The Oracle

Gored by the tusk.

Hate it.

38 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Lol, way back when, Cov Cath's Wikipedia page said that unbeknownst to most people outside of NKY, Wooton field was built in top of an active volcano, and the Cov Cath vs. Highlands games got dicey some years because of the over-active volcano season in Park Hills.

I remember that. That was back in the days of Little Mikey Clines' overly-competent principalship.

So competent that the administration never bothered to update, check, or take any ownership of managing their Wikipedia page.

On 10/12/2022 at 4:47 PM, Male Dueller said:

I have talked to several people and the kids really want to play in this game.

Have they not wanted to in the past?

Will we have an elephant tusk sighting in Park Hills on Friday?

On 10/9/2022 at 10:06 AM, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

I don't think there's any chance we see Rodriguez until the playoffs, at best. He broke his elbow in the Cooper game. 

On 10/10/2022 at 4:34 PM, Bluesport said:

He had quite a weekend when they played Beechwood: he showed he is clearly CCH's biggest gamechanger in that game and had the Notre Dame visit the next day, but he is now done for the season.

On 10/10/2022 at 4:56 PM, El Diablo said:

Dang hate to hear that. Thought someone said he could be back in the post season?

On 10/10/2022 at 5:50 PM, Bluesport said:

Small chance at best-we are preparing like we won’t see him again until next August.

Heard 6-8 weeks from the surgery. That's round 2 of playoffs at best.

Our offense and defense both would be looking much different this week with Willie in the game. Is Seth Jones back in pads? The original post mentioned 8 CCH players out with injuries against Boone.

Heard we're going to see a lot of ball toting by players not named Owen Leen.

On 9/19/2022 at 5:56 AM, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

I'm curious to see if Coach Burke decides to start playing a few players both ways - especially after the way the game against Cov Cath went. I think there's a decent chance that the disparity between Dixie's offensive line and defensive line may have been brought to the forefront a little bit in that game.

Part of me also wonders how much of a fit Dixie's "hurry up and go" style of offense ends up causing for their own offensive line as it does for the defenses they face. Sure, snapping the ball within 10 seconds of the previous tackle being made will keep the defense on its heels, but if the defense does manage to get set in a scheme that the O-line isn't expecting to see, it sure doesn't give the offense much time to get adjusted.

I think Highlands' defense is going to struggle early against Dixie's offense if Dixie comes out rocking their no-huddle hurry up look. But then I also think the way I saw Dixie's defense struggle against a diverse offense like Cov Cath's with multiple skills players, Dixie is going to struggle if Highlands has Benke, Noon, Hosea, Giesler, and Class putting it together against them on offense.

In my estimation, this one should be pretty close through at least one, maybe two quarters...but then I expect to see Highlands pull away in the second half. I won't go so far as to say that I don't think Dixie has a chance in the game, because I think they do, but I figure Highlands will win this by at least a couple of touchdowns.

Hopefully the coaching staffs keep their cool at the end of this one.

Who are you rooting for in this one Colonels Wear Bleu?

Subquestion, a Bluebird a Red Colonel and a Tiger are in a three-way standoff. Who do you want to win?

CCH by a bunch. Calpreps projects this at 41-6. It'll be closer than that but not by too much. CCH will score something in the neighborhood of 41 but Cooper will score something like 14 or 17.

34 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Cov Cath rolls up 342 yards of offense on Beechwood, to Beechwood's 117 yards of offense.

I'll wait to see Beechwood's confirmation on the stat, but I was told Beechwood only rushed for 18 yards.

I am thoroughly entertaining by how confident so many Beechwood fans were prior to the game, and now they keep mentioning names of injured players.

3 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Looks like it, from the PrepSpin countdown. It's been listed in the KHSAA Scoreboard for 7:00 since the schedule came out, and I checked again this morning. One of the Colonel Athletic Network guys had a tweet about an hour ago that showed a 7pm kick, so who knows what happened with that. 🤷‍♂️

Sounds like the line of communication is a well oiled machine.

2 minutes ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Looks like it's on the YouTube channel after all.

 

7:30 kickoff?

1 hour ago, CCHFC said:

- With a positive spin, beating a really good small school in their own stadium after a long bus ride is no doubt a good win. With a negative spin, having a close game with a 1A school that couldn’t throw the ball at all (even though the QB was a real nice athlete) is concerning.

- I think we are going to be in a lot of one possession games this year, probably against Lex Cath, Ryle, Cooper, Highlands and maybe Beechwood. We can’t have 2 bad special teams plays (getting a punt blocked and roughing their punter). Even though that was offset by Braylon Miller taking a punt back for 6.

- Miller is a nice player, not a crazy athlete, but I think he’s really technically sound in coverage and dynamic as a returner. 

- I thought Evan Pitzer played well. His ability to create off schedule and use his legs was a big difference, especially in the first half. We are going to need to have him keep improving to beat some of the better teams on the schedule later on. On the stream, I couldn’t tell if he was holding on to the ball too long or if the OL struggled in pass pro, I’m leaning towards the OL struggling. We have to get it cleaned up or use more max protection since we aren’t yet able to generate explosive plays within the flow of the offense. 

