Comments on: Redemption Rankowitz: Staples stuns Central, 14-10, to win FCIAC championship

By: FunAndGun

FunAndGun — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:02:16 +0000

Mr . Do Wop-

You must be JOKING!

I am from down here (New Canaan) and the upstate coaches have it right! STATES mean FAR MORE than FCIAC’s. If you belibe otherwise, you need to be checked into a mental facility. The SCC, the best conference in the state, doesn’t even play a conference championshp game!
My school, New Canaan, has won 6 FCIAC titles, and those mean next to NOTHING to me or its coaches. It’s the SEVEN STATE titles that mean EVERYTHING!
I’m an FCIAC guy and I’ll be the first one to tell you that it is overrated.
You play for the states, not your league!
Your upstate freinds are right. They get it. The bigger the trophy, the better! Duh?!

By: Dr. Von Nostran

Dr. Von Nostran — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:57 +0000

ghsgrandpa-
http://www.ctsportswriters.org/
Click on “2009 HS football record book” on the left side of the page, then skip down to page 47-48.
Granted, these are not all “LL” schools, but Cheshire’s 6 in a row, SJ and Ansonia in the 80’s and that Bloomfield run all qualify as “dynasties”.

MOST TITLES IN A ROW
School Total Years
Cheshire 6 1992-97
St. Joseph-Trumbull 5 1980-84
Bloomfield 5 1997-01
Ansonia 4 1981-84
Ansonia 3 1987-89
St. Joseph-Trumbull 3 1988-90
Hand 3 2003-05
New Canaan 3 2006-08

By: ghsgrandpa

ghsgrandpa — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:39:20 +0000

Way to set them straight, Sean…I’ve been gone for a few days, and just read this entire thread…Wow, CT High School football can really get contentious with the fans…

I do have a problem with Ray’s comment #113 “Why is Greenwich a dynasty when they don’t win anything?”…Well they have done their share of winning, Ray…They have been in more Class LL state final games than any other team in the state by far…14 of them to be exact…Now, I’ll give you that they are only .500 (7&7) in state finals, but you still have to win a lot of games to get to the state championship to even have a chance to win or lose…Maybe they aren’t a “dynasty”, but they are not “one hit wonders” either…They usually always have at least a competitve team year after year…The only team in the State that has more appearances & wins in CT state championships than the Cardinals, is Ansonia in Class S…Ansonia is in a league of their own in their class, and you could call them a
“dynasty”…But, Ansonia is the only team I can come up with, after looking at State Championship results over the last 30+ years…

By: Sean Patrick Bowley

Sean Patrick Bowley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:47:06 +0000

Amazing. See kids, you DO need math in the real world.

By: Sean Patrick Bowley

Sean Patrick Bowley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:38:54 +0000

Easy.
Central’s game against Harding is only worth 100 points (Harding has no victories to contribute to Central’s point total).
Cheshire’s game against Southington is worth 150 points (Southington is 5-4, contributing an extra 10 points per win to Cheshire’s total).

Central right now is only 10 points ahead of Cheshire. So if they both win, Cheshire will be ahead by 40 points and it would then come down to bonuses. Central has 70 60 potential bonuses and Cheshire has 50, plus the tiebreaker points in its favor (that means Cheshire wins if the teams tie in points). So Central would need to beat Cheshire by 50 bonus points (i.e. get 5 of its 6 bonus teams to win, and Cheshire to get none of its 5 bonus games) just to pass the Rams… which is a statistical improbability.

So, Central’s best chance is for either Staples, Cheshire or Xavier to lose.

By: FallFBFanatic

FallFBFanatic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:23:05 +0000

SPB, The CIAC Playoff Standings shows Central in the Fourth position. If both Central and Cheshire win on Thursday, how does Cheshire leap frog Central?

By: rainman

rainman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:19:06 +0000

Dear comment # 111,

Could not agree with you more. Don’t get me wrong it’s always nice to win your division or your league but never take your eye off the ultimate prize.

By: Mr.DoWop

Mr.DoWop — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:11:24 +0000

Staples is the FCIAC champs! Thank you for a job well done by its players and coaches.

I pray that we beat Greenwich because as much as I enjoy winning the league title I argue everyday with my upstate friends. They put all their stock in the state cahmpionships. they don’t have a league title game so they never see the importance in it.

Lets get to the states so we can once and for all shut-up the nay sayers . The Fciac has a chance to make a bold statement in the coming weeks. We can have maybe four teams representing our league. Staples, Central, New Canaan, and St.Joes. If we should lose to Greenwich their is a strong possibility we won’t even make the states.

GO WRECKERS

By: fciacfootballfan1

fciacfootballfan1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:57:26 +0000

Totally agreed with jordan…
ronny6 – Say what you want about Staples’ chances of beating Greenwich or winning a state title, but your mean-spirited criticism of the Wreckers’ character this year is both malicious and unfounded. The Wreckers certainly didn’t play like “a bunch of scrubs” against Central, overcoming a 10-0 halftime deficit to win with less than a minute-and-a-half to go in the game. And I most certainly wouldn’t call Rankowitz a scrub; he dashed down the field past a host of athletic Central defensive backs for the go-ahead score and picked off a Christon Gill pass to end the game, all after having dropped an easy touchdown pass earlier in the fourth quarter. He could have easily sold it in after his mistake; instead, he played like a man and won his team a championship. If I were you, I’d watch your mouth; these are high school football players you are offending, not pros.
As for your comment about how this year’s Staples team would fare back in 2006-7: perhaps they’d struggle, or perhaps they’d win FCIACs all over again. There is really no way of telling; all Staples can do is play the teams on it is scheduled to this year, a feat it has accomplished to perfection so far.

By: jordan

jordan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:47:56 +0000

tough*