Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking: MIAA’s handling of Gillette Stadium situation left a bit to be desired

The North Shore went 2-for-4 Saturday in the high school Super Bowls ? 1-1 at Gillette Stadium and 1-1 at the other two venues (Curry College and Bentley University).Here are some final thoughts on the day:The MIAA’s decision two years ago to include Western and Central Mass games at Gillette meant – obviously – that more Eastern Mass games would be displaced to make room for them.We get that. We also get that outside of Boston College (and for whatever reason, the MIAA does not have any kind of relationship with BC and doesn’t seem inclined to any time soon), there’s not another football stadium in the area that offers even half the amenities available at Gillette.This year, Curry College and Bentley University stepped up and hosted the off-site games in Eastern Mass., and we should all be thankful for the likes of Vinnie Eruzione and Bobby DeFelice – the two athletic directors, respectively – for their continued allegiance to high school sports. They both played and coached in Winthrop and you can always count on good guys to step to the plate.Here’s the thing, though: Would it have been possible for the MIAA – through the TV stations that broadcast the games – to acknowledge that other games, besides the ones at Gillette, took place?The TV stations that air the games gave repeated updates ? yet none alluded to any games played at either Curry or Bentley.Like I said, we get that you couldn’t put them all at Gillette (unless you spread the thing out over two days ? and I’m beginning to wonder whether that would have been such a horrible thing). But to simply not acknowledge that other schools played games, and won championships, is simply wrong.Schools like Brockton and St. John’s, St. Mary’s and Abington, Reading and Mansfield (just to name six) were forced off-site by a decision two years ago to rotate Divisions 1-2-3-4-5and 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A. But it doesn’t mean their games had any less significance.One of the good things about the new postseason format is that this problem will be eliminated. All the Super Bowls will take place at Gillette beginning next year.There were a lot of people running around before Saturday’s Prep-Brockton game hinting that the only reason the Eagles beat the Boxers the first time around was because Brockton quarterback Austin Roberts got hurt in the game. A healthy Roberts, they said, would make a huge difference.It didn’t. St. John’s, perhaps smarting a little at the mention of such a thing, went out and destroyed the Boxers from the opening kick until the time coach Jim O’Leary started pulling his regulars.Thanks to whichever person(s) decided to drop Everett down to Division 1A, we didn’t get the hoped-for rematch between the Prep and the Crimson Tide. Pity. One suspects it would have been a game for the ages.Speaking of “for the ages,” Beverly definitely had a team for the ages ? and certainly there hasn’t been one such team since the 2006 Winthrop squad – with James Fucillo calling signals – running the table in his father Tony’s final year as coach of the Vikings.There’s been an interesting discussion over which St. John’s team was better ? the 1997 team that ran the table and beat New Bedford in the Super Bowl or this one. I say neither. I’d put the 1967 team that took the Class B championship (awarded strictly on a rating system) from Swampscott against both of them.A few of those ’67 guys showed up at the Wave in Waltham prior to Saturday’s game, including Steve Harrison, Charlie Gianturco and John Webb. It was coach Fred Glatz’s first season at The Prep and the Eagles were coming off an unbeaten season in 1966. Their toughest game was a 7-6 win over host Archbishop Williams (then in the Catholic Conference), which was coached by none other than Armond Colombo, who took Brockton football to national prominence in the 1970s and ’80s; and whose son, Peter, coaches the Boxers now.Webb said he met Colombo’s daughter-in-law and found out that the Brockton legend – whose own brother-in-law wa