Big win for Cooper, congratulations!

4 minutes ago, CoachMulvi said:

And I love it for them. Great kids that work hard. Fun group to be around. 

Both teams have a great bunch of kids that work hard. That's what I love about high school football.

Having watched Ryle play CovCath and watched Cooper host Highlands, I never would have predicted this result.  

Kudos to the Jags!!  That is a huge and impressive win.  Enjoy it. 

Big Rpi boost for Cooper. They won the slugfest in the same manner as last year. 

Well safe to say Cooper quieted any doubters. As coach Borchers, staff and players showed tonight to everyone that they definitely are a true threat in 5A to be playing for a title again!

Big congrats to coach Borchers and the Cooper Jags. You all have had to put up with so much undeserved stuff this off season, way to go out there and hopefully quiet a lot of people down! Big time win!!

Crickets from the Coach Borchers can’t coach crowd tonight…

Congrats to the Jags on the big time win!

Ryle went from claiming they are the top 6A team to now they might lose back to back weeks as CAL travels to Union next Friday.

34 minutes ago, MaddenCurse44 said:

Ryle went from claiming they are the top 6A team to now they might lose back to back weeks as CAL travels to Union next Friday.

Trinity continues to be the top 6A team with St X second this year. No one I know at Ryle claimed they were the top 6A team in the state. Top team in the district for sure. No Neer fear here. CAL is excellent and one of the top 3-5 teams in the state.  It will be a close battle if Ryle gets back to playing mistake-free ball.

3 hours ago, MaddenCurse44 said:

Ryle went from claiming they are the top 6A team to now they might lose back to back weeks as CAL travels to Union next Friday.

Literally no one said this?

5 minutes ago, raiders2120 said:

Literally no one said this?

Yea okay lol!

Cooper played hard and deserved the win but make no mistake about it, Cooper had Lady Luck on their side.

For starters, Ryle had 2 of their top 5 players out (Dylan Lee and Bo Gay) due to hand injuries. Either one of them play and it’s a W for Ryle.

Lee is their top WR and DB. No chance Cooper plays 8 guys in the box w/ Lee out there. If they did, he would have went for 150 and 2 TD’s at least. On defense, he’s a game changer (ask CovCath). 

Bo Gay is one of the top DE’s in the state. He would have been a major impact vs the run game and would have been chasing O’Hara around all night. 

Then, the game started! I’ve never seen Ryle look as sloppy and unprepared for a game. Fumbled opening kickoff, gave up a terrible pick 6, had what felt like 10 pentalties (some were very questionable), then Savage uncharacteristically fumbles on what appeared to be the game-winning drive.

Ryle’s OC had a terrible night. Not sure why they insist on making Verax a pocket passer when it’s clear he prefers and executes way better rolling out of the pocket. Do they have something against RPO’s?? Verax is probably the fastest QB in the state coaches!

And with Lee out, they should have had a completely different plan but opted to run Savage stretch left/right all night. Why not use Anness more? Maybe Savage doesn’t cough up the ball on the game winning drive at the end of the game. Kid had to be exhausted!

I hope I’m wrong but suspect they’ll continue to struggle the next couple weeks until they get healthy. Then they will most likely end the season with a run of running clock games. 

Congrats Cooper! Good luck the rest of then season.

Lady Luck then a laundry list of excuses. Not a good set up for your argument. You could do that with O’Hara missing his receivers from last year. Weak sauce!!!

4 minutes ago, Breds82 said:

Lady Luck then a laundry list of excuses. Not a good set up for your argument. You could do that with O’Hara missing his receivers from last year. Weak sauce!!!

Huh? You don’t think playing a team w/out 2 of their best players isn’t lucky? I understand the “next man up” motto, but nobody that’s ever played sports would agree with you.

if nothing else, we can agree its not the same team that controlled CovCath w/out them 2.
 

 

Every team has key players that are injured preseason through postseason. It’s what it is. If Keith Bogans doesn’t twist his ankle in the Sweet 16 then UK probably beats Marquette and Dwayne Wade in the regional final, but it’s the it goes sometimes.

39 minutes ago, Breds82 said:

Lady Luck then a laundry list of excuses. Not a good set up for your argument. You could do that with O’Hara missing his receivers from last year. Weak sauce!!!

Missing players due to graduation is not comparable to having key players from the current team out due to injury. Speaking of injury, I'm sorry to hear the young man from Cooper is injured seriously. Ryle will be fine, but will badly miss those two key players against two really good teams the next two weeks.