re: The top 1,000 high school football teams in the country...

I believe 3 of the top 10 national teams are all in the same conference (trinity league, Southern California)

Evangel had a good thing going for a while but I think other schools catching up to their model, the rise of Calvary and Byron Dawson leaving all combined to lead to their fairly rapid decline.

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Evangel had a good thing going for a while but I think other schools catching up to their model, the rise of Calvary and Byron Dawson leaving all combined to lead to their fairly rapid decline.

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Evangel was done for when Byrd and Parkway made the Dome... then they ran out of money

Other than Tennessee being above Jersey, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Louisiana everything else is exactly what I expected for the last 50 years of high school football

Looks like they get raided by the rest of the Big Ten plus UCLA, Clemson, ND, etc.

Louisiana had a lot of that going on in the 90s as the Archer and Hallman years happened. You frick up recruiting in the state, you start losing and all that talent heads elsewhere in the region or across the country to play for a winner.


The talent lost out of Louisiana alone in the 90s (Peyton Manning, Marshall Faulk, Warrick Dunn, Travis Minor, Major Applewhite, etc) could have had LSU competing for years instead of going to the Independence Bowl twice and the Peach Bowl once.

Not that they would have gotten all of them but those were either top recruits in the country or Heisman candidates who left for Tennessee, San Diego State, Texas, Florida State, etc.

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Texas 123
Florida 121
California 95

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Hmm? Always wondered why every school in the nation tries to recruit these States but could never quite put my finger on it...what a revelation to CFB fans.

That's my point. They shouldn't be this godawful. There's enough in state talent in Illinois that if the school at any point would have committed to winning on a sustained basis they'd at least be respectable. They certainly should have at least a Wisconsin level of success.

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The cream of the crop in Louisiana high school football could probably compete with the best teams from any other state. It’s just we don’t have as much depth due to a much smaller population.

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Not anymore due to school size. We don't have super schools like Texas and Florida. Imagine if Monroe/WM had 1 school. It would be roughly the size of Allen and ridiculously loaded. It's hard for Louisiana schools to compete against schools that size. Remember when Deerfield Beach Florida played Zachary in Shreveport? It was an absolute beatdown.

53-0 Deerfield