All Play No Work

I think you hit on it exactly. In order to win district games and even the non-district games in NKY the NKY 6A teams try to out-man the other team and run it down their throat. That works if you want to win the district, but doesn't do any good once you get deep in the playoffs. What I would hope would happen is that they (NKY 6A coaches) would realize it really doesn't matter if you win a lot of district games anymore because nearly everyone makes the playoffs. And you don't have to travel for district playoff games anymore. Therefore throw the ball, open it up, become balanced. You see it works well for the other classes in NKY. Just do it. You are never going to beat T, X, Male, and about 3 other teams in any given year by being one-dimensional.

I always say a team's losses show a lot. Beechwood lost to 5A CovCath 14-7 and mis-managed clock and time-outs at the end of the game when on the goaline. Plus it was a rare special night game at CovCath for Senior night. Beechwood lost to 2A NewCath 41-28 in a game that they had to come from behind a couple of times. Trailed 17-7 and 31-14 before closing to 31-28 and then turning it over a couple of times in the last 3 minutes to lose 41-28. That game was at Beechwood and it was also their Senior night. Frankfort lost 24-13 to 4A Franklin Co who finished 9-3 at Frankfort. Frankfort lost to 37-13 to 6A North Hardin who finished 3-8 and that game was also at Frankfort. Can anyone provide details on these games?

It is the same problem Vickers had for awhile at the beginning of last year. When you spread the field and do not have any lead blockers it is hard for 5 offensive lineman to block 7 or more defenders. The wideouts do block well but if you can't get beyond the line it doesn't matter. It is part of the price for using so many wideouts and running out of the shotgun with no fullback and no tight end. Last year after the terrible effort on offense against Holy Cross, NCC finally decided to run the ball out of a running formation against Bellevue and Vickers had something silly like 219 yards on 9 carries. Plus NCC is committed to not playing people two ways for the most part. I think they could pound the ball if they wanted to by having DL Keating and Wedding go both ways and play OL.

Got to remember when you increase the number of classes you increase the number of crews working this deep in the playoffs. There were 24 regional games this year versus 16 last year. And there will be 12 semis next week versus 8 last year. Plus maybe we get spoiled by the efficiency of NKY refs all year.

