grove, Quakertown

ATTA BOY!/TEACHERS PET: Plymouth-Whitemarsh (PW), Haverford

TOUGH JOBS/EXTENDED SHORT BUS: Upper Darby, Penn Wood, Norristown, Bensalem, Truman, Tennent

WTF HAPPENED?!/BREAKFAST CLUB: Methacton, CB West, Abington, CR North, CR South, Hatboro-Horsham (H-H)

Three part format on this one, stay with us, please. First, the gods have listed every 6A District team above in a category. Secondly, letter grades are listed below for each, with the rationale and more criteria behind the categorization. Please see bullet points below for the abbreviations/explanations. Lastly, the Man in the Glass missive provides more commentary and filling in of the banks. Let the conjecture ensue!


  • Overall Grade and Comments (Grade)—Grade from A to F with one liners

  • PIAA is male 10th to 12th enrollment, all schools are listed in order of enrollment.

  • PA academic rankings (PAR) based on SchoolDigger rating of 674 schools—includes publics and charters.

  • Number of Private schools within 15 miles (PRIV) (door to door for each school), which includes 32 PCL, PIAA, Inter-Ac, PAISAA, Independent and DE schools.

  • Enrollment opportunity (OPP) displays a grade for the opportunity set available within each school

  • Academic Rank (AR) is a grade based upon the SchoolDigger ranking out of 674 public and charter schools in the Commonwealth

  • Competitive Moat (CM) is a grade for the # of Private schools within 15 miles—how susceptible is the school to getting poached, the better the grade the more isolated and less excuses.

  • Facilities (Facil) is ranking for facilities and stadium

  • 2004-2016 Playoff record (PR) is the post season record in the old AAAA, now 6A from 2004 through 2016

North Penn: Grade A, The D1 Gold Standard, PIAA 1564, PAR 36, PRIV 4, OPP A+, AR A, CM B+, Facil B, PR 34-12

Pennsbury: Grade: A, third most wins in D1, PIAA 1387, PAR 113, PRIV 5, OPP A, AR B, CM B, Facil B, PR 15-9

Upper Darby: Grade: D- third highest enrollment with just one playoff W? PIAA 1355, PAR 485, PRIV 16, OPP A, AR D-, CM D, Facil C PR 1-3

Neshaminy: Grade: A second in wins, PIAA 994, PAR 202, PRIV 7, OPP A-. AR C+, CM B, Facil B+, PR 24-11

Pennridge: Grade: C- sub par results, PIAA 972, PAR 214, PRIV 1, OPP A-, AR C+, CM A+, Facil A, PR 3-5

CB South: Grade: C- asleep at the wheel, PIAA 910, PAR 76, PRIV 7, OPP A-, AR A, CM B, Facil A, PR 3-5

Abington: Grade: C could be so much better, PIAA 896, PAR 107, PRIV 14, OPP B+, AR B+, CM D+, Facil C+, PR 6-8

Spring-Ford: Grade: B, based upon improvement from 2012, PIAA 868, PAR 26, PRIV 3, OPP B+, AR A, CM A-, Facil B+, PR 5-5

Boyertown: Grade: D largest winless team in D1, PIAA 866, PAR 80, PRIV 3, OPP B+, AR A-, CM A-, Facil A-, PR 0-2

CB East: Grade: C- made it last 2 years, getting close? PIAA 862, PAR 15, PRIV 2, OPP B+, AR A+, CM A, Facil A, PR 1-3

Coatesville: Grade: A taking advantage of its isolation, PIAA 847, PAR 505, PRIV 1, OPP B-, AR D-, CM A+, Facil A, PR 12-9

Souderton: Grade: C- teetering on an upswing, PIAA 806, PAR 125, PRIV 1, OPP B-, AR B+, CM A+, Facil A, PR 1-4

CR South: Grade: C- five years in a row of jack squat, PIAA 804, PAR 48, PRIV 6, OPP B-, AR A, CM B, Facil A, PR 5-3

