All Play No Work

Best games to see in NKY this week IMO: 1. Dayton/Bellevue 2. Ryle/Simon Kenton 3. Dixie/CovCath 4. Lloyd/ Holy Cross

St. Joes 8th grade should win the Campbell Co Parochial league this year. They played "up" last year as 7th graders and held their own.

What's the point of a horse standing around doing nothing? Even the mascot horse walks amoung the cheerleaders. Just watched the first NCC/Newport game again and both teams did not play well. Hopefully this one is a lot better.

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071106/SPT0402/711060327/1026/NEWS02 Guess we all had predicted Farris as the rushing leader, although at nearly double the next runner, that was probably beyond what most thought the margin would be. Probably no one had Kues as the leading passer. Lots of good receivers this year in NKY. Boone as the leading offenseive yardage team not a surprise and NCC always has a good defense.

Are you saying Bellevue can't defend against the pass?

"And then this one time at Referee camp...................

Classic.:lol:

I don't know all the particulars in this case. But from what I've observed around the area lately it seems that the "desired" make-up of a Varsity team is generally 4 Seniors, 4 Juniors who can all contribute and 2 Sophs that are potential stars. Then on JV it is usually the the 2 Sophs from Varsity, another 4 Sophs and 4 Frosh. Then on the Frosh team it is 6-8 Frosh and maybe some 8th graders. Then the next year it repeats. The 4 Juniors become the 4 Seniors, the 6 Sophs are cut down to 4 Juniors, the best 2 Frosh are Sophs that play Varsity and JV, and the most of the Frosh that became Sophs are cut.

I don't know some horses would be okay, some wouldn't. If it is a true t-bred racehorse they are kind of high-strung unless it is some old 4000 gelded claimer from River Downs. What if it gets loose? You going to be able to gather the reins up with 2000 people yelling?

You personally would have to bring a pooper-scooper because of the turf.

Newport has made the change at QB and is playing better on offense and that has helped the defense. The first game was sort of strange. I don't think NCC played very well except for about a 10 minute stretch in the second quarter when Newport fell apart. Other than that neither team did much and the second half was quite frankly very boring.

How strange is it that Colerain's QB was declared out for the season just after it was decided that Moeller would be playing Sycamore instead of Colerain? If you are Northmont you thinking wow and then you get smacked anyway.

Interesting. I assume the "seniors cannot be cut" rule means "Seniors who have been playing in the program for the last three year" cannot be cut. That part is actually a good rule. No sense cutting a Senior for a Soph that may have more potential. Good to see a coach reward a player for working hard for 3 years. As for no Juniors on JV I'm going to assume that means lots of Juniors are going to get the ax if they can't contribute quality varsity minutes. And that's not a good rule.

It's kind of a home game for NewCath even though it is at Newport's field.

Blue Colonels travel along the Dixie Highway to rumble with the Red Colonels behind the KFC and Taco Bell. Both teams have shown stretches of greatness lately. Can CovCath put enough points to beat Dixie? Is Dixie peaking at the right time? Who wins?

Newport "travels" to their Home field and their own locker room to take on the "home-standing" Breds who will arrive on a bus dressed for the game. Bizarre, but what the heck it is a nice field. So Newport has played a lot better lately with close losses to decent teams. NewCath turning it up with wins over Campbell Co. and Beechwood. Let down possible? Can Newport score on the Breds D? Is Newport's improving D able to stop the herd of T-breds? Who wins?

Juggs take on Holy Cross in round 1. Juggs can score but Holy Cross doesn't give up much. Low scoring game? Who wins?

Two legged Camels visit Boone Co for a dose of Farris and Company. Can the Camel new found passing game overcome the high powered Boone County offense? Who wins?

I think it is something like 192 out of 216 make it which would be 88%. There are 32 teams in the playoffs in each class. I think Class AA for example only has 33 teams. So 97% make it.

Cin St. X 42 Cin Elder 14 (Ashley over 200 yards) Cin Moeller 35 Sycamore 28 (Moeller down 21-0, scores game winner with 17 seconds left) Cin Colerain 35 Northmont 0 Colerain takes on Moeller next Saturday afternoon at PBS. St. X takes on Centerville nest Saturday afternoon ar PBS.

Bellevue: I actually thought Bellevue did not play well against Lloyd and was fortunate to get the 14 points off of two long fumble returns and still gave up 36. Played decent for a quarter against Beechwood and then mistakes dommed them. Played better at Gallatin as I thought they would because they play well when they can run it. Dayton: Injury-bug bites hard at Carroll Co. and Dayton is not deep in numbers. Big concern there. Toughed out a win over a Newport team that can hang around on teams and truthfully Dayton handled them slightly better than Holy Cross or Simon Kenton did lately. So who wins???? I think this will be a low scoring game. Both teams need to be conservative somewhat because turnovers will absolutely be huge in this one. Bellevue needs to basically man-up and run the ball. Forget the pass. Run it three times and if Dayton can stop you punt it. Do that and not let Dayton have any short fields and they can win this one. Dayton needs to move the ball through the air and ground. They are going to need some of the playmakers to step up for the injured players and do more. At some point they are going to have to force turnovers if Bellevue tries anything thru the air. Kicking game (and lack of kicking game for these two teams) may decide the outcome. The one tangible that Dayton does have is the home field and if the crowd can gear up like the last time that would really help the Devils. I'm saying this one goes down to the final quarter and either could win by Dayton pulls it out by 1 to 7 points.

I disagree because Beechwood usually has a kicker that can reach the endzone and make the other team go 80 yards. Plus Beechwood usually had a pretty good punter even if he was a starter on O or D. That may have helped the coverage out. I just do not think Beechwood stretches the field enough and Amelung can really do that. Just getting him the ball would open up the rest of the running game and passing game. Plus get him the ball on kicks.

Well it is kind of confusing because...................... 1. The district teams were playing each other in rounds 1 and 2 before the six classes were established so I don't want to hold that against the six classes. 2. The various regions being drawn out of a hat or whatever .....I can't remember if that is part of the six classes movement or if that was going to be done even if there were only four classes. 3. The district games being dispersed throughout the season instead of at the end is definately a six class thing and I have mixed thoughts on that. I didn't like that some districts only had 3 weeks to play non-district games at the begining of the year and then there were teams that had 5 or 6 weeks and had to find somebody to play. Now I can live with it the way it is although the end of the season is kind of strange. 4. If there are 6 blowouts in the state finals then maybe things need to be re-examined. If there are 6 nail-biters then maybe people will like it more.

The bad snaps tonight only came when the starting center went out for an injury. Still a concern, but tough job to come in cold and shotgun snap. Haven't seen any video of the INT after the ref got injured. Didn't see what caused the injury either. Another big play was Beechwood being down I think 31-14 or 31-21 at the time and going for it in the fourth quarter on 4th and maybe 21 from about the 45 and making the first down at the 7. Some key notes: Beechwood has some key people going both ways but that should not be a problem in 1A. Running game will be the key in the playoffs although they need to find a way to get the ball to Amelung more. Kick coverage and kick return were un-Beechwood-like as they allowed lots of yardage to NCC on returns and did not return the ball very well against NCC. NCC's run game seemed to really be in gear for the first time against quality opposition. If that continues they will be a tough out. NCC is very, very, deep for a 2A team and played a bunch of people.

Scott with a big win. Bluebirds up next.