Desales Roster # Player Position Height Weight Year 1 Marcos Morales K, P 5-7 155 FR 4 Jordan Schackert RB, DB 6-0 161 SR 7 Chris Tassin WR, DB 6-0 172 SR 8 Jeffery Poole WR, DB 5-2 100 FR 10 Patrick Savage QB, DB 6-0 186 JR 11 Ryan Johnson QB, DB 5-11 152 Soph 12 Luke Renfro TE, DE 6-1 204 SR 14 Andrew Beeler RB, LB 5-9 168 Soph 16 D'andre Romine RB, DB 5-10 152 JR 19 Kyle Perry RB, DB 5-6 150 Soph 20 Tyler Jett RB, DB 5-8 158 Soph 21 Jim Hudson WR, DB 5-11 159 JR 22 Robbie Odle QB 5-4 130 FR 24 Nick Boner RB, DB 5-6 132 JR 25 Cody Cutsinger RB, LB 6-1 189 SR 28 Trevor Dziedzic WR, DB 5-11 144 JR 29 Pete Cepeda RB, DB 5-8 147 SR 30 Zachary Taylor WR, DB 6-0 142 Soph 31 Erik Hall RB, LB 5-11 161 Soph 32 Nick Roush TE, DE 6-5 198 Soph 33 Garrit Leicht RB, LB 5-10 175 FR 34 Nick Bohn RB, DB 6-0 158 JR 35 Adonis Gentry WR, DB 5-7 110 Soph 36 Dylan Ballard WR, DB 5-3 128 FR 38 Nick Longino RB, LB 5-7 161 Soph 40 Myles Poole RB, LB 5-7 183 SR 41 Doug Crawford WR, DB 6-1 141 JR 42 Jeffery Ward FB, DE 5-9 155 FR 44 Zack Jones RB, DT 5-8 206 SR 45 Jeremy Lucas RB, DB 5-10 165 FR 46 Grant Reinhardt RB, LB 5-11 185 JR 48 Dominique Boyd TE, DE 6-0 198 Soph 50 Kenny Tinsley OL, DL 5-11 184 Soph 51 Nathen Riley OL, DL 5-9 236 Soph 52 Andrew Weigel OL, DL 6-0 238 FR 53 Aaron Dauenhauer OL, DL 5-9 203 Soph 54 Cameron Robinson OL, DL 5-9 222 Soph 55 Curtis Wentworth OL, DL 5-9 207 SR 56 Dylan Zinsmeister OL, DL 5-9 150 FR 57 Travis Brown OL, LB 6-0 200 JR 58 Zach Dziedzic OL, LB 5-10 183 FR 59 Michael Ray OL, DL 6-2 308 Soph 60 Spencer Reed OL, DL 6-1 244 Soph 61 Joey Stengel OL, DL 5-7 152 FR 62 Jake Taylor OL, DL 6-0 222 FR 63 Michael Masden OL, DL 6-2 293 JR 64 Alex McAuliffe OL, DL 5-10 160 FR 67 Michael Booth OL, DL 6-0 218 JR 68 Shain Abney OL, DL 6-1 240 Soph 69 Greg Sidebottom OL, DL 5-7 157 FR 70 Dustin Pedigo OL, DL 5-7 200 Soph 71 John French OL, LB 6-1 200 SR 72 Demetrius Davis RB, LB 5-10 165 FR 73 Tyler Drye OL, DL 5-11 276 Soph 74 Devon Boze TE, DE 6-0 219 SR 75 Andrew Sanders OL, DL 5-10 181 Soph 76 Josh Gentry OL, DL 5-6 198 Soph 77 Ronnie Booth OL, DL 6-2 210 FR 78 Justin Powell OL, DL 6-3 328 JR 79 Zach Tanzilla OL, DL 5-10 285 JR 80 Alex Davis WR, DB 5-10 130 Soph 81 Luke Simmons TE, DB 6-0 174 Soph 82 Luke Price TE, DE 5-11 182 Soph 86 Ryan Blackwell LS 6-0 195 FR 87 Nick Tassin RB, DB 5-10 157 FR Stat leaders: Team Total Statistcs (Season-to-Date) Points Scored 336 Points Allowed 251 Total Rushing Yards 2896 Total Rushing Yards Allowed 1760 Total Passing Yards 839 Total Passing Yards Allowed 1686 Rushing #40 Poole, Myles 12 games 91 attempts 568 yards 6 TDs #14 Beeler, Andrew 12 games 80 attempts 486 yards 3 TDs #34 Bohn, Nick 12 games 54 attempts 328 yards 5 TDs Passing Leaders #11 Johnson, Ryan 12 games 130 attempts 64 completions 6 INTs 839 yards 10 TDs Receiving Leaders #12 Renfro, Luke 12 games 24 catches 339 yards 5 TDs #7 Tassin, Chris 12 games 9 catches 100 yards 1 TD #40 Poole, Myles 12 games 6 catches 66 yards 2 TDs Scoring Leaders

Actually the calls resulted in some good comedy: 1. On the NCC pass that was dropped the refs never blew the whistle or gave a incomplete signal and the ball just laid on the turf about 3 yards from the Corbin sidelines. The Corbin sideline was yelling at their players to pick the ball up, and their players were like "Huh?" 2. On the dropped NCC screen pass that was about 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage but one official called illegal downfield, the refs all huddle together and one points to spot were the pass was thrown which was clearly behind the line. The white hat looks at the spot, looks at the LOS marker on the sideline, and just when you expect him to waive it off, calls it illegal downfield which Corbin declined. 3. On the late hit out of bounds I think they did mark it off but strangely they marked it from the spot of the first of two flags and not where the runner ended up going out of bounds. Two flags were thrown about 12 yards apart. One about where the QB went out and was hit late and the other back about 12 yards. The signal was for a personal foul but they marked it off from the first flag after huddling about it. Then they stopped the game again just before the next snap and moved the ball forward another yard. Very bizzare. 4. And on a side note but this crew considers time outs and between quarters to be a minimum of like 5 minutes. Maybe it was just the cold, but I think the NFL has shorter time outs than this crew.

I think the following: 0 there is a 20% chance 1 there is a 43% chance 2 thers is a 20% chance 3 there is a 15% chance 4 there is a 2% chance

If you saw Owensboro shut down Boone County you might not believe that so strongly. And there is a pretty good chance Owensboro might not even be good enough to make the final.

Why isn't 0 a possibility? Beechwood has a tough way to go with Frankfort and then LCA/Hazard winner. NewCath has to go on the road to Desales and Fort Campbell looks very good. Highlands has another game and if they win the BG/Owensboro winner will be very tough. Boone County is in deep with Trinity.

Congrats to Beechwood on winning the Region. And next week should be a dandy. Red and White Tigers need to win and get to the Pizza Box!!! Got any stats? Beechies run or pass for the yardage?

