It absoluty means nothing

What it means is that Watterson and DeSales are both good football teams. It also means that HHS and CCH are going to play a great game the last week of the regular season, and the winner of that game could very easily be this year's AAA champ.

What it means is that Watterson and DeSales are both good football teams. It also means that HHS and CCH are going to play a great game the last week of the regular season, and the winner of that game could very easily be this year's AAA champ.

 

For that matter, so could the loser... :sssh:

Had to be a misprint, but this weeks AP poll didn't have Watterson in the top 15 in D-II.

What it means is that Watterson and DeSales are both good football teams. It also means that HHS and CCH are going to play a great game the last week of the regular season, and the winner of that game could very easily be this year's AAA champ.

 

 

jb, I'm not sure I agree with the "very easily" part of your last point unless I took it out of context. There are 4 or 5 other AAA teams who are very legitimate contenders. While I love the Birds chances, BG, LexCath, Franklin Co, Johnson Central, Rock and Bell (in addition to CovCath of course) will all be extremely tough opponents. After we beat CovCath, we will still have a very tough row to hoe, and if any fans and players think that all we have to do is beat CovCath, they are in my opinion sadly mistaken.

After we beat CovCath

 

I think you forgot to add "twice."

Had to be a misprint, but this weeks AP poll didn't have Watterson in the top 15 in D-II.

 

 

Losing to unknown Indiana powerhouses will do that to a team...

 

Losing to unknown Indiana powerhouses will do that to a team...

 

Perhaps, but I think but I think Watterson offers many clues when it comes to the HHS-CovCAth match up.

I think you forgot to add "twice."

 

 

So true, so true. And that's not exactly going to be easy.

 

Losing to unknown Indiana powerhouses will do that to a team...

To expand on your point, 4A Indianapolis Roncalli, which last week defeated Watterson 21-10, lost 28-0 last night to Cathedral in the first round of the Indiana playoffs. Last week, 3A Indy Bishop Chatard shutout Elder 24-0.

 

Maybe Bishop Watterson and DeSales are not quite as good as NKY fans believe they are. Maybe CovCath and HHS are not quite as good as generally believed either.:eek:

To expand on your point, 4A Indianapolis Roncalli, which last week defeated Watterson 21-10, lost 28-0 last night to Cathedral in the first round of the Indiana playoffs. Last week, 3A Indy Bishop Chatard shutout Elder 24-0.

 

Maybe Bishop Watterson and DeSales are not quite as good as NKY fans believe they are. Maybe CovCath and HHS are not quite as good as generally believed either.:eek:

 

You do realize that Elder has lost their QB since playing both Highlands and Cov. Cath. right?

Cincinnati LaSalle 30 Columbus DeSales 9

You do realize that Elder has lost their QB since playing both Highlands and Cov. Cath. right?

Is Elder not a Division I school with an enrollment of 1,035 boys? Is your point that the loss of one key player explains why Elder beat two of the elite high school football teams in the commonwealth of Kentucky but was shutout by 3A Bishop Chatard, which has a boys enrollment of less than half that of Elder? Is your point that had Elder not lost one key player from the team that beat CCH and HHS that Chatard would have fallen as well? If so, I am not convinced. A top notch program should not be decimated by the loss of any one player - at least not beyond the game in which that player was lost.

 

Teams like Watterson, Elder, and DeSales schedule Kentucky teams because they look down upon them as easy wins that will pad their playoff rankings. Like it or not, in most cases the Ohio teams are right in that regard and like it or not, getting thumped nearly every year by Ohio teams does not change the fact that CCH and HHS are still Kentucky teams.

 

I have no idea whether Highlands and CovCath are among the top three 3A teams in the state and the losses to Watterson and DeSales provide no clues. IMO, it is wrong to simply dismiss the losses to Ohio teams each year as if they did not happen. If Watterson, DeSales, Bishop Chatard, Cathedral, and Roncalli are all better than either Covington Catholic or Highlands this season, then maybe, just maybe, this is the season when Lexington Catholic, Franklin County, Louisville Central, and/or (gasp!) Johnson Central are too.

 

That being said, I would also rank Highlands and CCH in the top 3, but if one of those teams beats the other convincingly next week, then I would slide them down several places. The gap between NKY football and non-NKY football is not the gulf that some NKY fans imagine - at least not this season. However, I hope I am wrong and neither team is a top 5 team this season:D

 

Parity would be a welcome change in Kentucky football.

Maybe it is time for you to take a road trip and see first hand the team whose accomplishments you seem determined to marginalize

 

Maybe you should follow your own advice and make a trip yourself.

 

Going 10-0 during the regular season is not the goal of either program. State Championships are the goal. Being tested each and every week will make you stronger. It's easy to schedule cupcakes and win ever week by 40-50 pts.

Maybe you should follow your own advice and make a trip yourself.

 

Going 10-0 during the regular season is not the goal of either program. State Championships are the goal. Being tested each and every week will make you stronger. It's easy to schedule cupcakes and win ever week by 40-50 pts.

:lol: Are there not enough threads to satisy your need to bash the Golden Eagles?

 

A weak schedule does make it hard to gauge a team's strength. My point, which is on topic and on target, is that the Watterson, DeSales, and Elder games are not necessarily good measuring sticks for Covington Catholic and Highlands, because it is really not that clear just how good those three Ohio teams are this season. Those fans who suggest that the winner of next week's HHS-CCH game should leapfrog over BGH in the rankings, in part, because the two teams have combined to lose 5 games to good Ohio teams is laughable.:lol:

 

Highlands and Covington Catholic both have excellent teams, but this is not one of Highlands best teams and it is not one of CovCath's best teams, past state championships notwithstanding.