Wild night for Alabama preps

Wow. New Jersey preps. Does St. Benedict's compete in football? For someone who doesn't live there and doesn't care about high school sports, I care about NJ high school sports more than I should.

 

St. Benedict's does not play football. NJ high school coverage: New Jersey High School Sports - NJ.com

 

Not a Joisey expert but Don Bosco is the gold standard.

 

Not this year, 2-4.

 

For some reason, BC recruited football players from New Jersey very well. Probably a Catholic thing.

 

Snitches get stitches, at least metaphorically.

https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/...ark-obryant-94-7-win-cedar-bluff/71181109007/

 

Oh, so top athletes don’t randomly have all their families get apartments at the beach? Whodathunkit?

Sure is darn inconvenient now that the historically mediocre Dolphins are now No. 1 in their classification. And amazing how all this bad luck seems to follow Mark Hudspeth, who got bounced from ULL for NCAA violations and Cannes at Austin Peay due to personal misconduct.

https://www.wkrg.com/news/exclusive...hores-athletes-families-ahsaa-to-investigate/

 

FYI, St. Michael’s is where Phillip Rivers went to coach.

 

Jackie Smith says no catch.

 

Not Alabama, but last year's coach fled to UAB, so ...
https://www.tennessean.com/story/sp...l-appeal-denied-court-injunction/71377900007/

 

For what its worth, nothing I have heard involves Dilfer. They were put on probation last year over the recruiting of a girl's basketball player, and then were caught on two football players recruited this year. I'm not saying nothing was going on, just that I have not seen anything in the press about it. Wealthy private schools (and public schools, for that matter) playing recruiting games is nothing new.

 

Stretching the premise a bit, but Bayside Academy lost in the Class 6A volleyball semifinals. This is the first time it failed to win a state championship since 2001.

https://www.al.com/sports/2023/11/s...all-tournament-for-first-time-since-2001.html