TAKE YOUR PICK PINELLAS

First came the release of Madden 08, then preseason high school games last Friday, college football starts tonight ...the wait is over people: FOOTBALL SEASON IS FINALLY HERE! With that comes time for everyone to become armchair quarterbacks, so here's your first shot. Let us know who you think will win tomorrow's games and keep an eye out for our picks in Friday's gameday package. And if you take the time to do it, post your name so we can ridicule...err, praise you when the dust settles Saturday.

--Brandon Wright

Pinellas Park at Countryside

Seminole at Clearwater

Dunedin at Boca Ciega

Largo at East Lake

Palm Harbor U. at Tarpon Springs

Osceola at Dixe Hollins

Lakewood at Gibbs

St. Petersburg at Northeast

Orlando Lake Highland Prep at St. Petersburg Catholic

Miami Bay Point at Clearwater Central Catholic

Admiral Farragut at Lakeland Christian

Keswick Christian at Indian Rocks Christian

Calvary Christian at Northside Christian

Shorecrest at Fort Meade

Bishop McLaughlin at Hernando Christian

Canterbury at Sarasota Out-of-Door

Comments

Countryside Seminole Dunedin Largo Tarpon Osceola Lakewood Northeast the rest....who cares?

[M.J.]

I belive Osceola will get the best of Dixie Hollins. Everyone thinks that all of Osceola's talent has left since last season. That may be true, but Osceola has redeveloped there squad and has Alot of new talent moving up.My prediction on Friday's game, 14-10- Osceola over Dixie.

~Thanks

im sorry but Seminole is probably one of the weakest team in Pinellas this year if not the weakest. Id pick almost all the private schools in Pinellas over Seminole...

Pinellas Park at Countryside-Countryside wins

Seminole at Clearwater-Clearwater wins

Dunedin at Boca Ciega-Dunedin wins close one though

Largo at East Lake-Largo wins for sure

Palm Harbor U. at Tarpon Springs-Tarpon wins

Osceola at Dixe Hollins-Dixie wins a close game

Lakewood at Gibbs-Gibbs over lakewood is my upset game

St. Petersburg at Northeast-Northeast wins for sure.

[Private eye]

Calvery will mop up Nothside. Northside talks big but won't deliver.

IRCS over Keswick shocker

[S]

im sayin itll be
Pinellas Park at Countryside-cside
Seminole at Clearwater-CT theyll rebound from their embarrasing largo loss
Dunedin at Boca Ciega-Bogey in a tight one
Largo at East Lake-Largo is creaturesque theyre awesome
Palm Harbor U. at Tarpon Springs-tarpon will destroy phu
Osceola at Dixe Hollins-osceola
Lakewood at Gibbs-lakewood, but who cares
St. Petersburg at Northeast-NE

private eye. I cant even remember the last time Calvary has beaten Northside. you got embarrassed last year by a team that's not even as good as this years. so start showin up on the field before you start talkin

[ETC]

Pinellas Park at Countryside: Cside 31-7

Seminole at Clearwater: CLW 28-0

Dunedin at Boca Ciega: Dunedin 21-7

Largo at East Lake: Largo 38-14

Palm Harbor U. at Tarpon Springs: TS 24-7

Osceola at Dixe Hollins: DH 14-0

Lakewood at Gibbs: LW 28-14

St. Petersburg at Northeast: NE 35-0

Orlando Lake Highland Prep at St. Petersburg Catholic: SPC

Miami Bay Point at Clearwater Central Catholic: CCC

Admiral Farragut at Lakeland Christian:LC

Keswick Christian at Indian Rocks Christian: KC

Calvary Christian at Northside Christian: CC

Shorecrest at Fort Meade: FM

Bishop McLaughlin at Hernando Christian

Canterbury at Sarasota Out-of-Door

East Lake has already had their running back commit to vandy. Largo is good, but anyone can be upset.

Okay, since I cant find another thread on this, I must say the Times has attempted to up their game with all of these new on-line features and stuff, no doubt.

Then Friday rolls around, and they only do team previews for just over half the county teams. No previews for the following teams is frankly irresponsible reporting:

Admiral Farragut
Clearwater
Gibbs
Indian Rocks
Lakewood
Osceola
Palm Harbor
Pinellas Park
Seminole
Shorecrest

Then not to mention some of the school's write-ups look eerily familiar to the exact same write-up you did on them in spring. Just when I am about to give kudos, you show your tail. Poor job guys!!

[David]

You are right this was the cheapest high school write ups yet. POOR JOB..
Write about all the schools not just your favorites!

CS OVER PARK
CLW OVER SEM
UPSET BC OVER DUNEDIN
LARGO OVER EL
TARPON OVER PH
DIXIE OVER OSC
GIBBS OVER LW
NE OVER SP
SPC OVER ORLANDO
CC OVER MIAMI
LC OVER AF
Kw OVER IC
NC OVER CC
FM UGLY OVER SC
CANT OVER OUT THE DOOR

SEE IF I LISTED EVERY SCHOOL YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME.

[gregor]

Pinellas Park at Countryside: Countryside

Seminole at Clearwater: CLW, CT's only win of season

Dunedin at Boca Ciega: Dunedin

Largo at East Lake: Larghetto

Palm Harbor U. at Tarpon Springs: TS

Osceola at Dixe Hollins: Dixie

Lakewood at Gibbs: daWood

St. Petersburg at Northeast: NE

Orlando Lake Highland Prep at St. Petersburg Catholic: SPC

Miami Bay Point at Clearwater Central Catholic: CCC

Admiral Farragut at Lakeland Christian:who cares

Keswick Christian at Indian Rocks Christian: who cares

Calvary Christian at Northside Christian: who cares

Shorecrest at Fort Meade: who cares

[Nicholae]

Bogie will lose.
Palm Harbor with the upset.
Pinellas Park sucks!
Largo wins big.
Lakewood wins in an ugly one.
Seminole couldn't beat a JV squad.

