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That has been true the past 3 years but Harlan has a upperclassmen filled line this year. There's no reason why there should be underclassmen filling those positions in the latter stages of the game. Same on defense. The freshmen are getting way to much playing time. Also, whats up with having 160 lb middle linebackers. The linebackers already are sitting back and waiting for the offense to come to them instead of shooting up into fill the gaps. Our little linebackers give to much yardage cause the bigger offensive back's momentum alone gets them an extra 5 yds. We need to have Boggs and Overbey in the middle stuffing those gaps and at the line of scrimmage not 3 yds off the ball. Okey Boggs needs to be playing every play on offense and defense. I noticed,last night,that he would come out and a freshman would go in when in it was 3rd and short or 4th and short and on offense he comes out every 3 or 4 plays to rest. What's that all about? Harlan does not have enough quality linemen or linebackers to switch them in and out every 3 or 4 plays. Back in the day we had 50 players and still the starters went both ways and did not come out unless they absolutely needed a breather. Surely the Harlan team is in better shape physically than that. Now,as far as clock management goes,whenever the official starts the clock the QB or punter can wait over 20 seconds before the ball is snapped. When running the clock is crucial you shouldn't be running 4 and 5 plays and only 1 minute or less coming off the clock when you can run 22 or 23 seconds a snap off. I feel it cost us big this week and last week against LCA. Also the off. coordinator needs to be running plays that keep the clock running not stopping the clock. Needless to say there is a whole lot of things need to change if the Dragon's are going to salvage this season. I give these last 2 losses to the coaches big time and I hope they don't try and blame the boy's in the paper this week. I'm sure the whole Dragon nation is very disappointed.

I think that's one of the dangers of building up a 6-5 team into a top five team in the state in the preseason. The expectations may have been too high. You had a quarterback and a couple of receivers with good numbers, but the offensive front was a big question mark and the running game was below average last year.

I agree though that Harlan should not have lost Friday, especially with six Middlesboro turnovers.
I think the biggest question as far as time management was not letting the clock run out in the final 50 seconds and playing for overtime.