Anyone know the score of the Sidwell Flint Hill game?

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11/05/2019 15:28

Subject: Anyone know the score of the Sidwell Flint Hill game?

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't Sidwell just have a football player go to Stanford? From my understanding he received full paying offers from every Big 10.

This is true. A wonderful aberration.

But here's the crazy part. When he played high school ball last year, the rest of the team was so checked out that Sidwell lost even more badly than this year! That's why Sidwell now has formal teams made up of homeschooled Christians on its schedule. Have to find someone somewhere to beat. Kind of amazing that injuries don't pile up. Are they all just running away from the ball, for safety?

If you know anything about football, then you know that one stellar player does not a team make. But the beauty of the player being referenced is that his academics and character were so high that he made it easy to receive offers from just about every Power 5 team and Ivy league team in the country. One doesn't need to be a 3rd string TE at St Johns or DeMatha. If they can achieve academically at Sidwell, they can realize whatever college dreams they might have athletically.

Another example of Sidwell advocates talking nonsense. I wonder if it's the same person over and over or multiple people. It's particularly egregious because a simple internet search would show exactly where he received offers. And for the record he was a 3 star recruit and the 470th highest ranked player in his class.

https://247sports.com/Player/Walter-Rouse-46053801/

Yes he did receive offers from many Ivy League schools but besides Ohio State and ND no big time football schools recruited him. Not a single SEC school was interested besides Vanderbilt (and they are by FAR the worst team in the conference.) Schools like Duke, Wake Forrest, Rutgers, Maryland, Indiana, Northwestern and yes the #42 RPI ranked Stanford were at his level. Normally I wouldn't even bother with this kind of posts but these delusional Sidwell parents need a bit of perspective.

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/233832/walter-rouse

He had committable offers from Ohio State and Alabama. The rest of the SEC was in touch with him but knew he was too high of an academic kid to consider their schools. He had an offer from Notre Dame which was he visited before he committed to Stanford. The P5 schools know where kids fall academically and from a football perspective. Any academic school worth its salt offered the kid.

Alabama didn't offer this kid anything. More nonsense. Ohio State and ND were already mentioned. He's a solidly average 3 star DI player. Don't make him out to be some superstar at the next level. He's not.

And this nonsense about 'the rest of the SEC' recruiting him but he was just tooo smart to go there? The list of schools where he was offered was linked above. 6 Ivies and a bunch of low-end DI schools + Ohio State/ND. About what you would expect for the 470th best prospect in his class coming from an elite academic school.