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.
I love what they do in Kentucky for basketball…no divisions- one 16 team tournament…and the private schools almost never win. I go to it every year and it’s one of the most enjoyable sporting events I’ve ever been to.
Ohio is different. The private and publics seem to co-exist pretty well and there are some very large Catholic schools in Cincy, Cleveland, Toledo, and Akron areas.
I'm not justifying it just stating the situation in Ohio. The OHSAA recently had a vote by all ADs (every classification) and they approved NIL for HS athletes. It was a public HS football player (OSU recruit) who brought the law suit that resulted in the vote. I know there are several schools in the Dayton area (public & private) that have been "magnets" for area athletes.
This Pa we are talking about here not Ohio with due respect
The talk about keeping to one school so that they could dominate athletics competition was bullsh%t. It came from competitors. The high school is being expanded right now and there are no plans for a second one.
That said, the district which was once mostly farms is expanding at an alarming rate. One of the townships is expected to add over 15,000 residents in the next few years. It is a real challenge for the school district planners.
North Penn says hello. Now, they want to add on to the HS and the residents aren’t happy about it.
That area will continue growing in population over the next 30 years. It is shocking they don’t build the second high school. I can understand saving taxpayer money in terms of not having two bloated high school administrations, but I would imagine students suffer as well from not having as many opportunities in a big crowded school. The rumor of Parkland’s one school sports motivation is not just from competitors. I have a friend who was a very prominent eastern PA politician who told me years ago that he knows for a fact the motivating factor for those decision-makers back then was sports.