El Diablo

50 minutes ago, DearToday said:

Atherton isn’t going to beat Owensboro. 

My picks are :

BG, Owensboro, Cooper, Highlands. 
 

BG and Highlands games should be one sided. 

9 hours ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

West:

Fairdale 24 at 4 Bowling Green

8 Owensboro at 7 Atherton 

East:

 14 North Laurel at 1 Highlands

9 Cooper at 6 Southwestern

So after this week it gets re bracketed? Are these the right numbers?

if all the home teams win would Atherton go to Highlands for the semi final? Or does it remain E/W?

2 hours ago, DearToday said:

Cooper is a matchup nightmare for SW. 

Cooper 49

SW 14

This is if everything goes SW way and they have a great plan to slow down Alexander. 

8 hours ago, JUGGSPORTS said:

Cooper will play Southwestern.  

Cooper is going to destroy Southwestern. Running clock first half. 

The whole Benke / Geisler thing is going to be a tough thing to stop in the playoffs. 

I thought Scott Co was above this type of stuff. 

Wow. Jags are scary. 

Cooper is sneaky real good. If Scott Co doesn’t have the personnel / plan to cover Alexander it could be troublesome. I see Cooper scoring over 30 points. If they can hold Scott Co and limit the their clock management, Cooper can definitely win this game. 

Wonder what the score is?

On 10/24/2023 at 3:49 PM, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

The Freshman Championship has been a sore subject here and there, over the years. Several schools have fielded a freshman team one year and then not the next and kind of left themselves ignored by other teams in terms of scheduling occasionally. Also, as I understand it, there have historically been some years where one school or another would try to field a freshman team, schedule games, and then after having a skeleton crew of players sign up and then after getting boat-raced in their first two or three games and/or having injuries take their toll, they've cancelled the rest of their season and moved the remaining players up to the JV/varsity roster. The impact of that would be the fact some of the remaining freshman programs would end up short on games compared to other teams. So when things are based on win/loss records and not a playoff, then somebody would end up butt-hurt because they were nixed from contention from the championship game since they didn't have enough wins.

Like say at hypothetically some point in the past Bellevue tried fielding a freshman team. They schedule to play 9 other area teams for their season. They only end up with 18 kids on their roster, and play their first three games against Cov Cath, Highlands and Boone County and lose by 4+ touchdowns per game, plus they end up with 5 injured players, so they throw in the towel for the season. Then Conner and Simon Kenton end up sore over the fact that in combination with having scheduled bye weeks into their seasons, they're also left another game short on the season after Bellevue dropped out, so they don't have a square shot at the championship since they only have the potential for 7 wins at the end of things.

Aaaaaaanyway, my understanding is that there have been things like that that have happened. Still, for at least most of the 80s/90s/00s, there was an attempt to have a championship game based on whichever teams had the best records. I believe the last time there was a game that was officially established as the NKY Freshman Regional Championship was 2010, when Cov Cath and Highlands played for the title. Cov Cath came into the game with a 9-1 record and their only loss had been earlier in the season to Highlands, who had beaten them 36-7. The championship was played at Highlands, and the Birds (who I believe finished the season undefeated) won the rematch 36-14. Sam Dressman was QB for Cov Cath, with Nick Pope as their starring RB, and Sam Burchell & Adam Fischer were leading the defense. Highlands had Drew Houliston at QB, Jalen Hayes, Zach Harris & Thomas Wrobleski running the ball, and Brandon Hergott at WR.

That Highland frosh team beat Lou St X in the first game of the year. X had like 98 kids on the sidelines. 

14 minutes ago, KYFootballFanz said:

What you can do is make the other team’s offensive line have to work. Dixie used 2 defensive linemen the whole night with 4 linebackers (2 walked up), and 5 DBs. sent the house every play. Highlands would come to line see who they had and boom. You know why? Because 1 they are bigger upfront and 2 Dixie had 6 in box compared to highlands 7/8 in the box. 

Lefts flip over to the offensive side. 
You know the other team only gives up 65 yards rushing a game compared to 275.5 yards in the air. You come out and think the run going to work nope. When Dixie threw it, it was from one hash to the other side of the field past the numbers 5 yards down the field. That’s a far throw with no time to create any separation. Now when the middle of the field is open all night and you only throw it there 3 times ( 2 to the TE for 2TDs and 1 slant) that’s a problem. 

 

2DLmen is a head scratcher for sure. 

4 minutes ago, KYFootballFanz said:

Well that was ugly. Hats off the birds way to take care of business.

Dixie WOW. 2 weeks to prepare for this game and that’s what you do? 

It’s hard to prepare for a huge running QB. You can’t really simulate it in practice full go. 

2 hours ago, 9068 said:

I think his size and athleticism make him a handful for most high school teams. If he gets to the right style of offense he can be a ok QB, but I think he would be a TE for many college teams.

 

 

Exactly my take. He can probably go to a big time D1 school if switches to TE at the next level. QB is just a harder path. Big athletic kid with tremendous field awareness and vision. Any school that uses the TE/FB H back scheme should give Benke a look. 

Is Benke like real deal real deal? Or just regular real deal? 

57 minutes ago, Breds82 said:

Seems that way. Just like the good ole days of AM radio.

Could some old timer tell me where to find this game on the radio?

Dang. Cooper is really good. Unreal. Can’t wait for the rematch. 

Just now, 9068 said:

Enough to know that the officials don't cheat the Bluebirds on every reception or touchdown lol. I don't know about alot.....but I know a little more about football than most folks.

Ok ok I got carried away. Refs had a couple of bad calls early. In no way did refs do everything for Cooper. Cooper offense did enough to win the game. OHara played a perfect game to be honest. Birds need to be ready for this team in the playoffs. They are really good. 

Haha this game still isn’t over Alexander is still playing. 

2 minutes ago, 9068 said:

Is Notre Dame D1? Wisconsin? Maryland? Virginia?etc.

Nice, and yes all three are D1, you must know your football. 

Dang just heard O’Hara was a sophomore? Not sure if he’s even made one mistake in the game. 

Alexander I’m assuming has D1 offers? Big and hyper athletic. 

Cooper QB and Alexander are freaks I will say. Got to figure out something for that for the playoff rematch. 

27 minutes ago, Breds82 said:

Over 400 yards Offense in the first half and the refs are trying to keep it close? Any new material? 

Yeah there was a ghost PI, Cooper kid did his best LeBron James flop impression on the sideline. First half Cooper scores all came off bogus penalties. 

Refs are trying their best to get this game to be close, God bless them. 

Highlands   38

Cooper      35