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My cousin........ was on the first flight he could be on to get back here when he heard about the wreck........ AMAZING football player, a genius, and the best friend you could ever ask for. I still remember watching a video of him catching a touchdown pass at Columbia (he ran pretty far if I remember correctly)...... I gotta see if my aunt and uncle or cousins still have that VHS tape! The world needs more people like him :thumb: I also see Spivey a lot still....... normally when I'm working out at Five Seasons. Another good guy :thumb:

I just see "left again" as having come back and established being there, which would mean getting out of the car. On a few occasions, kids have even asked me "why'd you get back in the car if you knew you were going to go speeding through the cemetery?"

In the presentation I give to schools, in the slides about the wreck, it says: "We stayed there a while Then we left again We went and got gas We came back And then we left one more time This time we drove around the cemetery He was messing around speeding Before we got out of the cemetery he sped around one last corner…………." Then we wreck. That makes it sound like, when we came back to the cemetery after getting gas, we got out of the car and then got back in knowing that we were going joy riding. I found out after I graduated college that, when we came back from getting gas, we stopped but didn't get out of the car. I wanted to go pick-up my girlfriend, but the driver wanted to stay in the cemetery because that's where he felt safe driving, so he did a 180 and took us speeding through the cemetery, and then we wrecked. Should I change it point out that we didn't get out of the car and get back in and should I even mention that I wanted to leave when he took us joy riding? I want it to be accurate, but I also don't want to make it seem like I'm taking the blame off myself and playing the victim, which would take away from a major message of my presentation (make smart decisions), or do you think it won't even make a difference with kids because it was already established that I shouldn't have even been in the car in the first place?

My cousin Coy continuing to build a strong program and coach them up!

They’re letting them play physical.

Considering they beat every team this season by a wide margin and people have been complaining about the things I mentioned for years, yes I am. It was fine when Highlands was winning title after title (before Dale left), but now that CCH's program is building and the feeder system is becoming stronger, I'm sure that it won't be long until they start chiming in.

I'm almost scared if they are just because there would be more talk about separating private and public schools since Trinity also dominates 6a. It bugs me because next no one comes to CCH just to play sports and the ones who do don't last too long. And it's also not like CCH is loaded with unlimited athletes who are dominant because they wouldn't have players going both ways if they did. CCH has a winning tradition and a way of doing things that's hard to match.

So instead of fixing problems/working harder and trying to improve, just give up? When CCH had down years, was there ever talk of them going down a class? If moving down doesn't work, is Highlands going to start asking for participation trophies from the KHSAA?

Did Dale ever win this or was he even ever nominated?

Exactly, so am I, but now it's not just blind optimism because we have a solid core and showed that we can win some tough games. We mentioned beating Baltimore, but also forgot to mention that it WAS IN BALTIMORE, which is one of the top ten toughest places to win in the NFL, especially with their season on the line.

It doesn't? We have a lot of young talent, a few guys still in their prime (AJ, Burfict, Geno, etc.), and we just need to fill in a few pieces via free agency (unlikely) and the draft, like a new center, middle linebacker, offensive tackle, guard, and maybe one or two others. People on this board baffle me. Is Marvin a good coach? No. He's horrible at game planning, in-game adjustments, clock management, getting the team motivated, etc., but what other respectable coach would come here under these conditions? The players seem to like him, he has more influence than any other coach ever under Mike Brown (per Mike Brown), and we've come very close to getting over the hump and advancing in the playoffs (one Jeremy Hill fumble away from it, actually). If you look at the season last year, we went 7-7 after replacing Zampese with Lazor to finish 7-9, and that's with losing FIVE games by 4 points or less. You don't get points for almost, but point is it's not like we just rolled over and were horrible every game. Mind you that all of that happened with a horrible offensive line, and specifically at center, which hopefully we'll be drafting Price from OSU to play center. It's like people just go with the easiest answer, like All State did, and just say it's all doom-and-gloom because that's easier than doing some actual evaluation.

I have no doubt that Coach Rash and the rest of the crew will have them ready to make another run! They adapt to fit the talent they have! Anybody a front runner to do it? I heard someone say (maybe saw it on here?) that his brother might be taking being considered, which I'm sure he has at least some of AJ's and, at 6'5, 210 (and most likely only adding weight in muscle), he'd be a load even for linemen to bring down. I have visions of Jared Lorenzen just running around in the pocket and giving receivers all day to get open or just go long and outrun everyone. Then, having a back like McGinness who can break a big play with even the smallest opening just sounds dangerous. I might be completely wrong about him being a possibility at QB, but it would be interesting.

I obviously meant on here for that part, and playing for the Steelers for the rest of the people that follow the NFL.

Seriously........ why is it ok for him to say these things after doing that with no one calling him out on it? Because he plays for the Steelers? Because he went to Highlands? Why?

