re: GHSA State Championships

Will do. Been in transit.

I usually go to a couple every year. Love it. I've never understood the gripes. It's a great experience to watch a game in, especially when your team's in it (which I've only gotten to see once).

Anybody see that terrible targeting call in the Colquit/Milton game?

This is what I’m talking about.

Yeah the targeting call against Colquitt was atrocious, idk what the ref saw there to warrant that flag. They ended up blocking that fg though so they got out of there alright. Pretty good game so far.

That’s sort of irrelevant if he’s got a referee assuring him that it will not be a first down. Coach shouldn’t have to listen to loudspeakers to make sure he knows what call is what. At Any level of football, if needed, the ref explains what would happen if a Penalty is accepted to declined and Chastain got bad info in a huge moment of the game.

If what he’s saying is truly what happened then the ref affirmed it wouldn’t be a first down twice before he decided to decline.

It has still happened plenty of times where PF roughing isn’t an automatic first down.

Colquitt got jobbed for the second year in a row.

Well Eagles Landing ONLY won 44-17 this time against Athens Academy to win their 4th consecutive State Title and 5th in 6 years.

It wouldnt be so bad if other teams would actually compete with them and maybe lose a game here and there. Like Bama nothing wrong with being dominant. But when you win your playoff games by an average of 5 TDs and no other school even has a chance to compete?
At some point it may be time to move to a new Division?

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At some point it may be time to move to a new Division?

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Understand what you are saying, but classifications are made up based on Average daily Attendance. A school can move up a classification, though.

The reason they split the Class A up is because private schools can offer a better education, as a whole, and to attract the better athletes can then offer scholarships giving them an unfair advantage. many of these private schools are still fairly small, so they would not be allowed to move to the regular class A...they would have to move to Class AA, and the enrollments would be decidedly unbalanced making it very tough for the private school to compete. They are, in essence caught between a rock and a hard place.

And there are no guarantees how long they would be able to attract the good athletes. I mean, I get what you are saying, and it seems like there could be a better solution to it.


Don't get me wrong...there are some bigger private schools out there, and they do compete in higher classifications. Marist, Westminster, Woodward Academy, Aquinas, Pace, benedictine to name a few, but those are much bigger schools with tons of resources that far exceed ELCA. ELCA is still a relatively small school and do not have the huge tuitions associated with many of the schools I just mentioned.

Attendance was down at a lot of playoff games this year. I went to two yesterday and I thought there were a lot of people there. It obviously looks sparse in a 70,000-seat building, but put those same numbers in a high school stadium and it would've been completely packed.