Here's a shocker - Bob Sanders is hurt again

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by philcski

I went to a CB West-North Penn football game once in college. It didn't take me long to realize how much better Pennsylvania HS football is than New York's. The difference is like D1-A versus D3.

There's always been a lot of great coaching at the highschool level in Pennsylvania...especially with football.

A lot of legendary NFL quarterbacks grew up and played highschool in the Pittsburgh area. Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino etc.

There's a little borough called Aliquippa that has 10 times fewer people than Erie - that tiny class AA school there has produced Mike Ditka, Darrelle Revis, Tony Dorsett, Ty Law, Sean Gilbert, and Paul Posluszny. Aliquippa is also where Pistol Pete Maravich was born and raised.

If you look at that '99 state championship game between CB West and Erie Prep. CB West had Mike Pettine Sr. coaching - and Erie Prep had Joe Moore (possibly the greatest offensive line coach in history) coaching.

Moore produced four Hall of Famers (Mark May, Russ Grimm, Jimbo Covert and someone else) in his seven year stint as the O-line coach at Pitt. In Moore's 9 years as the tight ends and tackles coach at Notre Dame under Lou Holtz, every single offensive line starter he had moved on to the NFL upon graduation.

The current Iowa Hawkeyes head coach Kirk Ferentz was a player for Moore. That's basically how Iowa managed to get 3 major players off of that '99 Erie Prep team, including Bob Sanders. Moore basically was able to pipeline a few of them to his old student.