You mean when on air tv talent kid, white kid wrote a note saying "ah stupid ******"
Oh BWI blocks that word. Ummm I wonder why
PIAA...Unreal
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Oh BWI blocks that word. Ummm I wonder why
In the truest sense of the word, he/she did recruit. You can't get a little pregnant.
Another area where the PIAA screws up royally is the amount of teams certain districts are allowed come state playoff time. I look at the brackets across the board for all sports come playoff time, and it never ceases to amaze me. You cannot tell me that a 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th place team from a district should ever qualify for a state playoff berth, while some districts are not even represented due to teams combining to form a sub regional playoff. In the sport I coach and the class my team is in, two teams from the same district played each other in the state championship game last year (the teams had already played each other 3 times during the regular season and district playoffs). 6 teams out of the 16 state qualifiers came from this district (4 played in the eastern half of the bracket and they sent 2 out to the western side of the bracket), while my team had to participate in a sub regional playoff where only the winner makes the state playoffs. This happens across many sports and nobody ever seems to notice or care. How does that happen?
Agree, there is no need for the WPIAL to get 6 or more teams in to a bracket. 12 districts and each should get no more than 4. Probably can get down to a 20 or 24 team bracket easily.
PIAA allocates playoff berths based on the number of schools in each district. Actually one of the few things it does correct.
First-round PIAA playoff games are played in the district of the higher seed. The D-10 champ usually plays a lower seed from D-7 in the first round. That game is always played in D-10, as it should be. The D-7 champ always plays its first game in D-7, too.
D-10, it should be noted, makes some very strange decisions on venues. Those in power in D-10 answer to nobody.
First-round PIAA playoff games are played in the district of the higher seed. The D-10 champ usually plays a lower seed from D-7 in the first round. That game is always played in D-10, as it should be. The D-7 champ always plays its first game in D-7, too.
D-10, it should be noted, makes some very strange decisions on venues. Those in power in D-10 answer to nobody.
Blame this crap on the Legislature. They bow to pressure from the private schools. It is all politics!
Next week in Hershey we know one of the PIAA shills will be interviewed on PCN. I would love to see them ask specifically about this transfer, What we'll get is the usual softball questions and candy coated answers on how great everything is. Like every year: wash, rinse and repeat.
What I personally would love to see is for a public school super or AD tell the PIAA that they will protest or threaten to withdraw from the PIAA if such and such school is allowed to play a certain players(s)....lets get this resolved...start new classifications for private schools!
Would a team really be the state champion then? What joy is there in winning a state championship when you know you’re not the best team in the state?
Things are never going to change until the PIAA takes a hit to their wallet. When a team like the Loyalsock girls are faced with playing a loaded team like Neumann Goretti they should stay home the day of the game and forfeit. If that scenario happens a few times each post season it will definitely get the PIAA's attention!
You are on to something. Rather than forfeit, which would give the PIAA something to raise hell about, I suggest playing the game, but don't bring a single fan or sell a single ticket. Money rules every single PIAA decision.
You two are way off the base. The Catholic and charters bring what 30 fu$king fans to a game. Tons of money being lost there
I will say this again. Complain to the legislative oversight committee who won't allow the PIAA to split up because their (private and charter) lawyers claim discrimiantion. They held a hearing on it last summer. Look it the #$%^ up. I'm a Republican and the Republican dicklicks allow it to happen. And liberals are two damn stupid to pick up on it as well.
Do you think LOMBARDI likes the charters and open enrollment. frick no he hates them.
You think someone from service electric has the stones to ask that. At the same time they (piaa) can't say anything bc it will be used to against them when the time comes
Winner winner chicken dinner.. dumb asses crying (rightfully) to the wrong people are the worst kind of whiners
Or maybe they realize it’s just high school sports and isn’t really that important.
Then why do they hold hearing on it routinely and say the kids are being discriminated against. Just to waste money and look like they are doing something?
The finals will be:
Boys
6A: Lincoln (D12) vs. Roman Catholic (D12)
5A: Abington Heights (D2) vs. Mars (D7)
4A: Imhotep Charter (D12) vs. Sharon (D10)
3A: Neumann-Goretti (D12) vs. Richland (D6)
2A: Constitution (D12) vs. Our Lady of Sacred Heart (D7)
1A: Lourdes Regional (D4) vs. Kennedy Catholic (D10)
Girls
6A: Upper Dublin (D1) vs. Central Bucks South (D1)
5A: Archbishop Wood (D12) vs. Mars (D7)
4A: Lancaster Catholic (D3) vs. Berks Catholic (D3)
3A: Neumann-Goretti (D12) vs. Bishop Canevin (D7)
2A: West Catholic (D12) vs. Bellwood Antis (D6)
1A: Jenkintown (D1) vs. Juniata Valley (D6)
Boys
6A: Lincoln (D12) vs. Roman Catholic (D12)
5A: Abington Heights (D2) vs. Mars (D7)
4A: Imhotep Charter (D12) vs. Sharon (D10)
3A: Neumann-Goretti (D12) vs. Richland (D6)
2A: Constitution (D12) vs. Our Lady of Sacred Heart (D7)
1A: Lourdes Regional (D4) vs. Kennedy Catholic (D10)
Girls
6A: Upper Dublin (D1) vs. Central Bucks South (D1)
5A: Archbishop Wood (D12) vs. Mars (D7)
4A: Lancaster Catholic (D3) vs. Berks Catholic (D3)
3A: Neumann-Goretti (D12) vs. Bishop Canevin (D7)
2A: West Catholic (D12) vs. Bellwood Antis (D6)
1A: Jenkintown (D1) vs. Juniata Valley (D6)
According to the Born Power Index, Kennedy Catholic is a 36 point favorite.
