by Mike Pavlichko Hands down, Piscataway has the most interesting and diverse slate of high school football games in the area for 2019. It's a result of the GMC's plan to put teams in divisions based strictly on enrollment, and not on past success. That put the Chiefs "down" into the White Division, although that…
The Greater Middlesex and Mid-State football conferences have released their 2019 composite schedules, their next-to-last ones as separate leagues before they form the Big Central Football Conference in 2021. But the final divisional alignments are almost as intriguing. The GMC will have a Gold Division for the second year in a row and - at…
February 20, 2019 – Piscataway Mayor Brian C. Wahler is challenging the proposal by Rutgers University which seeks to sell beer and wine to all ticket holders of legal age at its football and basketball games. “I’m a Rutgers graduate and a Rutgers fan,” Mayor Wahler said. “However, no one local agreed to let the…
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (February 20, 2019) - Rutgers Athletics today announced that it will expand beer and wine sales at department-managed venues beginning in the fall of 2019. Revenues from the sales will serve to off-set scholarship costs, which support the State University of New Jersey’s more than 600 student-athletes and exceed $16 million annually.…
by Mike Pavlichko As pitchers and catchers report this week, the mind turns to baseball. But we're still talking about high school football. The NJSIAA is making its final tweaks to a playoff system proposal that would replace the controversial one from 2018 where margins of victory equated to better playoff standing. It's come a…
The NJSIAA's playoff formula for 2019 is still being finalized, but a minor tweak will make it very different from what it was in a very controversial 2018. The basics of the formula were presented Monday night to the New Jersey Football Coaches Association at its monthly meeting at the Hale Center at Rutgers University. …
The Born Power Index has been around for more than 40 years, but it's being tossed aside by the NJSIAA after just one season. The state's high school athletics association says it's putting the finishing touches on a new football playoff formula "to replace the Born Power Index." It was used to help seed the…
The results are in from a survey of New Jersey high school football coaches, and a majority believe point spreads shouldn't be a factor in playoff seeding, while saying there should be a minimum number of wins for playoff qualification. But what they really want is a transparent formula that everyone knows. All that information…
Giving extra points to public high school football teams in New Jersey that play non-public "superpowers" like Bergen Catholic and Don Bosco Prep doesn't appear to have much effect on playoff qualification. At least, it didn't until 2018. After a season that included much controversy over the New Jersey United plan - a pilot which…
by Mike Pavlichko All that trouble I caused, and now I'm in favor of the Born Power Index? You betcha. When the New Jersey Football Coaches Association meets tonight at Rutgers to talk about its Super 100 team, the coaches in attendance also will be asked about changes they want to see for the 2019…
