Sketchy but here’s how it looks at this early date. Classes are for this year. Add a year for 2008. Info is from school’s web sites, max preps, notes, newspapers, programs of games attended, etc.

Pennsbury 4-6; Graduated 40 seniors in 2006 and still went 4-6 in 2007 scoring 255 points, losing to Glen Mills and Abington by 1. Believe they graduate 3 OL/DL, Corey Llwellyn, David Veda and Dean Schofield, also RB Shakir Green, Matt Santicerma but good looking sophomore Malcolme Perry returns, 5-7 167, 451ry, QB Jack Westberg a jr and TE/DL Steve Marck 6-4 240 jr. Return a number of junior linemen, Zack Nall 6-2 235, Dan Hoffmeister 6-3 270, Brian Mosby 6-0 235, Tom Ryan 6-2 225, Brad Mayer 6-0 265, Jared Parrish 5-9 250, Will Abrego 6-1 324, Pat Cantrell 6-1 235. They return 6-7 to defense so a nice core there and other side. Played well in most losses. Should be improved.

Pennridge 3-9; Played a lot of juniors and sophomores this season and return QB Brad Herrman 95/223-1517-9/17 td/picks + 617ry, juniors RBs Matt Pattison 95/341 +13/103py, Kyle Lynch 80/215, sophs Ian Walbridge 35/218, Ryan Metzler 21/78. Graduate receiver corps of Jim Jefferson 38/711, Derek Kunkle 22/391 and Brian Stephenson 7/186. Graduate OL Zach Garner, Roger Moore and Pat Clligett, 12 seniors. Maybe not a sleeper but better in ‘08 than ’07.

Central Bucks South 11-1; Big loss of course is RB Eric Reynolds 260-2832ry, 34 tds, or 3108 tot ydg with pass receptions and his completing 9 of 11 for 120. All totaled 38 touchdowns. WR Colin Donnelly a big loss and I think the lines or most of it gone; #56 OG James Soreth, #78 OC Dustin Hojnacki, #73 OT Rob Kee (first team AP All-State ), #51 Karlos Bimba, #63 Dave Enos, #68 Mike Rodgers. Graduate 11 OL/DL seniors, DE John Jackson. The good news is quarterback Tom Johns 6-5 195 Jr returns.

Neshaminy 11-2; This is Neshaminy where they always seem to have the bodies but they do lose a lot….QB Justin Kenney, RBs Jason Ulmer, Joe Stemme, WRs Capanna and Steinberg, OLs Blair Gower 6-2 278, Adrian Kiwewski 6-1 250, Dylan Waterbruy 6-3 270 and Kyle Dunleavy 6-4 241, Aaron Lee . Nice LB corps gone, Ulmer, Stemme and Greg Martell. OL returns Dan Shirley 6-3 257 jr, TE Paul Carrezola 6-4 240. RB Quinlan Arnold back. Nice rebound from 6-4 season.

North Penn 9-3; Ended year losing 3 of 5 after 7-0 start but return most of team with 16 seniors gone. Except for FB Mike Katch it looks like most of the skill returns, QBs Justin Davey 5-9 170 + jr A.Taggart and soph Todd Smolinsky, RBs Tyler Smith, Ronnie Akins (WR?), 5-11 175, Bennett, Lewis, Price, sophs Eric Stoll, Greg Pace. Good PK McManus is back.

Abington 7-5; Lose QB Kevin Morton 6-3 190, RB Khahlil Pittman 5-8 165, entire OL, Vince Ricci, 6-2, 248, Jake Neihoff 6-2, 270, Brian Corrigan 6-3, 275, Mike Ruhl 6-1, 220, etc. Essentially a full rebuild. Expected more from Ghosts, thought loaded at start of year but were still a dangerous team that was a double-overtime loss to CB East and 4 point loss to CB South away from a 9-3 season.

