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I thought I'd go back and look at SV for the last 3 years.

In 2003, they had wins by 51 & 40 and a 4 losses by 30+.
In 2004, they had a win by 28 and 3 losses by 50 or more.
In 2005, they had a win by 47 and losses by 35 & 33.

Maybe, even in his wildest dreams, KS never thought he'd get his guys to score 50, so he didn't have a "back-off" plan.

Or maybe he wanted a big spread in his opener to provide a spark for a while.

Or maybe there's "something in the water" that affects the "sportsmanship gene" of KY coaches, since blow-outs seem to be common.


The problem with these types of games/scores is that usually occur against small teams. Putting in 3rd & 4th stringers might actually make it worse - while the starters have the incentive to "slack" for a quarter without worry of falling behind, the back-ups want to see what they can do in a game and play at 110%. Meanwhile, the other teams' starters have played 3 quarters (some of them prob. play both ways, too) and just don't have much gas left when facing a fresh kid who wants to give his dad something to brag about.

Actually, looking at the box from the W'son paper, it looks like SV did back off in the 4th. It omits one of the 4th quarter TD's, but the other 2 scores were by the defense. Heck, how do you tell a kid playin' D not to score? That may be the only chance he gets all year.


I think the only way to avoid them is to punt on the 2nd play or don't schedule the other team to start with.

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Phelps - Just "fuh-git about it" and focus on the next game. Remember - last year's 60-0 loss to an in-county rival led to a 64 point effort the following week.