Examples of Majority White Teams Winning State Championships

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Do you think some of these teams only do good because of coaching?
It depends if there is a legitimate DI talent on the roster. If he is big he can play two ways and can be a disrupting force. If he is fast he can play two ways and be impossible to cover and be a high school shutdown corner.

But most of the players aren't this level of athlete so coaching would supersede talent.
 

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Pine-Richland High School's football team, from suburban Pittsburgh, won the 5A state championship in 2020 for the second time in recent years. Pennsylvania's high school football classifications go from 1A to 6A, with 6A schools having the largest number of students, so you can see that Pine-Richland is a large school district. The Rams smashed Cathedral Prep 48-7 in the state championship game. High school football in Pennsylvania is as popular as anywhere in the country outside of the Deep South, Florida and Texas. The team is entirely White except for two Blacks.

The team is coached by Eric Kasperowicz, who was a prominent high school QB and LB and went on to play at the University of Pittsburgh as a safety and linebacker and had some NFL tryouts but never got a chance to play as a pro. Pine-Richland is 85-18 since Kasperowicz became coach.

A local free paper had an article I noticed titled "4 from P-R Football Team Accept Walk-on Offers." P-R is short for Pine-Richland. The four walk-ons joined three players who did get offers, but hardly to college powerhouses -- Charlotte, Kent State and Liberty. The kid who got the offer from Charlotte is one of the two black kids on the team.

The four walk-ons were two wide receivers, a running back, and a cornerback. One of the WRs, Eli Jochem, broke Neil Walker's school records for career catches, receiving yards, and his single season TD record with 18. Neil Walker is the long-time MLB second baseman who played his first six seasons with the hometown Pirates.

Jochem is walking on at Indiana, and the comments from his teammate in the article is telling: "The sentiment from Jochem's teammates is that he's vastly underrated and will prove that he will shine at a Power 5 school. 'I don't know how he slipped through the cracks,' said [Charlie] Mill the other WR walk-on. 'Seeing his success is so awesome. We worked out every day during the summer. I see him vertical jumping 60 inches'."

So here you have a football powerhouse in a prominent state for high school football, and its stars, especially at the verboten skill positions, are completely ignored by recruiters or forced to go to programs where they will get close to zero chance to move on to the NFL even if they excel.

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Pine-Richland High School's football team, from suburban Pittsburgh, won the 5A state championship in 2020 for the second time in recent years. Pennsylvania's high school football classifications go from 1A to 6A, with 6A schools having the largest number of students, so you can see that Pine-Richland is a large school district. The Rams smashed Cathedral Prep 48-7 in the state championship game. High school football in Pennsylvania is as popular as anywhere in the country outside of the Deep South, Florida and Texas. The team is entirely White except for two Blacks.

The team is coached by Eric Kasperowicz, who was a prominent high school QB and LB and went on to play at the University of Pittsburgh as a safety and linebacker and had some NFL tryouts but never got a chance to play as a pro. Pine-Richland is 85-18 since Kasperowicz became coach.

A local free paper had an article I noticed titled "4 from P-R Football Team Accept Walk-on Offers." P-R is short for Pine-Richland. The four walk-ons joined three players who did get offers, but hardly to college powerhouses -- Charlotte, Kent State and Liberty. The kid who got the offer from Charlotte is one of the two black kids on the team.

The four walk-ons were two wide receivers, a running back, and a cornerback. One of the WRs, Eli Jochem, broke Neil Walker's school records for career catches, receiving yards, and his single season TD record with 18. Neil Walker is the long-time MLB second baseman who played his first six seasons with the hometown Pirates.

Jochem is walking on at Indiana, and the comments from his teammate in the article is telling: "The sentiment from Jochem's teammates is that he's vastly underrated and will prove that he will shine at a Power 5 school. 'I don't know how he slipped through the cracks,' said [Charlie] Mill the other WR walk-on. 'Seeing his success is so awesome. We worked out every day during the summer. I see him vertical jumping 60 inches'."

So here you have a football powerhouse in a prominent state for high school football, and its stars, especially at the verboten skill positions, are completely ignored by recruiters or forced to go to programs where they will get close to zero chance to move on to the NFL even if they excel.

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The kind of post that illustrates it all!
 
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The kind of post that illustrates it all!

"Slipped through the cracks" is a catch-all expression. Jordy Nelson was a walk-on at Kansas State after excelling in high school. Nelson per Wiki, aside from starring in high school football, won the Kansas High School track championships in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 400 meter. If that wasn't enough, the long jump. Still, Jordy Nelson "slipped through the cracks" of college football recruiting.

