Post by somecoach on Nov 4, 2018 19:52:07 GMT -6
The league I coach in is a little different than most...
We are a private school league in NYC, and we that do not divide divisions by school size.
In fact our "divisions" are as follows:
AAA: For Football Factories that consistently get D1 recruits
AA: The "regular" schools
A: The "little sisters of the poor" who have ~30 kids in the program
What happens in reality:
AAA: 4 actual football factories and 2-4 schools that are too good to play in the AA and are forced to go .500 or slightly above
AA: a range of 12 teams where the smallest school has 250 boys... and the biggest schools have over 1000 boys who just "aren't good enough" to compete in the AAA
A: the little sisters of the poor + one team that claims they can't compete in the AA... wins a A championship and is forced back up
... and there is an obsession among AAA-AA "tweener" schools that your players will get "a better look" by playing AAA because of the talent... when there have been a good number of kids go D1 in the AA,but this is a thread within itself...
Anyways... with the first round of the playoffs over, there was an interestingsmack talk debate on twitter:
One AAA school (who isn't a power house... yet) has multiple kids with offers yet has "won 1 game in 3 years" in the AAA.
A former coach from the league went on twitter and poked fun at the school for having D1 talent but winning "1 game in 3 years"
Their coaching staff bombarded him with various comments...
One of their coaches made the bold statement of "I would trade every win in my 17+ years of coaching to give every player I had a shot at a better future, a free college education is just that wins & loses well giving these kids a choice after graduation is proving that"
This one made me think... would you rather be a perennial champ with nobody going to college or lose out and have everyone get a football scholarship?
REALLY GOOD FOOD FOR THOUGHT IMO!
I know I am talking extremes here, but its an interesting predicament since every coach will stand up in front of the parents and say "its all about the kids" yet I know many who are in it for their own ego... but winless? that is a strong statement
P.S.: If you were wondering where I stand on the league and the issue... my school has ~550 boys, we are THE most rigorous academic school in the league... and probably the city. Therefore, our graduating class literally has a 99% of kids going to college with some form of academic scholarship (as well as 80% with college credit) and the other 1% going to the military
As for football we used to be one of those AAA teams that had no business being there but stayed very competitive because 5/8 teams ran the Spread... 2/8 ran the Flexbone... and we were the PAIN IN THE A$$ DTDW team that these teams HATED to play. Did we ever win a AAA championship? No. But we were always very competitive and put 100% of our players through college academically and always have an assortment of kids going D2 or D3 with the occasional Big Fish in the Small pond who goes D1 or IVY.
After a regime change we are now a spread team who is rebuilding our program in the AA.
We are a private school league in NYC, and we that do not divide divisions by school size.
In fact our "divisions" are as follows:
AAA: For Football Factories that consistently get D1 recruits
AA: The "regular" schools
A: The "little sisters of the poor" who have ~30 kids in the program
What happens in reality:
AAA: 4 actual football factories and 2-4 schools that are too good to play in the AA and are forced to go .500 or slightly above
AA: a range of 12 teams where the smallest school has 250 boys... and the biggest schools have over 1000 boys who just "aren't good enough" to compete in the AAA
A: the little sisters of the poor + one team that claims they can't compete in the AA... wins a A championship and is forced back up
... and there is an obsession among AAA-AA "tweener" schools that your players will get "a better look" by playing AAA because of the talent... when there have been a good number of kids go D1 in the AA,but this is a thread within itself...
Anyways... with the first round of the playoffs over, there was an interesting
One AAA school (who isn't a power house... yet) has multiple kids with offers yet has "won 1 game in 3 years" in the AAA.
A former coach from the league went on twitter and poked fun at the school for having D1 talent but winning "1 game in 3 years"
Their coaching staff bombarded him with various comments...
One of their coaches made the bold statement of "I would trade every win in my 17+ years of coaching to give every player I had a shot at a better future, a free college education is just that wins & loses well giving these kids a choice after graduation is proving that"
This one made me think... would you rather be a perennial champ with nobody going to college or lose out and have everyone get a football scholarship?
REALLY GOOD FOOD FOR THOUGHT IMO!
I know I am talking extremes here, but its an interesting predicament since every coach will stand up in front of the parents and say "its all about the kids" yet I know many who are in it for their own ego... but winless? that is a strong statement
P.S.: If you were wondering where I stand on the league and the issue... my school has ~550 boys, we are THE most rigorous academic school in the league... and probably the city. Therefore, our graduating class literally has a 99% of kids going to college with some form of academic scholarship (as well as 80% with college credit) and the other 1% going to the military
As for football we used to be one of those AAA teams that had no business being there but stayed very competitive because 5/8 teams ran the Spread... 2/8 ran the Flexbone... and we were the PAIN IN THE A$$ DTDW team that these teams HATED to play. Did we ever win a AAA championship? No. But we were always very competitive and put 100% of our players through college academically and always have an assortment of kids going D2 or D3 with the occasional Big Fish in the Small pond who goes D1 or IVY.
After a regime change we are now a spread team who is rebuilding our program in the AA.
