[charlie22]

Many people believe that this year's JC could be their best and the 2006 team that lost to Covington Catholic was better than Highlands that year, IMO. I trust Matney to make the coaching decisions that will give the Golden Eagles their best opportunity to win each game on the schedule. People like yourself who second guess Matney's approach to the game cannot cite any examples of teams in Highlands' class over the past few years beating them by employing a more balanced attack because there are none.

A great Covington Catholic team won a state title in 2006 but it was Johnson Central, not Highlands, which gave the Colonels their biggest challenge that season and they did it with a punishing running attack.

Highlands is not invincible and so far, there is no evidence that this year's Highlands offense is better than it was last year or the year before last.

As to the bolded, you aren't correct; or at least I wouldn't consider you to be correct. In the regular season game between Highlands and CovCath in 06, CovCath scored on the last play of the game to win by 5. Can't play a team any closer than having them beat you on the last play of the game. CovCath did beat Highlands by 10 in the playoffs; a game that causes me to vomit each time I think about it because we played so poorly. Highlands should have won the regular season game (why we choose not to double team CovCath's best receiver on that last play and matched up a 4 or 5 inch shorter DB on their best receiver that last play still puzzles the hell out of me) and I believe that if we had won the regular season game we would have won the playoff game. If that had happened, a Highlands vs. Johnson Central matchup would been a quick game, as like Johnson Central that year Highlands ran the ball a whole lot.