The "slipped through the cracks" expression often turns up with the (usually black) perp of a horrific murder who received years of soft sentences for violent crimes.
 

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"Slipped through the cracks" is a catch-all expression. Jordy Nelson was a walk-on at Kansas State after excelling in high school. Nelson per Wiki, aside from starring in high school football, won the Kansas High School track championships in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 400 meter. If that wasn't enough, the long jump. Still, Jordy Nelson "slipped through the cracks" of college football recruiting.

The "slipped through the cracks" expression often turns up with the (usually black) perp of a horrific murder who received years of soft sentences for violent crimes.
You can add all-state basketball player for Jordy too. There’s absolutely no way he should’ve been ignored.

Pine-Richland to me sounds like a lot of the suburban Dallas schools where all the kids have to walk on in college despite winning state championships (highland park).
 

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Pine-Richland High School's football team, from suburban Pittsburgh, won the 5A state championship in 2020 for the second time in recent years. Pennsylvania's high school football classifications go from 1A to 6A, with 6A schools having the largest number of students, so you can see that Pine-Richland is a large school district. The Rams smashed Cathedral Prep 48-7 in the state championship game. High school football in Pennsylvania is as popular as anywhere in the country outside of the Deep South, Florida and Texas. The team is entirely White except for two Blacks.

The team is coached by Eric Kasperowicz, who was a prominent high school QB and LB and went on to play at the University of Pittsburgh as a safety and linebacker and had some NFL tryouts but never got a chance to play as a pro. Pine-Richland is 85-18 since Kasperowicz became coach.

A local free paper had an article I noticed titled "4 from P-R Football Team Accept Walk-on Offers." P-R is short for Pine-Richland. The four walk-ons joined three players who did get offers, but hardly to college powerhouses -- Charlotte, Kent State and Liberty. The kid who got the offer from Charlotte is one of the two black kids on the team.

The four walk-ons were two wide receivers, a running back, and a cornerback. One of the WRs, Eli Jochem, broke Neil Walker's school records for career catches, receiving yards, and his single season TD record with 18. Neil Walker is the long-time MLB second baseman who played his first six seasons with the hometown Pirates.

Jochem is walking on at Indiana, and the comments from his teammate in the article is telling: "The sentiment from Jochem's teammates is that he's vastly underrated and will prove that he will shine at a Power 5 school. 'I don't know how he slipped through the cracks,' said [Charlie] Mill the other WR walk-on. 'Seeing his success is so awesome. We worked out every day during the summer. I see him vertical jumping 60 inches'."

So here you have a football powerhouse in a prominent state for high school football, and its stars, especially at the verboten skill positions, are completely ignored by recruiters or forced to go to programs where they will get close to zero chance to move on to the NFL even if they excel.

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Fantastic post! Sadly, despite making some progress against the Caste System (compare the 00s and 10s to the 80s and 90s), we haven’t moved the needle regarding top talents from White powerhouses being ignored. This stuff happens year after year and sort of becoming a scout for a major university, I don’t see how we change it....
 

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Pine-Richland High School's football team, from suburban Pittsburgh, won the 5A state championship in 2020 for the second time in recent years. Pennsylvania's high school football classifications go from 1A to 6A, with 6A schools having the largest number of students, so you can see that Pine-Richland is a large school district. The Rams smashed Cathedral Prep 48-7 in the state championship game. High school football in Pennsylvania is as popular as anywhere in the country outside of the Deep South, Florida and Texas. The team is entirely White except for two Blacks.

The team is coached by Eric Kasperowicz, who was a prominent high school QB and LB and went on to play at the University of Pittsburgh as a safety and linebacker and had some NFL tryouts but never got a chance to play as a pro. Pine-Richland is 85-18 since Kasperowicz became coach.

A local free paper had an article I noticed titled "4 from P-R Football Team Accept Walk-on Offers." P-R is short for Pine-Richland. The four walk-ons joined three players who did get offers, but hardly to college powerhouses -- Charlotte, Kent State and Liberty. The kid who got the offer from Charlotte is one of the two black kids on the team.

The four walk-ons were two wide receivers, a running back, and a cornerback. One of the WRs, Eli Jochem, broke Neil Walker's school records for career catches, receiving yards, and his single season TD record with 18. Neil Walker is the long-time MLB second baseman who played his first six seasons with the hometown Pirates.

