Varina has been beating Phoebus for the past 25 years. Every title game Varina has played in they just walk all over Phoebus. They tend to just blast every team they play. Yes. Varina. They've been representing Virginia on the national stage for the last 50 years.
We are clearly sleepwalking thru the game. If you’re using this game to judge next week then 🤣🤣🤣
Phoebus has played West Charlotte, Butler and Richmond Senior at Memorial Stadium in charlotte in a jamboree 2002. Beating all three. Only losing to Independence Charlotte. It has already been done. Don't worry. We get to play Varina next week for the chip. This will be an outstanding game.
I'd argue Maryland's top publics would give our top publics a game just about every year and the scoreboards this year and last year show they can. Wise's current head coach stepped up to position this spring, after their previous coach (who had been their only coach since the school opened) stepped down and eventually took the head coach position at Westlake. QO, Wise, Mervo, Fort Hill, and Dunbar (Baltimore) are legit programs and can punch above their weight in school sizes. I'd travel hours to see Salem play Fort Hill, as they remind me of each other. The privates get a chunk of the top talent in Maryland, but not all of the top kids go private.
Told you Dub C was gone win it! Two more! Littlejohn gone get him another!
I'd give the top 2 or 3 publics but no more. During my time living in MD (~5 years), I went to several HS games throughout the state. I saw a lot of good individual talent but not much as collective teams. In a one game matchup, anything can happen. As far as a total season, QO and Wise absolutely. Dunbar would be C4...yikes. Plus I don't really believe in public school football in major cities (my bias is showing). Fort Hill would present problems with the O they run (the veer if I'm not mistaken). Again, I'm looking at a whole season, not just the one off.
Based off Maxpreps Top 100, just 1 - Maury....at #100 lollll.
I agree, with maybe from top to bottom. I've been in the DMV for 23 years and didn't give MD publics much weight initially. But those teams that I mentioned are always in the mix and have held their own against our schools when they played them.
I wouldn't give maxpreps much credit, but you won't find our schools getting much love from the national polls or the national forums. So for me, rankings is not much of an argument for VA superiority over MD.
Which is why I chose not to go the rankings/polls route. I'm using the eyeball test with 99% bias removed. Based off of places I've and watched a good amount of football, this is my public school football rankings.
I agree with you partially. There are some top football players in NoVa that are peppered throughout WCAC rosters. Not nearly as many from MD but VA is definitely losing some.
One off game aka Any Given Friday so I tend to disregard those games. I do agree that Ohio is down this year. Ohio down year = NC average year/VA good year.
Aside from the usual suspects (Mater Dei, SJB, Bishop Gorman, etc), I don't put much stock into private school sports. Here in Ohio, private schools are in the playoffs with public schools and routinely lose to the pubs (Moeller just lost the chip game to a public school 🤭🤭🤭). To me, that shows that amount of talent in Ohio when going a private school doesn't mean much. That's why I put OH over NC. The gap isn't huge though!
Plenty of privates, but honestly some kids go back to their public schools to get the playing time they wish they had at the privates.
The powerhouse football programs in the WCAC (the Capital Conference) are in DC and MD, and honestly I would bet commute distances/times factor into the decision process for most NOVA kids from Fairfax and Loudon counties on whether they attend the MD privates.
You know how it goes. You all of a sudden have an "uncle" or "aunt" that you live with.
I've got kid at a WCAC school already and another who literally asked me today about playing at another WCAC 45+ miles way - that was an immediate "no" 🤣
Now I need to know your top 15 football states. I can guess 8 or so but I'm curious about the others.
