[laker20]

I see that laker20 has had nothing to do today but watch tape and criticize. That must be a nice life. I think that since laker20 knows so much about officiating that he must either have his license or really needs to get them and impart his wisdom to officials everywhere. I was really surprised by the lack of physical play from both sides. I heard many people say that you could not hear pads hitting all night long. I think RC played better against Pulaski and was looking a little forward to the Rock! Next weeks game will be a great game to watch but Russell will have to play much better than they did against LCC to win. I hope Laker20 is happy with the game next week or there is no telling what we will hear on here.

You are taking this awfully personal Zebra. I made a couple comments about the officiating not being up to the quality of play and this has become a bash Laker20 thread. I stated my opinion on the officiating and even went as far as saying that the officials have bad games occasionally as well, the officiating wasn't biased, and that it probably didn't have any impact on the game. I also said that the calls that were made weren't bad calls, there were just a few obvious ones that should have been. At the bare minimum these young men playing deserve to have the officials protect them from late hits. I don't have my license and wouldn't want the job, because I probably wouldn't make much of an official, but if I was, I'd sure want to know when I wasn't doing a good job.....I know they can't see everything and have a vastly different perspective than we do in the stands (sometimes better-sometimes worse).

Russell Co's offense has been better in every other game they've played (not just the Pulaski game).....not sure if it was us playing down or LCC stopping us. LCC's d-line seemed to dominate the line of scrimmage. Russell could have been looking forward to Rock, but I think it was more to do with what LCC was doing right that kept this game closer than it should have been.

As far as the hard hitting goes, there were several times that players from both teams were slow to get up....it wasn't the most physical game I've seen this year, but it was physical and there were several hard hits.

In regards to the game next week, no matter the outcome you will here nothing but truth from me. I'm pretty unbiased in what I say and I would think that anyone who's read my posts would agree. I cheer for a lot of teams and genuinely just like to see these young men be successful in the game they play. In fact if you read back through my posts in this thread you'll see that I compliment LCC's team and players several times...probably more than I have Russell Co's.

Let's not continue bashing each other, and keep this to the game and the young men playing it.:igiveup: