Most Important High Schools to Pipeline

[bmw199]

There is a lack of recruiting news so let's talk Pipelines. Here is my initial list of high schools it is good to have a pipeline at for Penn State (IN NO ORDER):

PA

• St. Joe's Prep
• Pittsburgh CC
• Arch Bishop Wood
• Clariton
• Imhotep
• Downington East
• Aliquippa
• Bishop McDevitt
• Woodland Hills
• Gateway

MD

• Dematha
• Bullis
• Gilman
• Good Council
• Calvert Hall
• McDonogh School
• Eleanor Roosevelt

NJ

• Paramus Catholic
• Camden
• St. Peters Prep
• Bergen Catholic
• Hun School

I think in PA Franklin has done a great job building at most of the top schools. There have been some who produce talented players year in and year out that we don't seem to get guys from, but overall things look good at important high schools. In MD, we have pulled top talent from nearly everyone of those schools over the years. I think we can go to any of them and have a chance, some of that is definitely still ground work that LJ laid. In NJ, when you look at the recruits we've gotten from NJ (and it is a lot of talented players) we almost always get the ones that go to public school. We have had a hard time getting guys out of a lot of those private schools, now we know some of their coaches have been ND and UM fanboys, but we will have to make headway. One place not on this list, bc it is in FL, is IMG Academy. A lot of top talent in high school is being recruited there to play the top teams in Florida and throughout the south as it is better competition. We look in great shape for 4 of their players in 2017, and it will be important to keep that going in the future.

 

[ptomaselli]

St Peters Prep...the school with the ND fanboy head coach who steered Wimbush to the Irish?

 

[bmw199]

St Peters Prep...the school with the ND fanboy head coach who steered Wimbush to the Irish?

Yea, that's the one.

 

[Lions8286]

The Bethlehem, PA schools always seem to (somewhat quietly) have D1 talent on a yearly basis.

 

[ptomaselli]

The Bethlehem, PA schools always seem to (somewhat quietly) have D1 talent on a yearly basis.

We got our man from D11 in Mr Saquon Barkley. Seriously, for PA we need to lock down D1/D12, D3, D7 & D11. That's where all the monster schools are.

 

[psuro]

NJ

• Paramus Catholic
• Camden
• St. Peters Prep
• Bergen Catholic
• Hun School
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    I think you got off to a good start, but I think there is some refinement needed. Camden will have a monster recruiting class this year, it is an anomaly that is way off the charts. Over the last 25 years, the enrollment in Camden has dropped them two levels (From NJ Group IV to NJ Group II). Further, considering Camden has the highest drop out rate of students (in general) of any high school in New Jersey, the chances of even a moderate level of talent staying all the way through high school to make it to college is a small percentage.
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    Looking at the population increases (overall), and projected residential growth, I would look at the following schools
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    Timber Creek
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    Winslow
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    Glassboro
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    Washington Twp
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    Peddie School (Prep school)
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    Red Bank Catholic
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    Middletown South (and North)
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[yeahtoasty]

Gateway will be interesting to watch. They dropped down to AAA last year and really were not all that impressive, losing in the first round of the playoffs to Ringgold. New coach can't recruit like the old one did. Frankly I think the district decided to de-emphasize football a bit. It really was a factory there for a while, and a lot of those kids weren't Monroeville or Pitcairn natives.

Monroeville took a pretty significant economic hit when Westinghouse Nuclear moved to Cranberry, I think the district decided that they just couldn't sustain a AAAA-level football team with AAA-level enrollment.

 

[Lions8286]

We got our man from D11 in Mr Saquon Barkley. Seriously, for PA we need to lock down D1/D12, D3, D7 & D11. That's where all the monster schools are.

Too many Lehigh Valley guys in the NFL that did NOT go to PSU.

I don't follow HS football much. I tend to see the articles in the local papers after they've made it to the pros.

 

[psu00]

We got our man from D11 in Mr Saquon Barkley. Seriously, for PA we need to lock down D1/D12, D3, D7 & D11. That's where all the monster schools are.

Yep. I'd add he needs to make some contacts with schools like Harrisburg High, Cumberland Valley, Wilson, Manheim Central, Cedar Cliff, North Penn, Erie Cathedral Prep, etc.

 

[bmw199]

Too many Lehigh Valley guys in the NFL that did NOT go to PSU.

I don't follow HS football much. I tend to see the articles in the local papers after they've made it to the pros.

LV does have good players. The point of the list was to focus in on individual high schools and in the LV they don't generally all come from one or two high schools, probably due to less recruiting in the area, which is a good thing.

