BG why do you always have to take shots at the Camels?Why don't you take the high side of the road like Mustang does and leave well enough alone? So maybe the soccer team has played a weak schedule, but to include football and basketball in that tells me your just trying to bait some of the Camel posters into more negative posts between the two schools.Most of your posts are worth reading but when you go to the gutter like the last post you loose alot of respect from the rest of us.TAKE THE HIGH ROAD or we public school folks might quit going to all your fund raisors.

No arguments Crossbar! I'll only argue the "one dimensional offense, and not much defense" thoughts.

 

Back to the theme--I like your rankings except I'd move Highlands up and Campbell and CCH down. Not sure CCH in particular is near as good as their reputation, and Campbell continues to play a weak schedule, as in most sports, apparently looking to post impressive win-loss records instead of preparing their teams for the postseason. (See football, basketball, etc.)

 

It will all become clearer as many of these teams play one another in the next week or so!! Look for the "seasoned teams" to prevail!!

 

I have not seen Brossart this year, I only have my memory of last year, and their wins and losses results, so I won't say anymore about this year's postseason successes.

 

And Ashland Paul Blazer is on the CCH schedule once a year, but this year CCH was dropped by Cincinnati St. Xavier, and Ashland had an opening so they play twice this season. The home game against Blazer was the scheduled one, and the opening was the game in Ashland.

 

I did comment before on Campbell's strength of schedule, but from what I've seen recently (past few seasons), the school has a very much improved soccer team. Not saying they will win it all, but they are ranked 4th for me because of state ranking alone.

Time will tell. Although Ashland Blazer is about as close to top 25 material as Campbell County. Why is Ashland Blazer on Cov Cath's schedule twice, yet no Brossart, no St. Henry??? Seems strange. The two times I have seen CCH they have played much more kick and run than I have seen from them in the past. I just do not think they have the personnel this season to win the region.

 

CovCath does not play teams from NKY that are not in the same conference as them. Such as St. Henry and Brossart. Players in past and present (including myself) have often wondered why not put one or both of them on, but looking at the schedule from this year, there almost is nowhere else to add them without dropping a GCL school, which CCH most likely will not want to do.

 

Conner -------------------------Conference

Lexington Catholic --------------Needs no explanation

Ashland Paul Blazer--------------Tradition game

Cincinnati LaSalle ---------------GCL

Cincinnati Moeller----------------GCL

Scott --------------------------Conference

Highlands ----------------------Rivalry, but no longer in conference, look for a possible drop by CCH

Cincinnati Turpin --------------- Solid Ohio team, usually only play at the freshman level though

Holmes ------------------------Conference

Ryle ---------------------------Conference

Boone County ------------------Conference

Cincinnati Summit Country Day -- Solid Ohio team, could be dropped though

Dixie Heights -------------------Conference/rivalry

Ashland Paul Blazer -------------Only on here twice because of an opening (would have been Cincinnati St. X)

Simon Kenton -----------------Conference

Grant County ------------------I don't believe this is a conference game, and I'm not sure why it is scheduled. It is usually only scheduled for the jv and freshman team

Campbell County ---------------Conference

 

I'm not sure of the limitation of games for a season, but I'm sure its more than 16. But that is the reason that St. Henry, Brossart, Holy Cross, and NCC etc, are not on the schedule.

 

On a side note, Cincinnati Elder also dropped CCH after 26 years of play, because from what I think, Elder was not having the success against CCH teams that they were probably used to having. CCH goes 8-16 against Elder (not every year a match was scheduled), and in the past 10 games went 5-3-2 against Elder.

Fair enough. You are right, the limitation of regular season matches is 17(there are a few exceptions for tournaments, which can get you an extra match or two). Post season should be interesting. However I do not think that a NKY team is going to break the streak this year. Lex. Catholic, X, Trinity, Dunbar, Manual are all too strong.

Fair enough. You are right, the limitation of regular season matches is 17(there are a few exceptions for tournaments, which can get you an extra match or two). Post season should be interesting. However I do not think that a NKY team is going to break the streak this year. Lex. Catholic, X, Trinity, Dunbar, Manual are all too strong.

 

When I played, I asked the same question to the coaches of why we don't schedule them because it's not like CCH ever has any SOS doubters in basically any sport. But that was the answer that I was given.

 

I definitely think it would be a positive to schedule St. Henry and Brossart. St. Henry has long proven to be one of the better teams in the area, and with Brossart's recent success, it seems logical. The only times CCH will play against either St. Henry or Brossart is Soccerama when either of the schools request to play CCH, and that is hardly a representation. Last year, Brossart's best offensive player - Uebel, didn't even play because of a nagging injury. Also CCH plays varsity first half and strictly JV second half.

 

But the thing of concern for me personally (not to beat a dead horse), is the Brossart offense. Last year (and this year as well), they are proving to have one of the strongest offenses in the state, but again, simply my opinion, was that they played too much through Uebel. While he is a very very good player, he cannot take over the game simply by himself, and last year they seemed to play just through him. Teams with good defenses, especially their last 2 games with Highlands and CovCath, were able to stop Uebel and the offense shut down. Now here comes the if. IF Brossart was able to remedy that, which they obviously have done so far by defeating Manual and then South Oldham, then I don't see why they can't make a very deep postseason run.

 

I've seen these Brossart seniors since they were dominating the freshman leagues, and I'm not questioning their level of play, just the style. If the style has improved, then they will be a very scary team.

 

Also about LexCath, while I have only seen them play once, I saw no reason why any of the top 3 teams in this area couldn't compete with them. The game was at CovCath and the first half was about damage control for CCH because LexCath was just pounding on them, but the second half CCH took control, and I see no reason why teams like Brossart, St. Henry, and others couldn't beat them.

I am interested to see how the Lex. Catholic vs. Dunbar match came out. Post season is right around the corner. In NKY, the girls side is going to be extremely competitive.

2-1 to Catholic

BG why do you always have to take shots at the Camels?Why don't you take the high side of the road like Mustang does and leave well enough alone? So maybe the soccer team has played a weak schedule, but to include football and basketball in that tells me your just trying to bait some of the Camel posters into more negative posts between the two schools.Most of your posts are worth reading but when you go to the gutter like the last post you loose alot of respect from the rest of us.TAKE THE HIGH ROAD or we public school folks might quit going to all your fund raisors.

 

I didn't think a simple observation about scheduling was really that far "in the gutter", "taking shots at CC", etc. Simply pointing out my opinion (I think that's still what this forum is about) on the rankings and adding that I don't think CC does their kids any favors by scheduling weak, especially for one of the largest schools in the area; and that their soccer team, while maybe very good, was largely untested?? If you read my posts on the various boards, you'll find that I frequently come to the defense of the Camels (see football) and their programs. I happen to be a big believer in the old adage "that to be the best, you need to play the best"; and will voice that opinion about Brossart, Campbell or any other program!!

 

That all said, back to the thread--Highlands moves up and has a chance to move further with a big showdown with Brossart tomorrow!!