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Reading? Books? Whoa, whoa, fellas. We're getting a little deep here. Don't know how long I can hold on...
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I must admit I am biased about one thing...I love Woodruff. I want to be very careful how I say this, but they are easy to like because they homegrow their talent in a small mostly rural area. Nobody else will say it but I will...most of the private schools have students with more than just a little money for club soccer and the best of just about everything. I get tired of soccer being an elitest sport. I know we have talked about this a lot before but schools like Woodruff and BC in 3A show that it doesn't have to be that way. As I understand it and CC can correct me if I am wrong, most of their girls play together in a Spartanburg rec league. Isn't that the way it should be in a perfect world? You may not like it but I respect a team that will bring it every time you play them and punch you in the mouth and take your best punch. I think I have forgotten the point I started to make, but there you go...
Woodruff/BE in the final and I want to see it.
Agreed. It's hard not to pull for Woodruff. I was at the finals last year and was heartbroken when Woodruff didn't beat BE. I thought that was a superb team, led by Jessica Thomas who went on to be the MVP at the first Clash of the Carolinas by saving a ton of goals. [Admission of bias: Jessica was a club teammate of my kid from 2005-2007.]
CJ, I agree with you that it's the socioeconomic factor that doesn't get addressed here that's the "elephant in the room." There's a tendency for private schools to be much more affluent. And while that certainly doesn't translate into superiority in football or basketball, in girls soccer that's a huge factor. I'd like to see BE be forced to either play in SCISA or 3-A in girls soccer to even the playing field -- but that's one of those subjects we talk about every year.
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Thanks for replying to that post Shibumi. I was beginning to think that everybody was going to let that elephant sit for a while.
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Woodruff doesn't have club players? I agree that they are an exceptional team, but I am not sure that their planning, support, etc. isn't exceptional also. There are teams in worse situations financially, equipment-wise, etc.
Does bring to mind the pm this year about the Woodruff girls having only one set of unis and deciding to wear a gold (yellow?) t-shirt last year in the state championship instead of the unis if I remember right.
OK, I love Woodruff.
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If my memory serves me correct #9 for woodruff is the same premier player who scored 2 goals in the last 5 minutes for her CESA team in the finals at state cup in December. Yea Woodruff has quality club players too.
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Shibumi,
If you are going to force Bishop England up to the 3A classification, can't you at least boost Riverside up to 4A at the same time?
sweet feet,
I think Woodruff also has one of the best freshmen in the state on their current squad.
Kids play sports because they find it fun. Eliminate the fun and soon you eliminate the kid.
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Woodruff has the BEST freshman. Don't kid yourself.
Riverside should be 6-A.
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So when is HHP going to step out of the SCISA umbrella and compete for the SCHSL title? I am not disagreeing with you or saying they can't compete...I believe they can, so it would be nice to see that happen. Rumor was that St. Joe's was heading that way. Not sure if they still are.
Would HHP be A or AA if they did that? If several SCISA teams who would be classified as A did move over, there might actually be a separate A title game because there would be enough teams to have one. I would love to see this happen.
I don't think it will happen with either school. St. Joe's has been rumored for some time, but I believe that is mostly parents disgruntled with the fact that there are no other "true" uppperstate teams in SCISA. I could actually see them joining the NCISAA before turning to SCHSL.
As far as HHP goes, that will never happen. They are much to small and with two AAA public schools within 10 miles of each other in a very small population base, it would do nothing but hurt everyone involved.
As far as the size that HHP would be if they moved to schsl, I don't know what the attendance figurs are between each classification, but being that HHP only has 125 kids in it's highschool, I would imagine they would be A.
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That would be my guess too. Too bad it can't work out. I think it would spice things up to have AT LEAST those two schools in A and have their own Championship.
Fletch: It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong. I am NOT a big man.
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Hurst:
That's who I was talking about.
ROH:
How about your favorite Riverside freshman?
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