[EKUAlum05]

I like you EKU and I think you are one of the better posters on BGR. I agree with most of what you said with one big exception. I was at the Johnson Central-Harlan County game and maybe the Harlan County team that Belfry played was Harlan County Florida or something but the Harlan Coutny team that I saw that night was awful. I have never been to a game in my life that was supposed to be a good game that one team dominated like JC did. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that the score of this game cant even begin to reflect how much better JC was then HC. JC let off the gas after the half and was running some new plays and getting some kids some play time for down the road or this score could have easily been 60-14 IMO. I wont even say for sure that we could beat Harlan county but I believe that we could play with em and on that night I think we could beat em. No offense to the Harlan County fans who read this because I like you and got to meet some of you and I love Granny Bear but they will even tell you that they were awful in that game and JC was way better.

The Harlan County team that turned the ball over like they did that night would have struggled with a lot of teams. The Harlan County team who played Belfry and most other teams on their schedule who actually did a fairly good job of protecting the football is the 4th best team in EKY.

Turnovers are the great equalizer...especially red zone turnovers. I still feel that LC is a better team than PC, but when you turn it over 5 times the entire complexion of a game can change.

I went to the UGA vs. Mizzou game Saturday and the one key play game in the game was turnover Georgia had at the end of the Half inside the Mizzou ten yard line. Trailing 21-10 Georgia had marched it down the field and appeared to be on the verge of closing the gap before the Half. Instead they fumbled and Mizzou scored on the ensuing drive before Halftime. Georgia entered the Half trailing 28-10 when it should have been 21-17. Georgia then had to spend the entire 2nd Half trying to make up for points lost and the entire mental aspect of the game had changed.

A turnover at Midfield or even in your own territory is one thing as it may mean -7 points..but when you turn it over in the redzone more times than not that becomes a -14 play and HC had a couple of those against JC. Now this is not to take anything away from JC as they were clearly a better team and were going to put the smack down regardless...but those redzone turnovers did make HC look a lot worse than they really were.