mexitucky

It would be tough to not go to a warmish weather school. If I'm a TE and David Shaw is still at Stanford, with their system, location, and academics....how do you turn that down?

Running on the electric eye is an "eye opening" experience. You realize how important your start is b/c of the impact of shifting your weight has on starting the clock.

Really?

Except the format and #of participants mirrors the state tourney format from Regionals to Rupp. IMO it is more of a state championship than winning it in football is due to the participation level.

Towles Sr. year they started using their TE towards the middle of the season. Great athlete. He had quite a few TDs if I remember correctly. They would have used the kid from Houliston's year if he hadn't injured his knee again. He had something like 4 catches in the 1st half of the Trinity scrimmage and looked like one of the better players on the field.

He screams TE to me in the modern game. Flex him out for the mismatch.

W/ that cross fire action in the backfield and a boot action as well. Remember it well.

That's the gray area. It isn't the losing, per se. Many of them expected losses. It is HOW they are losing, whether giving away leads or not being competitive in running clock games. IMO, if you asked most fans, that is where the problem lies.

How fast is Coldiron? He's got the body to play a lot of different places and can flat out get up, but I was wondering where he stood in the speed department.

How many games did you actually watch the past two years compared to the previous years? You are defending in a very, almost, black/white way. There is a huge gray area here and that was the issue the past few years. I'm not a coach, or have any kids involved w/ the program. I am a Highlands parent and have a long love/hate with school growing up while NewCath was still a huge rival. Here's my observations from the outside looking in. 1. Their offense from '10-'15 hid a TON of fundamental flaws in the defensive scheme. Like the Payton Manning Colts, the Birds used their offense that averaged 50+/game to take teams away from their offensive identities and play catch-up, i.e. do a lot of things that they weren't comfortable with resulting in turnovers or 3 and outs. Highlands would then score again and the avalanche was on. The past 2 years, they haven't been able to do that. So, they have had to rely on their defense a little more, which leads me to my point of #1. I spoke about it here a lot. The 3-4 is a dumb defense if you don't have space eaters or someone like Devin Bruns and Seth Hope who win every 1-on-1 match-up at the line. 3-4 traditionally requires space eaters to take on double teams and create piles allowing ILBers to flow. Watch film. Guards were able to get onto ILBers before they could diagnose plays. Either NTs were head up, or they didn't do their jobs causing double teams well enough, b/c when both ILBs have to be your fill ILB, you are missing tackles in the middle of the field. 2. This correlates w/ #1. There was a TON of freelancing. Again, I don't know Highlands scheme, but I can't imagine that kids are taught to go under so many blocks. That goes towards what Sweep mentioned in another thread. 3. Lack of talent??? Meh. You can hide a lot of lesser talent playing both ways when you are going to put up 40+ on every single opponent. It is a very smart way to run your program. Get more kids bought in and involved. Those type of players are still there. There is a lack of top end talent. The team hasn't had not just Guiguglis or Hamblens or Scarlottos (sp?), but the All State caliber kids that weren't maybe high DI but were great high school players. Which leads me to... #4. When lacking high end talent, the whole team has to buy in. I could never know whether buy in happened or not, but I do know that they didn't get 10 or 11 guys to a tackle like every year that I've ever watched Highlands. They didn't seem to change their approach to offense or defense for far too long. #5 Identity. IMO, from a very macro view of it, this is where they miss Mueller the most. He could identify who his team was going to be in season B as SOON as season A was over and he would use the whole off season to build for that. Case in point is the jet sweep years. As an outsider, it wasn't the wins/losses that surprised me about Highlands. Everyone knew that they were going be in that 3 to 4 losses/year cycle. What is surprising is the systematic look of Highlands isn't there. They don't look like the machine that works in harmony. It looks, really, kind of unprepared and undisciplined compared to where they've been. That's just an observation from Hudl viewing. A lot of the same coaches from the previous regime are there, so they were big parts of the good times. Someone closer to the program will have to say what is going on in the day to day.

If we are discussing TEs, why wouldn't Sisson be one? He grew up playing running back, has a great frame and is an athlete.

Georgetown would be tough to turn down depending on the package offered academically. Of course, I am speaking as a lawyer.

Add in a DI TE/DE with Coldiron and I think they will figure out how to score. Losing Butler and Dyer is the biggest blow. They were 2 of CovCath’s all timers at LB.

Good. Not many guys can foot that bill

For sure.

As in 3 1/2 hours easy?

Why wouldn’t they and Beechwood just swap spots in the 2 NKY districts?

What’s the adage? Defense always travels well?

Gotcha

Did his dad play at Lloyd?

McGinnes (SP?). CovCath Schwalbach. Highlands Kelly. NewCath England. Ryle.

So, in 2A, you have the only real balance among the state semis. Other than that, Trinity home 99 out of 100 years. CovCath or Highlands home w/ Bowling Green home waaaayyyy more often than not. Johnson Central home game almost every season. Not sure about 3A. 1A, NewCath has a great chance at a home game almost every year if they make their schedule much more manageable. They have no reason to play such a tough regular season now if they will ultimately be rewarded for crushing teams with a home semi final game every season.

THE job is CovCath until Boone County builds a Catholic high school that can compete with them for athletes and academics. So, for the foreseeable future, CovCath is the best spot.

Let’s be fair. A lot of those guys have given a lot of themselves for the betterment of NewCath and NewCath football. What you got last year was a boiling point. Both sides need to take a look and reassess how some things went down. What can’t be doubted is that almost everyone had their heart in the right place. That being said, Steve, I believe would do well to make sure everyone knows that he was hired for a reason. He also would do well to keep a lot of the guys that are there. They know the school, know football, and care. You can’t ask for more from volunteers.

That is a fair point.