 

[bmw199]

NJ

• Paramus Catholic
• Camden
• St. Peters Prep
• Bergen Catholic
• Hun School
  • 
    I think you got off to a good start, but I think there is some refinement needed. Camden will have a monster recruiting class this year, it is an anomaly that is way off the charts. Over the last 25 years, the enrollment in Camden has dropped them two levels (From NJ Group IV to NJ Group II). Further, considering Camden has the highest drop out rate of students (in general) of any high school in New Jersey, the chances of even a moderate level of talent staying all the way through high school to make it to college is a small percentage.
  • 
    Looking at the population increases (overall), and projected residential growth, I would look at the following schools
  • 
    Timber Creek
  • 
    Winslow
  • 
    Glassboro
  • 
    Washington Twp
  • 
    Peddie School (Prep school)
  • 
    Red Bank Catholic
  • 
    Middletown South (and North)

For some reason I thought Camden had decent players in past classes as well. I might be wrong, NJ HS football is not my strong suit. I almost put Glassboro on my list.

 

[Lions8286]

LV does have good players. The point of the list was to focus in on individual high schools and in the LV they don't generally all come from one or two high schools, probably due to less recruiting in the area, which is a good thing.

Understood. Here is a link as an example.
http://highschoolsports.lehighvalleylive.com/news/article/-1054575164467317612/loaded-with-division-i-talent-bethlehem-catholic-football-team-back-for-more/#incart_river

 

[mmp121]

You left out the biggest option!

Open a pipeline to IMG Academy in FL! We will have a team full of 5*'s!

*TIC

 

[GuStHeCaT]

Good idea for a thread. I would add a few more from SE PA:

• Coatesville
• Malvern Prep
• Cardinal O'Hara

Strath Haven looks to be on the way back up as well.

Beyond those, there's a bunch like the West Chester schools, Great Valley, Archbishop Ryan, West/Roman Catholic and the Central Bucks and Council Rock districts that occasionally produce FBS-level talent but I wouldn't consider to be pipelines at this point.

Also, maybe a few in OH:

• St. Xavier
• Archbishop Moeller
• Cardinal Mooney
• St. Ignatius
• Benedictine
• Glenville (hey, I can dream..)

 

[bmw199]

One place not on this list, bc it is in FL, is IMG Academy. A lot of top talent in high school is being recruited there to play the top teams in Florida and throughout the south as it is better competition. We look in great shape for 4 of their players in 2017, and it will be important to keep that going in the future.

You left out the biggest option!

Open a pipeline to IMG Academy in FL! We will have a team full of 5*'s!

*TIC

I included it in the text at the bottom.

 

[bison13]

There is a lack of recruiting news so let's talk Pipelines. Here is my initial list of high schools it is good to have a pipeline at for Penn State (IN NO ORDER):

PA

• St. Joe's Prep
• Pittsburgh CC
• Arch Bishop Wood
• Clariton
• Imhotep
• Downington East
• Aliquippa
• Bishop McDevitt
• Woodland Hills
• Gateway

MD

• Dematha
• Bullis
• Gilman
• Good Council
• Calvert Hall
• McDonogh School
• Eleanor Roosevelt

NJ

• Paramus Catholic
• Camden
• St. Peters Prep
• Bergen Catholic
• Hun School

I think in PA Franklin has done a great job building at most of the top schools. There have been some who produce talented players year in and year out that we don't seem to get guys from, but overall things look good at important high schools. In MD, we have pulled top talent from nearly everyone of those schools over the years. I think we can go to any of them and have a chance, some of that is definitely still ground work that LJ laid. In NJ, when you look at the recruits we've gotten from NJ (and it is a lot of talented players) we almost always get the ones that go to public school. We have had a hard time getting guys out of a lot of those private schools, now we know some of their coaches have been ND and UM fanboys, but we will have to make headway. One place not on this list, bc it is in FL, is IMG Academy. A lot of top talent in high school is being recruited there to play the top teams in Florida and throughout the south as it is better competition. We look in great shape for 4 of their players in 2017, and it will be important to keep that going in the future.

Md : Northwestern of Montgomery Co, Urbana and Middletown in Fred co and Franklin in Balt co. May not have the yearly big time D1 guys but always solid talent.

 

[CF LION]

DE

Salesianum and Middletown

 

[psuro]

If we ever get to California on a regular basis

Long Beach Poly
Anaheim Servite
West Covina

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Need to lock down the best talent in PA, NJ, MD, and NoVA for the bulk of our classes, then go get a handful a year from FL, TX, and/or CA to round them out. Do that on an annual basis and we'll be back to being a perennial top 10 program.

 

[T J]

Need to lock down the best talent in PA, NJ, MD, and NoVA for the bulk of our classes, then go get a handful a year from FL, TX, and/or CA to round them out. Do that on an annual basis and we'll be back to being a perennial top 10 program.

Add in some good recruits from OH.
If PSU rises again, we should be able to grab some selected talent from all of our neighbor states.

 

[psurudy]

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