MH's son's football thread (OT)

[Lee]

Originally Posted by mh2365

Tough loss Lee .... North Bullitt was really a game we were not supposed to win. We were without 4 of our 5 starting O-Line ... Claine did not play. Michael Bozarth who leads our team in tackles was out.

But everybody came up big. The WR actually caught a couple of passes too.

Hard to believe your freshman were held to 6 points.

They really shut down our sweep all night long and that is our bread and butter. Are 3rd anf 4th string Tailbacks are both small, speedy kids who really don't have tackle breaking ability like the other two have....Still if you told me we would have held Sunrise to 9 points I would have expected a 2-3 TD win, gotta give the other Team credit.

Great win for you guys, it's nice when adversity brings teams together and they step up....what's new on the recruiting front with Nate?

[mh2365]

We had a couple of other looks but he really has his mind set on Centre College. If you look at their football team and their WR .. he is the right size to fit in their and his best friend plays for them already.

[mh2365]

Boyle County won tonight and here is what you get

Originally Posted by super

It's always good to get that first win,now 9 more W's to win State.:dancingpa

[mh2365]

State Rankings are such a joke ... here is what is considered the most realistic state rankings


Class 4A Rankings 10-9
1. Lexington Catholic
2. Bell County
3. Warren East
4. Franklin County
5. Boyle County
6. Marion County
7. Fairdale
8. Bullitt East
9. North Bullitt
10. Lone Oak

Notice Boyle County the team I have been ragging on at #5 .. they were 1-5 while Marion is 6-0 .. North Bullitt lost to Lafayette 16-6, Boyle County lost to them 31-6.

the Boyle fans claim they are only 1-5 due to their schedule. Their schedule has been tough but they did lose to a 2A team. A top 10 4A team should never lose to a 2A team.

Well tonight they lost to a team that was 2-4 .... I would be willing to bet they are still in the top 10 next week.

This is a team who lost 1 game over 6 years and that was in the state championship. In 2005, we beat them to knock them out of the playoffs .... since then they are 7-12.

[Lee]

We had a program sweep of district rival LaJoya this week.

My Frosh won 28-13, in a game we controlled most of the way, gave up a late score with the subs at the end. The rushing game has suffered with the injuries and it got worse in this game. Our third string Tailback broke his ankle in the first quarter!!! The 4th string TB played well and our Fullback had a monster game, as they were blitzing us like crazy, so I had to go to double TE's and play power football from Unbalanced and T formation. Not pretty to most, but I like it

The injury toll is unbelievable at this point with our Running backs!!!
Keep in mind, this has all occurred in a 3 game span.
Tailbacks:
Starter - Out for the year with a separated Shoulder.
2nd and 3rd string - Both out for the year with broken Ankles.
Fullbacks:
2nd string - Out for the year with a Knee injury.
In addition we will most likely lose out starter Monday to eligibility..
Wingbacks:
Starter - Kicked off the team for repeated discipline issues in school.
2nd String - I moved to split end, as we has great hands and is tall, and was better suited to the position, was a great blocker at WB, but not a lot of pure instinct as a runner. He can play WB here and there, just not going to get a lot of carries.

So all told we will potentially be missing all three starting backfield positions for the final two games come Monday, plus four very capable backups.....Oh yeah, the team we play this week is on par with Sunrise Mountain, who gave us our only loss 9-6 in the middle of this injuryfest.

Despite this, our Defense is playing well and 6-1 is still a Season most teams would take gladly...Just never experienced such a rash of injuries like this before.

The JV's beat LaJoya 28-7, they are now 7-0, and win with hard nosed Defense and a tough between the tackles running game.

Varsity beat LaJoya 63-13 last night to go to 5-2, the O-line is really starting to come together and we are blessed with possible the best 1-2 backfield punch in the State. The Fullback has close to 1000 yards rushing for the year, and our Tailback went over 1000 for the year last night, they both average over 10 yards a carry.

[mh2365]

Tough break on all the injuries Lee

[mh2365]

Back from an off week ....

BE has Larue County coming to visit. Final district game. With a win we have a pretty good shot at playing the first playoff game at home. Larue is 3-4 overall and 0-2 in the district.

North Bullitt is traveling to face those punks of Marion County tomorrow night with their final district game tomorrow night also. North is 1-1 in the district like us and Marion is 2-0. Part of me wants North to blow them off the field but the other part wants Marion to win so if we win we lock up a home playoff game against North.

If we all finish at 2-1 then tiebreakers are involved.

[mh2365]

Off for the day ... taking the boy to Centre College for the Admissions Open House. Recruiting football game is on Oct. 27th. Won't be back until 5, just in time to hit the parking lot at Bullitt East.

www.reach93.org at 7:30 for anyone interested

[mh2365]

Easy win tonight .. final was 28-14. Larue really couldn't stop our run until we started sitting on the ball late in the game. Nate didn't do much on offense tonight. He was back to WR. Had 4 balls thrown at him. One bad pass, one good defensive play and then 2 catches for minimal gain (maybe 3 yards).

