Quote: I don't know how familiar you are with St. Joseph's but according to their website, their high-school enrollment isn't even 400, so it isn't like they are a massive school with thousands of athletes to choose from who then compete against smaller schools and lesser opponents just because they can.
I tend to agree with many folks on this message board that the way soccer is done in this state could benefit from a structural overhaul. No state championship game should be that one-sided - in theory it should be the best game of the year.
That being said, it isn't right to knock the St. Joseph's team or what they accomplished either. The reality is that they didn't magically become good overnight - they built a program over many years that has now found success. I remember 10+ years ago when that school just opened and their soccer team was co-ed, and look where they are at now.
Don't wana knock the kids. I am sure they are great kids and great soccer players.
But why is a school that is playing with and beating 3a and 4a schools playing a 1a public school for the state championship???
And it is not about the number of students in the school, it is the enrollment area. All the kids that attend Blackville-Hilda probably live in that school zone, but the kids at St Joseph are from across the Greenville area. So you have a school that can recruit kids to attend and probably even offers scholarships to kids who need it vs a school stuck with who ever happens to live in that area.
Again, I am not knocking Jt. Joseph I am just pointing out how unfair it is to the public schools to make them face a power house school like this for the state championship.
