To all you Chaminade haters just look at their schedule. Week in and week out they play a top team. They can't play everyone and have to play their conference games. You know those conference games that Hills wins 20-2 and run up the score which Chaminade never does. Chaminade does not recruit players and have their pick of the best. Some of the best kids could not get in or did not want to attend. JM never knows what he has until the first day of school. Then they have to buy into the Chaminade way and stick it out before JM even gets them on his team. Not to mention the 2 -3 hours of school work each night. Just so happens the St Anthony's game and the Yorktown game came during Trimesters and senior tests so work load was even more intense. No excuses they got beat and could lose the next two. Why could they lose because again they are getting ready to play a top team from CT and good old Delbarton and then playoffs. There is no tougher schedule out there
This is an age old problem with the public school system on the boys side. The girls have figured it out with a "suope league" and there's no good reason why the boys can't do the same.
You should move to a Tournament of Champions system like i NJ where there is one overall state champion across publics and privates. It is an awesome tournament and all of the speculation about who is best is answered in the tournament. Like college hoops where there is one winner across all teams.
Couldn't agree more. The super league should have 10-12 of the best from Long Island (Upstate you have more than enough teams to do your own thing) voted on by the coaches and using something like laxpower ratings as the tiebreaker if any discrepency. Each year the bottom 2-4 would swap places with the top 2-4 from the division below.
In NJ it is done within groups (group 4 publics -largest, group 3, group 2, group 1 - smallest) and non-public a and non-public b). State tournament games are first played witrhin groups (group 4 games only until a winner) and then ultimately winner of each group plays in the tournament of champions event where there is 1 winner.
