Pine-Richland School District

Oh, yeah? All right.

Pine-Richland, where I live, where he went to school, that's, that's where he was...

That's where he went.

It's actually great.

I think the biggest thing is you gotta be invested, invested in your athletes.

And wrestling is interesting, and I'm sure other sports are too, but, like, you know, we had a really, we had really good teams at Pine-Richland.

We sent kids to states every year.

We had a lot of D1 athletes that came from that.

Yeah, I mean, NA coming into this game with a 2-4 record.

Uh, l- l- lost, they lost to Canon Mac last week, a 40 to 7 loss to Pine-Richland the week before.

Uh, what's going on with Art Walker's crew? What, what, uh, I mean, what has happened to a team that looked unstoppable for a very long time?

Well, something else of note too, Alan, they only have one true victory on the schedule, and it was the 14 to 7 game against Hempfield.

After that, I would say only two teams have even come close to challenging Central Catholic at any portion of that game.

The Norwin Knights, uh, which a big shout-out to them, because uh, previous Norwin teams, it would have looked like it has the last couple of weeks on this Central Catholic schedule.

And then the Pine-Richland game, uh, which had more eyes on it than, uh, you know, probably any high school football game in the WPIAL all season.

It was number one in 6A against number one in 5A, just some great D1 players on the field.

And, you know, the look at the record this year, three and two so far.

But, you know, they played Pine Richland, which, you know, was a tough matchup.

And then a very close loss to Montour two weeks ago.

This is a team that, you know, I think easily could be unbeaten in their conference anyway.

You know, just a one point loss to a very good Montour team.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't even really worry about that earlier loss to Pine Richland because, I mean, Pine is going to be a top-tier squad in their classification.

And, I mean, yeah, I know that West Allegheny has to compete directly with somebody like Pine Richland, but there is sort of a separation there, unfortunately.

And...

programs in the, in the Whitfield year in year out last year, they had 16 kids and went one in eight, I believe one in eight and their AD was calling the opposing athletics directors each week, letting them know, yeah, we, we can play our game or no, we're not going to have enough.

We got, we have to forfeit Fox chapel, um, reached out to Pine Richland about having sort of preactively playing shorter quarters and using the mercy rule rules before the game had even started, which rubbed some people the wrong way.

Shadyside Academy forfeited a game because of a lack of players.

That was the fourth year in the past 10 years they forfeited.

And I think it's it's kind of knee jerk to Rochester.

to go independent in unless it's, you're really worried about the kids health that there's so few kids playing that when, when you go play against another school that you're worried that the kids are going to get injured, but Fox chapel, for instance, they have kids, they had 50 something kids on their roster.

So for them to want to, um, Ask the WIPEO, hey, make all these drastic changes because Pine Richland's beating us 67 to nothing.

I don't know that that's the right answer because they have kids.

Another great example is a school district.

It's Pine Richland School District.

It's two townships that came together to form this school district.

So I love that about Pine is that we're always willing and happy to really kind of encompass our entire community, whether it is, you know, obviously our motives and our foresight is with the township of Pine, but we are always happy to work with others.

Because let me give everybody the quick back story on Aaron.

He went to Pine Richland years and years ago.

And when we were sort of first starting our Stuff-A-Bus yearly holiday toy drive, He got everybody together at Pine Richland.

And still to this day, they come out every year with buses and buses full of kids and toys.

And it all started with Aaron.

And so many schools try to replicate what he started at Pine Richland.

He's a full-grown adult now.

Recently

I remember

telling your dad, who I loved like a brother, I told him my father-in-law, Dan Marino Sr., came to a Pine Richland-Mars football game.

Neil was still playing football, too.

Yeah.

He can really make a difference.

We talked about the game last week, Pine Richland and Central Catholic.

We didn't think that it was likely that that one was going to be some kind of nail-biter.

It didn't turn out to be, although Pine Richland did put up a good fight.

This one feels like it could be a bit closer.

Is that the sense that you're getting? This could be one that people are going to want to tune in for.