IS A HOF HEAD FTBALL COACH NOW AT MT RIDGE? 5/6 BOYS TRANSFER TO FORT HILL! NEXT ISNT RUMOR!IF THE GIRLS BBALL COACH IS AT FH THIS SEASON THE SENTINEL SISTERS WILL GO OUT FOR THE TEAM!I HEARD ARUMOR!FILM AT 11!

No complaints here that Carter Hess will be voted POY. Hess should have been POY last season as well. It was you HYPOCRITES that voted a deserving Pua’auli POY after an historic offensive season. What changed this season. Daniels compiled historic numbers, against arguably the toughest schedule in the history of Allegany County Football. HYPOCRITES. No disrespect to Will Patterson, but you same HYPOCRITES that stole the POY from Hess last year, now have the audacity to have Daniels share the Offensive POY award. The 5 voters that didn't vote Daniels should never be allowed to vote ever again. In my humble opinion if anything were to be shared it should have been the POY. Not by my standards, but by the standards you HYPOCRITES set as early as last year's voting results. Pua’auli historic season earned him POY. Daniels historic season earns him basically a tie for 2nd. Maybe we can blame Alkire for not running the up scores and stats. For any naysayers. Patterson may very well be MVP, but that has nothing to with this award. HYPOCRITES.

With the local high school football award season upon us just wanted to comment. I will preface by saying that I am not a Fort Hill Grad. Considering the season they had, against the level of competition they played against, I can not understand how FH players could not just sweep every award. Just one man's opinion.

Morgantown beat Spring Mills 35-32 in to win the WV AAAA state championship. Seems low scoring, sounds like a great game

Looks like #4 Fort Hill plays #1 seeded Cambridge-SD on Tuesday, March 12th at 5 PM....location is Montgomery Blair HS in Silver Spring. Just off 495 at the Rt 29 North/Colesville Rd exit. Good luck to the Sentinels!

A two year varsity football deal in 2024 and 2025 for Week 2. Yes! That is the Dunbar Poets of Baltimore.

The first year is at Dunbar for September 13, 2024 weekend. The game will be played and showcased at Morgan State University.

The second year will be the same weekend at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

This match up only makes sense. We are talking about both teams being Consecutive Three Time Defending State Champions. It's so very, very rare that any Maryland team has won three straight state titles. The fact we are able to put both on the same field at the peak of this feat is really a wonderful/exciting opportunity for players, coaches and fans.

Dunbar has not lost a game in three years.
Fort Hill has lost one game in three years.

Hopefully, the FH administration does not get upset with me spilling these beans publicly. It is always my intention to make sure the contract has been wrapped up. But in today's connected world, Dunbar apparently has broken the news and it is circulating already on several social media platforms. So I always feel it's best that people get the correct story from the source, which is why I have always posted under my real name. More important, the players should get to know first, and they have been told. Whooop, there it is!

The Dunbar coaches and AD seem to be as giddy as myself about this game. The Poets have made it clear they wish to showcase this game for their kids, the programs, the city of Baltimore/Cumberland and to get college coaches aware. Their coach sent me these images in a text side-by-side. Felt it to be a good share. Very cool. Let's Roll!

The ACC and Big 12 sealed their football irrelevancy fate today. The race to get out and into the P2 is about to go ballistic.

The ACC will not be in existence much longer - that much is known. And if the ACC does remain a conference, it will be at the G5 level.

Those invited to the P2 big boy table will be based on the ability to pay court settlements and athletes - past and present.

ACC & Big 12 presidents voted Wednesday to authorize their commissioners to adopt the new CFP framework (idiots).

SEC & Big Ten will combine to share around 58% of College Football Playoff distribution while 32% goes to ACC/Big 12. The rest get to split 10% of the pie.

FYI, the pie is equal to: $1.3 billion per year

FH wins again….. I give up

Carter has had 4 matches so far and won them all by pin. He will be in the Finals tomorrow. Finals are scheduled from 4 to 6pm as on the schedule. You can watch the Finals on NFHS network

In another thread someone asked who would be a Allegany coaching candidate. I think Geno would and he would definitely help keep the kids on the blue side.

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The sophomore guard Alco brought up is the real deal, he can handle the ball, see the court and shoot as good as anyone in the area. When.they brought him off the bench against FH it gave Alco a nice spark.

ESPN and FOX PARTNER TO CREATE STREAMING SERVICE FOR ALL EVENTS

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/02/06/espn-fox-warner-new-sports-streaming-service/

In a very short time the Super Bowl, and all the world's biggest events, will only be available on a streaming subscription platform. If the Dolphins vs. Chiefs NFL playoff game this year on Peacock TV STREAMING ONLY did not alert longtime cable/satellite users as to what's coming down the pike quickly, don't fret. You will be forced to find what most of us already know, like it or not. If you are one of those threatening to never watch the NFL again because it's streaming only, plan on never watching any sport again.