He was solid on D though. 4 solo tackles and an INT with a 55 yard return.

Last I heard Marion was beating North Bullitt 27-20 in the 4th which would clinch home field for the first playoff game for us and it would be against North.

[mh2365]

Marion beat North so the playoff set up will be

#4 Larue @ #1 Marion
#3 North Bullitt @ #2 Bullitt East

I would see 1-3 are about even on the odds of coming out of the district.

Two more games until the playoffs. This Friday will be scary. We travel up to Louisville to face #4 6A powerhouse Manual. They are 7-1 with a 7 point loss to National Top 25 St. Xavier.

I'm not sure this game will be close. Good to schedule these type of games for our program though. On the bright side Central (who we should of beat but lost 22-21) lost to Manual by only 7. The last two games have no bearing on the playoffs.

[Lee]

Our Freshman finished the Year tonight with a 35-19 win over Ironwood to finish 8-1 on the Season. Their spread Offense gave us some trouble in the first half as we led 21-19 at the break, but we made some adjustments and the Kids executed nicely to pull away at the end. A great Season, especially with all the injuries to our running backs. Tonight we had 351 yards rushing and 95 passing on only 4 attempts. On the Season we tallied 2,226 yards rushing, and 809 yards passing, outscoring our opponents 284 - 79. This is a special group of Kids and they will be real good if they work hard and stay together for the full 4 years, especially if we can keep all those skill Kids healthy.

It always goes way too fast, but now I get to spend more time with the Varsity as we make our run towards the Playoffs

[mh2365]

Good Season Lee ... we are fortunate that the final two games of the season are somewhat meaningless. The playoffs are already set no matter what happens. I know they have been working on some new stuff this week in practice.

[mh2365]

Off to the game ... we are 15 point dogs tonight. #3 6A team should be interesting!

[mh2365]

Good game ... 42-31 Manual ... things got a bit carried away at the end of the game. With 4 minutes left we were down 28-13 ... we scored and missed the two point conversion so it was 28-19 ... both teams scored two more times in the final 4 minutes.

They were a talented, big, and fast team. They had a 6'6 325 O-Line guy who has a schollie to UK next year, he was a monster. Nate had 5 catches for 59 yards and a touchdown.

[Lee]

Sounds like an entertaning game, and the Offensive output has to be encouraging. Playing Teams like this will only help come playoff time.

I am curious as to how the playoffs are formatted there Mike, to where the draw is decided already. We locked up a spot with our win on TV Thursday, but with one game left there are probably 5-6 teams with a shot at the 15th and 16th seeds on our division. Also a win to close out the Season will probably secure a 4 seed for us, possibly a 3, where a loss would dump us to 7-9.

[mh2365]

This is the first year in a 6A format here what that means is that 192 out of 217 make the playoffs. Teams in a 4 team district like we are automatically make the playoffs. They wanted to make it like basketball where every team has a shot.

District games are played in weeks 5, 7, and 9 for 4 team districts. So we have already played all of our district games. The first two rounds of the playoffs are all within your own district. Since our district was perfect 3-0, 2-1, 1-2, 0-3 then there are no tiebreakers to decide, which means the playoffs are set and it renders the last two games meaningless ... which is why we scheduled such a tough game last night.

We play a normal rival in Nelson County next week on senior night and they are tough. The coaches have already stressed it is an important game because we can't go into the playoffs losing two straight.

Plus having to play our most hated rival, North Bullitt, in the first game it will be tough anyways.

Last year we were in an 9 team district and only the top 4 made the playoffs ... if everyone remembers 3 specific things had to happen to keep us out and all 3 happened.

[mh2365]

Game visit at Centre College today .. Nate got to stand on the sidelines with some other potential recruits. A little backstory first .. Nate is one of those players who is always next to the coordinator when he isn't in the game. Back when he was a frosh and soph .. the coordinator couldn't turn around with stepping on Nate.

The first half today he stood away from the team with the rest of the recruits but in the second half he was the only recruit still down there (others I assume were with their parents) so Nate started mingling with the team and hanging out with James. James is Nate's best friend and a freshman DT on Centre. By mid 3rd Quarter Nate was talking with the coaches and high-fiveing other players on the team. By the start of the 4th he was talking to offensive coordinator while the D was on the field. Centre was up 27-0 so James got in ... James made a big tackle on 4th down and I look up and damn if Nate wasn't 5 yards onto the field slapping James on the helmet.

As we walk down onto the field the coaches are already calling him Gurt (his nickname here) and telling him they will be seeing him soon. First words to me is "I'm coming here and I'm playing next year" God love the kid. Now where to come up with $35,000 a year!!!

[mh2365]

Originally Posted by mh2365

Good game ... 42-31 Manual ... things got a bit carried away at the end of the game. With 4 minutes left we were down 28-13 ... we scored and missed the two point conversion so it was 28-19 ... both teams scored two more times in the final 4 minutes.

