[KentuckyHillBilly5321]

We've done our fair share of choking also, i.e. this year.

I disagree.

At the time--the better team WON. We were still playing good football then. If the game would have been later in the year--you could make a case for things to be different (but I don't think that it would have happened). We were barely beaten by Alter (which would have destroyed any team in NKY last year) and hung touch with CovCath for 3.75 quarters. We had not been beat by Bellevue yet--which is what drastically changed the course of our season.

Keep in mind, we gave up 2 silly TD's in a 2 minute period. (Only having 10 men on the field on Vicars TD and Blown coverage on the other TD).

I wouldn't call the fumble in the endzone "choking". I would call it GREAT defense.

Also--remember--good teams capitalize on mistakes. We made our fair share--but NCC couldn't capitalize on enough of them. NCC made FEWER mistakes--and we capitalized on them. (That comes from the actual breakdown of the game--not my "independent analysis").

Like I said--at the time--we were a better football team. As the year went on, that changed dramatically. And--the right team won the state championsihp.

And the other thing that people need to remember--there are always a lot of NCC people who talk about how much more talented their kids are, how they have the better team, etc, etc. I don't buy that for one minute. Sure, we have a good coaching staff. But our kids are the ones who have to go out on the field and execute--and find a way to beat the more "talented Breds". You don't beat a team like that year in/year out without having kids that can play.

I am at the point where it gets old hearing that we won because NCC choked. We won because our kids (who never get the credit that they deserve) came to play, our coaching staff was more prepared (and we will always be for sure in the future) and everything came together.