How many of the linemen are practicing playing both ways? I haven't paid that much attention to it this year.

As a 5A school, CCH should have players enough to have dedicated offensive linemen who practice fulltime on offense and a separate squad of dedicated defensive linemen who practice fulltime on defense. I think the attempts we see at arm tackling on defense and the confusion on the o-line when the defense brings a war party blitzing will clean itself up a lot if we had fewer players going both ways.

On 8/20/2022 at 1:36 PM, Finkle Ray said:

Hearing Dixie was short a linebacker in this game. Apparently CovCath is fighting the transfer of a kid from them to Dixie. I hope they get that resolved soon the kid is a senior. Drama between the red/blue colonels.

On 8/20/2022 at 2:14 PM, Voice of Reason said:

 With that player a senior, I hope Cov Cath let's him go.  Based on how they handled a similar situation last year, they won't let the player play for them this year anyway.

On 8/20/2022 at 5:09 PM, Builder1214 said:

There is no ‘fighting a transfer’. The kid either played varsity or he didn’t. If he played varsity, he is ineligible for one calendar year from that date unless they meet certain criteria like change of address. 

On 8/20/2022 at 5:39 PM, Finkle Ray said:

The address of the player wouldn't be an issue in this circumstance. So the one year rule would make more sense if you are correct there isn't anything in motion to prevent the kid from suiting up.

On 8/20/2022 at 7:09 PM, SerennaF said:

He had an address change, CCH deemed him Athletically motivated and he got ruled ineligible. Our hearing isn’t until 9/12.

On 8/20/2022 at 8:28 PM, nees1212 said:

So petty. And I’m guessing this is the AD making this call and not Eviston.

21 hours ago, SerennaF said:

At this point I’m not sure but I’m not counting it out that the coach had nothing to do with it. 

20 hours ago, MaddenCurse44 said:

CovCath won't let him leave but have no problem with letting Ohio kids play for them.

20 hours ago, SerennaF said:

Unfortunately you are correct.

Peighton Finck played 2 varsity games at Cov Cath in 2021, per the KHSAA stats. Looks like the last time he was in was against Boone County on October 1st. He was playing middle school football at Turkeyfoot prior to starting at CCH, so it would seem that he was at least living in Dixie school district territory immediatelt prior to his time at CCH. I don't know where he may or may not have lived in the last three years, but still, seems to me he more than likely won't be eligible to play at Dixie until October 1st.

1 minute ago, theguru said:

They haven't played any district games yet so I don't want to get ahead of myself here.

True.

But yeah, number one by overall record but not by district record.

2 minutes ago, Killowatt59 said:

Is this the first or second year for this Highlands coach?

Third.

When Sphire was hired, you'd have thought the Birds hired Bill Belichick, the way people went on in Ft. Thomas. Things seem to have gone slightly differently than anticipated.

3 minutes ago, theguru said:

With CovCath and Cooper taking it on the chin last night the "big stick" might help in district. Ugh..

Boone is gonna come away from week 1 as the number one team in the district. Wonder when the last time was that Boone was top in their district.

Checking in on Beechie Tech. Just getting started in this one, right?

Bring out the elephant trunk! That oughta really inspire the Birds to win this one!

6 hours ago, Jack of all Trades said:

So are you saying there was some “drama” surrounding this kid?

I guess that depends on your definition of drama. If making a grandiose performance of "I think I want to quit the basketball team" and "I wanna go to a different school" every semester and fighting for attention at every turn fits into your definition of drama, then yes that's what I'm saying.

On 4/4/2022 at 9:01 PM, TheConch said:

If your Coach E comment was about wanting Starks to play football, you are correct. I meant to add in there “take a break, and come back and join us after the weekend.” It was not Eddie turned him away.

You have a very unique take on the way this went down.

Good luck to Chandler. Hopefully he focuses on just playing solid football at Anderson and leaves the backstage dramatics behind.

Some coaches are less inclined to want that in their locker room.

45 minutes ago, StraightShooter said:

Sully is a fantastic coach and proved it again. Great effort by the Jags. Congrats to CovCath on a survive and advance win.

"Survive"? I don't know if that even qualifies as a back handed compliment or if it's just an outright jab.

CCH won by 12 points. Cooper's only point (singlular) in the 4th quarter was a free throw. That sounds like some very competent "surviving" by CCH if you ask me.

I could go on about my thoughts about how fantastic a coach Sully is in relation to his ducking CCH in their basketball schedule and what kind of lesson that teaches his players, but I won't.

2 minutes ago, The Oracle said:

Now they're defending an intentional foul by a HC player because CCH has their starters in still.

Yeah, they definitely are in favor of their players going for intentional fouls. Nice.

Just now, The Oracle said:

HC announcers are unhappy that CCH has their starters in now. It's postseason.

Now they're defending an intentional foul by a HC player because CCH has their starters in still.