They were a talented, big, and fast team. They had a 6'6 325 O-Line guy who has a schollie to UK next year, he was a monster. Nate had 5 catches for 59 yards and a touchdown.

man the bluegrass preps board is filled with a bunch of idiots.

Tell me if I am wrong.

28-19 with 4:20 left to go. BE tries an onside kick and Manual recovers. Manual ball at the BE 47 yd line. On the previous Manual possession they had their backups in. They drove down to the BE 25 and we stopped them on a 4th down. The only time they had the ball the entire game and did not score. So at the 4:20 mark they had only had the ball 5 times. What does that tell you? They ran ball control and dominated the line of scrimmage. They had at that point about 150 on the ground and 100 in the air. (ended with 175 on the ground, 180 in the air)

So at the 4:20 mark they put their starters back in and ran a wheel route, the QB threw the ball to the 25 where the WR caught it and went untouched into the endzone ... obviously we were keying on the run.

At this time we only had two timeouts left.

Lee you are a coach ... was this 1) running up the score ... or 2) the smart call because you were in fear of losing.

I don't care that they were running up the score. They are the #3 6A team and only beating a 4A team by 9 makes them look bad. But one of their fans is claiming that it was the smart call because the game was too close.

Let's say they go three and out... obviously we use our two timeouts and there is 3 minutes left. Still not a great situation for BE but .... we hadn't stopped them all night long, if they get 1 first down the game is over.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by mh2365

man the bluegrass preps board is filled with a bunch of idiots.

Tell me if I am wrong.

28-19 with 4:20 left to go. BE tries an onside kick and Manual recovers. Manual ball at the BE 47 yd line. On the previous Manual possession they had their backups in. They drove down to the BE 25 and we stopped them on a 4th down. The only time they had the ball the entire game and did not score. So at the 4:20 mark they had only had the ball 5 times. What does that tell you? They ran ball control and dominated the line of scrimmage. They had at that point about 150 on the ground and 100 in the air. (ended with 175 on the ground, 180 in the air)

So at the 4:20 mark they put their starters back in and ran a wheel route, the QB threw the ball to the 25 where the WR caught it and went untouched into the endzone ... obviously we were keying on the run.

At this time we only had two timeouts left.

Lee you are a coach ... was this 1) running up the score ... or 2) the smart call because you were in fear of losing.

I don't care that they were running up the score. They are the #3 6A team and only beating a 4A team by 9 makes them look bad. But one of their fans is claiming that it was the smart call because the game was too close.

Let's say they go three and out... obviously we use our two timeouts and there is 3 minutes left. Still not a great situation for BE but .... we hadn't stopped them all night long, if they get 1 first down the game is over.

That's a tough call, I would never do that in that situation, but that is more my philosophy. From their standpoint, it was probably a call worth making to take advantage of BE keying on the run. A nine point lead at that stage of the game was probably safe, but not insurmountable, so they probably felt they needed the insurance. As a Coach, I would not have been upset if I was on the losing end of that score and they did that. I would have been more pissed at our secondary for the coverage lapse. I wouldn't go as far as to say it was smart, just opportunistic, though a Pick certainly would have made it look like a really dumb call.

Personally, in that situation I would have just ran the ball, probably went double tights and just pounded it for 4-5 yards a pop and if we scored, we scored. I am just not a big pass guy anyway, I usually have 1 pass play in my script (First 10 plays) and then pick my spots the rest of the game. I expect our kids to be able to run the ball late in the game, especially with a lead as I think we should have teams beaten up by then and by rotating as many capable backs as we have, they should still be all be running with authority. In fact I think there were at least 5 games this year that I didn't call a single pass after Halftime.

I think BE probably did make them nervous cutting the lead to 9, and they gambled that they could take advantage of your guys selling out against the run. I just have more of a play it safe with the lead style, as less bad things can happen when you run the ball. Plus, I work the hell out of ball security related drills, gauntlet, exchanges, protecting against rips and punches etc...so I am confident we will not put it on the ground. We only lost 3 fumbles all year in nine games, so I guess it pays off. I also never talk about fumbles, never even mention it. All the kids hear is tight tuck, protect the ball in traffic, cover on contact etc, so that's all they have in their minds.

Crap I really went off on a tangent, sorry, just love to talk Football

To answer your question:
Running up the score - No
Smart play - No
Well calculated risk to put the game out of reach - Yes (remember, that doesn't always make it a smart call, LOL)

[mh2365]

I can live with that ... just the guy over there keeps saying it was brilliant play calling. He is a parent of a Manual player, I wonder how he would have felt if we had a pick six on the play and ended up winning the game ... then it would have been a dumb call.

Like the first game of the season against Woodford. We had a 14 point lead late in the first half .... on 4th and 2 the coach fakes a punt and gets stopped at midfield. Woodford drives in and scores right before the half. If we punt they probably didn't have time to score. Dumb call since it didn't work changed the momentum of the game entirely and we lost.

Of course I'd call it something different if they convert it, go down and score and are up 21-0 at halftime.