Mr. Serious

Congratulations to two outstanding teams with great tradition. This should be a great matchup! I look for it to be closer than last years matchup. I hope everyone has a safe trip and it turns out to be a barnburner no matter who wins!

I really hope that the people posting on this site are just trying to stir the pot and are not serious. I am sure that the coaches and players for these two teams have a ton of respect for each other. Be realistic, it doesn't matter how weak or strong a region you played in if you make the state finals you have a team capable of winning. Sure blowouts happen in the state finals, but it isn't because one team is that much better than another. I have watched both teams play in person this year. In my opinion this game will be decided by turnovers. I wish that for once a thread would focus on the positives of two outstanding teams with great accomplishments and not try to belittle the hard work of some outstanding student athletes on both teams.

Daburg is just another alias of bombsquad. I heard he likes to argue with himself on these boards. No one be as dumb as daburg sounds. I wish this could just stick to football!

I'm not sure if you think this is private education is a good thing or not- please explain

Will these predictions be as good as your clarksville- maplewood prediction?

Now that that little problem is taken care of...back to football!

Here's a heads up to you- if you're supposed to be studying, get back to class!

I don't know who closed but i'm sure glad they did. This is high school football- it is serious! If you want to be funny go to the be funny boards not the football boards!

A scrimmage is like the regular season. Rehearsal. Once you get to the playoffs you find out who the real men are. I guess that leaves maplewood out! Of course they always have their excuses to fall back on!!

It takes one to know one

You should just stick to the books!

He can't win the argument, because you can't legislate everything, unless you give out an individual "participation trophy" to every team, in which case there is no need to even play the games. Most private schools like most public schools are willing to play anyone. some people act like every year we need to realign classifications based on who was good the previous year. Lets put all last years playoff qualifiers in one class, average teams in another and bad teams in another. That way at least one bad team will have a chance to win? You can't even everything. The innercity schools with with a very high population of transient students have a disadvantage to smaller county schools where students stay together and play together for years. Should we drop those schools down a few classes? What about schools with ELL populations, It is harder for them to communicate with their players and therefore a competitive disadvantage. What about failing schools where a large percentage of student sis academically ineligible? should schools like brentwood be allowed to compete with them even though they have more eligible players to choose from? The list of ifs and problems could go on forever, the point is why choose one thing to target and leave all of the other factors untouched?

So you are saying people have no choice where they live? Look nothing is ever gonna be completely fair. You said yourself that people who can afford to go to private school can afford to pick up and move. So what is the difference between the two? One, noone cares about and the other everyone makes a big deal about. So my question is what is the difference between picking where you live based on the school you will attend and picking what school you attend. Sounds like a slippery slope to me.

I'll never understand the whole recruitment issue argument. It seems to me every school strives for excellence. Why do they do this? Because if they are great then more good students and athletes will want to attend there. If it is a private school, they will pay tuition. If it is a good public school they will buy a house in that district. Don't small communities try to make their schools and facilities attractive so that people will want to live there and go to school there. To me any kid can go to school at any public school their parents just have to move into the district. Isn't this the same as paying tuition to go somewhere?

I heard that he said that if we didn't he would. It was like so totally obvious that GP and PF were totally like arguing and like it was all his fault because like it just was. and PF was like whatever, and then GP was like whatever, so they were both just like whatever. So i think GP and PF should just like totally do whatever and just you know be like whatever.