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What about Booker T in 2013?

14-0 and No. 1 in final USA Today rankings

Beat Norcross (55-0 with a running clock) and Bishop Gorman (28-12) on the road. Those schools won state championships in the large-school classifications for Georgia and Nevada, respectively, and finished in MaxPrep’s Top 25 national rankings.

Gave the Central Rockets their only loss of the season (28-17). Central - which won the 6A title with five playoff wins by an average of 36 points - finished No. 3 in the USA Today rankings.

Man, that Booker T team was special. Wonder if any Florida high school team has ever accomplished as much in one season?

Just wanted to see what some of our CIS SoFla gurus thought about those F5 🌪 🌪
 
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It’s tough to compare because the high school game made a giant jump in style of play from the 90’s to the 2000’s. Those Southridge teams just lined up and ran the ball at you. My good friend went there in the mid 90’s and he told me they just had interchangeable QBs who also played tight end. They didn’t bother throwing. Most high schools in the 90’s were still running the ball 80% of the time. Lots of wing T and wishbone stuff. It was still very much a 1960’s-70’s style of football.

Northwestern was one of the first major programs here to incorporate a spread offensive system. Their quarterback wasn’t just an extra running back. The high school game is a lot more similar to the college game nowadays.
 
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Hold My Beer said:
What about Booker T in 2013?

14-0 and No. 1 in final USA Today rankings

Beat Norcross (55-0 with a running clock) and Bishop Gorman (28-12) on the road. Those schools won state championships in the large-school classifications for Georgia and Nevada, respectively, and finished in MaxPrep’s Top 25 national rankings.

Gave the Central Rockets their only loss of the season (28-17). Central - which won the 6A title with five playoff wins by an average of 36 points - finished No. 3 in the USA Today rankings.

Man, that Booker T team was special. Wonder if any Florida high school team has ever accomplished as much in one season?

Just wanted to see what some of our CIS SoFla gurus thought about those F5 🌪 🌪
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That team absolutely belongs in the top 5 I wouldn’t say the best though.
 
305407cane said:
Besides Sean taylor who was on that team?
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from a pro standpoint not a ton of big standouts. but in that senior class:
-buck ortega (QB) went on to play at miami
-jon warshaw (WR) went on to play at georgia tech
-casey dunn (OL) played at notre dame and made the game sealing fumble recovery (as the long snapper) to beat michigan in 2004
-mike caviglia (LB) was all state and went to furman (iaa powerhouse at the time)
-the best players from ransom (asgar ali) and miami christian (alfredo pascal) transferred in

the bigger reason it deserves honorable mention is because small school south florida high school programs had almost no success at the state championship level up to that point.
 
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Canesfan_134 said:
To be fair that 93 Southridge team was nasty but I don’t think they compare to that 06/07 Miami Northwestern.

This is the same old head that would say 80s NBA is better than modern players… lmao
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80’s NBA WAS better than modern. Come on now….Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Barkley, etc…. man those are the GOATS.

It was also before the rules changes. The game was more physical and more fun to watch.

I was a kid when Jordan was winning his championships in the 90’s and that was the best basketball being played by the best basketball team of all time, bar none, both by pure talent and by how fun the games were to watch.

Not to say there hasn’t been good players since. Lebron would have been a force in 80’s bball but MJ is the greatest of all time, easily.
 
'78 & '79 Springs high teams should be on page one of this thread.


Especially the 79 team with Freddie Miles, Jack Fernandez, Carl Sheffield and others. Someone posted a pic of the 79 Miami Herald All Dade team. There were four kids from the 79 Springs high team on the first team.

Had it not been for one of the worst calls in south Florida high school sports history, the 79 Springs high team would have steam rolled through the state championship.
 
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