Conestoga 8-4; Huge skill loss with QB Steve Richter, WR Nihja White 6-3 185 and RB Tyreek Clarke gone. Lost some good talent on lines with Jake Crooks 6-2 290 and TE/OLB Trevor Behmke 6-6 250, also Josh Pack 6-1 235, Mattt Kaminskas 6-3 230, Matt Tucker 6-2 240. Return a number of good looking junior linemen, 6-1 300, 6-2 296, 5-8 280, 5-8 225, 5-11 226, 6-2 240, 6-0 225, 5-10 245. Who says size doesn’t count? Always have it at Conestoga. They have a sophomore quarterback to keep an eye on, Julian Anapolsky, 6-2 250. Don’t know anything about him but he must have an arm to be used there at that versatile size. Bottom line is 27 seniors graduating.

Ridley 13-1; Big losses, entire OL Tony Agotsiotis 5-9 200, Mike King T 6-2 240, Brian Traband T 5-11 190, Dan DePrinzio G 6-3 290, Ryan Eckenrode G 6-2 275, TE 6-2 195, (Jim Kelly back 6-2 220 jr) QB Steve Egee, running back Andrew Hodges, good K/P Uysaler, linebackers Hodges, Marenic, etc. The district one champ graduates one of their finest teams in years, back-to-back 13-1 seasons.

DT West 10-2; Lose QB Nolan Kearney, #2, 3, 4, 5 rushers, 3 OL, Chester Schofield 5-10 250, Tim Ferguson 6-1 195 and Mike Egan 5-6 190 (got a lot of mileage out of that that quick line) and most of the defense. Return top rusher and # 2 receiver Jared Heller 21 Tds, 923ry, 28/228py. Sophomore Brett Gillespie was #2 QB last season, 6-1 170, got some time. West was smaller last year than other years but quick as everyone knows who saw the CB South game. Good looking soph DE 6-2 190 Josh Coulter and jr.DE Ryan Kendra at 6-5 230 are back. Hard seeing them duplicating back-to-back 10-2 seasons without Kearney.

DT East 8-3; Graduated 9 senior linemen, at least 2 started, Eric Ducharme 5-11 235, Mike Brophy 6-1 255 along with 6-3 190 QB Pete O’Connor, #1 WR Derek McKinley, #1 RB Goetz, Duron Wilson and TE/DE Nate Matta. Since inception in 2003 (5-7), East seems to “rebuild” annually going 8-2, 11-2, 7-4 and 8-3. Nice fast striking attack last year; under rated team. Aside from Coatesville only Henderson beat them. Lost a lot of skill. All totaled 29 seniors graduated.

Henderson 12-2; Lost key players, QB John O’Donnell 775py, 1259ry, 22 Tds, 14 extra points! Also both backs RB/LB Jabair Kahn 5-11 195, 168/1358ry, 227py, # 2 tackler, 99; Russell Jacobs 6-0 185 735ry 72py, starter as DB, #1 and 2 WRs John Lunquist 13/227 and Jack Cunningham 13/220py. 8-9 starting defense graduating, most of OL/DL, Miles Philpott 5-11 250 and Channing Philpott 5-10 270, Akiail Williams 6-3 260 and Ed Hart 6-0 200. Graduate 7 of top 11 tacklers. Played a lot of people last year, # 4 rusher/CB Kevin Mann 5-9-175 Jr 61/231ry, OL/DL # 1 tackler Evin Reinhart jr 6-0 180, #3 and #4 tacklers jr QB/LB 6-0 215 Kevin Costello (95 tackles), RB/LB Josh Morgan 6-0 190 (90), 5-9 180 RB/LB Brett Wms (33), a couple OL/DLs Casey Caslin 6-1 290 (33 tackles), Matt Smith 6-2 230 jr (19, 1sack), Sam Miller 6-3 230 soph all return. Looks like a good nucleus. Line up info from program.

Coatesville 5-5; Incomplete roster (max preps, school web site). Return exciting soph QB Charles Green 815py, 720ry, 1535 tot ydg. Others back are junior LB corps Allen Erdman 6-0 210, Chris Norton 5-10 195 and Claude Norris 5-9 190, their top 3 tacklers and pt’er Joe Thomas, hot shot soph 6-0 215, #3 rusher, 431ry. Another big soph got pt, TE/LB Jody Dodds 6-2 210. # 1, 3, 4 rushers return, #2 RB Haneef Brake 697ry will graduate. Graduate a few linemen but Raiders never have a shortage of big linemen. Return PK Chris Massero3 of 4, 37 long. Seem poised to make some noise.

