[HonestJohn]

HonestJohn,

I disagree with you on your summary of the scrimmage and offer a partial explanation of why SW may not look more dominant than they do.

Myself and most anyone I talked to thought SW looked by far the best with Rock following second and Casey did very little against SW or Rock. I would venture to say Casey did not have 100 yards of total offense all night and could not keep SW or Rock from scoring.

As for SW's state titles in middle school, not making excuses but there are several players from each of those teams that are no longer at SW or no longer play football. From the group of juniors, they have lost the QB, both starting HB's, and the safety. The sophomores did not actually win the state their 8th grade year but have four varsity starters that started on that 8th grade championship team as 7th graders. The freshman group that won the 8th grade state last year lost Fannin and have at least three players who are starting varsity. There are seven or eight freshman and sophomore JV players who did not play JV Friday because their primary responsibility is varsity.

You think all other schools have all the players they started with in middle school. In little league football, the Doan boy from Somerset was playing in Rockcastle Co and now he is gone. I can name twenty others that have jumped ship for greener pastures. It happens everywhere--except HHS and the private schools. I just thought SW would have been better. ROCK's JV group had two starting varsity freshman players missing for the scrimmage also, so we were without them too. SW may have been the better team, but not by much if any. I would love to see a real game between SW and Rock. I think it would be a toss-up. Sorry if I offended you, but I just thought SW would have been better with all those titles and the talent it takes to win them. Maybe the holdback kids get caught physically by the non held back kids and that is the difference??? Who knows??????