MNW struggles to beat Orlando Boone
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D-Swizzel102
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State Champs.
Northwestern would beat x by at 2 scores. They have a bad game on offense against one of the best defenses in 6a and still win 41-0. They should be national champs. Not to be mean but they should be ranked ahead of DLS. Flip flop teams. If mia northwestern is in that game and pounding corona they dont let them come back. 30 legit d-1 players. They are the best team in the country. IF you wanted them so bad this year, you should have sent one of your ohio teams down here to play them and get beat. Again the only states that seem to travel to florida are georgia(right there next to), and Conn. what a shame. What a shame that the best team in the country gets shafted. The top 5 teams in the country are like this
1. MNW
2. St.X
3. Mia BTW
4. DLS
5. Pahokee.
Florida football dominated this year.
Hurri-Comet
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Florida football dominated this year. There I've said it again. 
And the college recruiters all over the USA are salivating over the the Florida talent again.
And the college recruiters all over the USA are salivating over the the Florida talent again.Price_Hillbilly
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Lakeland beat X by three scores last year too huh... And of course, to emphasize your prediction (conveniently, I might add), you'll say now that MNW is SO much better than Lakeland last year. We can argue this until we're blue in the face. So, just to spite you, I'd say X wins by 5 touchdowns.
And for the 557th time, Ohio schools are MANDATED by the OHSAA. They CANNOT, BY RULE come down to Florida to play!!!! End of discussion.
Just out of curiosity, why the chest-thumping BS this year? You used to be quite objective, and I actually enjoyed your posts.
X-MNW would be a really fun game to see.
In the trenches, I doubt there was a battle between higher quality line corps in the nation this year than what X-MNW would display.
X would face a team athletically superior to any they faced this year. That said, I also think MNW would surprised by the high quality of player X has at every position. And like Lakeland found, I think the speed differential would not be as great as people are so quick to claim.
If X were to have faced MNW earlier in the season, with X missing Ashley and the secondary more vulnerable to the pass (pre-adjustment), I think the game would have been an MNW win. I believe MNW would have gone into the half with at least a 2 or 3 TD lead. The second half would have been closer (X's coaches were stellar this year at adjustments), but not enough to close the gap. Following defensive changes and the return of Darius in mid-season, you've got a heckuva game.
In the trenches, I doubt there was a battle between higher quality line corps in the nation this year than what X-MNW would display.
X would face a team athletically superior to any they faced this year. That said, I also think MNW would surprised by the high quality of player X has at every position. And like Lakeland found, I think the speed differential would not be as great as people are so quick to claim.
If X were to have faced MNW earlier in the season, with X missing Ashley and the secondary more vulnerable to the pass (pre-adjustment), I think the game would have been an MNW win. I believe MNW would have gone into the half with at least a 2 or 3 TD lead. The second half would have been closer (X's coaches were stellar this year at adjustments), but not enough to close the gap. Following defensive changes and the return of Darius in mid-season, you've got a heckuva game.
Hurri-Comet
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Ye Concha, it would be. Too bad they can't play it. Now Booker T. Washington has challenged MNW to a game at the Orange Bowl. Polls and rankings and pride, wowee!
Price_Hillbilly
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Tom Bergeron... I'll agree.
There are 2 differences. Lakeland was one dimensional and easier to scheme against. MNW isn't so easy. Still, they can be beaten. So can St. X. Both teams had close games this year.
RidgePride
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I agree completely.
I think SLC of this year would beat last years Lakeland team. One dimensional teams do not beat SLC.
If MNW was one dimensional, they would have lost to SLC this year.
The coach of MNW was quoted as saying "The game plan in the second half was to run the ball, but SLC shut it down." So they went to plan B- Which worked.
Shut down Lakeland's running and the game is practically over.
Osceola and St. X did it last year and almost won their games. 2005 Lakeland had Billy Lowe at QB who was the MVP of the CaliFlorida bowl that year. Lakeland in 2005 was a machine, no close games that I can think of other than the Niceville fiasco which they won. MNW last year with Roland Smith was more aggressive and went for the kill. If he was the coach of MNW in the SLC game, I think SLC loses by 20 or more points. Also, I don't think MNW has that many close games. Billy Rolle is much more conservative. I would take last year's MNW team over this year's even though this year's got most of the #1 rankings.
2005 Lakeland vs 2006 MNW would have been a damn good game. Last year, Lakeland tied with SLC on #1 rankings. MNW was around #5. I would pick MNW to have beaten both of them (even with Dodge the coach at SLC because MNW had Roland Smith).
RidgePride
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Last year SLC had a much better defense -consequently they had a better team.
SLC's 06 Defense was the best they had in their 5 year run. With the loss of 8 very good defensive players, SLC was not even the best team in TX 2007.
If you did not know, SLC had 8 guys on defense playing their second Varsity game against MNW - - they also had two starting Offensive lineman out due to injury.