Interboro 8-3; BuroBucs, what’s up? Looks like Bucs graduated entire OL (most of DL) with Brain Mergetech 6-1 290, Ian Hecksher 6-0 270, John McGowan 5-8 220, Mike Marchesani 6-1 220, Matt Mitchell 6-0 210 gone. Chris Taggert back 6-0 260 and don’t see much beyond that. Looks dangerously thin along lines but well stocked at skill especially juniors QB McMenamin 5-9 170, E/DB Shawn Krautzel 6-1 185 and TE/LB Vince Broomall 6-0 190 returning.

Hazelton 11-2; Senior oriented team (really?), graduate18 srs, QB Joe Kost, RB Nate Eachus (5-11 195, 2196ry, 28 tds), RB/LB Rich Matz 6-0 215 (nice tandem LBs), kicker Drew Orth, OL/DL Kyle Medvitz 6-1 220, F.Deandrea 6-1 225, Gregg Hunter 5-11 225. Big returning junior OL’ers are Ryan Knight 6-1 271, Francisco Fabian 6-1 300, Rafael Marceese 5-10 220 and starter Jon Koslop 6-2 245. Some big sophs in wings, 6-1 245, 5-9 230, 6-0 220, 5-7 240, 5-11 245. Projected QB starter was last year’s number two, a big kid Matt Drumheller 6-3, 190. Why media calls this a senior oriented team is a mystery with 13 soph-jrs playing enough for 4 sophs to get 40+ tackles and 6 jrs getting 28 to 48. Bodes well for 2008 with sophs WR/DB Chad Nicholas 6-2 180 15-235py, RB/LB Matt Manfredi 5-9 185, 13/65ry, RB/LB A.J. Petrone 5-10 175, 41/219ry, 41 tackles, etc. Soph OL/DL Matt Semanchik 5-11 245, 42 tackles and soph RB/LB Charlie Craig 6-0 180, 23 tackles. Nice size for 10th graders. Juniors in the picture are OL/DE Brian Pavelko 6-0 200 48T’s, OL/DL Jon Koslop 6-2 245, 43T’s, WR/DB Shane McKernan 6-2 170, 6/145py. Tough replacing a back-backer like Eachus but Hazelton looks to have a lot of potential.

Wyoming Valley West 10-2; Got to 10-2 last year with a young team. Return Junior OL/DL’s Durnell Johnson 6-4 285, 6-0 260 Matt Drevenak, 6-5 270 Malcolm Bates, Tyler Cpwman 6-0 270, 5-10 220 Mike Pretko and good size sophs moving up, 6-1 242, 6-2 250, 6-3 250. Lose a good tailback in Matt Kolojejchick but return quarterback Jack Crossin 5-10 170 jr and FB Dave Ryncavage, a 6-1 220 jr. Looks like Coach Curry (Berwick) has the makings of another good team. Coach has sure done a nice bit of work the last two years, rescuing a floundering program and returning them to prominence in district two going 9-2, 10-2 first two years.

Abington Heights 6-5; Scoring only 209 points and now lose quarterback Mike Dargatis, 3of 4 leading rushers and top 2 receivers. Lost at least 3 OLs, John Kilpatrick 6-4 260, Brian Peters 6-2 230, Anthony Lepri 6-2 290. 6 other linemen graduated. Junior replacements (previous starters?) include Billy Johnson 6-1 235, Greg Moyer 5-11 290, Colin Brener 6-4 245 and Chris Stankowski 5-10 240. A few monster sophs in 6-2 290 J. Goldstein, P.Bernardi 5-9 265 , A.Brunori 6-1 245, starter Evan Craig 6-1 285 and John Price 6-0 225. Hit hard at skill from a 6-5 season.

Delaware Valley 9-2; QB Billy Poore 59/101/1002, 81/415ry graduates along with #2 rusher TJ Bergman 85/542, top receiver Shawn Gregson 28/428. Return # 2 QB Ian Maute a Jr with 4 passes 6-1,175. Lost 3 OL/DL, LB, DE, 1 DB. OL’ers Dan Budd 6-3 255 and Aaron Thompson 6-1 280 gone. Return 2 Jr OLs, Kyle Lutz 5-10 215, Chris Horner 6-3 240, 1 DL-Horner, DE George Siracuse 6-0 230 # 4 tackler, Lutz at LB and 2 DBs. Return 4 of 5 top tacklers. Junior OL/DL Chris Conklin 6-5, 285 got time. He and Horner 6-3 240 are it with a small jr class coming up. Soph’s (jrs next year) are 5-10 Steve Yakaboski 5-10 250, Jack Rosenstein 5-9 240, rest of jr-soph class 212 and down, so they’ll be smaller.

East Stroudsburg South 8-4; Lose QB Zack Frederick 6-1 204 870py, 376yr. Backup was 5-6 143 sophomore Robbie Moyer. Lost a powerful runner in Anthony Davis 1505ry, 17 tds but return a soph FB/LB they’re high on, Sam Bergen 6-0 205, 53 tackles. 3 of top 4 receivers graduate with # 3 and 4 rushers behind RB A.Davis and QB. AP 1st teamer OL Corey Lewis 6-7 292 graduates so Cavs took some hits at key positions. 6 senior linemen graduate. Mike Calvert back, 6-7 285, Tim Sasso 5-8 253 with sophs likely moving up and into vacancies; Clay Grinder 6-0 250, Tom Lapping 5-10 250, John Frisbie 6-2 245, Gus Wms 6-1 250. ES South’s program on the rise but ‘08 looks like a rebuilding year.

Parkland 15-1; Lost 17 seniors entering 07 and made final, graduate 14 this year. Lose QB John Laub + 1300py, RBs Sam Tajiri, Kale Sweeney, FB Kevin Herod, OLs Tim Fegely 6-2 275, Andrea Sloan 6-0 245 and Alex Kollar 6-1 275. Return WR Jaleel Clark 6-4 205, HB Daryl Herod 5-10 205, TE Sam Zaccaro 6-5 245, OL/DL Clint Miller 6-3 220, Matt Frederick 6-1 250 and Ian Tomcho 6-1 245. Junior linemen include Eric Troutman 6-0 235, Connor McKenna 6-1 250, Grant Mauger 6-0 250, Nathan Warnke 6-0 235, Len Teutonico 5-10 245. Linemen rarely an issue at Parkland so if they can find another quarterback it looks good. Rooster lists Jrs Sean Keiper 5-9 175 and Allen Nist 6-0 175. Big soph coming up, Matt Smith 6-3 175. Imagine pulling another Laub out of the hat.

Liberty 10-2; Graduate 7 sr linemen (3 started) and 10 more from skill positions, notably RB/DB Ahkeem Smith, 901ry-192py, WR/DBs Joey Orlando 26-473 and Justin Rivera 16-261. Orlando #1, Smith #2, Rivera #3 receivers. Horvin Lattimer back, 6-0 230 junior TE. Return OL/DL juniors Levi Brown 6-3 315, Al Puhols 6-1 240, Horvin Lattimer 6-0 230. Levi Braxton back at DE 6-4 220. Lost DB (Rivera, Orlando, A.Smith) but DL looks good. OL Kyle Labarge 6-0 255 lost plus LB Brendan Beal 6-3 240. Return QB Anthony Gonzalez 6-2 183 who started this year as a sophomore and performed well at 66/110/1062py/14/6 td/pick, 80/465ry. #2 RB Branden Brader 5-7 150 jr, 52/523 back, QB # 3 rusher, Ryan Muhl 35/145 5-7 165 jr # 4 rusher back. Soph Malik Smith 8/113. A lot of speed in backfield. Quite a year for the sophomore QB.

Easton 8-4; Lose all purpose back/DB Jarred Holley, QB Zach Somogyi, RB Gary Fish, TE/DE Keenan Walls, OL/DLs Colin White, Nick Marzuoli. Other graduated linemen are 5-11 288 S.Malik, Brandon Bedoya 6-0 250, Greg Vas 6-2 250, Matt Selmasska 6-3 250, Paul Perrucci 5-8 240. This was one of their larger lines in a few years so I’m guessing some of these were starters. Juniors moving up at 6-0 270 Justin Grant, 6-5 225 Ryan Barrick, 6-0 230 Nick Hull and 6-0 225 M.Elgharby. Looks like serious losses.

Emmaus 7-4; One of the best defenses in D-11 ‘07 (allowed 98) but not quite enough offense (250) may be the dark-horse favorite with few graduating from the team that lost by 1 to Easton, 7 and 17 to Parkland and 14 to Liberty. In all games. Graduate 10 seniors; 5 of 20 OL/DL/TE (1), 2 RBs, 2WRs, PK. Looks like another powerful team from Emmaus.

Freedom 9-3; This team gets lost in the shuffle between Parkland, Liberty and Easton. Incomplete picture here with few stats, 19 seniors graduate. Graduate 3 starting OL/DL, Daniel McMahon 6-2 245, Anthony Carter 6-1 255 and David Harvey 5-10 195. Lose running back/DB Isaiah Wright 6-0 195 and RB/LB Pat Collins 5-11 210. At that size I suppose Wright was a S. Mike Zanoni 6-1 195 and TE/LB Todd Mike 6-1 210 graduate. Return 2 FB/LB with stats showing tackles; Ivan Encarnacion and Mike Muzyka, both 6-0 195. QB Joseph Fisher, 6-1 175 graduates. RB Jermel Lee 6-1 190 jr and Wm Velekei 6-0 175 jr are back. WR Joshua Fortin-Smith 6-0 170 jr returns. Only 6 linemen graduate from team. Unsure of starters besides above mentioned linemen but the following junior linemen return, Orlando Colon 6-2 240, Kyle Peters 6-3 325, John Kaczmarek 6-3 275, Christian O’Connor 6-1 225, Sean Searfass 5-11 245, Zach Gruhe 5-10 225 and Joshua Lutzi 6-1 220. Skill was their strength last year and appear to have lost some in Wright and Weaver.

Whitehall 8-4; Nice record despite allowing more than scored, 226-235. Played a lot of youth but looks like they have some serious graduation losses. Graduate QB Andrew Polony 6-2 185, 99/188/1099, and versatile #1 rusher/WR/LB/KO/P Matt Hamscher 5-11, 185, 525py, 696ry, 73 punt rtns and 536 KO rtn ydg, #1 tackler. Huge loss there. Also lose #2 rusher Garrett Waterhouse 37/145 (# 3 is QB, 44/93), #2 WR Kurt Gerhard 32/353, #4 Brock Costenader 24/319 and #5 WR Pat Manturi 26/187. Graduate 3 OL/DL (Mark Elkhoury 6-1 230, Erik Long 5-11 220, Nick Spaits 5-9 210), 2 LB, 2DB. Return # 2 QB Jim Lahue 60/112/621py, 6-0 185 jr, TE Aaron Hoenl 6-2 200 jr 29/330py, OL/DL Carl Kreidler 6-2 230 jr, DE Doug Henniger 6-0 200 jr. 5 sophomores got significant pt O/D.

Philadelphia Catholic Red Division;
Haven’t done my homework here in enough detail to list but know SJ, Roman, LaSalle lose a lot including quarterbacks. SJ’s losses are numerically high but they always reload without skipping many beats. RC loses QB C Johnson, RB Sloan-El, Moody, DL Edwards. LaSalle loses record setting QB J. Harrison, WR 6-5 220 Joe Migliarese but return highly regarded soph RB Sam Feleccia, 6-2 195, jr next year. Judge returns a 3 year (?) starting QB and a lot of their team. O’Hara seems best positioned on paper with QB Tom Savage, RBs Corey Brown and Evan Higgins back. Don’t think they’ll miss TE/DE Mark Wedderburn. Does anyone else think he was under used? The line was on the small side this year. Program from Bonner game shows two 6-4 250 sophs coming up, Matt Wms and Joe Whinnery. Will build around juniors 6-1 275 Dennis Mushrush and 6-0 225 Andrew Glace. In the Blue Division you always have to keep your eye on Wood but West Catholic looks strong at skill/speed; special QB Curtis Drake and RBs Raymond Maples, Rob Holloman over 1000ry each! and Drake at or near 600ry. That’s it for now. Time for a little R & R. More in a few months.