You know gregor, there probably are some people who care about the privates. I mean, if I payed $20K per year so my son could play private school football because I knew he would never see PT at a public school, I would care.

[High School Fan]

The Falcons and Pirates game will be the best game this week. The Pirates have Jouhnson at QB and the Falcons have Towns at DB. Both teams is loaded with a lot talent around these star players which make for one exciting game. I think Dunedin will win because of coaching.

[B 4 REal]

the Falcons "might win but it will not be because of coaching there coach is a nice guy but is a horrible coach you can stop 2 Rodriguez and Davis as being good coches in north county the rest of them NOT.

[Chris]

B 4 REal Dunedin coach Everett turn the Dunedin program around when they were horrible. Yes he do have good talent but all of the south team has good talent and what do they do with it. He is a winner, so you need to be for real.

East Lake will take Largo down to the wire.

[Troy Hubbard]

I play for Dixie Hollins my name is Troy Hubbard I wear #72 and I play OL/DL I'm 223 and 5'11 and I'm in the 11th. We have alot of talent this year on our squad like Jafar Frott,Josh Brown,Kenny G.,and Jaron Cole. I perdict a win by my squad Dixie 27-7.

[coach dub]

It's apparent that you don't know alot about football. So you keep running your mouth. There are a few public sch. boys right now sitting on the BENCH.AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS BECAUSE OF THEIR SO-CALL ABILITIES.

[#20]

clearwater over seminloe by a big score

Then daddy better give some more dollars...

Troy Hubbard is a clown.
East Lake will not beat Largo.
End of story.

[India]

Anyone knoe who won the Gibbs Vs. Lakewood game???

[India]

Anyone knoe who won the Gibbs Vs. Lakewood game???

[Dorkly Von Douche]

Um Coach Dub
if they are public school boys, how are they on the team at a private school. Correct me if i'm wrong, but once they enroll they're all private school kids. Which makes their lack of talent a private school problem- well probably not much of one since they pay so much $$$$$$$
Enjoy your season coach

how about those pirates no one ever gives boca ciega the credit the should get, they have not much of a coaching staff, but have so much talent to overcome the bad coaching.

Largo beats East Lake
20-0

[ETC]

Bogie is very talented.

[Stephen Cundiff]

Well Osceola beat Dixie 14-12. I know it doesn't mean much, but it does prove that we can still play football without last years team. This is a great way to keep spirits up in our camp.

[Terry]

Just decided to roll down to fort meade today to watch the game.... nothing like watching a perenial power house take on a semi decent private school team.... well if you enjoy watching future college stars take on future engineers.... shorecrest could hardly engineer a drive.... first drive was promising however..... went three and out only to fake punt(so i guess it wasnt three and out) then on the next three plays did absolutely nothing....

if one thing positive can be taken from this game for shorecrest it was there punting.... not one blocked and there punter number 67.... Carino???? well he didnt look half bad on his 7 chances.... 40 yard average.... some one earned a scholarship tonight as a punter....

yes it was ugly

[Mad Fan]

Here we go again, when will Seminole play one of the county,s best down hill runners??? At lest try to win," NO" he sits on the bench tell the fouth qtr and get a tip pass for 10yrds. Lets be real we have no chance if we donot have the best players on the field. The kids try hard at seminole to win let's give them a fair chance we have a runningback that gets 109yrs on the ground but was tried and could not punch it in. We need fresh legs out there!!. Yes Harvey maybe the best runningback in the county but this kid is a good second the write up in every paper states this is true.So seminole let's kick Dunedin BUTT!!! GO WARHAWKS!!

[austin]

tha only reson oceala beat dixe was because tha turn overs n we almost beat them playin our worst wen they were at there best so tht shuld tell u shumthin in this fri wen they play northeast one demensional offence relyin on there runin back i bet cole puts him on his back

[Mike C.]

You are crazy if you think Northeast is only relying on their running back. He is the best in the bay area though.
They got a transfer from Miami who no one knows about yet. The only reason they did not throw against st.pete is becaus they didnt have to. Sanchez can throw the Ball further than anyone in the bay area. He may not be the most accurate but who cares he is a linbacker first. Besides the backup is a better qb anyway.

[#44]

haha the real reason osceola beat dixie is because we are a down right better team and we dominated the line on both sides of the ball...you cant blame it on turnovers especially when we had more than dixie did

[44 is an idiot]

Osceola beating dixie was a fluke. Why dixie did not try to pass the ball more is a mystery. The biggest question I have, is why dixie ran up the middle on the two point conversion attempt. dixie could not gain a year up the middle all night.

osceola don't get over confident. you probably won't win another game this year. clearwater is going to spank you by 25 this week. it won't be long until fire george plamer . com is up and running.

osceola sucks!

Mike C. How long did Brinson play? Did they leave him in the 4th quarter?

Brinson only played the first few plays of the 4th quarter.

Well, looking back over the past week I guess all of you that had Bogie losing were wrong. In fact, I would say that they were well prepared so maybe the coaches down there might know what they are doing after all.
Just ask Bellamy. If Johnson didn't have a tough game the score would have probably been 50-13.
We'll see how it goes.

[coachdub]

we make do with what the system gives us. considering our public schools are so sub-par.

[Faye]

Coaches do not play football they only send in the plays. don't blame the coaches when a play doesn't work. remember players make the plays.