Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 2926730, member: 2141"]
Pascack Valley got drilled by New Canaan this year in CT 42-7.  PV is historically an above-average public high school football team in NJ; but, the last 2 seasons have been down years for them (3-6 in 2018).

The Big North had 41 football members of all sizes before it merged with other North Jersey conferences to form a +100 member football conference.  Thus, there are few 'free' weekends to schedule an out-of-state game.  The big Catholic schools (St. Joe's Montvale, Don Bosco, Bergen Catholic, St. Peter's, DePaul) do try out-of-state frequently; but, its primarily against other power Catholic schools in PA, DE, MD, and DC with a trip to FL and other states sprinkled in here and there and those games do get televised.  They do it for marketing reasons and practice reasons as a lot of the public high school refuse to play them anymore due to both competitive imbalance and injuries (a few years back, I think Paterson Eastside suffered over a dozen injuries, several season ending, while losing to Don Bosco by +50).

Now, cross state games between NJ, NY and CT in lacrosse is a lot more common...
[/QUOTE]

Verification

First name of men's bb coach