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Rockcastle be Russell Co by running the ball and playing good defense. What happened to Knox when they played Russell Co? Did they go back to running the ball again? Or not playing defense?

What happened in that game, as history will record, is that the MVP for RC wore a white hat. I know that sounds whiny after all these weeks and low class but you asked. And the film told the story then and it tells the story now. That fellow was either an integrity lacking jerk or a really inept official; either way he and a couple of his pals handed that game and the District Championship to the home team.

BTW - no amount of modern or diversified offense can ever beat the officials when they are inept or unethical. Football, more so than any other sport depends on accurate refs as they can literally undo or redo every single play. Please spare me the rebukes for blaming a loss on refs. In 5 years of Panther football I have complained about refs twice and rightly so on both accounts. The fact is so many people cry wolf that when refs (who are human and highly capable of unethical and/or inaccurate calls) really do blow a game, as they did in Russell County this year, not only does nobody care - there are no legit routes for a coach to take to remedy the situation.