Penn Hills High School fired long time coach Neil Gordon. Coach Gordon won the PIAA crown in 1995 and played for the WPIAL title in 2006. Penn Hills would have probably been ranked in the PIAA top 5 next year and now are coachless.

I made a somewhat large error in one of my posts in the "football fans" thread. I said that 'Stoga was returning 9 of 11 starting defenders, but I misheard this. 'Stoga is LOSING 9 of 11 starting defenders from last season. Big difference! Maybe it might be a rebuilding year after all...

My apologies again for this blunder.

soccer regimens


One of the most efficient and effective for strength endurance is circuit training...

By its very nature it builds both strength and endurance. Most of us are familiar with some form of circuit training but for the uninitiated here's a recap of the general guidelines...


Lower weights and higher repetitions - the resistance should be about 50% of one repetition maxiumu (1-RM) or light enough to perform 15-25 repetitions. Very often body weight is enough resistance.

Time is often used instead of repetitions - rather than prescribing a set number of reps, each exercise can be performed for a set period of time (i.e. 30 seconds).

Short rest periods between exercises - to develop endurance, minimal rest is allowed between each stations and circuits.

Alternate bodyparts - each station should work a different part of the body from the station before - ideally upperbody, lowerbody, upperbody and so on.

Here's the routine...

Reps: 30sec per station
Circuits: 2-3
Rest between stations: 20-30sec
Rest between circuits: 2min


Increase the intensity gradually over a period of weeks by increasing the time per exercise/station (45-60sec) or decreasing the rest periods. For exercises that use freeweights gradually increase the weight as it becomes easier. However...

Just change one parameter at a time - either the exercise/station time, rest time or weight - NOT all three

If anyone remembers former Upper Darby RB Simoni Lawrence from their 2005 team that gave Ridley, Conestoga, and Strath Haven a battle in the central league he has committed to Minnesota. I had heard a few years ago he was heading to Utah but apparently he ended up at VFMA and it is good to see that he finally got his opportunity to play D1 football.

Maybe another dumb question...but curiosity´s got the best of me again...and I thought somebody could clue me in. Does anyone know where this superstar running back from Glen Mills, Bernard Pierce, is gonna play ball next season? I´ve heard he´s got family in this area and might wind up close by.

Thanks for the help.
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We´ve somehow stumbled into the "roids issue" on another thread, which actually started out on a totally different "foot," namely best Eastern PA Teams, update, or something along those lines. Okay, we do that often, and that´s what makes this site so unpredicatable and good...but a headline in the papers a few days ago struck me hard: "Marion Jones gets Six Months"

For me, that´s blind injustice. She doesn´t deserve that shit! You know, if they´re gonna make an example out of someone, there´s more suitable candidates. Everybody´s looking at the "Medal Count" in an Olympic Year and now she´s a "criminal"....looks like Marion´s taking the fall for some obscure American IOC officials to me. What do you guys think?

it should be interesting to see how the playoff points will be calculated.

I know that I may be considered as being a little biased here, but after visiting Lower Merion's basketball site, aceshoops.com, which is a very well put together site, I cannot help but think that Lower Merion as a whole, or the Aces Nation, is a little too proud and cocky. On the website they make a huge deal about Kobe coming to town and them playing at the Wachovia Center and all their close wins against Haverford and Ridley. However, it was quite difficult to find any mention of their three losses unless I was looking at their Schedule/Results section. The only thing that comes close to mentioning their loss to 'Stoga was a link to an article on the main page entitled "Aces look to rebound on Friday night". That title is quite ambiguous as it is intended to reference their loss to 'Stoga. On the whole, I believe that the Aces Nation are a bunch of people that believe their team is the best in the state, and, although on paper they look great, that doesn't mean squat if you do not run the table in the Central League. I hope that at some point in the playoffs LM goes up against Chester, because I am sure that LM would receive a very, very humbling beating. In closing, I know I am probably a bit biased, but the Aces Nation needs to get over themselves (AND KOBE), until they are a completely dominant team, which they are not.

