Week 11: Fisher Catholic (8-2) at Harvest Prep (9-1)

[dilligaf]

River would get embarrassed by hp sorry for the reality of it.

[OvGuy]

FC is worthy of being in the playoffs. Don’t act like the Pilots are worthier. Cry us a River. No pun intended.

If you get by nature of the beast you deserve to be in. HP is very similar to how they are every single recent season. Very beatable as long as you remain disciplined and have the ability to move the ball against their athletes with a lot of play action and misdirection. Also on the defensive side of the ball sending constant pressure and not being stagnant. HP calls every play on the line based on the Ds alignment which is why they had so much trouble against River 2 seasons ago. If River was in this matchup I would have taken River in a nail biter since I have seen them play so much and know what they can do on a bigger stage. As for FC they have a chance but I think they get wore down in the end due to HP’s speed.

That’s pretty fair. By all means, Mike Flannery always has a solid team and River again has some great players (e.g. the Dennis kid). It’s a shame that the Pilots couldn’t qualify, but the commentary insinuating they’re more worthy to be in is just foolish. Region 27 was harder to qualify this year than last year, and the 5-8 seeds are probably better than last year’s 5-8 seeds were. Shoot, FC was basically in already but between Eastern beating Belpre, Symmes beating Northwest and ND&FCA not winning they were basically helpless as they sunk to the 8th spot. I see no bad teams in this year, and whether River would’ve made the bottom of the top 8 marginally stronger seems to be a topic that’d get incredibly minute past Monday afternoon. Maybe you in particular are right about River. At least your way of putting it was reasonable unlike the other bloke’s.

My hope is FC can get themselves in a clock control situation on offense; get a lead and get that clock milked.

Appreciate your feedback now with all that said I would say River would most likely beat the 4-8 seeds in this years playoffs but we’ll never know. I say that due to scheme, raw talent level and strength of schedule. Even rolling all the way back to preseason they shut out Shenandoah in one of their scrimmages. Good luck to FC hope they pull it out but I’m thinking the score reads them down at the end of the game by 14-20

[OvGuy]

River would get embarrassed by hp sorry for the reality of it.

What evidence do you have that supports that? Zero. You have zero. Any time River gets brought up in conversation is to get consistently disrespected when they are a playoff contender year in and year out. If it sounds like sour grapes I don’t care. Get over it. Whatever response you have will be uninformed and unintelligent. Good day.

Any River player that may be reading this keep your heads up on a great year and keep grinding for next year. You know what you’re capable of. Mark it down on 11/4/19 I’ll be at a wk 11 home game in Hannibal OH in 2020

[dilligaf]

My evidence is river is setting home in week 11 if you want to win in the playoffs you got to be good enough to get there first.

[Ace Moses]

Fisher Catholic runs a huge power run scheme behind a big and quick line with wing-T blocking schemes and slot-T principles packed into unbalanced, power, flex, trips, spread and wishbone formations. Their dive back #44 is a generational talent and their two wingbacks win the point of attack 90% of the time. Very athletic offense that fires off gets low, kicks out and will pin their assignment. The QB directs traffic and is their third rail in their rushing attack.

If Harvest Prep plays assignment football and reads the play through then they will have no problem. Fisher Catholic two-platoons and has what it takes to make this a four quarter battle. The energy and emotion of the playoffs could work against HPS here, like if they overcommit or back up on offense.

[West Rowan Falcons]

best of luck to fisher catholic, really. HP might go all the way.

[carbon_dated]

I agree with WRFalons, I think HP could get to the finals.

Whatever happened to that running back they had a couple years ago that set all kinds of records?

[dilligaf]

FC 13 all star team 14

[OvGuy]

I agree with WRFalons, I think HP could get to the finals.

Whatever happened to that running back they had a couple years ago that set all kinds of records?

He had a full ride to Kent State and was committed but got offered to be a preferred walk on at Ohio State. To my knowledge he’s still there but I’m not sure.

[formerfcfan]

Good call, Ace.

Re: Bangura — I’ve been told that he left tOSU in the spring semester because he (mistakenly) dropped a course without considering it would put him below the eligibility criteria from a credits perspective. Did JUCO at EMCC (the school from Netflix series “Last Chance U”) this fall. Grades had never been the issue for him. Expect him to re-commit to either a Power 5 program or a close to home school for spring ball.

[MrFirstTake]

The fisher catholic vs Lucas game is on YouTube the whole game from start to finish

[MrFirstTake]

If anybody would like to see them play

[dilligaf]

Is this game being played?

[dilligaf]

34 to 0 harvest prep halftime

[mattash]

Final?

[icanpickem]

37-7