Jochem is walking on at Indiana, and the comments from his teammate in the article is telling: "The sentiment from Jochem's teammates is that he's vastly underrated and will prove that he will shine at a Power 5 school. 'I don't know how he slipped through the cracks,' said [Charlie] Mill the other WR walk-on. 'Seeing his success is so awesome. We worked out every day during the summer. I see him vertical jumping 60 inches'."

So here you have a football powerhouse in a prominent state for high school football, and its stars, especially at the verboten skill positions, are completely ignored by recruiters or forced to go to programs where they will get close to zero chance to move on to the NFL even if they excel.


Eric Kasperowicz has been rewarded for his and his team's success by being summarily fired, no good reason given just some bs claims of "hazing" with no evidence and no one backing it up. Seems like a case of jealous snowflakes on the school board flexing their tiny girly man muscles, but it's backfiring big-time.

There's been an outpouring of support for Kasperowicz on talk radio, from his fellow coaches around the area, and even the students rallied on his behalf.

From this article: "Dozens of high school football coaches statewide have used social media to announce their support for coach Eric Kasperowicz and his assistants, who were fired at Pine-Richland on Wednesday. Many of the tweets were in response to an email sent by Gateway athletic director/football coach Don Holl, who urged his colleagues to not apply for the open job. Holl sent his email to fellow members of the Pennsylvania State Football Coaches Association." https://tribhssn.triblive.com/urged...ge-support-for-ousted-coach-eric-kasperowicz/

Another article about students protesting and all the support Kasperowicz is getting from the community. It would be nice to see the same kind of passion opposing "social distancing" and face diapers, but at least it's something: https://triblive.com/sports/pine-ri...coachs-firing-parents-call-for-reinstatement/

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Eric Kasperowicz has been rewarded for his and his team's success by being summarily fired, no good reason given just some bs claims of "hazing" with no evidence and no one backing it up. Seems like a case of jealous snowflakes on the school board flexing their tiny girly man muscles, but it's backfiring big-time.

There's been an outpouring of support for Kasperowicz on talk radio, from his fellow coaches around the area, and even the students rallied on his behalf.

From this article: "Dozens of high school football coaches statewide have used social media to announce their support for coach Eric Kasperowicz and his assistants, who were fired at Pine-Richland on Wednesday. Many of the tweets were in response to an email sent by Gateway athletic director/football coach Don Holl, who urged his colleagues to not apply for the open job. Holl sent his email to fellow members of the Pennsylvania State Football Coaches Association." https://tribhssn.triblive.com/urged...ge-support-for-ousted-coach-eric-kasperowicz/

Another article about students protesting and all the support Kasperowicz is getting from the community. It would be nice to see the same kind of passion opposing "social distancing" and face diapers, but at least it's something: https://triblive.com/sports/pine-ri...coachs-firing-parents-call-for-reinstatement/

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Was a reason given for the firing? Hazing? That's supposedly standard in the NFL.
 

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Watched some of the NC State 3A Championship football game this evening between all white Charlotte Catholic and all black Havelock. The all white Charlotte Catholic team completely shut down a Havelock offense that had averaged over 50 points a game. Catholic frustrated Havelock in to 9-10 penalties for 100 yards. Many of the penalties were for late hits on the Catholic players. Catholic went on to win 14-7 to capture their fourth straight state title.
I think we mentioned current Clemson freshman RB Will Shipley's all white HS team from Weddington, NC winning two straight NC state championships.
 

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I've been watching some of the Texas State Championship HS Football games on some cable channel I have and in the first two 4A games the predominately white teams have won both. The All White Stephenville team beat the number one ranked all black/Hispanic team 38-24.
Tomorrow 90% white 6A Austin Westlake team featuring Clemson QB signee Cade Klubnik will playing. Westlake also has really good white RB who is either a Sophomore or Junior.
If anyone is interested?
 

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I've been watching some of the Texas State Championship HS Football games on some cable channel I have and in the first two 4A games the predominately white teams have won both. The All White Stephenville team beat the number one ranked all black/Hispanic team 38-24.
Tomorrow 90% white 6A Austin Westlake team featuring Clemson QB signee Cade Klubnik will playing. Westlake also has really good white RB who is either a Sophomore or Junior.
If anyone is interested?

Thanks. I’ll be tuning in...
 

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speaking of Texas high school football ... here’s a semifinal matchup between nearly-all-White Southlake Carroll and mostly-black Allen.


please note the dynamic afflete in the play that begins at the 10:50 mark. down 40-14, he decides to celebrate a catch with a dance. tnb
 
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