Conestoga: Grade: C- no more excuses, PIAA 796, PAR 7, PRIV 9, OPP B-, AR A+, CM B-, Facil B+, PR 1-6

Avon Grove: Grade: C- only one appearance? PIAA 738, PAR 159, PRIV 1, OPP C+, AR B, CM A+, Facil B+, PR 2-1

Norristown: Grade: D- enough is enough, PIAA 730, PAR 474, PRIV 11, OPP C+, AR D, CM C, Facil B , PR 0-1

CB West: Grade: D the baton has been passed, legacy is dead. PIAA 729, PAR 110, PRIV 2, OPP C+, AR B+, CM A, Facil B+, PR 2-3

PV: Grade: B tested very well last 4 years, PIAA 724, PAR 72, PRIV 4, OPP C+, AR A-, CM B+, Facil B, PR 5-5

Bensalem: Grade: F but finally showing up for class, PIAA 720, PAR 447, PRIV 7, OPP C+, AR D, CM B, Facil C, PR: DNP

Ridley: Grade: A- awoken from its slumber, PIAA 712, PAR 334, PRIV 9, OPP C+, AR C, CM B-< Facil B, PR 14-9

Truman: Grade: F absent without any excuses, PIAA 670, PAR 519, PRIV 6, OPP C, AR D-, CM B, Facil C, PR DNP

CR North: Grade: D made it 3 years in a row from ’13-15 but still winless, PIAA 665, PAR 28, PRIV 6, OPP C, AR A, CM B, Facil A, PR 0-5

Methacton: Grade: F no work submitted, PIAA 647, PAR 46, PRIV 8, OPP C, AR A, CM B-, Facil B+, PR: DNP

Haverford: Grade: C- good effort but must pass a test, PIAA 638, PAR 24, PRIV 16, OPP C, AR A, CM D, Facil B, PR 0-5

H-H: Grade: D absent for 9 years, poor effort, PIAA 635, PAR 124, PRIV 10, OPP C, AR B+, CM C+, Facil B+, PR 1-2

Tennent: Grade: D ten years of sloppy work, PIAA 635, PAR 377, PRIV 12, OPP C, AR D, CM C-, Facil A, PR 0-2

Quakertown: Grade: C recent work and effort to be noted, PIAA 612, PAR 81, PRIV 1, OPP C-, AR A-, CM A+, Facil B+, PR 2-4

Garnet Valley: Grade: A who has done more with less? PIAA 608, PAR 59, PRIV 6, OPP C-, AR A, CM B, Facil B+, PR 9-8

OJR: Grade: D unsatisfactory given the environment, PIAA 602, PAR 44, PRIV 3, OPP C-, AR A, CM A-, Facil A-, PR 0-1

DTW: Grade: C- Whippet mystique? PIAA 598, PAR 51, PRIV 2, OPP C-, AR A, CM A, Facil A, PR 6-8

DTE: Grade: B+ performing admirably, PIAA 598, PAR 53, PRIV 2, OPP C-, AR A, CM A, Facil A, PR 11-11

Penn Wood: Grade: C- work is improving, PIAA 572, PAR 574, PRIV 15, OPP D, AR D-, CM D, Facil C, PR 0-2

PW: Grade: C excellent attendance but poor test scores, PIAA 571, PAR 93, PRIV 16, OPP D, AR B+, CM D, Facil A-, PR 0-7

Interesting tidbits: 16 of the 33 teams in the D1 6A field have either a single playoff victory or have none for the 2004 through 2016 time period. In other words, are the playoffs worth it? The cream eventually rises. It’s a universe of about 8 to 12 squads per year that are really duking it out. The top 5 schools in enrollment account for 25% of the total participants. OK, everyone knows that enrollment has the highest weight. However, competitive moat is next. Consider the extremes: four teams have just a single private school within 15 miles of their location: Pennridge, Coatesville, Souderton and Avon Grove. 3 schools have SIXTEEN: Upper Darby, Haverford and PW. Penn Wood has 15. This is a major factor. Facilities don’t seem to be an issue. There have been multiple upgrades to turf and super sites, almost all of the playing surfaces are satisfactory. The information and data is laid out for you. Don’t like your grade? Get to work, look in the mirror and start being honest with yourself.

