The Oracle

The East Licking Mafia in the CCH front offices have proven that they don't listen to anyone's opinions and concerns or fire their own hires unless theyre told to by the bishop so realistically I think EE has zero concerns abt job security. The football roster has shrunken every year he's been in charge of the football program tho bc he's made it clear that unless you're not one of his two way starters you're not gonna see the football field at CCH. That's bled on down through the youth program where numbers have also shrunken during his time at CCH. We've continued to see the same half dozen plays run time after time with very little change even while the position talen changes every year. We've continued to see special teams flounder while the same coach is left in charge of them. We've continued to see fewer students come to football games. We've continued to watch the team play mediocre football in the first half of every important game while we wait for the EE miracle makers to adjust at the half for our next big comeback. We've had 4 state championships in 10 yrs but we haven't scored a touchdown in a state championship since 2019. Grand scheme I'm not asking for somebody to come in and give us 4 state title appearances in a decade. That'd be nice but grand scheme I'm just asking for a hfc who makes more kids actually want to play CCH football and a hfc who makes CCH students excited abt CCH football. That'd be enough for me.

Sounds like another case of the CCH don't worry about the first 2 quarters of football, we'll adjust at the half and get back at them blues.

Does next year's football reclassification give him a reprieve from the pressure to beat Highlands if they're in another class?

Was gonna wait on it but I can't help myself. If Sphire has one of these threads I think Eviston does now. How long does EE get to hang his hat on a Boyle Co upset before people notice he's not beating Highlands anymore?

Feels like I remember something being said abt CCH showing up uninspired in the 1st half then playing from their heels and having to come up with miraculous adjustments for the 2nd half.

Both.

Beechwood was more responsible for the loss but the CCH team's lack of motivation coming out of the lockerroom was a contributing factor too. Starting out flat letting BW take it straight down the field and score on them and answering with a 3 and out had them playing from their heels all night. Playing from their heels seems like a familiar story with most every EE era team that isn't '17/'18/'19. I've read all these comments about EE and his staff being some of the best in the state with making halftime adjustments. Why are they eternally having to change up their plan at the half? Why don't they come out and dominate fron the word go and then simply continue with that into the 1nd half? Aside from SK, a few games against Dixie, and their district gimme opponents, dominating from the word go is not a hallmark of CCH football teams under EE.

EE's coaching staff has worked really hard trying to keep their players from getting the yips by treating all games alike regardless of opponent or circumstance. I think that's really resulted in an inability of EE's coaching staff to get their players excited about big games. That's made for alot of trouble when CCH steps out onto a field facing a team that has players that are really hyped up and ready to roll for a big game. Just look at the BW game a couple weeks ago. Based on that I'm expecting Highlands to pull ahead early and CCH will spend the rest of the game trying unsuccessfully to catch up with a very good Highlands team. I say Birds by 3 tuddies.

St. Henry's assuredly trying to get ppl to switch Colonel to Cru. The upcoming locker room reno and improvements at CCH will probably have something to say about that tho. The add of quarter-mil golf simulators was a nice little something by the CCH athletic dept recently too. Cru athletics are playing catch up. They're a smaller school that has girls athletics to spend money on too.

I love that all these Highlands ppl are the ones talking like the experts on this matter. I always figure if you wanna know the truth about a Catholic school in Kenton county you're best off to ask somebody from a public school in Campbell county and that's where you're gonna get your most accurate answer.

There's some relative truth to this. If there's someone who has the ability to start on in multiple sports in some high school then there's a good chance they'll consider St Henry. May or may not end up going there. One thing going to CCH may well mean to students that St Henry isn't really gonna offer is the chance to play for a state championship. Does St Henry have a boys championship in anything besides cross country? CCH has competed for athletes with St Henry in like all of their sports except football from the jump so why all the sudden with the addition of football is there this huge discussion of the St Henry impact on CCH?

When you have kids watch year after year as the coach of a 4A or 5A sized program uses the same 9 or 10 kids to fill most starting spots in both directions you're bound to get a lot of kids who are gonna decide they have better things to do with their time than go out for a football team just to spend time standing on the sideline.

CCH posted this to their social media this week. Gotta wonder if they had some certain fans with an annoying impact air horn in mind when they decided it needed to be posted this specific week.

CCH's special teams are suspect season after season.

This 3rd and 15 for Highlands is huge.