Harvard of the South
Unsurprisingly they have all committed to really good schools. Michigan, ND, BC and now Rice. I can't think of the last time one team in the CIAC had four FBS commits
Does this include Drew Pyne, class of 2020, to ND?
Yes. I wouldn't be surprised if he reclassifies or does a prep year though. He's already a year older than his class
BC can't hold a candle to the other 3.
It's still a good school. You don't get what you pay for but these are scholarships so it doesn't matter.
I made several friends at UConn who were from New Canaan.
We have enough schools that are bad at sports
The AAC has Houston covered.
The New Canaan team in 68-69-70 was the best ever in the whole state, they went 34-0 in the FCIAC at a time when the FCIAC was loaded with great ball clubs. Kurt Horton and Peter Demmerle both went to ND to play for Ara Parseghian, Lem James went to Maryland, Bob Kircher played football at Harvard, and Piel Pennington became a star at UMass and was drafted into the NFL in 1974. They also had a great coach in Bob Lynch. I know I'm missing one or two other great players they had.
I would say that qualifies as a long time ago... Lol. Seriously when is the last time a CIAC had this many commits? A 90s Bloomfield team?
The Darien team from two or three years ago would have had 3 or 4 FBS players except for the fact that a lot of players on that great team decided to play Lacrosse in college. Stueber was recruited by Jim Harbaugh to play for Michigan. The kid that broke Dwight Freney's state sack record went to UPenn to play Lacrosse.
Before my time, best team in Connecticut in my lifetime was Bloomfield in the late 90's Jermelle Lewis and Andrew Pinnock were 2 of the best backs in the country and Freeney was a monster. Bunch of other kids played D1 ball.
The number from Tolland is too high as well. Kids reclassified their "home" to their current place of residence.
Yes, Bloomfield also should be up there alongside New Canaan. I can't think of another CT HS team that had the amount and degree of division one talent that those two teams had. Both also had players (Demmerle and Freeney) who could lay claim to the title of greatest HS player in state history (alongside Bobby V, and a couple others), both teams rewrote the CT High School Football record book, both Freeney and Demmerle did some great things after High School.
