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Possibly if you hit the punt perfect at that angle and does go out of bounds. Or mishit and still goes in bounds and Fryman or Pabst return it. Or mishit and goes out of bounds to soon and gain only 10 yards out of it. As So still not gaining much out of it. Punting hasn’t worked well for the big schools that played Beechwood either. From Beechwood perspective I’m sure it sucks, plus doesn’t help indivdual stats as total yardage wouldn’t be as high as it could. However, from the teams they are playing it’s not a bad strategy going in with the plan of we have 4 plays to get 10 yards (2.5 yards a play). No team has shown they really can stop Beechwood offense. The best way to slow them down is simply trying to keep their offense off the field. As punting to them has not shown to be a good strategy either. As Beechwood has scored 40 or more points in every game the last 2 seasons except for one. Even in the playoff game they lost last year, they scored 40 but Owensboro Catholic scored 41. Which just shows how good Beechwood is, especially that offense. As does force teams to have to try to different things.

Let’s go!!! Great win! I didn’t think they would even get bowl eligible with this schedule before they played a game. Stein has been awesome! It doesn’t get any easier, but man what a start to the year!

St. Henry travels to Walton-Verona this week to battle for the 2 seed and a home playoff game. St. Henry enters the game at 5 and 3, while Walton-Verona comes into the game at 6 and 2. So far they have played 6 common opponents. Both teams beat district foes Owen, Gallatin and Bracken, and lost to Beechwood. Both teams also played Brossart and Boone County. St. Henry beat Brossart but lost to Boone County, while Walton lost to Brossart but beat Boone County. This should be one of the top games in NKY this week. Who do you all think wins this game?

While I agree that consistently going for it on 4th and 15 from that deep in your own territory is interesting. I disagree that there is a set “right way” to play the game when it comes to whether you should punt or not. IMO, the right way to play the game is to do whatever gives your team the best chance for that particular game. Even if it isn’t the traditional way to play it. Like it or not, punting really doesn’t do much to help most teams stop Beechwood. Whether Beechwood has an extra 20 or 30 yards to go probably isn’t going to make much of a difference. It’s almost a lose-lose situation when you punt against them. There’s a very good chance they get a big return, and even if they don’t, their offense still gets the ball. For most schools, the best chance of stopping Beechwood’s offense is to keep that offense off the field as much as possible. That may mean going into the game with the mindset that you have four downs to gain 10 yards every possession, even when you’re on your own side of the 50. It may not be the traditional way of playing football, but the traditional way hasn’t exactly helped bigger schools slow down Beechwood either. At the end of the day, for a team to beat Beechwood this year, they’re probably going to have to score 35 points or more just to have a chance. So I can understand why a coach might decide to take a different approach rather than doing what is the normal way to play it.

Absolutely. Hence why I said I was completely wrong in the game thread. Impressive performance by NCC.

Congrats NCC! I definitely got this wrong, as while I thought Dayton would win. I am not surprised NCC won, but I am surprised by how much.

I think 16 teams would probably be the right number, but I’m perfectly fine with 24. The whole bowl game system, for all its history, has been a joke IMO. I know people will argue that expanding the playoffs devalues the regular season, and maybe it does a little bit. However, it also gives us more opportunities for big-time matchups during the regular season because teams don’t have to worry about one loss potentially keeping them out of the playoffs. I’ve always said college football was the one sport where a true champion wasn’t necessarily crowned on the field. Instead, it was largely decided by people’s opinions. It has gotten better over the last 12 years when they first introduced the 4 team playoffs. However, How do we really know which team is better when two teams have the same record, but one gets in over the other? Or when one team plays a much tougher schedule, loses a game, and gets left out, while another team gets in despite potentially losing even more games if they had played that same schedule? A 24-team playoff would pretty much ensure that the best teams actually get an opportunity to prove themselves on the field. Even last year, with a 12-team playoff, Notre Dame was a team that quite possibly could have won the whole thing had they gotten in. Yet human opinion kept them out, and they never got the opportunity to prove it. The reality is, nobody truly knows what would happen until those teams actually play each other. That’s why I’m all for expanding the playoffs. With 24 teams, you’re giving just about every team that has a legitimate argument a chance to prove it on the field. At that point, we can finally say the national champion was truly decided by what happened on the field, rather than by a group of people deciding who deserves the opportunity to compete for it. Which to add I would take the human element completely out and use the old BCS system to rank the teams and 19 at large teams, etc.

Not the smoothest game, but they did what they had to do today and that was win. Up until that last garbage time TD. The Bengals defense had held Miami to right around their season average for total yards. Would like to see them finish better, as they were getting pressure on Willis but allowed him to find room to escape to often. Use this bye week to get healthy and get better. A big one against the Ravens after the bye week.

Very solid career. Anytime you have have over a 15 year career and be a starter for around 8 to 9 of those seasons, that’s a solid crowd. I still believe he was the worst of the 3 between he, Palmer and Burrow. As Dalton had the most complete teams around him, especially 2012 to 2015. As he had top defense, good o line, solid run game and weapons to throw to. If Palmer and especially Burrow had a few of those teams, I think the Bengals win one or two super bowls. Instead of not even winning a playoff game.

Reminds me of our Akili Smith days with how bad the Miami QB has looked. He has been bad. And to think Miami just signed him to a 3 year 68 million dollar contract. Ouch!

Looks to much like BYU to me. I do love the look though as a great mix up to do at times.

Let’s go!!!! What a game!!!! Love coach Stein!!! You play to win the game!!! I love it!!! Go Cats!!!

Well none of the teams discussed really for the 4th spot really did much to impress this week. Cooper was on a bye, so maybe they should be 4th. The one thing I think we all can agree on is the top 3: Highlands, Beechwood, Covcath. Then it’s a big drop off and could go multiple different ways to fill out the rest of the top 10.

Walton was up 50 to 0 at half, and played their JV the whole second half. Walton improves to 5 and 2 on the year. Gallatin is very young. Coach Riggs is going to do a good job there and they should be much improved over the next two years if they can keep everyone together.

This! Which the whole reason for districts was for the playoffs. With the RPI starting in round 2 next year, and district standing only mattering for round one. The need for districts is basically gone already. Might as well get rid of them completely and use RPI, hsratings, or something.