The MLB, NBA, NHL and College Football Playoffs are all committed to putting their post-season on these streaming services after ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. have just announced they will launch a sports streaming service. Yea, when adversaries like ESPN and FOX partner for a new adventure it's big. The way you watched TV your entire life will be over soon.

ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, ACC Network, ESPNews, ABC, Fox, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Big Ten Network, TNT, TBS and truTV will all be bundled. But many of the biggest events will be streaming service only like Peacock did with the NFL. Or like ESPN Plus is currently doing and pushing forward aggressively.

Personally, it's better to pay $100 picking the channels I want to watch as opposed to paying more than twice that for 300 channels I never watch. Customers can now get access to events that were never available before On Demand -- which means what I want to watch when I want to watch it. The adverse part is witnessing the older generation try to figure out the technical aspects. It's not rocket science but can be challenging at first for a novice. It's the resistance to learn/change that usually throws new users off.

There are many streaming IPTV providers out there already that cost under $20 a month to get every channel, streaming network, movie and series under the sun. It's still a mystery why some people are fearful of making the switch from having a coaxial cable go from their wall to the TV set to having wireless internet TV. All while continuing to pay $250 a month for that channel limited old cable/satellite service. Again, it won't be long until everyone is forced to switch. High speed internet will be a necessity just like paying for a telephone 40 years ago. The internet speed is where the money will also flow. But most folks already have and pay for internet speed.

A ton of people still exist that swore they would never own a cell phone. Here comes internet television (IPTV) in the same fashion.

Fort Hill's Carter Hess is 23-0 wrestling this year. Most of his matches are over in less than a minute or two. Here is a Facebook video of him slamming a wrestler for Boonsboro with a pin in 6 seconds. Opponent could barely walk. Worth seeing. Did not know how to share just the video so u need to use Facebook. WOW.

Wrestling Match over in 6 seconds

Should be a good game. Alcos gym holds 800 ppl, will it be a sell out

What is it looking like for area teams?

Boys Basketball
Girls Basketball
Wrestling

We don't need no stinking quarterback, DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS!
Tomorrow's College Football Playoff Show is going to be ridiculously insane.

The 15th annual Queen City Quad Football Classic at Greenway Avenue Stadium will be played Saturday - August 24, 2024 at noon.

The same four teams as last year will be returning: Fort Hill (host), St. Frances (Baltimore), Clarkson North (Canada) and Bridgeport (WV).

Every team from last season wanted to return without hesitation. I sent the invite out and within an hour all the schools replied YES! Based on feedback, coaches like the organization that comes with 15 years of running this Quad. I have no idea how the time flew so fast.

This is a great compliment to Fort Hill, the coaches, players, program, administrators and to Cumberland and their love for local football. Thanks to our Allegany County Board of Education for keeping the stadium one of the best in Maryland and granting access to all parts of the stadium and locker rooms the past 15 years. This stadium is a superb atmosphere to host such a Quad. Also, many thanks to our stadium custodians past and present. Every Quad event runs so smoothly because of their dedication and hard work. The past few years Brian has been our rock, he makes this so easy and is always the last one to leave the stadium after the Quad. He literally has the keys to the Quad for everything we need to accommodate 250 players and coaches from four schools.

See you in the warm heat of August!

Any word on who'll be there? Besides FH of course.

Does Todd, or anyone, know what this big news could be?

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Toby Peer is the head football coach at Cambridge-South Dorchester who will visit Fort Hill Friday night. Coach Peer used to be the South Hagerstown head coach, then became their Athletic Director before heading to Cambridge. He has ties to Cumberland - his parents live on the WV side of the Potomac.

I have had the pleasure to hang out with Coach Peer both in pleasure and business situations. There is a local connection story that had great implications with MPSSAA policy not many would know.

In 2018 myself, Todd Appel (who was the FH head coach at the time), Toby Peer and then FH Athletic Director Amber Waltz all got in a car and drove to BWI Airport that winter for the annual MPSSAA football meeting. We appeared at the winter meeting in an effort to convince the MPSSAA to change the playoff system.

