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Bowling Green 14 John Hardin 13
#1
Final.
#2
John Hardin had a great gameplan and played better than the Purples tonight. Bowling Green got lucky and scored 76 yard hook and ladder play on 4th and 9 with under two minutes to play. Coach Wallace decided to go for the win with a two point conversion and it worked. That was a gutsy call. The Purples defense held JH scoreless in the 2nd half and saved the offense's butt. John Hardin is a very good football team and probably deserved to win the game tonight, but fate was not on their side. One of the best games I've ever seen.*
#3
"Probably deserved" bowling green had two big passing plays. That was about it. That was my first time watching both teams this year. John was clearly the better team. They went for that 2 point conversion and didn't convert.
BG is solid but was outplayed in every aspect of the game. I am sure jh is sick how that one ended.
#4
That's a tough way to end your season. You play a great game and lose on a trick play. That's football. I can't say I'm sad about the outcome, but I feel for the John Hardin players.
#5
Seems JH gave BG all they wanted.
I remember hearing that JH was up with around 3 minutes left, and i was thinking it was over.
Congrats to BG.
Hopefully, Cooper can give them a game as well.
#6
Good season John Hardin. As always, a deep run and a lot to be proud of.

As for Bowling Green - Highlands made quick work of Lexington Catholic tonight. So much for the theory of beating Highlands....
#7
So, Bowling Green wins a trip to.... Bowling Green.
#8
Best part is, youll never know Confusednicker:
#9
Bowling Green returned 4 starters from last year. Nobody really expected them to be playing in the title game this year, but here they are. Anybody else in the state lose 18 starters and are still playing? I don't think so. Along the way, they beat St. X, Henderson County, Warren Central (twice), Lexington Catholic, Christian County, and John Hardin. Now they will play a very good Cooper team in the finals. I think overachievement is an understatement. Next year we return 18 starter and I think we should be favored to win it all. I am proud of their accomplishments regardless of how the championship game turns out. It's been a great season.
#10
Dang adopted get off your high horse. Humility goes a long way however I guess you aren't interested in invoking class into your comments. Congrats on your win all hail to the purples. Everyone knows BG is a tremendous program I don't think it needs someone on a message board making statements about their accomplishments and how unbelievable they are.
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adopted purple Wrote:John Hardin had a great gameplan and played better than the Purples tonight. Bowling Green got lucky and scored 76 yard hook and ladder play on 4th and 9 with under two minutes to play. Coach Wallace decided to go for the win with a two point conversion and it worked. That was a gutsy call. The Purples defense held JH scoreless in the 2nd half and saved the offense's butt. John Hardin is a very good football team and probably deserved to win the game tonight, but fate was not on their side. One of the best games I've ever seen.*

groundattack Wrote:"Probably deserved" bowling green had two big passing plays. That was about it. That was my first time watching both teams this year. John was clearly the better team. They went for that 2 point conversion and didn't convert.
BG is solid but was outplayed in every aspect of the game. I am sure jh is sick how that one ended.

Read my first post again big mouth. I gave JH a lot of credit and said they probably should have won the game. I don't think our defense was outplayed, because they were on the field most of the night and came up with stops, when the had to. They held JH scoreless in the 2nd half. You can't say the same for JH.
I feel the need to defend my team when some know it all runs their mouth about them being dominated in every aspect of the game. We got lucky, I know, but we are still playing.
#12
adopted purple Wrote:That's a tough way to end your season. You play a great game and lose on a trick play. That's football. I can't say I'm sad about the outcome, but I feel for the John Hardin players.

Here is another one of my classless posts.
#13
adopted purple Wrote:Bowling Green returned 4 starters from last year. Nobody really expected them to be playing in the title game this year, but here they are. Anybody else in the state lose 18 starters and are still playing? I don't think so. Along the way, they beat St. X, Henderson County, Warren Central (twice), Lexington Catholic, Christian County, and John Hardin. Now they will play a very good Cooper team in the finals. I think overachievement is an understatement. Next year we return 18 starter and I think we should be favored to win it all. I am proud of their accomplishments regardless of how the championship game turns out. It's been a great season.

How many other places have 18 starters? Most EKY players play both ways, i.e. 11 starters.
#14
Well, don't you think replacing 18 would be harder than replacing 11?
#15
adopted purple Wrote:Well, don't you think replacing 18 would be harder than replacing 11?

