{"id":78800,"date":"2016-10-25T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.web.rcn.net\/rcntv\/?p=78800"},"modified":"2016-10-25T18:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:51:33","slug":"sportstalk-shop-hs-football-polls-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/sportstalk-shop-hs-football-polls-week-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The SportsTalk Shop:  HS Football Polls &#8211; Week 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VL20UCOwrJg\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve talked quite a bit this fall about how the early start to the high school football season has made the season go faster than normal.\u00a0 That fact has almost been lost as a few of the winter sports coaches whose school will now probably not make the playoffs.\u00a0 In talking with several of them over the last few days, they\u2019ve suddenly realized that their athletes, as of October 29, may be turning their attention to basketball, wrestling, swimming and rifling.<\/p>\n<p>As we head into the final week of the regular season for District XI teams, it\u2019s time we once again look at this week\u2019s \u201cRCN SportsTalk\u201d football poll for the teams in our coverage area.<\/p>\n<p>First, a quick recap of how we put our polls together and arrive at our conclusions for our bi-weekly \u00a0results.<\/p>\n<p>We 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, East Stroudsburg-South, Whitehall, Southern Lehigh and Bangor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall schools\u201d (below 400-male enrollment) consist of Saucon Valley, Central Catholic, Bethlehem Catholic, Northwestern, Wilson, Palisades, Palmerton, Salisbury, Notre Dame, Pen Argyl, Northern Lehigh and Catasauqua.\u00a0 Each pollster will identify their top five teams in each group\u2014the top school gets five points, the second team gets four points and so on, with an average score determining the order of teams in the poll.<\/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>Now, here are this week\u2019s poll results\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Note\/for the record: one of our voters was \u201cMIA\u201d for this week\u2019s poll).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c BIG\u201d SCHOOL Football Poll<\/strong> (10 pollsters)<br \/>\n1) Emmaus &#8211; 48 (eight &#8211; 1<sup>st<\/sup> place votes)<br \/>\n2) Parkland \u2013 42 (two \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> place votes)<br \/>\n3) Freedom &#8212; 17<br \/>\n4) Pleasant Valley &#8211; 16<br \/>\n5-tied) Nazareth\/Whitehall \u2013 13<br \/>\nOther schools receiving more than one vote:\u00a0 Stroudsburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u201cSmall SCHOOL\u201d Football Poll<\/strong> (8 pollsters)<br \/>\n1) Becahi \u2013 41 (six &#8211; 1<sup>st<\/sup> place votes)<br \/>\n2) Central Catholic \u2013 35 (three -1<sup>st<\/sup> place vote)<br \/>\n3) Saucon Valley \u2013 29<br \/>\n4) Notre Dame \u2013 16<br \/>\n5) Palisades \u2013 10<\/p>\n<p>Other schools receiving more than one vote:\u00a0 Pen Argyl<\/p>\n<p>Coming up on this Thursday\u2019s \u201cSportsTalk\u201d show (7pm LIVE, RCN-TV), we have a jammed-packed show with different sports topics.\u00a0 Keith Groller and I will break down all the various playoff scenarios heading into the final week of the high school football regular season.\u00a0 Georgetown University Head Football Coach Rob Sgarlata will talk about his team\u2019s impressive performance against Fordham last week and give his thoughts on this weekend\u2019s game against Lafayette.\u00a0 Plus, Phillies beat writer Stephen Gross will talk about the World Series and the Phillies off-season agenda.\u00a0 Gross 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