One thing is for sure, Tom Larkey is a great coach and will have this team playing well and they will be a factor in the district race, maybe not a one seed but they will have a say in who is, they have some solid players.

That hurt us. I liked Whitley's offense.

 

WC has played a very tough schedule, they are really good and has always been the favorite for the #1 seed in the district. They are huge and fast and play a lot of seniors, a lot of seniors.

One thing is for sure, Tom Larkey is a great coach and will have this team playing well and they will be a factor in the district race, maybe not a one seed but they will have a say in who is, they have some solid players.

 

They will be a factor, in future years. But not this year. They just don't have the players right now. Letcher and Perry will clearly be better. North apparantly is very good as well. Best case is that Harlan and North battle for 4th, but in the end I see Harlan only beating Clay and finishing 5th an out of the playoffs.

I thought that Whitley showed more intensity on Friday night than I had seen from them in the three previous games I had seen. That was key. Even with the turnovers early in the game Whitley just did not lose the fire for the game.

 

Whitley was way more physical than Harlan. Harlan kept trying to clog things up inside and Whitley used their speed on the cornors, although they did run well between the tackles at times and when they got into open field, Harlan had no answer.

 

They got outside one time. There was a missed tacke on that one. In fact there were missed tackles on three of the 5 offensive TD's. All three of those were on 3rd and long. If those were made and the coverage had not been blown on that one pass then things could have been different. I am not trying to act like HC should have won or anything. But I am just saying that the difference in the two teams is not as great as some would like to believe. There is definitely a huge difference in speed.

They got outside one time. There was a missed tacke on that one. In fact there were missed tackles on three of the 5 offensive TD's. All three of those were on 3rd and long. If those were made and the coverage had not been blown on that one pass then things could have been different. I am not trying to act like HC should have won or anything. But I am just saying that the difference in the two teams is not as great as some would like to believe. There is definitely a huge difference in speed.

 

Offensively Harlan had four 4th down attempts stopped, two of which were less than two yards.

 

Missed tackles is part of the game, that is a coachable problem but still part of the game and it would appear that Harlan does not tackle very well.

 

Whitley has a big problem on special teams, no PAT kicker, and can't run it in. That was the only area where I thought Harlan was close.