Stay tuned for the Man in the Glass.....

Florida DC Geoff Collins will be new head football coach of Temple Univ

This could be a big win for Temple.. bringing in a coach from a big time program with an SEC background

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) —
Florida defensive coordinator Geoff Collins will be named the new head football coach of Temple University, according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy.

Collins was previously the defensive coordinator at Mississippi State (2011-2014) under former Gators offensive coordinator Dan Mullen before joining Florida’s staff in 2015. Eagles defensive lineman Fletcher Cox played for Collins at Mississippi State.

Under Collins, Florida ranked sixth in the FBS in total yards allowed (298.3) and eighth nationally in total yards in 2015 (310.2).

Collins has 22 years of coaching experience. Prior to his time at Mississippi State, Collins was the linebackers coach at Fordham (1996), defensive coordinator at Albright College (1997-98), graduate assistant at Georgia Tech (1999-2001), director of player personnel at Alabama (2007), linebackers/recruiting coordinator at UCF (2008-09), and defensive coordinator/linebackers at Florida International (2010).

NFL Playoff Power ratings; Divisional Round

Quick Hits!
Ok….time to see if the momentum from last week’s games carries into this week against the bye teams that are somewhere between rested, rusty and a little bit healed. All the playoff games are rematches so they know each other well. Home teams are on the left followed by their won-loss and PR.


Saturday games
New England (14-2) 45.64 vs Houston (10-7) 22.94

The Patriots are favored by a big number at 13 ½ (opened at 16) but already beat the Texans in Foxborough the 3rd week of the season 27-0….without QB Tom Brady. Houston is 2-6 on the road with NE 6-2 at home. Texan’s D looked good last week in beating crippled Oakland 27-14 but this is a whole other animal here.

Atlanta (11-5) 29.30 vs Seattle (11-5-1) 28.75
Atlanta is favored by 4 ½ in what looks like a super game. They are 5-3 at home and were hot before the bye week winning their last 4 games. Seattle is 3-4-1 on the road coming off an impressive home win against Detroit 26-6. They beat Atlanta at home Oct 2nd, 26-24.

Sunday game
Kansas City (12-4) 34.50 vs Pittsburgh (12-5) 34.65

KC giving 2 seems like a dream come true tho that could change based on Steeler QB Ben Roethlisberger’s injury status after wearing the boot last week. Big Ben is tough as nails and will play and already has a win against Chiefs Oct 2nd at Heinz, 43-14. KC is 6-2 at home, Pit 5-3 on the road.

Dallas (13-3) 38.75 vs Green Bay (11-6) 27.72
This is another dicey one with the Cowboys giving red hot Green Bay 4 points. They crushed the Pack back on Oct 16th 30-6 at Lambeau so this one could get chippie. Dal is 7-1 at home, GB 4-4 on road. A lot of rookies in Dallas’ backfield and Rodgers is in a groove! Began the year 4-6, but now on a 7 game tear looking to settle up with the Boys.

Power Rating Standings:
New England45.64
Dallas 38.75
Pittsburgh 34.65
Kansas City 34.50
Atlanta 29.30
Seattle 28.75
Green Bay 27.72
Houston 22.94

Jim Roth, Southern Columbia HS, The Formula for Success

The gods are miffed, hit the refresh button, we have alot to get off our chest. We are now providing the answers to the test. For all the frauds masquerading in District 1, read closely. We had to go to District IV to find it, but here is the coaching manual and formula, complements of Jim Roth, Southern Columbia (SCA). Smells similar to CB West and Berwick in the 80's and 90's.