Can't wait until January 23rd...hopefully Robbins and his teamates don't do too much partying before then because we all know what the results were last time: a couple weeks worth of watching his soccer team from the stands.

soccer guys are useful for the football squad

What do you guys think? Personally I don't think anyone will select him but if he does get picked that means three QB's drafted would be from PA (Matt Ryan Eastern PA, Chad Henne Central PA and Morrelli Western PA). Both Ryan and Henne are sure picks.

Hottest topic on the B-ball site? Yeah, Karon Burton and Chester basketball. What do I think....that´s an athlete! Seen the clips. Reminds me of Trenton High in the mid 70s. If you can do it, it ain´t braggin. Still, as a linebacker at heart, I would like to take this big mouth out! But he´s got "Star Appeal"." What are we gonna do with this guy?

Did they announce the coaches for the Big 33?

A blue chip recruit chooses Princeton over the big time programs.

Jonathan Meyers heading to the Ivy League

He is entering the draft. Projected as a 2nd round pick. Best of luck to him.

bLITZ64 WERE you at PHS, football man you come on the bball website then your like a ghost,come on back big boy.

That’s a nice list sammy. Those teams are major players but I think you forgot one, but first, about your list.

Gateway; not sure Gators need aide despite losses with QB Kalkstein, WR Corey Brown and LB Bell back to cause trouble. Huge graduation losses but good stuff returning, underclassmen, etc, a easily overlooked team. GReat line. Good call sammy.

Woody has big numbers back but graduated quarterback in Joe Shaffo.

Central has those super sophomore (juniors ‘08) running backs Jeff Knox, Dom Timbers returning to put them in running, literally. Two titles in four years and three appearances in last five years says pipeline of talent to Oakland is still flowing.

Mt Lebo. What a great program having a few bad years. I saw the 5-5 ’04 team. Wow! Do they have anything besides line? I thought they might challenge this year.

I know NHills graduated QB and McKeesport graduated almost the entire team. What’s up with NH and Tigers? USC lost all their starting skill players.

The team I feel should be favored from the West is Penn Hills.

They do a pretty good job -- for the most part -- selecting their teams.

Congrats to all the local kids fot getting recognized.

PAFootballNews.com All-State

A gift from Big Duke 6 and myself.

I am sure you both will not be displeased!!!

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Ride of the Valkyres

J B looked real good last nite in the D-2 bowl game
Looked big and fast
12-84 yds rush and prob 1-15 yd receiving
He needs to get his playing weight corrected he is listed at 203
he hasn't played at 203 since High school.
Even the commentators said he looked big.Of The 3 East backs he clearly was the biggest. The other two although talented were just to small
The Nfl is going to bigger backs and Jamar fits the bill.
He is playing at 218-220
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Tryout opportunity for Mid-Atlantic Mets is set!!!

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10/17/08??????

Off topic for an off day...just read the Inquirer´s lengthy report/media presentation, "Report Card on the Schools, a Decade of Change" whereby they rated all the schools, public and private in the Greater Philadelphia Area in a number of various categories. Included were things like enrollment, techers´salaries, most sports programs offered, SAT scores, number of students attending four-year colleges, etc. etc. The report included the five counties in SE PA and three neighboring counties in NJ.

The results baffled me somewhat, in some categories at least. It looks to me like, overall, Lower Merion rates the highest, along with Haddonfield across the river. Upper Dublin also came out quite well, but virtually none of the football powerhouses, with the exception of the Prep, graded out very highly.

You might want to take a look at this if you´ve got some extra time. And I´d be interested in hearing some afterthoughts. Is having a good football program not conducive to having a quality education program? Is there some kind of negative connection there? I´m pondering these theories, but I´m coming up blank....

Lift....apparantly everyone´s got "writer´s cramp" once again....so another "off topic," fitting for the off season, I reckon. What kind of training program do you have your guys on now? I guess I´ll narrow it down to the guys who aren´t playing a winter sport. How many days a week are they lifting? Other than the Big 3: Sq., B., P.C., what are they doing? Reps-sets scheme, etc. What sort of aerobics are they doing? Maybe some of these so-called "experts" could get a little education free of charge here.

go on www.highschoolplaybook.com and go under Winston Salem, Greensboro, High Piont and look at Hunter Furr Highlights. Hunter is our Junior RB you guys might enjoy it.