Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: BigJ
The majority of HS football leagues are grouped based on school population.
Not really, they're based on geographic area. I used to play against those two schools, they were in the same league with my high school which was made up of teams surrounding Bridgeport Connecticut. Central, Bassick, Harding and Bullard Havens Tech were all doormat schools in football. They had great basketball teams and lousy football teams, in football they were routinely pummeled by much smaller schools, including mine. We were a Class S (small school) football powerhouse and could beat Central or Bassick by 50 points if we left our first and second string at home and started the third stringers. That was the way it was. The 3rd stringers looked forward to those games because that was when they got to play. They worked their butts off all year and never got into close games against our big rivals. The games against weak teams was their only chance. You simply can't get your third stringers into a game and tell them to take a knee because the other team sucks too bad.
The coach of Central did everything he could to be fair, suspending him makes a mockery of what is supposed to be a competitive sport.
You said you were Class S, right? Which you said is small school football. That's my point.
It's a given they're going to initially divide the schools into area (do you really want to be travelling 200 miles to play another small school?) but after that, who you play is usually based on school size/population.
We were class S, Central and Bassick were both Class L. The league we were in was the non defunct MBIAC. The Metropolitan Bridgeport Interschoolastic Athletic Conference. It was made up of Class S, Class M and Class L and Class LL schools and was formed SOLELY on the basis of geopgrahy, YOUR POINT WAS 100% WRONG.
In Connecticut leagues are not formed by size of the student body, they're formed by location so that teams don't have to drive 3 hours after school to play games. All teams play all other league teams equally, straight up regardless of size. Some teams are great in one sport and crappy in others. Central, Bassick and Harding are useless in football, they suck year after year after year, although Central has made some recent improvements. They're great basketball schools and Harding is one of the elite programs in the state and is often ranked as one of the best teams in the country. They easily win games by 50-80 points even without their starters playing heavy minutes. It all evens out. Some schools dominate in football, some dominate in basketball and some in baseball or soccer or swimming. When I played against those schools the two best football teams in the league were a Class S (us) and a Class L (our arch rival). None of the class LL teams could compete with us, we blew them out easily and size had nothing to do with it.
