gbballfan21

Stick up for Mayfield all you want, but get the facts straight. That Beechwood team had 1 5th year player, not several of them. You are sticking up for Mayfield, I’m sticking up for a Beechwood team that you are trying to diminish their accomplishment by acting as if it was tainted by an entire team of 5th year guys.

The 2021 Beechwood team had 1, 5th year senior, Cam Hergott. He was the only 5th year player on that team, and Mayfield has had quite a few players on their roster the last few years that took advantage of the COVID rule as well.

I know this is strange ...but I agree with you. How Hensley didn't get 50 carries ...and how there were a ton of times when Hensley wasn't even on the field. Criminal decision making. I can't begin to understand the logic. Outplayed and outcoached ... so it probably wouldn't have mattered. Still baffling.

It doesn’t matter how much talent you accumulate. As long as Doug Charles and company are patrolling that sideline, they’ll be constant underachievers.

Breathitt got 70 of those yards on an absolute fluke hand grenade pass on 3rd and long that was misplayed by a defender and tipped around and caught and the kid squirted out behind the defense for a huge gain.

Why? So Hensley can go for 250+? No clue why anyone from Mayfield would rather have the ball in Hensley's hands as opposed to Boley's. LCA lost last year because they abandoned the run in favor of the pass.

No offense ...but you do realize that LCA is a running team this year, right? Not sure that helps Mayfield at all. This isn't the same LCA team that gave up running the football last year... while they were gaining solid yardage all game against Mayfield. I sense a lot of concern from Mayfield about Boley ....not near as much about the running back. Heck, Boley is even under center quite a bit this year. If Mayfield overlooks Hensley for Boley ... its going to be a long night.

This years schedule was the first of a new 2 year schedule cycle. All of the games this year were just made this past off season, Lloyd could have chosen to schedule tougher, but chose to rollover the games they had played the previous years.

The Juggs are who I thought they were…cupcake schedule reared it’s head in the playoffs.

We must be getting our data from different places ... the khsaa.org website has Lickert with 1 Semi final loss, 2 3rd round losses and 2 2nd round losses. Wagner had 3 State Championship appearances (all losses) in his 1st 3 years, 1 3rd round loss and one 2nd round loss. Which begs the thought ... is Dave Wagner a solid choice? Bring in Dave Schneider ... to run the offense? Those are the guys who played a large roll in their huge jump beginning in 2000. These situations are always interesting to me. Inflated/incorrect stats for some guys, there is at least one guy mentioned who hasn't even coached before (who may be a good choice) ... I struggle to think anyone other than a coach with head coaching experience or a longtime assistant at a proven, historic winning program would be able to shorten the progress curve towards winning and being successful. You need a coach who can manage expectations and winning ...who also knows how to deal with the biggest X-Factor: Parents. Throw that in with the fact that public school educators will shy away due to dollars, cents and lack of retirement ... you are looking for a miniature needle in a huge haystack.

Sorry -- can't help myself here. Just what, exactly, has Lickert built at NCC? No offense -- but aren't they a program that use to contend for state championships on a yearly basis? No offense to his championship level coaching -- but he came into a program that was playing for championships. They have yet to play for a state championship since he arrived. Would he be good starting a new program from the ground up? Possibly. Let's not pretend he has furthered the path of NCC over the past few years.

He wouldn't. End of story.

He would also be a good hire at Conner, Trinity, Cincinnati St. X, Colerain, Little Sisters of the poor ... or any other school if he decided that he ever wanted to be a head coach again. No offense to Scott -- but if he wanted to continue to be a head coach ... he probably would have stayed where he was. No offense to Scott ... but there are better jobs to be had if your name is Noel Rash.

Beechwood played NCC at Highlands in the 3rd round of the 2002 playoffs. Beechwood’s field was destroyed after playing Holy Cross in a quagmire in the 2nd round of the playoffs, and moved the game to Highlands since they were the only team up here that had field turf in 2002.

Last year against Lloyd. 34 to 7

So you are confirming that I am right?

I am assuming "BW' = Beechwood. If so ...the earliest one of those teams could see Beechwood is in the Semi-Finals. They are on the other side of the bracket.

That was all they did, the ref in charge of the game clock was not even starting the 40 second clock until he had placed the ball and gotten back into position. The 40 second clock is suppose to start when the previous play is whistled dead. It was only a 4 man officiating crew and the back judge was pulling double duty, so in reality Bracken was getting almost a full minute of real clock time to waste in between every play. They snapped the ball at 1 second every play, so if their strategy was to limit possessions for Beechwood, it worked, Beechwood ran 27 plays of offense, but they really weren’t even attempting to run any kind of offense.

Is it a bad thing if the kids get to play an extra game? It’s literally one more week of football.

What’s the deal with North Hardin?

Yes, this is their B Team

Yeah, SK only needed an absolute fluke Hail Mary to win the game, but Campbell was never close to beating SK. By that logic Beechwood was never close to losing to SK because SK needed to kick an onside kick and take a couple heaves at the endzone to try and beat Beechwood. Can we just have a little bit of objectivity?

Ryle had to go to Overtime to beat Campbell the week before, so using that as a measuring stick makes this SK/Ryle game a coin flip.

One thing the state needs to look at with RPI is the number of district games. Teams are getting penalized for having to play 4 (LCA) and 5 (Beechwood) district games, while majority of the state is only playing 3. IMO, they should apply RPI to an 8 game schedule. That way, everyone can drop two of their lowest RPI games from the formula and keep it pretty consistent across the board.

In the words of the late Dennis Green, “The Lloyd Juggernauts are who I thought they were!” They are clearly improved from a couple years ago, but not quite ready for primetime.