Let's be fair here.
I'm not even going to address the up North (and across the country) public schools because on the whole they're so far behind the private schools up there and both public and private schools down here. The private schools, in general, up North recruit more than South Florida does in terms of just pure square milage. The South Florida public schools get players from other public schools that are down the street. It's still recruiting. St. Thomas recruits just as much if not more than all the schools up north ala Lamarcus Joyner and Rashad Greene. Also, South Florida schools tend to travel while the other schools don't and its not just because of stadium issues.
It is a general down year for South Florida football in the public sector. That's no excuse to talk a big game against Dematha and then get your head kicked in. That's a good Central team that got obliterated and looked incredibly disorganized and poorly coached.
On the whole, the argument is very much there that South Florida football players are better than other states (NFL draft as the source) and there's some jealousy about that but for all the chest beating we South Floridians do about being the best we should probably be honest and give credit where credit is due when we get beat and beat badly at that. No whining and no excuses. The gap, regardless of whether you think it's there or not about South Florida players and I emphasize players, being better than their counterparts around the country isn't exactly massive as much as people say it is.
Give Dematha credit. They beat the
#2 team, a South Florida one, in the country convincingly. All that should be said is that we'll get them the next time.