When you say "excuses," you imply that someone is trying to lessen the blame on one party and justify a loss. Out of your eight reasons for the loss, I only see four that qualify as excuses and one is questionable on whether or not it's an excuse, but I highlighted all four. AJ Mayer not playing isn't really an excuse, but just more of a fact that they weren't at full strength. If anything, no rhythm, turning the ball over too much, being out-coached, and not utilizing the talent correctly (which, to me, falls under being out-coached), is acknowledging weaknesses, rather than making excuses. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me like you were just looking for reasons to bash CCH's team.

Yeah, I don't see how people are debating what a catch is in this instance. He never had clear control. "Control" means you have the ball in firm possession. How do people not understand what "control" means? If he has clear possession of it beforehand, then, yes, it is a touchdown when it crosses the plane. If that was a today when the Steelers player caught it, then is it a catch if a receiver gets his hands around it for a fraction of a second and it gets knocked out? I disagree with that entirely. You need to have firm control or it leaves everything even more open to interpretation and opinions. If he had control, then he wouldn't have fumbled it when it hit the ground. Everyone who says "then why's it ok if a runner just gets the ball across and then fumbles it in the ai for when it hits the ground?" Because he had control of the ball while running and fully had it for a while before crossing the goal line. Case closed. Like I say above, but the runner already had control of the ball while running and when he reached out to cross the goal line, the play is over. Eli Manning agrees:

There's NSFW language in this video, so be warned, but Mike Mitchell goes on a rant in this video about how the NFL isn't football anymore because you're not allowed to hit people and they should give them flags and all so he knows what he can do. The game is evolving and it's a lot less dangerous, even before all these new rules, than it was years ago, and you just have to adapt. However, even considering that and taking his points as having meaning, so that's not football, but Of course no one called him out on it because he plays for the Steelers and they're the NFL's love child and above the rules, but is does anyone else think that that's as hypocritical and stupid as I do?

Everybody keeps saying something like a GM position, which do they not understand what a GM does? A GM negotiates contracts for players, finds free agents and typically has the final say in drafting, coordinates the scouting department (which the Bengals are lacking), and manages the team's salary cap. I agree that things like the drafts have been better for the Bengals while he's been here, but how much of that was just his opinions or insight or just plain luck? Look at how many busts we've had and how many contracts have been messed up, so why would you want Marvin in control of all that?

Figured. You were happy to be engaged in the discussion until I actually did what you asked because you assumed I wouldn't, but now all of the sudden it's "not worth it"? Typical.

"Corrupt" and "regime" and emails and everything have nothing to do with Fort Thomas being up in arms over the coach? Try again. lol. I did, against my best judgement, and it sounds like it was just a few upset parents that may or may not have even been true and just something being stirred up by someone from Beechwood trying to cause drama. However, if you even look at some of the posts from that thread, like Then you'll see that it was a non-issue and nowhere near what is happening in Fort Thomas. Did you even believe what you posted or were you just hoping that I'm too brain damaged to realize that it was wrong or to go look it up?

Someone in this very thread said the Park Hills Mafia never existed, so sounds more like someone threw out a term of maybe a few people and then people ran wild with it. Perhaps you could show me what was being said because CCH has had down years and I never remember lots of parents doing things like the equivalent of emailing the school board (or anyone in charge at CovCath) trying to get a coach fired, putting enough pressure on a coach that he needed to email the CCH community, hashtags like #MHFGA (#MCCHFGA), or anything like that. You think anything even anywhere near comparable happened with CCH? lol.......... completely false. If I weren't a CCH fan, everything would still ring true, and you can look at the facts to see that I'm correct.

What don’t you understand? People are unhappy, the supposed immortal football team is struggling, doesn’t seem to be any direction, and Fort Thomas is all up in arms calling for the coach’s head like he’s going around town murdering puppies. Show me another town outside of a place like Texas where this kind of thing would happen that’s this bad.

My senior year (what should have been my senior year), we beat Highlands in the playoffs. It's hard to think that we wouldn't have given them a game my sophomore and junior years if not for the wreck. Or maybe it wouldn't have made much of a difference, but, looking at the makeup of our team and the success we had anyways, it's hard to think that it wouldn't have mattered. :lol2: When I first suggested ANYTHING was down at Highlands, I was ridiculed and called stupid (basically)! :lol2:

No coaching changes or that they all haven't committed to return? HUGE difference. Has the basketball program ever had one of the top reputations in the country like football used to have? The football program also made a lot more money than basketball. I'd miss the rivalry and I don't really think we need to worry because I doubt they'll ever find another coach on Dale's level. Used to be :laugh: I'm just laughing at it because you'd always hear about the unity, tradition, a program that couldn't fail, how the school was so much more than football, etc, etc, but now that they're struggling it sounds like a civil war is about to happen in Fort Thomas!

That sound pessimistic to anyone else? "I just got off the phone with Matt Haskamp. He just talked to the superintendent and they are going to retain us." Sounds relieved and not like he was confident that it was going to happen. How's that supposed to get the people and players excited and motivated for the upcoming seasons? Highlands has one of the top histories in the nation, and this guy sounds like he's surprised that they're even keeping him. Sad.