We all our bais for our on State in someway , but after the Herbie seeing Lakeland , Texas High , DeLasalle. Cali , TX, OH , FLA all play some damn good ball we could argue a entrie lifetime about this. But I will say after the Big 4 PA has some great teams to. This is getting old. The only major difference is the fans in Texas and Ohio and the love for the game that none of the other the other States cant compete with. Just look at Big cities in Ohio and Texas like Cincinnati and Dallas & Fort Worth Area. In these 2 big towns poeple come out on Friday or Saturday night just like a small town its hard to find that kind of passion elsewhere. Thats just my opinion but I pretty much respect everybody.
Lemme pose THIS comparison! How can you compare a state who has 500 schools with enrollments of 4000 plus students. With a state whose largest school by far, is 4000? BUT, BUT, BUT, LARGER don't always mean BETTER! I can remember a school with 6500 students, Allen, that needed to go pilfer another high school, to get the QB1 that they needed, KYLER MURRAY! I can name a school (Mater Dei) who lost their QB1 (J.T. Daniels, to early enrollment at USC) But had the pick of the ENTIRE metro LA area, to pick THEIR QB1 replacement, BRYCE YOUNG! And MOST of those schools with 4000 students, routinely get WHACKED in the playoffs. It has become the first ten teams to recruit the best, WINS the natty.
The irony of it all was though. The last regular high school to win this natty, was the Colquitt Co. Packers, who was the least talented team we had had in a decade, with only one THREE star and NO legit RB's, after our four star All American, decided he and his gang needed a 68 year old farmer's gun collection, more than he did, and killed him dead. So, ALAS, the greatest coach in America, went back to the drawing board, and moved his TWO Star TE and THREE Star WR to RB on plays where they were needed. And finished their 30-0 run through the toughest prep playoff bracket in AMERICA! They finished #1 in TWO polls, #2 in three other polls, and # FRICKIN SIX, in the Dallas Jackass Comic Book Poll. Thus keeping them from being CONSENSUS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS. But have no fear, THAT will be the LAST time a non private/non open enrollment school will EVER win a NATTY! What's happened to prep football is even more befuddling than UGA's current domination of the DI rankings. But at LEAST, DI football has the wherewithall to compete and recruit, to rectify the measureables. NOT SO in high school football. Where those 10-12 football factories, have made a MOCKERY of competing at a high school level.
By the BY, the #10 ranked team in America currently, is public open enrollment school Buford, Ga., enrollment 1100. And they currently have TWENTY FIVE, three, four, and five star players on their roster. And THREE of the TOP TWENTY FIVE in AMERICA! Should THEY be considered a lil ole public high school, just trying to do the best that they can? OH HELL NOOOO! The GHSA should lose their powers as a governing body. If Buford EVER loses another game (except the one against St. Francis Academy tomorrow) Their head coach should be FIRED on the spot for GROSS INCOMPETENCE!
In short, there are a multitude of factors that go into the best of the best. But teams who RECRUIT should be BANNED from high school rankings.
And there are MAYBE FOUR other schools in ALL of Cali, who can walk and chew chewing gum at the same time. Would the fact that Mater Dei swapping natty's for the past six seasons, with St. John Bosco, say that Cali is the best of the best?
There seems to be a common theme each and ever season. The SAME o SAME o top ten is ALWAYS the same. Mater Dei, St. John Bosco, De La Salle, Centennial Corona, St. Francis Academy, St. Thomas Aquinas, Miami Central, IMG, Bishop Gorman, and the flavor of the month in Texas, which more than likely is one of their 4000 enrollment football factories. MOST of which are either private schools, or school who have open enrollment with NO geographic boundaries. And since Buford, under the auspices of the three times multiplier, has quickly risen to that level, to meet the challenge. THESE ten to twelve teams, will soon RUIN high school football, on a national level. There NEEDS to be sanctions towards these schools, to only play each other to establish a FOOTBALL FACTORY NATIONAL CHAMPION. Because the REST of our 12,000 schools, are just pissin in the wind.
