Parkland -SJP

[RoverNation05]

There’s nothing I have less patience for than complaining about officiating.

The shot D11 had this year would be to merge Easton and Nazareth - they touch, there are definitely parts of Palmer where you can accidentally buy a house in Nazareth if you’re not careful about school lines (the Madsons famously did that in the ‘90s). But give us Peyton Falzone (who is on a visit to Ohio State today - his recruiting is about to blow up as junior film circulates) and Newsome and Wimberly to throw to and as additional defensive backs and we’d take a pretty good swing.

I think the next D11 team that does give it a good shot will have to have a QB like Falzone to do it. I don’t think he’ll have the team around him to do it next year, and he was too young as a 10th grader last year (and that SJP team too good) to make it happen. If you put last year’s Nazareth team with next year’s Falzone, maybe it stays within a couple touchdowns.

 

[bucksftball]

Watched the first half to specifically look at the penalties. The first play from scrimmage, SJP RT jumped offsides and for some reason they didn't call it. The first hold in the red zone was a pretty obvious tackle of a linebacker who was shooting a gap. The hold on the QB run, SJP player had his hands full of jersey outside of the shoulder pads... sometimes you get away with that in HS. The hold called on the SJP on the receiver was also pretty straightforward. Hard not to call that right at the point of attack. The illegal man downfield on the Parkland screen was a close call, couldn't tell if the throw was actually over the LOS. I didn't like pass interference call against SJP on the bubble and go, and I didn't think the defensive offsides call was good. They moved but never crossed the LOS.

So basically I thought the SJP offensive penalties looked fair, a couple questionable ones on D. What I didn't look for was non-calls, those are much harder to find...