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.
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.
You can add all-state basketball player for Jordy too. There’s absolutely no way he should’ve been ignored.
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....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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