Colerain ranked # 1 in the Nation is laughable. This Colerain team isn't even as good as the Colerain teams of the last 5 years. IMO, not even the best team in Cincinnati. Sorry, this Colerain team is just to young. But, boy they are gonna be something special in the next couple years. Maybe then, they will be a legitimate top 10 team in the country.

Unfortunately this game wasn't as close as the final score indicated. It was pretty even the first half but the second half was dominated by Colerain. Sure wish Connor was healthy, things may have ben a little different.

 

IMO,

 

Colerain won't lose a regular season game but will get beat in the playoffs.

 

Highlands won't lose another game this season, period!

I heard that Colerain's JV beat HHS' JV 9-7 today... is this correct?

For all you sports fans out there, take a look at the Enquirer stats for this week.

 

Collinsworth: 5 carries for 32 yards = 6/carry

Head: 4 carries for 19 yards = 5/carry

Crawford: 29 carries for 93 yards = 3/carry

Guidugli: 44 carries for 107 yards = 2.5/carry

 

Mr. Simpson for SK has 30 carries for 350 yards.

 

Its hard to tell if there's a Mr. Simpson on the team when the Quarterback is your leading ball carrier. Why not let a back carry the ball 30 times in a game and see what stats he can produce? Then the real Mr. Simpson will stand up!

For all you sports fans out there, take a look at the Enquirer stats for this week.

 

Collinsworth: 5 carries for 32 yards = 6/carry

Head: 4 carries for 19 yards = 5/carry

Crawford: 29 carries for 93 yards = 3/carry

Guidugli: 44 carries for 107 yards = 2.5/carry

 

Mr. Simpson for SK has 30 carries for 350 yards.

 

Its hard to tell if there's a Mr. Simpson on the team when the Quarterback is your leading ball carrier. Why not let a back carry the ball 30 times in a game and see what stats he can produce? Then the real Mr. Simpson will stand up!

 

Whaaaat. Are you serious. Tell me you are not making a comparison to what HHS backs did against Colerain vs. what Simpson did against Dixie Hts. :lol:

I heard that Colerain's JV beat HHS' JV 9-7 today... is this correct?

 

You are correct, sir!

 

TD for Highlands by Corey Compton!

You've never seen us faced with such a monumental task. If you both think that is some kind of "moral victory" decleration, you're both sadly mistaken.

 

I don't think it is, but you obviously do...

I heard that Colerain's JV beat HHS' JV 9-7 today... is this correct?

 

Safety with about 4 minutes left was the difference. Defenses both played well.

He never had enough time to throw the roll out passes. Those boys were so fast that they made Collinsworth and Crawford look like they were standing still.

 

In response to CF about why do we play all these guys both ways? I am sorry you don't agree with it, in the past we haven't had as many guys on both sides of the ball. The truth is, we just don't have the 1200 boys to pick from like the big schools do. I think we have maybe 400 boys at our school. Out of those boys, not many play because of playing other sports and the commitment to football would pretty much consume their entire life. Not many guys are ready for that. I only wish we could have those numbers. From what I am seeing at the elementary level, we may become a bigger school in the next ten years. Just at my kids school, they have gained almost 150 more students this year from last. I think they said it was 340 or so last year and now it's like 480 for this year. The other problem is, some of those kids may choose to go to a different high school. I think that Fort Thomas schools will always be smaller than those big schools and the Birds will never have 90+ players like some of these other programs. I am completely fine with seeing just the best of the best out there. In '92 we had only 35 or so players on our entire team and we won state. It can be done.

 

Birds looked much more in tune last night. I really liked how comfortable Crawford is getting with the football. His new little spin move caused fits for the Colerain D and probably got him atleast 20 more yards on top of his runs. I know everyone speaks of Mr. Conner who is great, but now we have a young man in Mr. Crawford who has stepped in and become another threat. Just think about a backfield with both of them in it come playoff time. I know that Dale said that there are no moral victories at Highlands, but last night was like poking the sleeping bear. I almost feel sorry for the teams that remain on HHS' schedule. It's going to be like a Hurricane blowing from Fort Thomas to the Pizza Box. GO BIRDS!!!

 

Gotta go watch Pumpkin play at IU for the Murray State Racers!!!!

 

Don't want to threadjack but how in the heck do any of our elementary schools hold 480? Are they running two shifts?

I don't really know what the fuss is about that you seem to be making. We are brutally disappointed that we lost while acknowledging that we played a lot better than we played against Ryle.

 

In fact, one could wonder what the outcome would have been if Conner and Frank had been able to play. No dis to Crawford because he plays his heart out and he is what he is, a small, quick, talented running back, but any one who has watched the two of them knows they have very different running styles. In my opinion, Conner's ability to shake off hard hits and keep going forward would have helped us a lot last night. I like our chances of converting one of the two attempts we had to pick up a first down late in the first half on Colerain's thirty, losing only 7-6 if Conner is the running back. If we convert and continue the drive, we may have went into the locker room at half winning 13-7 or 9-7. Instead, Colerain took over possession and put together a drive at the end of the half that resulted in them going into the locker room winning 13-6. Huge Mo swing.

 

Having Frank on the D line would have given us another big body on D. I thought Dierig and Fennell both played exceptional games on the D line, but having Frank would have given us not only the additional big body, but would have given us better depth on the D line.

 

 

PLEASE, don't misinterpret what I just posted. I'm not saying we would have won if Conner and Frank played. I'm not saying we had the better football team if those two played, and the fact that they didn't play is why Colerain beat us. Not saying that at all. Colerain is an exceptional football team. The best in the country? No one walking this earth knows or can know which team is the best high school team in this country. So maybe they are and maybe they aren't. We'll let Colerain's season unfold and that will indicate just how talented and good Colerain is this year. I did see lots of things last night that should make the Colerain fans feel very good about their team.

 

Now on to my observations of the game:

 

Tony G played very good. Ran the ball well (he's sore this morning FOR SURE) and had some nice passes. Some of the things he did against Colerain could have been done against Ryle but Dale didn't call those plays (intentionally in my opinion). Crawford ran the ball well particularly in light of the fact that probably every player on Colerain's D other than their 3 down linemen were as quick and as fast as Crawford is and that is not normally the case. Collinsworth had some nice runs and catches (that boy was exhausted after the game and understandably so; I think in addition to his efforts on O, he probably had 10 tackles on D). Roller played well on O and had some nice catches. O line had a very nice game. We struggled at times with the speed and quickness of the lbers, but didn't do too bad and we did a very nice job blocking their down linemen. We hung more points on Colerain than McKeesport and X combined; heck even if you take away our second to last score when Colerain did have some of their starters out, we still scored 12 points against Colerain's starting D and that's more than either X or McKeesport scored against them.

 

As for the D, honestly, I really don't know if we could have done any better against Colerain's O. Calling it what it is, we just don't have the speed and size to match up with Colerain's O. I thought Rosenhagen, Dierig, Fennell, Laber, Martin and Collinsworth in particular played exceptional games but all of the kids on D played very well. Great job each and every one of you young men.

 

Special teams did a good job also. Rosenhagen had great kickoffs; sophomore Weinel converted both field goals; Hogue had good punts and the punt team gave him the time to do so even Colerain had the block on. Colerain had a couple of decent punt returns, but in light of the fact the punt team was focusing on holding their blocks to prevent a block and in light of the fact that Colerain's No. 1 was their punt returner, all in all, I thought we did a nice job covering the punts.

 

Bottom line: I thought we played a very nice game and my guess is that the coaches feel that way also. In talking to the players after the game, there was no one smiling and saying they had played as well as they could; they were terribly disappointed. They went into the game believing they would win and left the locker room after the game disappointed that they lost and believing they could have won. Some would say they were delusional thinking they would win or that they could have won. Maybe those people are right. But I have never experienced a Highlands team that took the football field thinking they were going to lose and I hope I never do. Highlands has some very disappointed players watching film right now and I have a feeling Holmes is going to face a very focused and intense Highlands team this coming Friday. Go Birds.

 

All agreed, But the one thing that I could not understand was why the leading tackler in the Ryle game did not play one play on Defense against Colerain? # 4 Travis Alford, was he injured? disciplinary actions? or what? I guess the best coaches in state know what they are doing and have reasons why they hold certain players back. It just seemed as if they could have used a fresh linebacker.

Some video clips from the action.

 

The first is from WeAreColerain.com blog. Just a few of our Sophomore RB's running with the pigskin.

 

 

And this one is from the Cincy Enquirer's Prep site as well as the story link:

 

Colerain vs. Highlands Highlights - 3:13 minutes and the Game Story

 

Just in case anyone was interested.

 

-CardinalsFan

All agreed' date=' But the one thing that I could not understand was why the leading tackler in the Ryle game did not play one play on Defense against Colerain? # 4 Travis Alford, was he injured? disciplinary actions? or what? I guess the best coaches in state know what they are doing and have reasons why they hold certain players back. It just seemed as if they could have used a fresh linebacker.[/quote']

 

They say the best information comes from the source. I'd ask Travis why he didn't play defense.

Don't want to threadjack but how in the heck do any of our elementary schools hold 480? Are they running two shifts?

 

They split up some classrooms into two and also, they have a huge Kindergarten at this school. Either way, it's a ton of people and eventually FT Schools will have to get newer elementary schools because there are so many people that want their kids to go to a Blue ribbon school. I mean when this honor is only bestowed on less then 50 in the entire country, wouldn't you want your kid there?

For all you sports fans out there, take a look at the Enquirer stats for this week.

 

Collinsworth: 5 carries for 32 yards = 6/carry

Head: 4 carries for 19 yards = 5/carry

Crawford: 29 carries for 93 yards = 3/carry

Guidugli: 44 carries for 107 yards = 2.5/carry

 

Mr. Simpson for SK has 30 carries for 350 yards.

 

Its hard to tell if there's a Mr. Simpson on the team when the Quarterback is your leading ball carrier. Why not let a back carry the ball 30 times in a game and see what stats he can produce? Then the real Mr. Simpson will stand up!

 

I appreciate your entusiasm and your attempt to prod some provocation....however, when you want a response, please have all of the information. If you think that SK/Dixie is even remotely close to HHS/Colerain. Wow! I don't even have anything to say to that but I just hope that with your time on this site, maybe you'll get a better understanding of high school football. That's one good thing about being on here. You'll learn a lot.

The Re-Broadcast of the game is up and available at http://www.classxradiosports.com. Just click on the re-broadcast on the right side of the page.

 

Pictures also.