[MonsterMan]

I totally disagree with most of what you have wrote! First of all I think JC picked the wrong time to have a bad game! They dropped easy passes, missed easy tackles and fumbled the football! I also think the coaching staff had a bad game too! Even thought JCs #1 WR was beating COV CATH's DBs deep I felt that JC should of been throwing the ball to bigger targets because Cov Cath's DBs were small. I felt like JC should of been running power sweeps to put pressure on those small DB's! I totally disagree with your statement about the wishbone. Coach Haywood of Belfry has proved that Triple Option football is still winning football! I honestly feel that JC would have won the game if they would of ran the "Option" and attacked Cov Cath on the edge. It seems to me that the JC coaching staff has over looked what its Match up advantage was in successful games against Northern Kentucky teams! That Match up advantage was BIG MEAN Fullbacks like Tanner Bratton and Blake Johnson!! This is not a knock on JC's current fullback, IMO he has done a good job but he is a Halfback playing fullback. JJ Jude was the most talked about player in JC's history but without Tanner Bratton his SR year JC failed win a district title! The fact of the matter is that here in Johnson Co we are always going to have a speed disadvantage against teams from the North so IMO the coaching staff needs to develop big TEs and BIG strong Fullbacks that can run and catch the Football. Guys that will make the D pay! I totally disagree with the "Spread" stuff. There is no way JC is going to beat those team at there own game! IMO JC needs to throw the ball more, a lot more but too players that give JC a match up advantage!

I disagree somewhat with what you say. We have plenty of kids with speed in the mountains and you can develop speed with proper conditioning. Big slow players will win games in the mountains, but will never win games down state. Speed will always win over size. Matney is a great coach and knows the game. He can only work with what he has. In the lower levels we always pick the biggest player and let him run the ball. No passing or pass defense and smaller quicker kids get left out. We have to change this and develop passing and speed at the lower levels. We need to bring in people who have played and understand the new offenses and have them coaching and teaching at these lower levels so when they get to high school they will be ready. If we cannot run and defend the spread offense we will not be sucessful.

I do agree we could have had more sucess with CCHS if we had spread them out. We had several mismatches we could have taken advantage off. The biggest problem with the belly offense is if the other team can control the line and stuff running lanes, it fails and fails badly. It is very easy to defend because all you players are bunched up in a wad. Put your best players in space and let them create mismatches. We are never gong to line up and run over these teams.