Originally posted by Greenvapor:
O.K. Let's get some facts here. First, for all of you are putting St. Ed's down, where any of you at the game last night? or did any of you listen to it on the radio?
The two point conversion that has a lot of you fired up came on a fire play. In other words, the holder had problems handling the ball and you yell a word like 'fire' and everyone knows the snap was bad so you try to score two points. I don't recall you caught the ball, but the holder was a starter on defense but is the backup quarterback for the Gaels. He is also the backup holder as well. He is a junior. I don't know if they actually have a third string quarterback.
Two, St. Ed's has small numbers out for football. In the program, which did not have all the players listed on it, there are only eleven players who are not seniors. That does not include some freshman who saw some action last night. Last year St. Ed's had only three freshman go out. This year it is up to nine. Not real big numbers in the lower classes as you can see.
I think they may have 13 seniors on their rooster.
Thirdly, as the game went on, I could sense the St. Ed's coaches where uncomfortable with the score. I know because I was there and saw their facial expressions. Personally, I felt sorry for the Knights. I thought it might be a closer game given what the Gaels did against Algona Garrigan (Not sure if I spelled that one correctly) last week. The score was 14-0 at half and the Gaels had to hold on for a 14-7 win. The game was still in doubt with less than two minutes to go in the game with the Bears driving for at least a tie. The quarterback fumble the ball and the defense recovered it. End of game. The Gaels did not look good in week 1.
For what it is worth, after the game, it really felt like a defeat to many of the fans, even though the Gaels won. I don't think anyone likes to see a score like that.
I am not sure what you do in an instance like this. Do you tell your kids to fumble the ball, I know coaches who have done this, or to fall down on purpose? I think part of the reason the score was so high was because the Gaels don't have a large number of underclassmen. When they put backups in, the tend to be seniors who play a lot or junior who don't see a lot of action. I have got to believe the Gaels play at least 8 players both ways like many smaller schools do.
I would like to hear from others who might have a suggestion as to how not to run up the score on schools who are less competitive. This happens a lot.
In the end, it is easy to form opinions that are not totally based on facts. If you had the facts on this game, some of you might not be hating so much on the Gaels.
