Will BG be tested?

[Crimson's Ghost]

On a bad day, what bottom four team in class A is beating them? Not saying it will be handed to them, but come on BG,Blairsville, and Portage are all going to have cake walks in the first round. You act like making it to the second round of the district playoffs is like some big deal.


I still don't understand the two man offense thing everyone keeps saying.

Portage...Kephart Dividock

Blairsville...Thompson Robinson

Homer...Berezansky....Lee


It's pretty normal to have two workhorses in single A football.

[Crimson's Ghost]

Yeah, BG may have 4-5 players that would start for Altoona, but Altoona has far more players that would start for BG.

It just isn't realistic to think a class A team could beat a competent AAAA team. The big thing is depth and size. BG may have some good skilled players but the fact you have to many two-way players would wear them down pretty quick.

[D6sports101]

Talking with my cousin who is on the team he has said a lof starters are starting to get a big head and big egos. That everything will just be easy and they dont even have to try til semifinals.

Maybe it's just your "cousin" with the ego. Is he a starter? From what I've seen in the paper every week those kids just go one game at a time. Every article mentions how they will not let anything stop them from reaching their goals.

[konjo78]

my cousin doesn't have the ego... this is just the locker room chatter he hears! as for first round match ups? I don't think bellwood? homer? PL? PM? those aren't potential easy match ups for the first round. Anything can happen on a given day in football. People act like BG has an easy path to the state finals... yet this team has not won anything ever! They choked last year, they haven't won the LHAC and the LHAC is a bad conference. 0 District winners last year and that is something that could very easily happen again... The only true favorite i see out of the LHAC this year is BG but even they are not a heavy favorite.

[TheRealBleacherCoach]

Konjo, im going to chalk this up to you being 200000000 miles away or maybe you wandered onto bleachercoaches after some MNF boozing. You have to be delusional. To say the L HAC is a bad conference when the other top teams are out of the West Pac and Heritage. If you for one second think those conferences are better then you my friend know nothing about D6 football. Double A schools are down this year but I could see the L HAC taking single and triple A titles this year. 2 out of 3 isn't to shabby. Watch games. Youll see the superior team. Its not very hard to to spot.

[animus]

Yeah, BG may have 4-5 players that would start for Altoona, but Altoona has far more players that would start for BG.

It just isn't realistic to think a class A team could beat a competent AAAA team. The big thing is depth and size. BG may have some good skilled players but the fact you have to many two-way players would wear them down pretty quick.

May I agree and disagree with this post.

There's a difference between a 1A team playing a 4A schedule or playing a random game against a 4A school. In states like Florida, Class A schools compete against 6A-8A schools all the time, and beat them. The difference is, down in Florida those Class A teams have 40-50 man rosters and are deeper than most Class A teams from PA. Cocoa & Booker T Washington are 4A schools with rosters of 35-40 kids and competes against anyone in the nation.... In PA Cocoa/Booker T would be large 3A to small 4A schools FYI, goes to show how huge the 7A & 8A schools really are down there...

In PA there's slightly a difference simply because you don't see any Class A schools with rosters larger than 40 kids anymore. Hell, many 2A schools are struggling to get 35.

What would really hurt a Clairton is the lack of depth up front. The Bears doesn't have the type of depth to have fresh bodies on the offensive & defensive line. Clairton would need an injury free game and they'd need to completely control the tempo to win against a 4A school. Ringing up four TD's or more in the first half would be mandatory, and lets face it, a 4A defense is far better than 1A defenses around.

I don't know all of the details, but in the 90's Aliquippa played Colreign (Cincinnati) and led most of the game. They even had a 3 TD lead headin into the and lost the game because Colreign's size and depth wore Aliquippa down.

Of the teams lately, I'd say those early 00's SCA and late 00's Steel High teams were more equipped to play a random 4A school because they had the size and depth up front to compete with them.

[Crimson's Ghost]

The thing with Cocoa is that they might be A down there but would be AA maybe even AAA up here. Pennsylvania class A schools are tiny.

Could Clairton play with and beat some bad to average AAAA teams, it wouldn't be impossible. Wade would be able to break runs against everyone but even bad class 4A teams would wear down a team with only 25 guys.

I mean teams like Guilfoyle and Clairton and North Catholic obviously have good players that would be able to drive the ball, but at the end of the day you have guys playing both ways against fresh bodies rotating in and out. At some point it would be too much to overcome.

Altoona is a pretty good team, and it would be hard for any Class A team to beat them. Like I said before. BG has 4-5 kids that would step into Altoona and start and make an impact, but Altoona has more than 5 kids that would come in and help BG and start.

[Crimson's Ghost]

my cousin doesn't have the ego... this is just the locker room chatter he hears! as for first round match ups? I don't think bellwood? homer? PL? PM? those aren't potential easy match ups for the first round. Anything can happen on a given day in football. People act like BG has an easy path to the state finals... yet this team has not won anything ever! They choked last year, they haven't won the LHAC and the LHAC is a bad conference. 0 District winners last year and that is something that could very easily happen again... The only true favorite i see out of the LHAC this year is BG but even they are not a heavy favorite.

I can say right now, nobody in the Heritage or WestPac would be able to win the LHAC. Mt Union would have a chance from the ICC but that's it. The top three teams from the Mountain would have a chance.

Somerset,BG,Bedford, and Johnstown would all win the Heritage and westpac with ease and teams like Penn Cambria,Central Cambria,Forest Hills wouldn't be all that far off. I mean Richland has 3 wins in the LHAC, my guess is that they would have 5-6 wins in the Heritage.

Blairsville,Penns Manor, Homer, and Portage would have a tough time getting to 8 wins in the LHAC.

[D6sports101]

Anyone know how many kids BG and Portage have?

[12HankQB]

Konjo, wow... I'm going to go with BG winning the district. Unless there's a mass collision on the field causing 5 injuries, I'd say this is all but in the books. This BG team has the potential to beat an outstanding AAA Somerset. Com'on man!