http://www.bornpowerindex.com/
Wvu's #1 recruit for 2019 is a junior playing for Kennedy Catholic.He's only 6'10",Oscar Tshiebwe is his name.He's one of 6 players over 6'5 on Kennedy and they're playing 1A.I'm sure the coaches in 1A were delighted to play Kennedy this year!
Dude, are you talking boys or girls? Neither beat N-G, but the LC girls did beat Bonner in 4A.
I get this but total playoff births are crazy, no 8 seed from the WPIAL belongs. Once they went to 6 classifications they should have dropped the limits on the total teams. Also you are right about D10, it was almost like it was intentional to make the WPIAL team travel an extra 50 miles north/east of the school they were playing for a neutral site.
How many of Kennedy Christians players are even from PA? I thought I remember a situation a few years ago when they won that their top player or two were from Ohio.
Kennedy Catholic wins a barn burner today at the Giant Center 78-36. Their other scores in the playoffs were 73-26, 73-37, 77-53, 77-30. Oh the humanity!
The N-G girls won their 4th straight title 63-46, game wasn't that close. If one likes sterile environments, the Giant Center is the place to be. No fans, no juice, no competition. Where's the PIAA guy who tells us how great everything is?
The N-G girls won their 4th straight title 63-46, game wasn't that close. If one likes sterile environments, the Giant Center is the place to be. No fans, no juice, no competition. Where's the PIAA guy who tells us how great everything is?
Two years ago their big man was Sags Konate(Africa)Wvu's stud center.Wvu is heavily recruiting Austin (6'4 SG)and Tshiebwe(6'10 C)for 2019 from Kennedy.Bison I'd like to see your Avella Eagles go against these guys!The Piaa doesn't see anything wrong with Kennedy playing against schools like Avella and West Greene because they're all 1a in enrollment.Thank GoD Kennedy is moving to 6A next year because they'd win every 1A game by 50 and the Piaa wouldn't care one bit.
A better question is how many are from the USA? The fact that the PIAA allows that to happen is a joke.
Haha, I remember playing against Frew Mill, the reform school, not quite teh same as recruited kids but crazy anyhow.
They played a press the entire game even when up by 40 and left their starters in for several minutes after Lourdes pulled all of theirs.
Sounds like a classy high school coach to me that believes in the sportsmanship code they go over before the games.I love coaches like this.I'd like to make him coach my Alma Mater (class 1A school) that's on a 65 game losing streak!I bet he'd change his coaching philosophy real quick?
click on the link for an article explaining it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.yorkdispatch.com/amp/441638002
No doubt of the dominance of D-12 schools, but aren't the best teams in the state actually the private schools in the PAISAA, like the Hill School, Friends Central, and Westtown?
You say that "I [you] get this," but your post seems to prove otherwise.
In all 6 classifications within the PIAA, there are 32 teams that make States. The number that make it from each PIAA district are based on the number of teams in that district that play at that classification, and the total number of teams in that classification across the state. It's actually quite fair.
In Class A (smallest schools) girls, D1 gets 3, D2 gets 0, D3 gets 6, D4 gets 4, D5 gets 2, D6 gets 3, D7 gets 5, D8 gets 0, D9 gets 4, D10 gets 2, D11 gets 2, and D12 gets 1
In Class 6A (largest schools) girls, D1 gets 11, D2 gets 1, D3 gets 7, D4 gets 0, D5 gets 0, D6 gets 2, D7 gets 5, D8 gets 0, D9 gets 0, D10 gets 0, D11 gets 4, D12 gets 2
Yes, I used to be a head coach in the WPIAL and never understood why our #7 or 8 needed to be in the state tourney. I've sat in playoff seeding meetings and gone to state meetings. There is no need to have a 32 team bracket. I get the proportional amount of teams in from each region. The proportion does not need to include more than 4 teams no matter the size. If you could not get to the semi's in your district you dont get a shot. Yes I know teams like Aliquippa and others have won from a lower seed. Drop it to 24 teams, give teams a bye, end it a week earlier.
That's because it is all about the $$$$$ for the PIAA. The more teams the more games and the more $$$$$.
My late father told me a story about South Williamsport's, 1970 basketball team that lost in the district final to star center and Sport's illustrated player of the year, Tom Macmillan's, Mansfield team. South also had a great player named Rich Henninger who went on to be the all time leading scorer at Lycoming College. The story went that South in their next game had to go play a team from the Scranton area at the CYC in front of a packed house. The only problem was that they lost money on the whole trip over to Scranton to play in a sanctioned PIAA basketball playoff game. I believe my father because he was very active in the S Williamsport athletic booster club at that time. So what happens to the money or follow the money and we'll get our answers!
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