Great song, fell asleep to it most nights my freshman year in college. And another appropriate analogy:

Florida high school football is the ship with the Broken Back, and the FHSAA plays to role of the Madman Across the Water.

Song reminds me of high school when me and Rod were both youngsters. Here's another appropriate song for FHSAA that came from the Gershwin Elton and Bernie Award show. Never cared for Metallica until this. Ironically it came when I was at a funeral for a one of my closest friends, Bear the big brother I never had. He was the tallest OT just at 6'8" in the NAIA, and I was the smallest starting tandem for the three years until he graduated and headed for a free agent shot with KC and they moved me into guard.

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Hmmm....???? Wildwood entered their schedule on MaxPreps last week and it lists Hardee playing at Wildwood on October 4, but Ocoee posted a schedule on Instagram yesterday listing Hardee playing at Ocoee on Saturday, October 5. October 4/5 is week 7. Interestingly, both Hardee and Ocoee posted on the FHSAA classifieds asking for a week 8 game.

Wildwood's schedule on MaxPreps:

Ocoee's schedule on Instagram:
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Wildwood is Class 1 Rural, they are in Sumter County and are about halfway between Gainesville and Lakeland. Ocoee on the other hand is a huge Class 7A school in the Orlando area, they were in Class 4M the last two years and in 2022 they lost to Miami Columbus 41-36 in the Class 4M State Semifinals.

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Tarpon Robotics Team win State Championship - on to Globals:

PUNTA GORDA — Charlotte High School’s Tarpon robotics team — Golden Fish — is gearing up for its return to the global FIRST World Championships in April after winning the Florida FIRST Tech Challenge State Championship earlier this month.

I remember when my youngest was a freshman, we beat Miami Norland at the Wally Keller Classic one of the years they went on to win State Title (Think it was 6A).

My son got in for a half minute right before the half but hit a 3 to give us the lead going in to halftime - that was one of the years we were pretty good, Pena (mentioned above) was playing, and the Stephenson bros who now coach our girls team.

Funny story. I'm behind their bench smack talking as they sat down after half about it being a long ride across the alley to come over and get beat by the Tarpons. No reaction, so finally I yelled, "And Rick Ross ain't s--t!."

Every single player and all the coaches whip their head around, see it was an older white guy and burst out laughing. I was laughing too. Think they appreciated the effort.

gatorman001 said:

Mark Cannon, were you planning on catching the Columbus contest? Very interested in the Boozer brothers from Columbus, and what your thoughts are after seeing them play?

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I apologize that I’m just getting back to you. Went to the tournament four days in a row. Attended the 7A championship game, Oak Ridge vs Columbus Saturday night. The game lived up to its billing. The Boozer brothers did too. 6’10” Cameron had the softest shooting touch in the tournament. He plays almost too under control. His drive down the lane finshed with a dunk in OT was probably the most important play of the game. His twin 6’5 Cayden played well as the point guard. Had a soft touch also, handled the ball well and hit some big shots and free throws late. Jase Richardson also played for Columbus. He is the son of Jason Richardson, Michigan State and NBA star, and is very talented.

I bragged on Blake in an earlier post but Norland out played and out coached the Yellow Jackets to defeat them in the 6A final. Norland played aggressive defense. Had a great plan which was executed beautifully. They practically shut down Joshua Lewis. Norland defenders stayed in his face and were constantly physical with him. The other main factor was Lewis and Ray Pilon were stayed in foul trouble which limited their playing time. A lot of ticky tack calls were made to their detriment. Regardless, Norland deserved to win the game.

My first reaction to the views is that it was not real. Mark's scenario is as good of an explanation as any that I can think of.

It could be a search engine that is picking up a name or certain word that is causing its users to come to Flavarsity to check out what it is. This is a little different but I used to produce a short lived talk radio show called The Frank Foster Show. I had a role moderating the website. The website was picking up about 5k hits, ironically, from a musician who had a somewhat significant fan base in a European country(Finland, Norway or another, I can’t recall). Not knowing about the other Frank Foster we were pleased that the website was getting reactions from this country. Needlessly to say we were disappointed to find out the truth.