The Oracle

Lol, these HC announcers are something else. Everything CCH does is apparently a foul, and nothing HC gets called for should have been a foul. Then even after CCH gets called for a foul, they're complaining that the foul wasn't called by the right ref.

Joe Wynn is a good young coach.

We do it just because it rubs the Tiger fans the wrong way.

No. 1 was Eddie James and No. 2 was Bob Sphire. Not sure where everything fell into place after that. Lickert maybe? Barth?

It's the Pike County Bowl hosted in Pike County so a neutral site would be defeating the purpose. Pretty sure we signed up for 2yrs of it. Being able to sit on a bus for hours and then show up and immediately regain focus to win a tough game is a very good talent to have and something we generally don't work on developing. Our inability to do that sure didn't help us when we tried to beat Johnson Central in the playoffs during the Wirth years.

Part of the Pike County bowl. CCH played Belfry last year in the '21 edition.

Assuming CCH will have Starks back tonight after sitting two games for his two T's against Holy Cross? CCH did awfully well against Trinity and Fairdale considering they were missing the guy who pulled down about 50 rebs in the first 6 games of the season.

Colonel fans, Colonel fans, Kernel fans! If we were up 2 tds on the Birds and had the ball with 90 secs left there's no way we wouldn't be going for the end zone and we'd all be loving it! And our memories are so short, aren't they? We're complaining for a coach going for a 3 td advantage late in a playoff game when we've apparently all forgotten about that 2017 football season when CCH tried to and succeeded in putting a running clock on every team they played. "We in here talkin bout practice?"

Well, how perfectly bitter of you.

Right. So someone makes a fool out of me, there's no reason for me to be frustrated with the person making me look a fool. I should be frustrated with myself for being made a fool of. Most folks associated with the Beechies have made it clear that they're not embarrassed.

It's embarrassing when an adult does something to embarrass kids. So if Rash came out and says he stomped NCC to boost his own ego and you say "who cares" I guess the answer should be "anyone who cares about good sportsmanship should care."

How normal is it for a HS program to have a head coach who isn't a coordinator? I think BW did that for a season or two but as best as I can remember that's the first I've known of a head coach to do that, at least around NKY. I know Coach Sphire's son is young and I only watched Highlands in the two games against CCH, but I felt like their offensive plan was very ho-hum in both games. He also apparently had a heck of a tough time settling on a QB, which I realize was also an issue for CCH this year. But in the case of Highlands, when you're struggling to identify key players on offense when "the talent is there" to quote every HHS poster on BGP, and you're also failing to win 2 out of 3 regular season games and then exiting the playoffs in the first round, that would make me take some pause to question whether or not Sphire's son has the current qualifications needed to hold his job. If Highlands offense has a repeat year like this next year and I'm a Highlands fan, I've got a football sized nepotism knot in my stomach about having hired the Coaches Sphire.

So Newport, who lost by 29 to NCC, dressed fewer than 20 players this week against Beechwood, but Beechwood didn't manage to accidentally score like 60 points on them in a single half of football like they did last week against NCC? Got it.

#2march?

#5november

Of course you won't reveal anything. I'm just entertained that you know so much more about what CCH people think than, ya know, CCH people. You can say NKY has a problem all you want when in reality it's a personal problem a small handful of coaches share. Let's name some names too. Cooper, Highlands, Campbell County, Newport and Scott all decided to take the ball and go home. Newport, Scott and Campbell allegedly started it last year, although I've heard a couple of times that at least one of those games was axed from the schedule because of COVID. Ee still ended up with a fine schedule. Ruthsatz wasn't looking to schedule Ryle, Boone, Ludlow, Bellevue, Dayton, Walton, Lloyd, Villa or Brossart this season. Dixie, St Henry, Conner, NCC all ended up scheduling non district games with CCH for this year. I'm good with that. I'm disappointed not to see Cooper and Highlands on the schedule this year just because Cooper was a challenge for a good stretch of years and Highlands is always a big rivalry game that the kids in the schools looked forward to. Those are a loss. CCH beat Highlands 3 times in '92 and mysteriously Highlands didn't want a regular season game in '93. They picked the game back up when Listerman was a junior at CCH because it was a good rivalry game. Liisterman got to enjoy that rivalry as a player. I guess he didn't want to offer that same opportunity to his own players because, you know, it's not fair for out of state kids to play for CCH even though his out of state niece is playing at his school. Good luck to Highlands with their schedule this year. It doesn't look bad at all. See you in the 9th Region tourney. Bring your elephant tusk.

Much like it was in the Dale Mueller era of football? How do you figure? CCH has played Highlands in football every single year for like 50 years. And the basketball teams played each other during the regular season every year Dale was coaching football. We weren't whining about having to play football against Highlands during the regular season. Or does your Fort Thomas intel state otherwise?

He wasn't bothered, Double-Duece, Northern Kentucky was bothered.

Wait a minute, so you are a CCH fan? I couldn't help but notice that you voted for Conner to win last week. And you've done nothing but rag on Coach Eviston all season long. You had me fooled.

So wait, Listerman wouldn't schedule Cov Cath because, even though his team won the 9th last year and is the defending state champion, he's too butt-hurt about Cov Cath playing athletes from the other side of the river to possibly consider scheduling his players' biggest rival during their regular season. BUT then he turns around and schedules his team to play a literal prep school in the Queen City Classic? That logic is a whole lot of fun.

News flash: Blue Kernels complained about CCH. Color me shocked.

Look just to the left of the center door frame. That, my friend, is an elephant tusk.

Could you let me sulk for a little bit here?

I guess that's true. But we sure tried hard to. The Colonels didn't care to play football tonight.

Can you count that as a win for CCH?