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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. Wow—things certainly devolved hahaha. The bickering about the top eschilon schools is honestly sad. Anyway I took somebody’s advice and went to the football game yesterday to check out the vibes. I was mostly swatting mosquitoes and making sure my kids didn’t run onto the field but it seemed to me that very few students were there to watch and almost no HS age girls.  We were nearest the south end zone which maybe was opposite of the student section so perhaps that’s why we didn’t see many kids. Anyway it was a good way to tire out kids and I enjoyed spending a little time on the campus. Well go to another couple games for sure and maybe catch some coaches’ eyes with my kids’ talent for rolling down the grass hill 🤣[/quote]

The downside of a big sports school is that many sports are training/competing year round.

All baseball teams were at a tournament yesterday as an example, so that’s 100 kids that probably had to skip.

No idea how many other sports alsi had similar conflicts.

Many Fall off-season stuff will finish soon so the late October / November games will be generally better attended.[/quote]

I second that and add that the early season football games are not truly representative of the student body or their school spirit. A wider range of SJC students will show up for the WCAC home games: DeMatha on Oct 26, and Gonzaga on Nov 9th (which will be a sellout and is the oldest high school football rivalry in the country).

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Agree with this. I have two kids at SJC and they haven’t been to a football game yet this year. The games so far weren’t local rivals and not that interesting. They will be at DeMatha (which is also homecoming) and the Gonzaga game. Those will both be packed. [/quote]

I appreciate they played a local, non-conference team and it was a close game.

I really hate the random teams from Ohio or Georgia where there are no opposing team fans.  There are enough good teams you can play in the DMV.[/quote]

Not really. Once you get out of the top of the WCAC, the competition gets pretty weak.

The Montgomery County schools aren’t going to schedule SJC. The State athletic structure actually punishes schools that go outside the publics. And besides SJC would beat them easily.

The big Fairfax schools won’t schedule them. The last game I remember between DEMatha and a Fairfax school was in the 1990’s.[/quote]

Considering SJC literally just played a DC Charter high school and the score was 14-6, proves that there is sufficient competition.

Last year, Dematha was losing to a VA public high school (they were I think ranked top 3 in the DC area...Freedom something?) and the game ended up not finishing because of a lightning storm.

Just look at the Washington Post weekly rankings of the top 20 teams and schedule against those teams, to the extent you are able.

Often these random teams from across the country aren't any good either.  They played some completely random school from Buffalo two weeks ago and won 42-0.[/quote]

The Washington Post rankings are heavily influenced by the Post’s circulation numbers. They’ve so reduced the number of sports reporters there that it’s a certainty no one there has seen more than a couple of teams play. [/quote]

Every Friday night they do live reporting of like 5 of the best games.  So, that's 10 teams each Friday they are actually seeing.

Seems like their rankings are pretty accurate.  SJC #3 beat Friendship Collegiate #5 by a score of 14-6.

Riverdale Baptist in PG county is ranked #4 and smoked Good Counsel.

Spaulding is ranked #1...any reason they can't play Spaulding?  That would be a competitive and I am sure well-attended game.[/quote]

I had a family member who was a sports reporter (local teams) and he told me there was very little science involved and lots of spreading the wealth to the different areas.[/quote]

Are you trying to claim Spaulding with multiple 5 star, Power 4 recruits is not actually the best local team?

They likely would spank SJC this year.

If Riverdale Baptist crushed Good Counsel are you claiming a game against  SJC wouldn’t be a good game?[/quote]

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