[Newjacket]

Great point, papwron, maybe they can hear this from someone and do a complete team like this.
FIRST TEAM:
all offesne and defense position.

Second team all state too for another listed 44 kids. PLus a punter and kicker for offense and 2 athletes for defense with KR, and PR.

Top 50 kids would be recognized. That is something to think about.

That is an excellent suggestion. Hopefully something the powers that be will think about for next year. I would point out that there were probably not 222 running backs to choose from as each team was limited to nominating 5 players and it is unlikely 3 running backs were nominated from every team. The point remains the same though, there were a lot more kids nominated than there were positions to be filled. One idea I would like to see is expanding the voters. As someone stated earlier, it's impossible for the organizers to watch every player in person during the season and going off stats and only a short highlight video is not enough to overcome their natural bias of favoring the kids and teams they are more familiar with. Several players from good teams may not have the stats because they are in a lot of blowouts and don't play the whole game. We had games this year where the starters were pulled after the first quarter, so stats don't show the whole story. If all the coaches voted but not on their own team maybe it would be more spread out through the state and not just on a few teams that have a history of being good.