Give me 06 SLC to easily beat (10-14 pts) a one dimensional Lakeland team, and also beat MNW 06 in a closer game.
Several of us knew that this summer.
Ridge: You don't get the fact that Lakeland in 2006 was more physicaly imposing, by a gaping margin, than 2006 Euless Trinity. Lakeland had the Pouncey's on the OL, two NFL-ready bodies as high-schoolers. One of them got the best of who will be the top pick in the draft in Glenn Dorsey, just a few months after the state championship game. They had two D1 running backs. Trinity, on the other hand, had very nice high-school players. Not quite the same deal. And we saw Trinity give SLC plenty of trouble. Simply on the basis of being run-oriented, lots of teams would have beaten Lakeland. But, they didn't because it was an oddly imposing running team.
2005 Lakeland had a mobile, dual-threat QB and a big-time TE in Jordan Hammond. And a better defense.
Let's not begin another rendetion of revisionist history and try to marginalize Lakeland. And X bookending the 2006 season with two 15-0 seasons tells me the 2006 team wasn't far off of the level of 2005 and 2007. MANY key players from both the 2005 and 2007 teams were on the field against Lakeland at Nippert in 2006.
skyway, why do you think the '06 team as physically gifted as it was struggled so to speak cpmpared to the '05 squad? More close games against the same level of competition.
I have seen many times more talented teams not gel or whatever as a team and consequently no being as good of a team as lesser talented versions.
Not certain if that's what RP is getting at, but I think that many people including myself feel the '05 team was a better product than the '06 one.
Absolutely the 2005 team was better. The 2006 team wasn't quite as physical due to the loss of Hammond to injury. And it was one-dimensional on offense whereas the 2005 team had a legitimate passing game and a mobile QB.
Without actually researching it, Milligan, Craig and Ashley all started and made huge plays. Everybody raved about the sophomore class at X in 2005.
Only point was that the lower-rated of the two Pounceys started from day one and went into Baton Rouge and roached/panckaked Dorsey multiple times. If you beat or play to a draw the projected top pick in the draft in week 6 as a true frosh, you are NFL ready. And his BMI (Body Mass Index-a muscle-fat ratio) inidicates he is NFL ready as well. His twin is his equal also.
consumerman
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The 2006 team wasn't quite as physical due to the loss of Hammond to injury.
st x is the only football team in history to ever have some players who were injured
oh darn, travis carrie, the offensive and defensive STAR of the california division 1 state championship missed over two years of playing time
i guess dls can excuse away three losses in 2005 and 2006 cuz carrie was injured
st x is the only football team in history to ever have some players who were injured
oh darn, travis carrie, the offensive and defensive STAR of the california division 1 state championship missed over two years of playing time
i guess dls can excuse away three losses in 2005 and 2006 cuz carrie was injured
Einstein,
The point is that X won games DESPITE key injuries.
The site of that minor point soaring over your head must have been spectacular to see.
consumerman
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despite the loss of hammond to injury in 2006
umm st x lost twice in 2006 sherlock
they have never beaten an florida california or texas power
"MANY" = Three
There's the problem. In my reality 3 of 22 isn't "MANY". Hey, maybe I'm wrong.
consumerman
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consumerman
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i didnt make the 2006 quote about hammond i just quoted it
and the MAIN point remains
st x is the ONLY team in football history to have injuries right?
or are t hey the only team to cry about it?
like they cry about not winning the usa today national championship
and they cry about specht not getting coach of the year
like the whole world of high school football revolves around st x
and on the usa today blog you repeated all the crybaby excuses why st x performed so poorly against st iggy
st x is the first team in history to lose a qb right?
waaaaaaaaaaaa
Are you utterly ignorant of the importance of line play?
Quarterback?
You are just a dullard.
St. X was the only team to play what was generally recognized as the nation's toughest schedule.
I don't know of another national poll title title contender this year that lost its star running back for several games and then had their quarterback blow out a knee, yet still go undefeated - against the nation's toughest schedule no less. Do you? Maybe there's another one in fantasyland. Go check for us.
Run along.
consumerman
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X was the only team to play what was generally recognized as the nation's toughest schedule
agreed
I don't know of another national poll title title contender this year that lost its star running back for several games and then had their quarterback blow out a knee, yet still go undefeated
unconfirmed but very possible
now which other top national team took three ovetimes to squeak by a 3 loss unrated team??????????????????????????/
yes st x beat a indiana d3 champ (lmao)
and they beat a 2 loss kentucky champ (not bad, not great they trailed 24-13)
st x does not travel to out of state games
they were 20 seconds from losing in the state semis
they allowed almost as many points in one half that dls allowed in 13 first halves
they are a great team
unfortunately they are not the ONLY great team
that ohio backers cant see that and why and cry and ----- and moan says a lot