{"id":78626,"date":"2016-09-07T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.web.rcn.net\/rcntv\/?p=78626"},"modified":"2023-04-12T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:53:16","slug":"sportstalk-shop-hs-football-poll-week-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/sportstalk-shop-hs-football-poll-week-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The SportsTalk Shop:  HS Football Poll &#8211; Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QdyC-8Os0ek\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First of all, a big \u201cthank-you\u201d to all the people who sent me positive feedback following our unprecedented THREE HOURS of high school football primer talk (which you can catch through RCN On-Demand or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcn.com\/atvn\/sports-talk\/\">rcn.com\/atvn\/sports-talk<\/a>).\u00a0 We had some wonderful insights on the local teams and players in the RCN viewing area, along with predictions, identified athletes-to-watch, \u201cmust see\u201d match-ups, and, of course, our RCN pre-season football poll.\u00a0 We hope you check it out if you missed it!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of polls\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>It seems bizarre that it\u2019s already time for our \u201cWeek Two\u201d high school football polls for teams and only now have we celebrated Labor Day. (I joke when people mention this holiday as I, along with nearly every coach, player, administrator and media member rarely can have a Labor Day Monday in which you\u2019re not doing something football related, or else you find yourself massively behind in the preparation department for this week\u2019s chores).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same thing for our high school football poll panelists, who were hard at work over the last 24 hours reviewing last weekend\u2019s gridiron activities, comparing notes and sizing up the competition around the Lehigh Valley, in order to submit their picks for our bi-weekly poll.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, here\u2019s a look at our first \u201cin-season\u201d ranking of the teams in the RCN\/Lehigh Valley footprint after two solid weeks of high school gridiron action:<\/p>\n<p><strong>BIG SCHOOL FB Poll<\/strong> (10 pollsters)<br \/>\n1) Parkland (5-1st place votes)<br \/>\n2) Freedom (4-1st\u00a0place votes)<br \/>\n3) Liberty<br \/>\n4) Emmaus (1)<br \/>\n5) Easton<br \/>\nOther schools receiving more than one vote: Southern Lehigh, Whitehall<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMALL SCHOOLS FB Poll<\/strong> (9 pollsters)<br \/>\n1) Saucon\u00a0Valley (5 &#8211; 1st\u00a0place votes)<br \/>\n2) Becahi\u00a0(4 &#8211; 1st\u00a0place votes)<br \/>\n3) Central Catholic<br \/>\n4) Notre Dame<br \/>\n5) Northwestern<br \/>\nOther schools receiving more than one vote: Pen Argyl, Salisbury<\/p>\n<p>Unlike polls that consist of a couple representatives within the same organization, our poll is much more varied with input from many different people over a wider scope.\u00a0 Our voting panel consists of local media members from different outlets, along with local coaches and athletic directors from across the entire district.\u00a0 The voters are not identified (unless they appear on our \u201cSportsTalk\u201d TV show and podcast and chose to reveal themselves) so they can give their honest impressions without any worry of outside pressures or \u201cbulletin board\u201d material, and we rotate different pollsters from different schools each year, including guests from our biggest to our smallest schools.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this fall\u2019s change in the PIAA classification, our poll remains with the standard, tried-and-true format that we have utilized for many seasons.\u00a0 We will take the 400-male enrollment number as the cutoff for schools within the District XI\/RCN footprint.\u00a0 All schools above that number qualify as \u201cbig schools\u201d in our poll. These schools consist of Parkland, Liberty, Allen, Easton, Emmaus, Liberty, Dieruff, Freedom, Stroudsburg, Pleasant Valley, Northampton, Nazareth, E. 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