Separate PIAA Playoffs for Private schools?
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Status thing. Can’t have the privates mingling with the pubics.
Not yet. Still has to pass the senate then be adopted by the PIAA. I’m sure there will be push back that will delay it.
Mike White said on KDKA yesterday that the earliest that this would be implemented would be the 2028 school year.
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Better late than never. It is long overdue.
Here in Ohio, the private schools play along with the public schools for state titles.
It’s not right. Put them all in one classification. If they want to recruit, go for it, but you are playing competition that recruits also.
The worst example of all of this is St Joes Prep. It’s comically unfair that public schools would have to face a regional multistate super team.
Bishop McCort from Johnstown is the same thing in HS wrestling.
St. Joe's is where really good Parkland football teams end their season. Usually it is not even a competitive game.
I have not heard of any push to separate the schools in Ohio. Public schools are winning their share of titles in all sports here.
Until someone builds a IMG Academy type of school and recruits the best kids from all over the country and blows everyone out every game and year. It's coming just a matter of time.
Very true. About Parkland… word on the street (going back decades now) in the Lehigh Valley is that Parkland SD avoided the two high school model to not dilute sports. Now they are over capacity with well over 3,000 students at the high school and the area continues to experience a population boom (particularly Upper Macungie, which is predicted to double in population as NY/NJ continues to move in.) Are they sticking with the one school model for future planning? You know East Penn is exploring a two school model.
It doesn’t make it right. If you recruit, play in your own league.