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Post by Ben Herrington on Aug 28, 2018 15:20:17 GMT -5
How unfortunate. Their MaxPreps roster shows 23 players. I can't help but feel that's the wrong decision. The majority of their players voted to quit but isn't that where the coaching team steps in and tells them its more than winning and losing? Elsie Allen has been off to a number of starts worse than 0-2, being outscored 0-102. Their JV has 30 players on it. I wonder if the NCS will consider a waiver for some of the juniors that want to drop down and play JV or perhaps play for another school. www.pressdemocrat.com/sports/8680510-181/healdsburg-high-shelves-varsity-football |
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Post by hsfootballfan on Aug 28, 2018 15:27:11 GMT -5
The article says they had 18 and 6 quit. Hard to play with only 12 men. You can't make them stay on the team and some parents are really opposed to their sons playing football due to concussions. I have always admired the Elsie Allen players for staying with the team and playing with great composure.
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Post by mustangpride on Aug 28, 2018 17:11:35 GMT -5
Unfortunate but not surprising. They haven’t been competitive since TK left and winning is the best recruiter. I’m not familiar with their HC so can’t pass any criticism onto him.
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Post by bella on Aug 28, 2018 19:00:50 GMT -5
A sign of the times. That’s too bad. True SCL blue blood (only SCL team to ever win a NCS title).
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Post by bella on Aug 29, 2018 14:07:12 GMT -5
Its too bad they already had the realignment which included the Vine league. Think that is gonna be a disaster.
Honesty you could almost have kept a SCL with what are now the small school teams. Piner, H-town, ELMo, Elsie throw in Cloverdale and St. Vincent (I know everyone says they are headed to the 8 man route, but I still think that is never gonna happen). Hell even throw in Justin (the one long travel game) and that league could work in football and really most sports.
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Post by bella on Sept 2, 2018 15:22:40 GMT -5
Pretty good article on the H-Town situation. Some kids will learn some life lessons and have some regrets. Hell I know I’d love to be able to go back out there and knock the shit outta somebody and not go to jail lol “One game at Polk High”! And I will say Benefield has grown on me at the PD. Her early stuff was always unicorn and rainbow bullshit! Some good stories that some may not want to hear about are out there and should be exposed. There prep coverage is still lacking (they used to post stats every week and have much more coverage). www.pressdemocrat.com/sports/8688966-181/benefield-healdsburgs-football-timeout-a |
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Post by hsfootballfan on Sept 2, 2018 17:53:16 GMT -5
The PD lost me as a subscriber when they decided to cut back on local sports coverage. There are plenty of places to get state and national news, not many to get local sports.
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Post by mustangpride on Sept 2, 2018 20:40:30 GMT -5
Sad they voted to quit. Sad to watch such a proud program suffer like this. I remember they would whoop our ass every year in the early 90’s. I’ve said it before but they haven’t been the same since TK left.
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Post by mustangpride on Sept 4, 2018 8:22:07 GMT -5
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