Columbus Ready 98 Washington Court House 20

[chiefs]

Considering the school I support played this exact same Ready team the week before, let me offer my perspective.

Before Ready and Fisher played, it was known that Ready basically had my son's team beat. Ready had triple the size of Fisher's football team and much bigger and faster kids. The score at halftime was 49-0 Ready, and Ready hadn't done too much passing with their QB Matt Yoho (only nine attempts) in the first half. This was an expected result. In the second half, Ready put in their sophomores and freshmen (mind you, the league that Fisher Catholic plays in, as is the case with a few other small school leagues across Ohio, could easily be won by their JV team because there was some talent and skill present there as well). They only attempted three passes in the second half and they were short hook routes and basic plays. I saw nothing wrong with this. Their strategy appeared to be just keep the ball in their hands and make Fisher's already thin defense stop them. And those Fisher boys shut them out in the second half and was able to hang 14 points on them. I expected that Fisher was going to lose handily, and that did in fact happen, but I came away very impressed with how Ready did the very cool thing of just running up the gut and making our boys stop them. That is class.

Now... it was believed that Washington Court House was going to be a tough challenge for Ready. It is by far a bigger school and has a bigger football team (IF I AM CORRECT) and had wins against D3 and D4 schools. I do not think Cutler thought that far into the future on what he would do in a hypothetical 9 score margin situation. Ready from what I understand had most of their JV in for the last eight minutes of the third quarter and the whole fourth quarter. It wasn't expected that their fourth or fifth string running back was going to break a fifty yard touchdown run. It wasn't expected those kids from WCH were just going to quit and stop playing.

[chiefs]

FC Fan,

Personally, I'm not "turning a blind eye" at all. I hadn't seen the other scores you are speaking of. By all means, tell me about it. I'm not as interested in bashing anyone as I am in giving my honest opinion just as I would regardless of wether it was a public or private school, a school I support or don't support, etc.

Hey man, I appreciate it. Glad to see what you're saying, it just seems like there is a prejudice on here against the big bad private school, because I've heard enough crowing from court house fans about how privates and publics need to be split.

It wasn't Ready's fault Court House played sloppy early on and has terrible kick and punt coverage. It wasn't Ready's fault that their fifth running back busted a 50 yarder for a TD. In the City League there is huge disparity between the football programs that scores that have 60 or 70 point margins are inevitable. But who could've forseen that Court House wasn't going to be very competitive in this game?

[chiefs]

FC Fan your pretty stu..d if you think Ready doesn't have a jv or freshman team.

I'm glad I learned something about myself on here. I live in the Columbus area and in years past Ready has had a JV team and sometimes a freshmen team but I have not heard or read anything about such teams this year. I do know that the student population at Ready is dropping off a bit (went from D4 last year to D6 this year) and that sports such as soccer and golf are popular things boys like to do at Ready. I checked OHSAA's schedule page for Ready and it says Ready only has a handful of JV games. No freshmen team apparently. And I know that some of the schools their varsity plays doesn't have JV programs, so eh.

[noles_fan]

Yup and Taylor also scored in the 10th TD of the game which was in the 3rd quarter

If they're cycling in four or five different running backs by that point then who cares? (And I realize I said they threw only one TD pass, obviously that is wrong when I re-looked at the box score). Ready only has about fifty or so kids on the team, and most of them are linemen. I'm sure WCH had more kids on the team, so in terms of numbers and apparent physicality, there was no mismatch. Now talent and heart? Looks like Ready won that battle.

Sounds like people on here are only interested in bashing the private school. Let's turn a blind eye that also on Friday night, a Columbus City League team beat another City League team 84-8 (AND WENT FOR TWO IN THE FOURTH QUARTER). Or a few years ago one of the burb schools beat the other 84-6. Blowouts happen.

Taylor Scored the first 2 TD's of the game. So at that point people who see a box score that has the same kid that scored the first two TD's score again to make it 70-14 yes it is going to raise some eyebrows. There has to be a point where your player rotation gets to where its is 1 or 2. When you have scored 63 their should not be anyone other than JV kids in the game. If they only have a hand full of JV games you would think the coach would take a game like this to give his JV kids a couple of more quarters of playing time. And thats any school public or private.

[Mad-Dogg]

Now I really hope valley gets to play them in the playoffs. I don't care there is no excuses to scoring that much. Game should have been called.

Valley won't beat ready. It won't even be close

[chiefs]

Noles fan - I don't think coach Cutler anticipated the game getting so out of hand so quickly, or else he would've prepared for his JV to come in.

[jagered]

LOL VALLEY WILL NEVER SEE READY!!

[Cruiser74]

Lets see here now. Ready 77 WCH 7 and then Cutler called off the dogs. Wait a minute.........Ready 84 WCH 14 so Cutler decides to let a kid return a kickoff 99 yards. Guess Cutler thought the game was getting close. By the way this same kid returned a kickoff 70 yds in the 2nd qtr. It was just getting out of hand and Cutler was caught off guard. I've got some oceanfront property for sale in Columbus.....

