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Post by MDDad on Jan 14, 2021 15:09:44 GMT -8
The field certainly isn't as nice as the one on Bristol & St Andrew, and the league organizers aren't nearly as polished as the ones on Pine St in Los Alamitos. But your scouting report of a treacherous field is overblown, as to my knowledge, there haven't been any field related injuries in the 30+ games played there so far the past 2 weeks. We learned from a pretty reliable source today that Jake Retzlaff, the starting QB at Corona Centennial, broke his leg playing on that shit field recently and needed to have pins surgically inserted to put it back together. |
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Post by Bick on Jan 14, 2021 15:25:44 GMT -8
He broke his leg because the field failed? I was on that field, and have been on MUCH worse than that.
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Post by thefrog on Jan 14, 2021 17:25:43 GMT -8
Proximate cause? Was it really the field?
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Post by SK80 on Jan 20, 2021 8:09:58 GMT -8
Let the battle off the field begin so kids can get on the field... hey school systems and governing bodies of California, get yo sh*t together real quick or we have yet another "reset" due to Covid 2020-21
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Post by Bick on Jan 20, 2021 8:54:09 GMT -8
Remember, we have NEVER had positive testing low enough for football to have been allowed to play. Panic driven asymptomatic testing continues to drive #'s through the roof. Could you imagine what that would have looked like in prior years? You're at a party and find out someone caught the flu. Even though you don't have any symptoms, you rush down to take an unreliable, hypersensitive test that detects you have a trace of the virus. That's where we are today.
Newsom would have to scrap his bullshit color coded system in order for there to be HS football. That would require him admitting he was wrong.
How do you like the odds of that happening?
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Post by MDDad on Jan 20, 2021 9:08:57 GMT -8
Gavin Newsom has done more damage to this state than Covid has. He's the real virus that needs to be eliminated.
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Post by thefrog on Jan 20, 2021 9:35:33 GMT -8
While I am excited at the idea of club football sticking it to the state, I do worry about smaller programs being further unable to compete with clubs with higher capital and better players.
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Post by Bick on Jan 20, 2021 9:50:37 GMT -8
If you believe Chris Fore, a HS principal I've engaged with on Twitter a few times, there's a growing sentiment that HS athletics is more of a pain in the ass than worth. I assume budgetary reasons are a driving force behind this.
I think that speaks right into your point, Frog.
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Post by MDDad on Jan 20, 2021 9:59:15 GMT -8
If you believe Chris Fore, a HS principal I've engaged with on Twitter a few times, there's a growing sentiment that HS athletics is more of a pain in the ass than worth. I assume budgetary reasons are a driving force behind this. I have pretty good visibility into what it takes monetarily to run a high school football program, and I promise you there are very few programs in Southern California (if any) that break even. When you take into consideration that many football programs are also burdened with financing the non-revenue sports at their school, there is really no financial reason for continuing to have the sport. High school football isn't like college football when it comes to generating net profits. |
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Post by Bick on Jan 20, 2021 10:05:20 GMT -8
Same here, and I've been around some of the more affluent ones.
Doesn't the way this is going down in the state support the notion that HS sports is about to have a significant contraction?
Anyone with half a brain can see there's no real chance of playing with this color system in place. Maybe not ever.
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Post by MDDad on Jan 20, 2021 10:56:16 GMT -8
I think this virus almost guarantees that there will be a significant contraction. The question is how long will it last? And what will things look like when we come out the other end?
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Post by SK80 on Jan 20, 2021 11:44:33 GMT -8
more IMG ACADAMIES.
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Post by MDDad on Jan 20, 2021 11:52:45 GMT -8
IMG Academy has the advantage in that it somehow got itself accredited as a high school, even though it's anything but. I don't see Jordan Campbell's Winner Circle ever being able to accomplish that miracle.
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Post by Bick on Jan 20, 2021 12:41:39 GMT -8
I think the end game here is that high end programs without the restrictions of geographic transfer rules, ultimately become or compete with other clubs which also don't have such restrictions. In other words, the playing field gets leveled.
HS football returns to more neighborhood based, recreationally driven activity.
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Post by SK80 on Jan 20, 2021 13:41:06 GMT -8
I think the end game here is that high end programs without the restrictions of geographic transfer rules, ultimately become or compete with other clubs which also don't have such restrictions. In other words, the playing field gets leveled. HS football returns to more neighborhood based, recreationally driven activity. I'll take the heat, but the private way in which many of us have or had objected to on many levels kinda called this out as the "end game" potentially for public school HSF. The acceptance of logistic transfers from anywhere leveled the playing field not as you state however Bick. It LEVELED most every public school in its tracks. Recreational football sounds like flag or powderpuff to me! But yes, the professionalism of sport has dropped all the way down to HS. Soon College athletes will be getting paid as that trickled down from the professional leagues. |
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