Enough With the Private/Public Issue...Great Game Tonight

[PAFootballNinja]

The Team from the High School of 1,500 kids just took the Mighty, Recruited, D-1 Talent Loaded, Goliath of a Team to the wire in one of the Best AAAA State Finals we've seen in a while. I don't understand why everyone is so butthurt over Private Schools taking down State Championships. I graduated right near the end of the all-public era, and we were wishing the Private schools could enter the playoffs, because we were tired of them telling everyone how they were so much better than us, and had no problem lining up against the so-called "recruits". All the complaining just sounds soft in my opinion, and promotes a defeatist attitude; it's just a built-in excuse when you can't get the job done.

Parkland and PR were both a play away from beating The Prep, it wasn't a cakewalk to the Championship by any means. On the other hand, it reflects poorly for the Falcons of Fairless Hills. Say what you want about how recruiting and whatnot is unfair, but if YOUR kid was a QB with an arm and a mind for the game, YOU'RE sending him to a private school instead of PHS if you can afford it....at least if you want him to have any shot at playing Quarterback in college.

Congrats to Pine-Richland for never giving up tonight, they truly fought to the end. And Congrats to St. Joe's for going back to back; players from out of state or not, it's a difficult feat to accomplish.

-The Ninja

 

[ed o'brien]

THANK YOU!!

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[earth2frankie.et.all]

Hello, same old tune-ster.