I don't think you're going to get this, but don't you think having the luxury of fresh meat on offense and defense would give you a greater advantage than 11 players having to play the whole game? Hey, if EKY teams had that luxury how good would they be? And evidently, if you always have 22 starters there must not have much problem finding them, huh?
#16
adopted purple Wrote:Nobody really expected them to be playing in the title game this year, but here they are.

I don't think that's true. They were preseason #1 in every poll or prediction that I saw. I think that in all likelihood they weren't picked to go undefeated or look as dominant as they did at times, but most everyone at least picked them to win it all again.

As far as the game goes, I said it elsewhere but Bowling Green showed why they're a championship team. Champion teams find a way to win even when things don't go their way. By most accounts they were outplayed and even downright dominated all night. BG gained 274 yards on the night, and 127 of those were on their two TD plays. I can't even begin to say how impressive that is by the Bulldog defense. But the Purple defense showed strength when John Hardin got deep, forcing turnovers on downs multiple times in their territory. That was enough that when BG got their chances they were able to come out on top. It's tough to take for John Hardin, but that's how it goes sometimes. Bowling Green has had to scratch and claw for it this year, but at the end of the day, they've got the W.

Since Highlands was brought up, this year I don't think it's a debate - Highlands is better.
#17
adopted purple Wrote:Well, don't you think replacing 18 would be harder than replacing 11?

Another point - don't you think that replacing 11 players who have the stamina and skills to play the whole game, offense and defense, pretty much without a break would be harder than replacing 22 players who only have to have the stamina and skills to play either offense or defense and get to rest much of the game?
#18
MtnHSFootballFan Wrote:Another point - don't you think that replacing 11 players who have the stamina and skills to play the whole game, offense and defense, pretty much without a break would be harder than replacing 22 players who only have to have the stamina and skills to play either offense or defense and get to rest much of the game?

You may have me on that one, but all the schools are in 5A and have about the same amount of students. I forget some schools can't get enough kids to come out and play football. The Purples have 89 on the roster. Owensboro Apollo had about 36 kids on the team. Apparently, I was the only one that thought Bowling Green would struggle this year.
#19
adopted purple Wrote:You may have me on that one, but all the schools are in 5A and have about the same amount of students. I forget some schools can't get enough kids to come out and play football. The Purples have 89 on the roster. Owensboro Apollo had about 36 kids on the team. Apparently, I was the only one that thought Bowling Green would struggle this year.

Well no matter where they've scraped up the replacements, it looks like they're one game away from back to back perfect seasons. Congratulations!
#20
Here's the obvious problem with that statement about only having 11 starters, that is just not working to find them. We are a 1a school and we have at least 16 starters. If you area 5a school you have probably 3 times as many boys in your school. You have to project pride into that football program and they will come. Go rob from the soccer program for a kicker or two. Rob from the bball program for a receiver or two. Then find some of these big kids wandering the halls and tell them about how much of a difference they could make in the football program to make it win. They will maybe feel wanted and then come out for the team. Then start winning. If at first you have to pad the schedule, so be it. The trick is to not pad it more thand 2 years. Then you have kids interested because you are winning.
#21
Furthermore, I don't understand this bs about attacking a team because they are winning all the time. BG is winning, give them props and try to beat them. The thing with Highlands, who cares whether you think they can win or not. They dont play each other.
#22
mysonis55 Wrote:Here's the obvious problem with that statement about only having 11 starters, that is just not working to find them. We are a 1a school and we have at least 16 starters. If you area 5a school you have probably 3 times as many boys in your school. You have to project pride into that football program and they will come. Go rob from the soccer program for a kicker or two. Rob from the bball program for a receiver or two. Then find some of these big kids wandering the halls and tell them about how much of a difference they could make in the football program to make it win. They will maybe feel wanted and then come out for the team. Then start winning. If at first you have to pad the schedule, so be it. The trick is to not pad it more thand 2 years. Then you have kids interested because you are winning.

Not to be mean but concise. You don't know what you're talking about and I don't have the time to waste explaining something to you that you probably will never agree with, oh great one.
#23
mysonis55 Wrote:Furthermore, I don't understand this bs about attacking a team because they are winning all the time. BG is winning, give them props and try to beat them. The thing with Highlands, who cares whether you think they can win or not. They dont play each other.

Who is this directed to? You didn't say. Maybe you should take your meds. I didn't attack BG. I congratulated them.

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