Success = Players + Competitive Moat + Infrastructure + Coaching

1986-2016 Coach Roth's 33 year record at Southern Columbia (District 4, 2A) is 396-63-2
30 of 33 season with double digit wins
24 District IV Championships (including record 16 consecutive)
15 Eastern PA Championships
7 PIAA State Hub Caps
Never a losing season, 1986 was worst year @ 6-5-1
Youngest coach in PA history to reach 300 wins
Since PIAA playoffs began in 1988, SCA has made state finals 15/29 times
Was A but moved up to AA in 2015 (barely)
4 Undefeated seasons: 1994, 2004, 2006, 2015
Field Dedicated to him during the 2016 season

Does this look like success to you? 4 parts contributing to his achievements: players, competitve moat (isolation), infrastructure and most importantly, coaching. Allow us to briefly review each.

PLAYERS: The SCA Tiger roster is typically about 50 kids. The 2016 state runner up had 11 freshman on the squad. The leading rusher, receiver, and top two tacklers were 9th graders. About 155 boys. Roughly 1/3 on the football team. Unheard of participation level. These are very tough kids whose families grew up laboring in the mines of the Coal Region. Scrapes with the Molly Maguires are recorded in the Columbia County website. Could be a demographic time warp, even Knoebel's the amusement park in nearby Elysburg, is a rewind to a different era. These young men are just hungrier. Columbia County Median Household Income is $45k/year. PA Average is $53k. Catawissa (where high school is located), median home price is $92k vs. PA average of $164k. 24% of the high school students are "economically disadvantaged". These families are the underdogs that continually do more with less. And they make ZERO excuses. Not many kids hit the big time, but they will be succesful in life. Henry Hynoksi just ran someone over reading this.

COMPETITIVE MOAT: This is a rural area. There is not a private school playing football for miles within the SCA campus. There is no threat of being poached or picked clean. This tradition has been been quietly built in the shadows of Berwick and the late great George Curry, who is the all-time wins leader in PA with 455. Mount Carmel is also in the county, no slouch of a program itself. The Red Tornado has been overtaken by Roth and his staff, methodically over the years. The real distraction is the annual Bloomsburg State Fair.

INFRASTRUCTURE: The facilities are not great, but are far from horrible. The school administration is very supportive--they named the damn field after him, after all! Roth also serves as the athletic director, so he has considerable sway. Academically, SCA is 99/674 on SchoolDigger rankings, more than respectable. The building blocks are all there to be successful. However, the critical element is coaching.

COACHING: This is a program. It has consistency of coaching tenure. Roth for 33 years as head coach and a few more an an assistant. Other staff members on hand for 37, 24, 21, 20, 17 and 15 years. Even the junior high coach has been in place for 15 seasons. These kids learn the Wing-T and 4-4 in 6th grade and grow up running that system to breed familiarity.
A rival coach says: "We all knew we had better get our kids to work because the Southern kids are working their tails off, and in turn, I think it has dramatically improved the level of football in the district."
Former player: "We were always prepared--he advocated watching film and was a great teacher in practice. Secondly, I always appreciated how he coached us to attack and never back down."

So tell us, Jim, why have you been so succesful?

"Early on, we instilled some structure and continuity and it paid off pretty quickly."

Ah, Jim, you are just winning with better players.....

"No matter what your talent level is in your system, if your program is run with a lot of structure and discipline, that carries over."

Jim, you have been running that Wing-T and 4-4 for years, is that the answer?

"Lots of systems work, its about having kids that will compete and execute. I don't care what you are running, what scheme you are using, I think training is more important than the X's and O's, by far. We have had a very good weight training and speed training program for years."

LOOK IN THE MIRROR COACHES!! Stop making excuses. Roth does not get huge numbers, but he coaches them up, prepares them for life and gets results. Imagine if he had the job at Pennridge, Souderton, Boyertown, Methacton, Upper Darby, OJR, CB East/West/South, Conestoga.

"The scales of Divine Justice always balance--if not here, then hereafter."

