Originally Posted by Anonymous
Offense wins games but Defense wins championships!!!! They too should be honored


You are right, but if you look at most of the teams, the best defenders on the teams are usually the middies. That is because they are usually the best athletes that can run, play D and still have the skill set to play offense. So it is really hard to recognize the best pure defenders on the team before those middies. I am not saying there are not exceptions ie. Parragallo (Hauppaugue) last year and Toucher(ESM) this year, but they are few and far between. Most HS teams can't afford to have their best player(s) only play defense! If you look at the way the colleges recruit you would realize this to be true. They will recruit middy's and attackers first (sometimes exclusively) and they convert the middies to defenders.