[Hoot Gibson]

No, actually, I did and thought it was rather stupid. Just be careful that you do not become what you hate is all that I am saying.

I have never know sstack to be the sort of Highlands fan that you are indicating so in my opinion, and it is only my opinion, Pulp's response was a bit paranoid. Maybe understandable given the haters because of JC's success. Like I said in my earlier post, welcome to the club!

Personally, I see no substantive difference with regard to Mueller's behavior and Matney's behavior and in both cases, I think it is fine. I am not into this PC "give everyone a trophy for showing up" sort of world view that dominates today's society. I deal with too many whiners raised this way in my profession.

With regard to Harrison County, I think people have addressed your concerns. First team offense was in for 21 plays and then pulled. Do you think that Mueller should have told the JV players who were finally getting to play to intentionally not try? Would Matney do this? Would you do this if you were the coach?

With regard to the Warren Central game, I do not know. I was traveling on business and could not listen to it.

So, in a couple of weeks we will know the answer to the question asked in the first post of this thread. If it should be JC versus HHS, which I expect it will, it should be a good game and we will see what happens.:Clap:

Matney would have slowed the scoring pace down through conservative play calling, regardless of who he had in the game. And yes, that is exactly what I would do as a coach. Once you know that you cannot lose a game, there is nothing to be gained by running up the score on a badly out manned team. Nobody will ever convince me that doing what Mueller did against Harrison County was the right thing to do.

I don't know anything about HC's coach, but I will say that in general but not always, such mismatches on the field are caused by coaching mismatches. When a team runs up the score the way that Highlands does, they are usually humiliating kids who are guilty of nothing but being the victims of poor coaching. IMO, it is a classless thing to do.

(I realize that sometimes scores get out of hand even when a team is running its plainest vanilla offense with its least experienced players. Sometimes a team just finds itself with a roster that is very short on upper classmen - but in most cases that is not the case.)