How well do you think the best SCISA schools would match up with some of the best Public schools according to classifications (1A, 2A, 3A, 4A)???

The very best 2-A & 3-A SCISA teams of all time would have been competetive and maybe dominant in 1-A and 2-A SCHSL. They would have been about .500 teams in 3-A SCHSL. The only teams they would have beaten in 4-A SCHSL would have been either scrubs or .500 or less teams. They would have just been faces in the crowd. Thats not all of them, now. Some teams might have been contenders in 3-A and 4-A SCHSL, but as a whole, the best teams in SCISA 3-A would probably be quality programs and maybe state title contenders in 3-A SCHSL.

the best AAA teams in SCISA would probably get beat by A teams in SCHSL.

i'm talking about this year. not the greatest teams in the history of scisa or anything.

SCISA teams from recent years that would have been competetive in 2-A SCHSL would be:

2005 Augusta Christian 3-A State Champs
2002-03 Colleton Prep 2-A Consecutive State Champs
2003-04 Wilson Hall 3-A State Champs

Oh, well...

Why are the private schools in other states such as Ohio and Louisianna so dominant???

A SCISA shrine bowl team coached by either Bruce Lane, Stanley Gruber, Brock Miller, or Adam Jarecki would likely be a 2-A SCHSL state champ.

Well then!

I think it would have been cool to play an Independent school. There aren't that many in the upperstate I dont think.

Economics brother. SC is a poor state, and our private schools cant afford to fund athletic programs that are of the high quality that some other states private schools are. It's complicated, but it basically has to do with SC being poor, which means less kids in private school, which leads to less quality athletes.

So, you are tellin me that Louisianna is rich??? (Evangel Christian)

You ever drove through that state??? GHETTO aint even the word!!!

Oh, well, I figured private schools would have more than that.

2A football is growing in the talent dept. too. I have played against some great athletes in the last 3 years, played with quite a few as well.

We got a DE that's 6'4" 275lbs and runs a 4.8 and a RB thats 6'2" 220lbs.

Yall got people like that???

That was just an example. Yes I have been to louisiana, and the proper word would be something like impoverished. The key there is the amount of large cities. New orleans, Bossier City/Shrevport, Baton Rouge; all of which are likely much larger than Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville/Spartanburg. Louisiana has the money to support two major professional sports teams, whereas SC struggles to keep two minor league baseball clubs, a semi-pro basketball team, and a Semi-pro arena-football team afloat. I'd say louisiana is has more expendable income than SC does. Tje whole state may not be as developed as SC is, but they have 3 bigtime cities.

I see what you are saying. What is dissapointing is all the money that is squandered in Greenville county. Now, I live in Spartanburg county, but Greenville county has so much money to use on their schools, and they use it for other things.

The truth be known.A SCISA team would not have much success at the SCHSL level.Not because they don't have good players but they just don't have the numbers.The same reason a SCHSL 1A team could not compete with a 4A.A good case and point would be Thornwell.They were a very successfull SCISA team but when they switched to the SCHSL they found the going much tougher.To there credit they did pull off some good wins in a few seasons but overall it has been a tough transition.By the way their enrollment is less than than half of most 1A schools in the SCHSL.They only fielded between 12 and 20 players on a good year.Like I said no disrespect to the SCISA teams but they just don't have the numbers and the depth to successfully compete in the SCHSL.

the better scisa teams -- 2006-2004 hammond, 2006-2005 acs, 2005-2004 hh, 2004-2003 wh, 2002-2001 pg for example, could compete with middle of the pack schl AA schools, or bad AAA. good A, AA or above (and by good I mean winning record) would beat the best SCISA teams most of the time. a good yard stick to use is CCES in greenville and BE in Charleston, who usually play competitive football against public schools -- CCES this year had a good season against single A competition and beat HH, though it was close for three quarters. my guess is Hammond and ACS could have beaten CCES.

i think the reason private schools in other states do well is that they recruit good black athletes who may not be in the best situation in the school they are zoned for -- see private schools for example in atlanta, or the bigger charlotte private schools. as much as some scisa schools are accused of doing this, it really doesn't happen much here.