At that 2018 meeting, after many discussions and debates with Coach Appel, I drafted a formal new playoff system that kept regional play but extended the amount of teams that made the playoffs from 16 teams to 32 teams. This would reduce the number of regular season games from 10 down to 9. The reason for it was because no one in respective regions were playing each other and only the top 4 teams in each region were making the playoffs. Although Coach Appel was adamant about breaking up the regions totally and just going to a 1-16 seed format like WV has always used. The problem was the MPSSAA was never going to break up regional alignment post-season. People involved had fought and argued about breaking up regions since its inception in 1974. You just wound up beating your head against a brick wall. The only way we were going to implement playoff changes was by keeping regional play.

Toby Peer got on board because he was upset about his South Hagerstown teams having to play the likes of Linganore and Damascus while other teams in his region were not. Yet they were all trying to outpoint him by not having to actually play him on the field. The system was horrible. So he went to that meeting as we presented our official request and documentation for playoff change. Luck had it that most other schools all through Maryland, including Baltimore and Montgomery County, did not like the current structure either. The timing was just right.

The draft I put together got pushed through the proper MPSSAA channels with the backing of FH principal Steve Lewis and Regional Football Director Kurt Stein (currently still the head coach at Oakdale). It passed. And in 2019 was fully implemented and was beautiful.

2019 NEW MPSSAA PLAYOFF FORMAT
- Kept the 4 classifications
- kept the same 4 regions per class (North, South, East, West)
- but now 8 teams from each region made the playoffs instead of only 4
- there were roughly 12-14 teams in each region. So the lesser teams that could not make at least an 8th seed were left out.
- the regular season was pushed back to 9 games instead of 10 to accommodate the extra playoff game
* HOWEVER, the original playoff proposal asked to move the season up one week and let everyone play 10 regular season games, the MPSSAA dumped that option.

I felt the new system was perfect (assuming you had to keep regions). It kept teams like Southern and Hancock out - who didn't even want in the playoffs after bad seasons - and it allowed two teams from each region to move into a Top 8 seeded round robin after the first two weeks of regional play. It would allow teams like FH and Mtn Ridge to play in Annapolis if they both were truly the best teams.

Unfortunately COVID hit in 2020. In 2021 the MPSSAA kept the format but moved to 6 classifications instead of 4, which in my mind watered down the system way too much. It also forced everyone to make the playoffs, even the teams who wanted to opt out after a bad season.

But I wanted it noted that Toby Peer was instrumental in helping Coach Appel and myself to get a new playoff format implemented. The time I got to spend with Coach Peer made me realize what a really good guy he is and what a solid football mind he maintains. This guy produces teams that are very sound and very well prepared. Very logical, fundamental approach.

I look forward again to shaking the hand of Coach Peer Friday night.

"In a move coach Mike Warfield called déjà vu, the PIAA has notified Aliquippa that its football team will be forced up another classification before next season.

The Quips won the Class 4A state title this fall and were runners-up in 2022, and the PIAA now plans to move them up to 5A under its competitive-balance rule, Warfield said Thursday. The school already has appealed the decision, he said.

What makes the situation frustrating for Aliquippa is that the school had an enrollment the past two years that qualified for Class A football and was forced to face opponents three classifications larger. Now, they’re going up again."

Let's say FH wins 5, 6, 7 consecutive state championships in the new 1A (6 classes in football only), could Maryland implement something like this?

Was good enough to be the DPOY but not good enough to make either of the all state teams?? LMAO

Anyone remember QB Reese Poffenbarger? He has played at FCS level Albany the past two years and must have lit it up. He won a state title at Middletown going undefeated in 2019. In his senior season at Middletown, Poffenbarger passed for 2,943 yards along with 32 touchdowns, which were both Frederick County Public High School records.

But I thought he committed to Old Dominion at the time. Good for him.
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Transfer Portal: Miami Lands Reese Poffenbarger​

Hurricanes finally land their Transfer Portal quarterback

After a long wait, Mario Cristobal and the Miami Hurricanes are bringing in a Transfer Portal quarterback. It's not Cam Ward, it's Reese Poffenbarger.

Whom, you may ask? This is why college football is so great.

Poffenbarger comes to The U from Albany University. He's an FCS player gaining an opportunity to play for the Orange and Green and have millions of eyeballs on him. Here's what Poffenbarger did during two seasons with the Great Danes.

2022: 227 of 369, 61.5%, 2,999 yards, 8.1 per attempt, 24 touchdowns, and 4 interceptions.
2023: 276 of 471, 58.6%, 3,614 yards, 7.7 per attempt, 36 touchdowns, and 13 interceptions.

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The 6-foot and 210-pound signal-caller is originally from Middletown (Md.) High School. Obviously, this young man did not receive a bunch of Power 5 offers out of high school, but now Poffenbarger is being recognized as a top quarterback and chance to play on a huge stage.

Insane