Oxnard

First of all, I've never been your buddy, so please do not refer to me as such, and secondly, I guess you are entitled to live on in a fantasy world. Sure we are hurt by the glitch that occurred Friday, but it was not the end all for us as obviously it would have been for you. We have accepted the momentary pause in the PENDULUM, congratulated a worthy Trinity team on their victory, and restarted the pendulum momentum in the Tiger direction.

Well, I can see that the "classy post" period has ended and the pebbles have entered the low-ball potstirring phase. This topic has no merit whatsoever. The St. X. football team laid a clunker last Friday night and lost to a deserving Trinity squad by a narrow 14-6 score. In reality, we all know that in this rivalry anything can and often does happen. In terms of the status of the St. X. football programs, we could not be happier with the performance under Coach Glaser's leadership. This is especially true over the past couple of years, where the offense has been diversified somewhat, and the Tigers "broomed" the wee-weeds at all levels during the regular season. Mike has been, and always will be, a much more caring and personable individual than Beatty, who despite the results of Friday night remains a very controversial figure in the trinity community. The future still looks much brighter in Tigertown than in the St. Matthews landfill. I'm standing pat on my hand...the real question is are you drawing ONE? :sssh:

Why do the statistical probabilities get discarded in finding the one super basketball player or the two tremendous pitchers? If I have 1400 males to chose from and you have only 800, how come you always find them and I don't? You use the statistical argument in football, but brush over it in basketball and baseball. I'm sorry, but the mathmatical logic is not there. If numbers are the major factor in winning, then probability for success should be there in every sport with increased opportunities. There must be other factors that are the true underlying reasons for our lack of success in basketball and baseball (poor coaching, lack of parental support, lack of tradition, do not work hard, lack of discipline, genetically inferior students, floride levels in the water, etc.) Isn't there a high probability that this is also true for success in football?

Somehow you seem to find 5 better basketball players or even 9 better baseball players from your 30 than we do from our 200. Looks to me that the breakoff point must be any sport that requires 10 or more for a team is total numbers dependent...h-m-m-m.

Thanks gametime! :thumb: Anyone have an attendance number for the Class AAA game?

Excellent point...has anyone got any attendance figures from today's three games? Were any anywhere close to the 21, 452 total? Did all three games combined exceed this total?

Congratulations to trinity on their victory, as the better team won on this championship night. I thought that this contest would be a nailbiter, but I also thought that it would be decided on the OL and DL. Well it was decided on the lines, and trinity clearly dominated . No team all year has been able to bottle up Vic Anderson and Mike Mattingly the way you did tonight. I was also greatly impressed by the performance of Nick Petrino, who fully deserved the MVP Award. :thumb: I also want to congratulate the Tigers on a tremendous run to the 4A final. We are still proud of you! :thumb:

Just returned from the St. Francis Xavier feast day mass at St. X., and the Tiger team and student body is ready for this game. It will be a much closer result than the September game, especially with the beefier pebble OL also playing DL, and the pebble offense running a lot of screens and draws to negate the St. X. defensive pressure. In the end, however, the better TEAM will emerge as the victor (as maybe in Anderson )...Saint Xavier 2005 Class 4A State Champs...Tigers 31 - pebbles 21. :ylsuper: :fight: GET'EM TIGERS!! :fight: :ylsuper:

Truer words were never spoken...such are the mysteries of life.

Congratulations to all the players named by AP to this team. Nonetheless, it boggles my mind that Doug Beaumont, RB/WR/DB/LB for Male, does not even make the honorable mention list. What an oversite!

In a discussion at St. X. this morning, I found out that despite the size of the crowd expected for the X/t game, KHSAA was initially alloting only 2,000 pre-game tickets to each school participating to not show bias to anyone. Once these were sold additional ones could be obtained by request from KHSAA. Further relief from long lines at the game was granted, when a request was approved to open the windows at 6:00 instead of 6:30 P.M. tomorrow night. At least that will provide an an additional 30 minutes to get the tickets before kickoff. GO TIGERS!!

H, I don't think you had much chance of being invited to the Rotary Bowl in 1956 and 1957, since Male's record was 6-4-1 and 4-2-3 respectively. Something other than the Turkey Day Rivalry precluded your absence. :sssh:

When X and t hit the field against each other, one team could be 10-0 and the other 0-10, there still would be no certain victor....such is the history of our series. I will lay claim to 2005 only if and when we win.

Saint Xavier Newport Central Catholic TB- 117

Saint Xavier Lexington Catholic Owensboro Catholic Newport Central Catholic TB-65

It seemed like a portion of the scheduled 45 minutes was initially lost with continued coverage concerning U of L. With all the commercials, and the feature interviews with Coaches Glaser and Beatty, there was very little time allocated for call-in questions. I can only remember two or three that were actually broadcast. Jody did an excellent job responding to the few which made the air waves.

I believe tigershark's remark is directed towards the stupidity of the Henry Clay staff in not exercising any discipline in the control of their team, which only served to heighten the intensity of the pebble power. At that point last Friday, the landfill became a graveyard for the Blue Devils, as the incited wee-weeds proceeded to kick tail (so YES, trinity DID have something to do with it). By the way pebbles, there will be X's (not t's) on the Pizza Box turf Friday night at the designated kickoff points, so be sure that you remind your players NOT to stomp on them in the pre-game warmups. :lol: :fight: :lol:

Have you been charged yet with "aiding the enemy"? :lol:

Don't forget to add Will Simmons to that backfield as well. :thumb:

Since the current KHSAA playoff format was adopted in 1959, Saint Xavier has won eleven state football titles (1962, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2004). Prior to this time we also lay claim to two additional titles in 1956 and 1957. In these years there was a one-game playoff (ala BCS) between the top two ranked teams in the state in a post-season game called the Rotary Bowl. In 1956, St. X. defeated Newport 52-7 for the title and in 1957 the Tigers defeated Corbin 47-0 for the title. Although this was not as good of a system as that instituted in 1959, it was a system that awarded the title based on a head-to-head post-season game, so it was real and not mythical. If the NCAA began playoffs in Division 1A this season, would all the national titles awarded in prior years be discarded? I think not. I had posted lot of this information, with a lot more detail, in a thread about National Ranking last night. However, when I checked BGP this morning, I noted that the entire thread had for some reason been deleted.

:ylsuper: DING!! After all this time, we finally have the correct answer...Thanks titletownclown! It sure took you long enough to verbalize that which was obvious to many of us...plus tradition,discipline, and hard work. :ylsuper: :dancingpa :dancingpa :dancingpa

Sounds good to me...will you volunteer to pay the shipping charges, TA? :lol:

Can someone from John Hardin clarify this? Is Pete W's analogy correct? :confused:

Hope to see you there, Pep...it should be a great game between two excellent teams. :thumb:

I know that I am looking forward to next year's Raffertys' Bowl as long as we get to play the early game. I definitely enjoyed last Friday's trip to Bowling Green for the Warren Central game. Actually, next year's St. X. team should be even better than this one. I know BG will have Hibbitt back, but do they lose much to graduation? Good luck to the Purples in the 3A final...they'll definitely have their hands full with an outstanding Lexington Catholic squad. :thumb: