Looks like they are mining the region pretty good, no pun intended. Question: Does the Eastern Football Conference still exist in northeastern PA HS football?
Looks like they are mining the region pretty good, no pun intended. Question: Does the Eastern Football Conference still exist in northeastern PA HS football?
Looks like they are mining the region pretty good, no pun intended. Question: Does the Eastern Football Conference still exist in northeastern PA HS football?
It's now a diluted fallback for the ones who just miss District playoffs
I had no idea that Thaddeus Stevens had a football team. I looked at the school’s website and their schedule is a weird mix of JUCOs, another trade school, a trio of shady prep schools, and apparently Albright College. I’m guessing the last is a JV or club team as Albright doesn’t list Thaddeus Stevens on the 2025 schedule.
“No matter how badly things get blown apart, we will always plant flowers again.”
I had no idea that Thaddeus Stevens had a football team. I looked at the school’s website and their schedule is a weird mix of JUCOs, another trade school, a trio of shady prep schools, and apparently Albright College. I’m guessing the last is a JV or club team as Albright doesn’t list Thaddeus Stevens on the 2025 schedule.
It would seem having JV teams would be a tuition money maker. Bloom had JV basketball teams when I was there, but never JV football.
It would seem having JV teams would be a tuition money maker. Bloom had JV basketball teams when I was there, but never JV football.
The NCAA still allows D2 and D3 schools to have JV teams. Ashland, for example, has a JV team that played (or at least scheduled) four games this year.
“No matter how badly things get blown apart, we will always plant flowers again.”
The NCAA still allows D2 and D3 schools to have JV teams. Ashland, for example, has a JV team that played (or at least scheduled) four games this year.
Does it count towards regular eligibility or are you able to preserve a redshirt and play the jv schedule?
Does it count towards regular eligibility or are you able to preserve a redshirt and play the jv schedule?
I'm not 100% sure. I wasn't able to find a specific answer on the NCAA website, although I may not have been looking in the right place. This old blog post from "WVSU Athletic Compliance Rules Education Page" says that it does:
Junior Varsity Competition uses a season of eligibility in NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA. So, 1 play of JV is equal to 1 season of Varsity unless their (sic) is a specific exception in a manual covering the competition.
Keep in mind that this post is almost nine years old so the rules may have changed.
“No matter how badly things get blown apart, we will always plant flowers again.”
JV does not count toward eligibility. They can even practice with varsity. But most schools have dropped them because the expense & time needed to run a JV wasn't worth having guys in house. Few stuck around and its essentially running a second team without any revenue. Some privates do but they're a financial mess.
It's pretty rare anymore. The service academies do JV through "prep schools" for kids they recruit who need remedial academic work. I don't think the latest case (Ship recruit) fits the bill, but most service academy transfers to the PSAC were farmed out to the prep schools because they weren't truly qualified for the elite academic standard of the service academies.
I can only imagine how expensive that would get with travel.
I would assume in the late 70s to early 80s, which coincides with the conference moving from NAIA to D2 and coaches moving from phys ed professors to full time coaches.
I once met a guy who was president at Defiance, Widener, and Univ of San Diego whose first job was being the JV coach at Edinboro in the 70s. I believe Danny Smith was on the same staff.
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