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The refs called everything tonight. Was told crew was from the 7th Region vicinity but I dunno if that's fact.

CCH had costly penalties called on them in both of their first 2 drives that definitely contributed to their going 3 and out with both drives. JC had the PF called on them on the play that went out of bounds onto their sideline. JC fans wanted a PF for unneccessary roughness called because they thought CCH's player continued driving the player out of bounds and the officials called a PF on JC instead. A CCH player came back to our sideline after the play and said a JC player on the sideline who wasn't in on the previous play shoved the CCH defender in the back and into another player and said it happened bang-bang but happened right in front of the side judge. Then on the following play JC was stopped for a loss and also had a holding penality that was declined.

2nd half CCH made a lot of adjustments on D which no one from JC has acknowledged on here yet. They were in JC's backfield a lot. Their D-ends kept contain much more effectively. JC had two false starts called on them. Both were on #75 and were obvious before the flag was even thrown. CCH and JC both had delay of game penalities in the 2nd half that were both legit. On the illegal procedure penalty there were two players in JC's backfield that went into motion which is illegal motion all day every day. There was a 4th down play where the holding flag was declined by CCH. The roughing the passer penalty, the QB took a 7 step drop and JC's rusher was 4 yards away from him when he released the ball and still put him on his butt. That's roughing the passer anywhere you play the game. CCH had 2 holding calls on their first 4Q drive that stopped the drive.

That was literally all of the penalties that took place in the game. I have eyes on the PF penalty personally but I trust that my player wasn't making up what happend and it'd certainly seem like there was an official who saw it based on the flag. Can personally vouch for the legitimacy og every other penality in the game in CCH and JC both. Watch the film. They were there. I know JC folks are upset because it's disappointing to lose and have your season ended, but how about a little credit to CCH instead of nothing but trying to make a case for the game being nothing but a JC win that the officials took away from them? There were costly penalties called on both teams tonight and every one of those penalties took place as called.

Congrats to JC on a solid season. You guys are a rushing machine and in today's game of football, that's rare and extremely impressive to watch executed like you do it.

I sat up on top of the pressbox last year filming the game and had the JC staff in my ear telling me how "Look at how obvious it is that we're the better team. It's obvious that CCH is only winning by a fluke." I had the dad of a really famous JC grad among the crew of guys saying that stuff. All while we were up on JC 24-0 and then 31-0. How about some JC folks acknowledging that a competitor that beat them might, I dunno, have actually won the game?

Ain't gonna happen. They are just the worst of the worst(except for my buddy, King Kong. He's the best of the best, in sportsmanship.)

I'm an eastern Kentucky sports fan (albeit mostly Raceland and Ashland) so I was hoping for a Johnson Central win. Through the years I've watched many Ashland and Johnson Central games. I've even traveled down 23 a few times just to watch a "big" JC game against highly ranked opponents. I have experienced what you're referring to many times. Over the last two decades Johnson Central has had the better program. When the Tomcats would win a game there was always a reason, there just had to be. Usually officiating and/or injuries, but always a reason.

I met Jim Matney while taking summer classes at Morehead and I absolutely loved the guy. The culture he created there was just amazing to watch, so for me, the rivalry between Ashland and JC has always been friendly. Here's what I've found out though, coaches and people very close to the program and most people on message boards (like us) are not the best representation of the center of any fan base. I've talked to a few JC fans in the stands who exemplify this psychosis but the majority of them were truly open minded and just out enjoying a high school football game. That's my kind of people, no matter what colors they wear. Don't judge the whole nation by the few with the loudest voices, even if that program has a greater percentage of fans experiencing psychosis.