Wild night for Alabama preps

Tough to tell. Can’t see if he gets his hands all the way underneath it.

 

"When is a catch a catch?" again? He couldn't finish it. The call on the field should stand in my opinion.

 

Regarding the recruiting scandal at Lipscomb Academy.


Lipscomb Academy parts ways with football coach, former Titan Kevin Mawae
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/l...-with-football-coach-former-titan-kevin-mawae

 

If there's a recruiting scandal, you won't read about it in that rewritten press release.

 

I'm not a reporter chasing a story, but I am a guy who's a long time UAB fan. Dilfer has plenty of detractors among them. I have heard nothing that indicated his being involved. It's a big money prep school who paid to hire an ex-NFL QB, though. I'd have no problem believing they indulged in recruiting shenanigans, lord knows they are common enough. If there were, he most likely knew about it.

I'm simply saying that I'm in the big middle of that fan pool, and I have not heard so much as a rumor. I can point you at all kind of Dilfer hate over the DC and ST coaches, tacklers who seem to think they are playing pinball, and the utter lack of any competent halftime adjustments, though.

 

Actually, I think it's kinda quaint when public high schools elect to remain in their respective states' HSAAs, and continue operating as High
Schools, that is, schools including grades 9-12, no players over age 19, coaches usually teachers of actual academic subjects, with teams made up of students from their geographical areas, taking and passing representative academic schedules and following now somewhat antiquated "recruiting," residency and amateurism rules.

The rest of 'em, charter schools, private schools, boarding schools, prep academies, yadda yadda bullshit bullshit bullshit. Fuck 'em all. They're all U22 semipro teams. If I were still at newspapers, none of em would ever see a column inch of anything ever. If it was up to me they'd play in absolute secrecy.

 

Not Alabama, but a crazy finish. Quick-start version: Torres down by one in second OT, lines up to go for two, but is flagged for delay. Lines up for the kick, but there's a high snap and, in the scramble, gets a two-pointer for the W. But, the ball was caught by the long snapper who was an ineligible receiver, but no flag.

Shafter suffers first loss in controversial OT finish, falling to Madera-Torres 43-42 in D-IV football semifinal | Sports | bakersfield.com

 

I tweeted (sorry, X'd) my first live video of a TD and caught the DE punching the right tackle in the huevos THREE times on the play. Stellar debut.

 

Once that was posted, the DE rocketed up to No. 3 on Texas A&M's recruiting board.

 

You were able to tell me in about 50 words what took that writer 460 words to finally get to: The fact the 2 pointer should never have counted. Instead, he tries to get cute and completely misses the biggest part of that story until well after most people with no rooting interest would have given up.

It should be in your G-D lede: Shafter's bid at a perfect season and a chance to play for a section title were dashed on a play that should never have counted.
A broken PAT play in overtime with Madera-Torres trailing by one led to a miracle 2-point conversion except for one problem: The receiver who caught a desperation pass for the win was ineligible because he also snapped the ball that set the whole chaotic scene in motion.

I was never a huge fan of Zach Ewing when he was at the Californian, but he wouldn't have let that mistake slide.

 

Championship week in Alabama. And the play of the game segment is sponsored by … the state ABC board. Just lovely.

 

Like they need to advertise. They're relics of the blue law past here. The state controls alcohol sales, runs retail stores, sells wholesale to bars, all in order to control demon rum (and sin tax the snot out of it). There are liquor stores other than the state store, but they live on the margins - open later than 7 pm, open on Sunday or holidays. So it's a captive market.