Colonels drive down the field and convert a 4th & 16 on the go ahead touchdown drive. 
 

Hoptown drives down the field and gets into fg range but Christian County blocks the fg to win the game 22-20. 

Penalties were the story for both sides. 4 touchdowns were called back due to penalties. 

I think there were 3-4 times an offsides was called on a kick-off.

Hoptown lost their QB but then took the lead after his injury and had to play more wildcat.

It feels like the crowd gets smaller for this game every year. It’s a shame. Soon enough you won’t see crowds that size once the schools are consolidated 

Waaay too early projection question. With what is coming back/up, how might the new Christian County Tigers fare out west or statewide in the coming years?

On 9/2/2023 at 12:47 PM, Runcible Owl said:

Waaay too early projection question. With what is coming back/up, how might the new Christian County Tigers fare out west or statewide in the coming years?

A consolidated school could probably beat McCracken, Paducah, & Madisonville type schools. I would say they'd be a force in the Western part of the 4A and lower, but they won't really be much when you're talking competing with the Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Covington, Boyle, etc type schools.

They're going to be in 6A and in no way do I see a program contending for a state championship in 6A and probably not 5A either. Clayton had some teams who could make runs in 4A the last few years, but even those teams never really looked like a team that could win it all. Christian hasn't been past the 2nd round of the playoff since 2010 and they always got dominated by the BG teams.

It would take a major change in youth and middle school football around here which would start with actually making a big time hire in football for high school. In all honesty, high school football has just lost interest around here. The lack of consistent winning really just keeps people from being interested, which is how you get kids growing up loving it. They've seen the great Basketball and Baseball around here and the kids are loving those sports and going to games. I remember kids dreamed of playing for County or Hoptown and the football players were the big stars. But even now they don't get the love they deserve. We've had some great players like Corey Trice & Maurice Jesse come through the last decade, but they didn't get the praise they deserved like they would've 25 years ago.

I will go support the kids, but as a CCHS fan we've always struggled to bring fans to games. Hoptown has an old generation of fans, alumni, and others that love watching them. The history of their program and tradition going back 100 years is something special, but even that has died down. And with the consolidation being very unpopular I know several of that bunch that won't be coming. I know the biggest CCHS fans won't have the same enthusiasm either. 

It is sad as I remember the Stadium of Champions opening and it was needed. I remember Tim Couch coming to town. I remember the battles of the HHS/CCHS game. Sadly I foresee it being used 5 or 6 Fridays a year and it'll be empty most weeks when they do play. And you'll never see a crowd like a Hoptown-County game ever again.

Sad.