[Jesco White]

LOL VALLEY WILL NEVER SEE READY!!

I thought you were the same guy that was all about as many local teams as possible going as far as possible, doing as well as possible in the playoffs? Did that change? Or does it just not apply to Valley?

By the way, back in '05 we heard all about how Valley wouldn't even advance to a game with Ready. Then, when they did, all week it was how bad Ready would hammer the Indians. When the game ended it was 28-7 Valley. Not that I expect a repeat of '05, but I also refuse as a competitive person to sit here and simply say it won't.

[TheNatural]

Think of the worst beat down you have ever received in a sporting event. Think about how you are still an emotional wreck to this day and how it broke your mother's heart seeing her baby lose that way. Ready should be ashamed of themselves.

Ok, seriously though, I'm all for sportsmanship and according to this thread Ready has the most sportsmanship one game and the least in another and without being there, I don't really have an opinion on them or this game. But sometimes kids need to learn to have some thick skin, like mentioned earlier. It has to suck horribly to lose that way, but let it motivate you to not lose that way again. I played on a team that had about a .100 winning percentage over four years and we absolutely wore it some games in almost this fashion. I think it was good for me and I also appreciate my parents never throwing a fit about too.

.... and while I'm at it, this street goes both ways, I have seen the third and fourth string of the winning team ran out there against the starters of the losing team and they'll just let them crush the little guys for two or three series before putting in their 2's

[4thgoal]

From reading some comments about this game on another site....it appears the coaches didn't quite get along either. Apparently, the WCH coaches refused to exchange game tape and also refused to shake hands before the game. Kinda sounds to me like there was an issue between the coaches and Ready made a statement on the field to resolve it.

[M0TIVAT0R]

Lets see here now. Ready 77 WCH 7 and then Cutler called off the dogs. Wait a minute.........Ready 84 WCH 14 so Cutler decides to let a kid return a kickoff 99 yards. Guess Cutler thought the game was getting close. By the way this same kid returned a kickoff 70 yds in the 2nd qtr. It was just getting out of hand and Cutler was caught off guard. I've got some oceanfront property for sale in Columbus.....

If he had already returned one KO for a TD why did they kick to him again? Also, was he supposed to fall down when he caught the kick? Or just run out of bounds? Maybe hand the ball to a WCH player and let him run it in for a TD?

[4thgoal]

Lets see here now. Ready 77 WCH 7 and then Cutler called off the dogs. Wait a minute.........Ready 84 WCH 14 so Cutler decides to let a kid return a kickoff 99 yards. Guess Cutler thought the game was getting close. By the way this same kid returned a kickoff 70 yds in the 2nd qtr. It was just getting out of hand and Cutler was caught off guard. I've got some oceanfront property for sale in Columbus.....

If he had already returned one KO for a TD why did they kick to him again? Also, was he supposed to fall down when he caught the kick? Or just run out of bounds? Maybe hand the ball to a WCH player and let him run it in for a TD?

If it was a strong enough kick to be fielded at the 1, he could have just let it go into the endzone for a touchback

[chiefs]

Lets see here now. Ready 77 WCH 7 and then Cutler called off the dogs. Wait a minute.........Ready 84 WCH 14 so Cutler decides to let a kid return a kickoff 99 yards. Guess Cutler thought the game was getting close. By the way this same kid returned a kickoff 70 yds in the 2nd qtr. It was just getting out of hand and Cutler was caught off guard. I've got some oceanfront property for sale in Columbus.....

If he had already returned one KO for a TD why did they kick to him again? Also, was he supposed to fall down when he caught the kick? Or just run out of bounds? Maybe hand the ball to a WCH player and let him run it in for a TD?

If it was a strong enough kick to be fielded at the 1, he could have just let it go into the endzone for a touchback

From what I understand it took a bounce or two. I would imagine that might've been the case if the earlier kickoff that got returned for a touchdown was picked up at the thirty.

[chiefs]

Anyways, it sounds like there's a lot of bassackward mentality when it comes to competitive spirit down in Court House. If you're going to quit playing you don't deserve to be on the field. It sounds like negative attitudes isn't a new thing at Court House.

[M0TIVAT0R]

Lets see here now. Ready 77 WCH 7 and then Cutler called off the dogs. Wait a minute.........Ready 84 WCH 14 so Cutler decides to let a kid return a kickoff 99 yards. Guess Cutler thought the game was getting close. By the way this same kid returned a kickoff 70 yds in the 2nd qtr. It was just getting out of hand and Cutler was caught off guard. I've got some oceanfront property for sale in Columbus.....

If he had already returned one KO for a TD why did they kick to him again? Also, was he supposed to fall down when he caught the kick? Or just run out of bounds? Maybe hand the ball to a WCH player and let him run it in for a TD?

If it was a strong enough kick to be fielded at the 1, he could have just let it go into the endzone for a touchback

Yes, or they could have just not kicked it to him. Heck onside kick it and have a better chance of keeping them from returning it for a TD.