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LA_Mustang wrote:The most talented HS in the country?

2016 Texas football state champs
2016 Texas basketball state champs
2016 Texas boys track state champs
2016 Texas girls track state champs

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Don't know about their other sports, but DeMatha Catholic in suburban DC is top 10 in football and top 15 in basketball.

JHG wrote:Don't know about their other sports, but DeMatha Catholic in suburban DC is top 10 in football and top 15 in basketball.

As a private School, DeMatha can recruit players.

DeSoto is a public HS (and is not supposed to be recruiting players - though we have seen those things happen before down here).

I would say congratulations to Desoto, and to Demathia for that matter.

As regards recruiting or the suspicion thereof, in 1954 Abilene beat HP 40 - o in the first game and then lost to Breckinridge in the second before going undefeated in that three year run of 4A championships. Breckinridge, with a 2A enrollment and 22 players on the "A" team squad, was playing up out of classification and won the 3A championship in 1954.

HP went 6 - 4 in 1954 including losses to Waco and Wichita Falls. Waco had a storied history and WF, then coach by Joe Golding, was good to very good for a number of years until the opening of Rider and the growth of once independent suburban areas now in the city.

I take no view about where players at Waco and Abilene came from but there certainly were stories about recruiting at Breckinridge and I know of one player who made All-State at Wichita - and later played at SMU - after transferring from HP.

Abilene probably would have won a fourth state championship had HP not advanced on penetrations in 1957.

To take it a step further, the reigning Super bowl MVP, Von Miller, is a DeSoto HS alum and the starting SG, Matt Jones, for Duke's 2015 championship team is also a DeSoto HS alum.

PonyTime wrote:

JHG wrote:Don't know about their other sports, but DeMatha Catholic in suburban DC is top 10 in football and top 15 in basketball.

As a private School, DeMatha can recruit players.

DeSoto is a public HS (and is not supposed to be recruiting players - though we have seen those things happen before down here).

Yeah, we have the same allegations in NJ and Eastern PA all the time. One of Temple's big feeders in South Jersey was investigated and cleared of using phony home addresses for players.

TV announcers said they have 20 D1 commits on the team ...... that's crazy. Some schools don't have 20 in their history.

Can we not compare Abilene or any other school from the 1950s to DeSoto and other schools of today? There's something called segregation, which means that a lot of people weren't allowed to play back then.

It seems like every person age 60 and older played football at SMU before Jerry Levias came along. Pretty sure that they wouldn't be on the team in today's world.

I am over 60 and I was on the team while Levias was there. He was a senior and I was a freshman. So even though I am pasty white I was still recruited and signed to play football. And there are many women throughout the Dallas area that believe I was 5th in the Heisman balloting my senior year. Then Al Gore came along and ruined my life by inventing the internet.