[More Cowbell]

I'm not upholding the play call, because like you said, this is a low % play in high school football, but the possible reasoning was that SV has the potential to being a decent kicking (PAT, Field Goal) team, and we know in hind sight that it was too early, but Valley had a 2 td lead and were dominating the field the first sequence of the 2nd half, possibly the coaching staff just wanted to establish that kicking game potential and get our new kicker's "feet wet" so to speak; nonetheless, it was too early to experiment, even with a lead of that size that early in the second half.

I agree with you, valley should have went for it on 4th down; but if the field goal attempt had of been good, I guess the Coach would have looked like a genius, up 3 scores (17 points) with a qtr and a half to go.

I figured that was the reasoning behind the FG attempt, if it was indeed legit. A 3 score lead would've been pretty much the ballgame. And if the game was already in the bag, then it would've been a good time to work on your kicking game. But like you said, simply too early to try it.