Is anybody watching these high school games on espn?

[orange machine]

These teams are freakin huge they don't look like high school teams at all!

[regaleagle]

For some reason, players always look bigger on TV. They're not any bigger or better than our current 5A teams here in Texas. BTW, you may want to check out the USA Finals of the Little League World Series on ABC. Japan just defeated Mexico 3-2 in the other final, so they will be in the championship game against the US winner tomorrow.

[orange machine]

For some reason, players always look bigger on TV. They're not any bigger or better than our current 5A teams here in Texas. BTW, you may want to check out the USA Finals of the Little League World Series on ABC. Japan just defeated Mexico 3-2 in the other final, so they will be in the championship game against the US winner tomorrow.
That mlb for Gwinnett is 5'10 240 is what espn just reported.

[regaleagle]

So what....Sam Sizelove for Argyle at LB is 6'3" 230 and your boyz will have to deal with him, lol.

PS>>>I'm taking the California Chula Vista team to win the US portion of the LLWS. This will be a good game.

[orange machine]

So what....Sam Sizelove for Argyle at LB is 6'3" 230 and your boyz will have to deal with him, lol.

PS>>>I'm taking the California Chula Vista team to win the US portion of the LLWS. This will be a good game.

Yea but Sam is the biggest player y'all got these teams are full of those size guys.

[orange machine]

I could have sworn i just saw a player on the Gold team with his helmet off and is balding on top lol no lie!

[regaleagle]

But we're only 668 students, OM. These teams they're showing are like our 5A teams in enrollment. They are the largest schools in their state. Go look at the sizes of the players from any legitimate 5A school across the board. Allen would make them look small...not to mention some of those Houston 5A schools.

I have a salesman originally from the Tampa area...he knows Fla. high school football well. He says the top schools like Plant have upwards of 15000 enrollment.

[regaleagle]

He sees our high school teams even at the 3A level here in Texas and is just amazed at the quality of the players, the facilities and the fanbases. And he comes from a football backround and a football-rich area in Fla.

[easttexas3a]

A team like Booker T is very similar to a Dallas Skyline of years past, or a Cedar Park or something of that nature.

These schools usually have a very large enrollment, and if they do not it is usually because in several states private schools get to be involved in public school sports.

I know a football recruit who went to Monroe to get recruited by the univ of Louisiana Monroe.

He went in a local applebees and he told someone he was there on a recruitment trip. They told him they were all big West Monroe fans and tried to sell him on West Monroe.....the major high school there. So they are apparently recruiting just as hard as the univ in town.



Also.....if you thought those teams were huge.......go watch Katy play Cibolo Steel from last year....bunch of BIG boys out there/

[Matthew328]

Booker T. Washington in Miami's enrollment is about 1100 students..

Plant HS has an enrollment of 2200

[Matthew328]

But we're only 668 students, OM. These teams they're showing are like our 5A teams in enrollment. They are the largest schools in their state. Go look at the sizes of the players from any legitimate 5A school across the board. Allen would make them look small...not to mention some of those Houston 5A schools.

I have a salesman originally from the Tampa area...he knows Fla. high school football well. He says the top schools like Plant have upwards of 15000 enrollment.

I'm guessing he doesn't know it that well if he's telling you a HS has 15k kids...lol

[Aesculus gilmus]

The discussion about Florida high school football reminds me of this incident from three years ago. There was supposed to be a game at Buckeye Stadium involving this Florida team and Redwater (2A school near Texarkana). They even came here and were staying at a nearby Presybterian camp to get ready for the game. Then all of a sudden the Redwater coach called it off after he heard about what they were all about from some school they had annihilated in Dallas the week before.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=144961

"Last week the Texas football coach from Redwater High School canceled a game with BPA's football team claiming there were 7 ineligible players on the team. 10 News confirmed through school districts three players had graduated high school in June and two were over age under Texas rules. Manatee and Sarasota school officials identified two players as 19 and 20 year olds. The game organizer out of Texas, Todd Robison, says BPA football coach Walt Williams knew of only one overage player and that information had been disclosed."

Looks like Bradenton Prep is no more or at least has moved from its previous location:
http://www.bradenton.com/2013/08/03/4642158/private-christian-school-opening.html

Upper grades are no more:
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/12/06/4307277/bradentons-prep-academy-closing.html

This is the kind of scene we will have in Texas once the politiicians turn over the schools to the private sector where they belong: plenty of "fly-by-night" operators such as this. At least there'll be no more "socialist" public schools, though.