Well, well you kind of got the feeling it was going to be "one of those bad nights" for the Breds when they stopped Corbin cold on the first series and then proceeded to rough the kicker on a punt that went maybe 15 yards. And its not like they almost blocked it. The first guy there actually held up and did not hit the punter but 2 or 3 others did. Corbin would take advantage of that and another personal foul and smash the ball in for a 7-0 lead. NCC would counter to make it 7-7 and one would think maybe things would settle down. But NCC continue to play awful and Corbin continued to play smart and took a 10-7 lead. Then add in all the high snaps that mess up all the blocking schemes. And then snap one so far over the QB's head it is almost physically impossible. And then try the Breds tried to pick it up instead of falling on it. Corbin once again took advantage of a blown coverage and scored to lead 16-7. You know it was a bad half for the Breds when they only put up 7 points and did not have to punt until 40 seconds were left in the half. Second half Breds played better and Corbin made a big mistake jumping offsides on a NewCath 4th and 2 from the 7 giving the Breds a first down. Breds really had to work for the TD and on 4th down finally cut the lead to 16-14. Uncle MO showed up on the Breds side and they would score again to on a long run to take a 21-16 lead. Still Corbin hung tough on offense and defense and had every chance to take the lead on another blown coverage but the receiver could not hang on to the ball. Finally faced with 1st and 10 from their own 2 with just under 3 minutes to go, the Corbin offense could not get anything going against an inspired NCC defense and the Breds did not allow a yard taking over on the Corbin 2. NCC would punch it in on 3rd down to take a 28-16 lead with 2 minutes to go. Overall these teams are pretty equal and NCC was fortunate to not get buried in the first half when they played so horribly and Corbin played so solid. Corbin has some athletes that stick pretty darn well. And the QB throws a nice ball and actually was a lot more mobile than what was expected. Plus Corbin was every bit as good on special teams. NewCath has made a lot of mistakes since playing pretty well against quality teams Campbell Co and Beechwood to close the regular season. Just have not been that sharp since then on offense and the defense has played well enough for them to win.

Don't think he was implying that. She will play and play a lot this year, and then next year it will be difficult to not have her on the floor 100% of the time.

The NewCath vs Beechwood regular season game from 2006 is on now. Strange game in that NewCath just dominated the LOS in the first half on offense while running the ball down Beechwood's throat. Then in second half Beechwood flat out shut down the NCC rushing game and came back to win. Never saw such extremes in two halves.

There are more games on today from 12:30 to 6:30.

Who needs a rifle for the deer? If you just open your car door and call them 4 or 5 will hop in your car. The other 10 will just continue eating every plant in your yard.

More prep sports programmimg on ICN-6 is a good thing. Probably only done because the other ICN-6 shows weren't being produced because of the holiday. I'd rather watch Sports Page, Charlie Coleman's NKY Sports Legends, or NKU Sports or the Color Bars than some of the stuff on ICN-6. BTW if you have digital cable you can watch every high school Football game and Basketball game and every highlights show ICN-6 has done from 2007 on demand for free.

Dress warmly. Light dusting of snow on the grass and cars this morning. Roads should be fine. High is the upper 30s today. Gametime should be in the mid 30s.

Realizing of course that the goal of a school system should be the best education and not winning football championships.............but if you really want to break the X and T domination have the public school systems quit building new schools in areas were growth has occurred. In NKY a new school will be opened next year in Boone County because the current schools (Ryle, Boone, Conner) are all over 1600-1700 students. Now if left alone those all would easily surpass 2000 in a couple of years and become nearly as large as X and T within 5 years. But thankfully there are resources to build a new school and the correct decisions were made.

Well that is interesting. Not sure how much it matters but 10 of NewCath 12 games were on turf. Obviously the NewCath home games this year were all on turf as well as the Beechwood, CovCath, and Simon Kenton games. Plus the playoff games were on turf. Plus both scrimmage games come to think of it. Actually the only time NewCath played on grass this year was at Ryle and at Lloyd.

I meant after this year.:sssh::scared::irked:

Good points as the weather dicated a more cautious approach in that Belfry/Lloyd match-up. I would conceed that led to less scoring than if played in normal conditions. And I agree that this one is a close one either way too. Would like to see more long distance games among the better teams in all classes at the beginning of the year since there are fewer district games.

That Belfry team was a obviously a very good one as noted by the state title and actually I was surprised they did not win by more against Lloyd because I thought they were a much better team. That Lloyd team was not a good team NKY-wise as they lost to Dixie by 31, to NCC by 29, and to Beechwood by 27 that year.

What is Corbin's experience on turf fields in the last couple of years? How many games? Results?

The only scoring threat graduated so they will have a tough time on offense. Defense plays hard but isn't big enough to stop things inside. Scappy team that will be right there in Division III and struggle outside of that.

Aren't the number of Trinity championships the same as Highlands?