TheFauxTiger

Just watched on Hudl. Some other kids that played great, that guys like VOR will not point out on his quest to get one kid POY. Trust me I am as big a Brett Slusher fan as there is on the planet, but it kind of irks me that he is given the plaque as a one man team. Trevor Soward. 2 big catches on O for 43 yards. Was everywhere on D, made the last big tackle on D causing the fumble that Slusher picked up. Daniel Mescher. Backup kicker made two big FGs, all his XPs, and perhaps his biggest play of the night was he made the hit on Smith that caused the fumble on the kick return, Smith may have been gone on that play. Lucas Benson/Kyle Rowe/Jacob Overstreet. Played very well on D, except for Smith's 61 yard TD run he did very little in the run game. It's already been mentioned how well Kyle Fieger played. Made one mistake that many NFL QBs make, did not see the DE dropping into coverage and the kid made a nice leaping INT. Other that that he was almost flawless in the face of constant pressure. Ethan Stringer had 136 yards on 27 carries, tow catches for 22 yards and have a 50 yarder called back. I have rewatched that play 20 times, no idea what that white hat called a PF on. I know Rash was ticked. Elijah Mckinney This is the young CB in question. He plays fantastic, love his style. Yes, occasionally teams hit a jump ball on him, but he will never back down and gets right back up. Love love love this kid Jacob Cottingham This kid will hit you in a second. Plays great on ST and most teams avoid him on D from his CB position. Big and strong for a corner, huge asset to the Tigers. Again I reiterate what an awful job these refs did. Was even more glaring the no calls on HUDL that it was in person. They had one thing in mind, to limit and recognize any extra action to throw a flag for a PF. Stringer almost took the QBs head off on a blitz on 3rd and 40, would have given them a first down. Fieger almost was killed on a face mask as well. Holding on the edge on NCC quick pop passes were ridiculous, right in front in front of the line judge.

Outside of Louisville 6a is a joke.

BW is what they are. Not very creative offensively, although they did run a couple nice plays last night tbat varies from their normal trends. Not sure my opinion of this team has changed since week 1. Very good skill kids, real question is on the line. Granted New Cath was daring them to throw it by stacking the box-bad choice as they found out in first half-but they were getting beat all night at POA. Their lineman really attack off the snap, and Theee simply wasn't much space to run. Fieger showed his experience and did a wonderful job avoiding pressure and rolling the pocket but seemed he was under duress all night. Dline did ok. Jacob Smith had one big run for a TD, but other than that they bottled him up pretty well. He is such a fun player to watch, on on 3rd and long he was conpletely surrounded and stopped but showed a hip here and a leg there and there were BW jock straps all over the field. Stringer never hit the big one that he always seems to hit, but ran as hard as I've ever seen him run. He was delivering a lot of punishment at the end of runs, I'd say he had at least 25 carries? What I read on here is pretty typical from the BW old guard like VOR and OSD. They constantly look for one thing to criticize that kid about, and jump all over him as soon as he does it and rarely do they show him any love. Kid never comes off the field and plays hard. Even Slusher tapped out a couple times last night and went to the bench for a break, guess he should too. Looked to me there is a conditioning issue and he just ran out of gas in the play with Smith. Coaches need to address that. Think that's normal in this game, both terms have pretty easy games for a month leading up to this one and may slack off. What NCC found out is what teams haven't figured out. You can stop the BW running game, but Fieger and Slusher will kill you. I would love to see 32 and 22 be more of the game plan. Both are big play kids and could ease the stacking the box and doubling of Slusher. Seen some comments around him, but #11 for BW is my favorite player on that team. What a scrapper. He is really undersized, but he is always right on the defender and battles his tail off. NCC tested him a couple times, and they did get a jump ball for a TD, but he won more battles than he lost. For NCC 72 is a monster. He was in the BW backfield all night, simply dominated his opponent. 5 and 7 are really good too. Both kids were all over the field. NCC was much more physical than BW. On a side note, I'm not one to criticize officials but that crew did a very poor job. They're were a couple blatant face masks calls on both teams right in front of the white hat that he somehow missed. Fieger almost had his head ripped off and nothing. It seemed they came into this game only concerned about controlling the PF scenario and missed about everything else.

There you go again, letting facts get in the way of a good argument. I don't remember the punting game ever hurting them.

So I would be curious as to your opinion of that less tha "super impressive" schedule. Ironton was a really good team. Lost first 4 but haven't lost since. I think those 4 teams have a combined 5 losses, including a 14-6 loss to Wheelersburg, the #2 rated D5 team in Ohio. Somerset only lost 24-7 to Danville, they were starting the buses and headed to the lake for Labor Day parties in the 2nd quarter when they played BW. Or is it the soft 2a schedule, you know the NCC district? I believe NCC struggled with both Holy Cross and Lloyd, games went right to the wire. BW had second team in vs both those teams very early in 3rd quarter, blow outs. Newport? It was 42-0 in the first quarter. This may be a close game, but it won't be because of a soft schedule. Tigers laid an egg vs Cov Cath. NCC laid one vs Cooper. It happens.

Slusher has done a great job this year. Don't remember details on Cov Cath game, but he has taken off running several times over last couple years. I think CCH might be last time BW has punted.

HC wins big. Just because they are better, Bellevue doesn't have the athletes to hang with Barnes Williams and Scott.

FIFY

Gold star for you!!!! Bravo sir, greatly appreciated. This should be pinned to the top of the forum.

Historically yes. I would not trade Jeff Trame for him straight up today. Semantics.

I'm thinking #14 in red might handed the task. BW has good match ups at LB, two guys on the outside than can fly and a tough strong kid at MLB. Jacob is really good, but if any team at 1a/2a can match him on D it's BW.

Doop. You're right. Meant to type Danville, spell check can't help there Oh well. MF wins it anyhow

Awesome write up. State semi predictions: Mayfield vs DeSales Lloyd vs Danville MF vs Desales in BG Those gawd darn Cards win it all again!!

Cooper without....NCC without... Losing by 1 point does not establish dominance. Now losing 36-0 and 27-7, that's pretty convincing.

Scott lost to Conner by 1 point. Not sure it's THAT ridiculous?

Cooper is. Which is very telling as to their SOS yet again.

Scott way too one dimensional. They have as good of athletes as SK, but inability to throw the ball makes them easy to game plan for. Scott will have some success running it and keep the clock running, so game will look closer. SK wins 35-21

Scott has the best player in Ohmer, the best coach in Trame, do everything Andrew Trame, and are returning champs. I think they win again.

Your point was that FSU doesn't need to come North, mine was they have and will. If they ID a kid as a player they want they do not care where he is from, teams recruit from all over its what national powers do. Again I have zero idea if they are, UKfan certainly has embellished the recruiting process at SK in the past, but it's not far fetched. Alabama didn't have to come to Berea to sign a RB, but they did just last year.

The eye test tells me BW by 3-4 TDs. My knowledge of this series tells me no way. BW 34-20

Completely incorrect. You watching Alabama right now? Know where their center is from? They may or may not recruit him, but it won't be because of where he is from.

Very surprised this was only 28-0 at half.

And you know that as fact how? Colton Williams is drawing interest from teams all over the country. FSU had an OL from Ohio a couple years ago, Zebrie Sanders. They will go where the talent is, and Colton may end up being one of the most highly recruited kids to come out of here.

I'm so confused!! Thanks for the info, things are all shook up this year.

Who are their potential match ups? I assume as a 1 seed they don't have to come to Ft Mitchell week 2 this year?