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What's worse? Taking 12 in single A or 8 out of the 12 in AA? A lot bad teams making the playoffs this year. 

I remember back in the day and teams with one loss struggled to make the playoffs. United had a powerhouse one season and had one loss and didn't make the playoffs due to the amount of Class A opponents they played. They may have even been unbeaten that season if my memory serves me correctly.

Aiks19 wrote:What's worse? Taking 12 in single A or 8 out of the 12 in AA? A lot bad teams making the playoffs this year. 

Sounds like D6 has turned into the D5 playoffs you've all bashed for years.

Let me ask the question since I don't have history in this area.  Are you saying there was a time when United was AA or AAA and played A schools and went undefeated because of the larger pool of students.  Isn't this the same issue you are mentioning now in your rants.

The entire PIAA map needs revamped. That's the bottom line.

When the Heritage and West Pac was the Appalachian, United was one of the bigger schools, along with Purchase Line and Marion Center.

I'm not ranting about AA schools playing A schools, there is a difference between embarrassing an opponent and beating an outmanned squad. United also played bigger schools when they scheduled out of conference games like Punxsy who was AAAA at the time.

Gerry Page coached many good teams and he did it classy and didn't embarrass people. Frank Krevetski did the same, as did Ernie Widmar and Ab Dettorre. There is a difference, especially when sports are what they are now and it's tough just getting kids out of the house to even play.

If a team is up by 40 at the half, generally they pull the starters, numbers permitting. If the JV kids are scoring and the score gets worse it is what it is. But I just don't like seeing coaches willfully running it up it serves no purpose.

Mr. Page was a legend for sure

Gerry is respected on both sides of the river and for a good reason, he did it the right way. That's all I'm saying.

A lot of local teams were a class higher but have gone down for two reasons, one is declining population, the other was the Philadelphia city and catholic leagues joining PIAA as D12, which added quite a few bigger schools.


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Blueandwhitefan:
I disagree. PM has improved greatly and should have beaten Homer last week. I expect them to give Blairsville all they want and possibly beat them if the weather becomes a factor.