Lockheed Martin CEO visited with Trump today and agreed to drive down costs on F-35 and will also...

create at least 1,800 jobs in the Ft. Worth, TX area. All it takes is a little effort on the part of the president. Strange that I don't remember any of these success stories when Incapabama was president, and especially before he even took office, as is the case with Trump.
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After eight years of doing nothing about Chicago violence, Incapabama and his justice dept....

now say that the Chicago police violated the Fourth Amendment. With one week left in office, this is what we get? It really is not surprising, based on the abject stupidity that this administration has shown in these matters.

So, it is the police that is at fault while Incapabama stood by and did nothing about this major issue, which has seen almost 4,000 people murdered over the past eight years. And it's in the city where the guy should have some sort of positive legacy, after having been a community organizer there. The absence of a positive legacy tells you all you need to know.

The lack of accountability by Incapabama is one thing; to bring up this charge against the police this late in his presidency should be enough for even his supporters to be have some level of embarrassment, if not outrage. This truly is a man of inaction and cheap shots. Very sad.

PCL 2017

Never too early to look ahead at next season.

Anyone have any insight on PCL teams, Red or Blue and what they have in the works for 2017?

Not really looking at who returns for each team as those kids are easy to identify.

Who are the kids that don't have the big names that are going to be contributors next season?

PFN 6a all state team

Hope everyone had a safe and happy new year. Stalk- nice job on the new years picks. Should be great final, both def were lights out. With regard to PFN team, Udinski from NP honorable mention, whhhaaaat! No one other than johns 1st team and udinski hm listed. Puzzled by the slight that the second ranked team in state doesn't garner more spots. Nobody on defense? I'd have to say if we take these experts for experts then beck did more with less and is coach of the year.
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College Football FINAL; Alabama vs Clemson….any thoughts?

The semis were easy but now this? Being a D guy I like what both bring especially along the fronts. No idea who’s going to win but think it will be low scoring. The press has maybe overrated Kiffin’s departure at the expense of Sarkisian? We’ll see. Hard going against the master so I guess it’s Roll Tide. PRs based on points and wins (schedule difficulty) has it 9.97 Bama.

Gabe Infante of St. Joseph's Prep (Pa.) named Army Bowl National Coach of the Year

http://usatodayhss.com/2017/gabe-in...y-bowl-coach-of-the-year#sthash.lWT5s8NJ.uxfs

Gabe Infante of St. Joseph’s Prep (Philadelphia) was named the Army Bowl National Coach of the Year at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Awards Show on Friday in San Antonio.

Infante led The Prep to a 14-0 record, the Pennsylvania 6A state title and the No. 8 spot in the final Super 25 rankings. St. Joe’s Prep beat Central Catholic (Pittsburgh) 42-7 in the PIAA final.

St. Joe’s Prep outscored the opposition 563-219 and scored at least 35 points in 13 of 14 games.

Infante was selected from among six finalists who led their teams to final Super 25 rankings.

  • Kenny Sanchez, No. 1 Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas)
  • Elijah Brooks, No. 4 DeMatha (Hyattsville, Md.)
  • Bruce Rollinson, No. 9 Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.)
  • John Lambourne, No. 11 Bingham (South Jordan, Utah)
  • Thomas Wilcher, No. 15 Cass Tech (Detroit)

College Football Semifinals....any thoughts?

Now that Rousey got her overrated butt kicked again (Washington-Alabama preview?) it's all about football. This has been one of the more competitive bowl season's featuring tight games and comebacks as the norm with teams playing like it matters regardless what Finebaum says. So, any thoughts?

Washington vs Alabama; Rooting for the underdog here but it looks shaky for the Huskies. Good seeing the corner turned striving for the quality of teams Coach Don James fielded.

Ohio State vs Clemson; As a Penn Stater I'm still getting over the imbecilic selection committee's decision and hope Clemson destroys the girls from Columbus the way Nunes destroyed RR.
Penn State!

Next week is the FCS final (Jan 7th)....James Madison vs Youngstown State.
Picking JMad being in the CAA with Villanova and Delaware....and YS (sorry Jaws!) being from that state to our left.
http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/fcs
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