ICC vs LHAC

[AUSTIN_22:22]

major college football programs have something like 50 available scholarships while major college soccer programs have no more than 15. football roster sizes are also much larger than soccer rosters as well, simply for the fact that in football you can have 30 some players that play all the time while soccer only 15 or so players see signifigant pt. therefore, there are twice as many football opportunities than for soccer. but in soccer you dont have the specialization football requires, so... i just dont see how the comparison can be made as to level of football vs. soccer played in the area by using the number of players in each respective sport who move onto the next level.

to expand on your post b-rock, there are a few players that are arguably the best players ever at bedford. the two that stand out in my mind both went to st. francis on scholarships. although, if you are talking about area soccer, westmont has two former alums that were playing for ACC schools, nc state and virginia. im not sure if they are still w/ the teams, but i know they were on the teams a few years ago. somebody help me out on that...gunner?

as for football players who went onto D1 or whatever level we are talking about, im sure there is somebody out there that knows 10x's as much about the subject than me and if they want to add something be my guest.

but this topic is about ICC vs. LH football. i am biased just like everybody else here, but the LH is clearly above the ICC when it comes to talent level. interleague competition is debatable though. its hard to make an argument one way vs. the other in that regard.

[Gunner18]

first off bedrock, the most prolific goal scorer was not the best player, that title belongs to the current head coach at bedford, even though he did go to st. francis, he was also an ODP finalists (ODP is Olympic Development Program) he was one step away from making the US Olympic team until he had quite an injury (i believe he tore something in his knee).
Austin is correct in saying that westy had some kids go DI for soccer, and im quite sure it was more than 2. but to say that the level of soccer in this area compared to the state is not above football in the area compared to the rest of the state is just absurd...sure there may be more football players playing in college and there maybe more kids playing football than soccer, but it doesnt change the fact that soccer in d5/6 regularly has teams making it to the state quarters and semis where as usually the football teams make it to the quarters if their lucky, rarely do you see a football team make it to the semis. by the way, if you want to do some counting, count the number of soccer players vs. the number of football players in bedford...last i checked there were 39 on the soccer team and 36 on the football team. granted football is mostly just juniors, seniors, and some sophomores, but they almost ALWAYS have more than the soccer team regardless.

[oldgrandad]

Old School, how can you continually be so bitter about Bedford. Don't they pay your salary and thereby put food on the table for your wife and kids?

[UNO]

It doesn't take a genius to see that year in and year out the LHC has the most teams qualify for the District playoffs. From top to bottom you cannot compare the LHC to the ICC. This would be like comparing PSAC schools to the Big Ten. Personally I believe CR ran from the LHC because they couldn't compete. Lets face it, it sure wasn't because of traveling distances. Nor was it because of class size. For those of you in Bedford County here's a news flash; CR can no longer cry David vs. Goliah when facing Bedford. CR is now the largest district in the County. So the only logical reason a larger AA school would join a conference that is predominantly class A schools is to boost their win loss ratio. :oops:

[Gunner18]

its LHAC, with an "A", which stands for "Athletic" notice that the ICC doesnt mention athletics at all..hmmmmmmmm

[Lefteyelouie]

After witnessing my first ICC game last night I have to say that I was not overly impressed with the game. Granted Bellwood is young but it really is just not comparible to the LHAC! BA and CR are at the top of the ICC but I don't see them being in the top 6 or 7 in the LHAC.

[4]

You can't just assume a school is going to leave a conference if they're getting beat up week after week in football. I know football is big, but it doesn't have bearing on all other sports. Richland for instance, may not be good at football, but they are successful unusally every year in women's tennis, soccer, and volleyball. I believe they won states last year in women's v-ball.

[Gunner18]

that was huntingdon that won states in vball i believe, richland won districts or were finalists if im not mistaken

[fleaflicker]

Uno, it's also worth noting that the LHAC contains most of the AA schools in Districts 5/6, as well as the two of the AAA schools within those districts. It would be a surprise if the LHAC didn't get most of the teams in the District 5-6 AA playoffs.

You're right Southie, I should have thought of the District 5 track meet.

[southpaw]

Gunner, Richland girls have one of the premier volleyball programs in the state with countless district 6 titles and several state titles as well. Also have had several girls go to big 1A schools of full scholarship to play volleyball. I think that was the point trying to be made.

Fleaflicker, had trouble understanding your post. ICC should get a couple of teams in the D6 A playoffs and one from D5. WestPAC is mostly D5 schools with Portage probably getting in D6 this year.