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2018 CIAC Football Playoffs

Wordbomar said:
Yeah but last year everyone said they weren't good either and they smoked all three teams they played in M. Idk what to expect
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They're about half as good as they were last year. Brookfield, Berlin, Sheehan, Joe's and New Fairfield are all M teams I've seen play that are a league above killingly.
 
JMick said:
They're about half as good as they were last year. Brookfield, Berlin, Sheehan, Joe's and New Fairfield are all M teams I've seen play that are a league above killingly.
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Only team that can come close to giving St Joe's any competition is Berlin. Maybe Brookfield too on a good day.
 
huskyrob1 said:
Brookfield gave Berlin a game though, 16-6. A long away game, I might add.
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I finally got to watch the game. Berlin was very lucky to win that one. Brookfield had 4 or 5 turnovers in Berlin territory and dropped interceptions on a Berlin scoring drive. I don't know what happened but they had basically no turnovers all year, played North Haven and turned into a turnover machine. The stars just didn't align for them this year. Their QB of the future wasn't ready for primetime so their best WR had to play QB as a senior, they have a weak junior class outside of henderson, and the good class of sophomores were just too small still. They will be interesting to watch next season with Henderson back but basically all new junior starters across the board. They should finally be able to go back to the spread/power run combo though. I think the new coach will open up the offense more.
 
huskyrob1 said:
Brookfield gave Berlin a game though, 16-6. A long away game, I might add.
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That is such a Connecticut (and New England) thing to say. What's it, 50 miles between the two towns?

A colleague's son plays football for Loveland HS in Colorado, which is in north-central Colorado near Fort Collins. They were the higher seed in the second round of their state playoffs and hosted some high school west of west of Grand Junction. That school had a 5 hour drive across the Rock Mountains in November to get to a game that they then lost 43-7. A week later, Loveland had to take their own 5 1/2 hour tour across the Rockies to play Montrose in SW Colorado, which they won. Now, he's really psyched, even if his freshman son is not playing much, as Loveland only has to drive 50 miles south to Mile High (guess the old name is back now that Sports Authority had died) for the title game.
 
JMick said:
I finally got to watch the game. Berlin was very lucky to win that one. Brookfield had 4 or 5 turnovers in Berlin territory and dropped interceptions on a Berlin scoring drive. I don't know what happened but they had basically no turnovers all year, played North Haven and turned into a turnover machine. The stars just didn't align for them this year. Their QB of the future wasn't ready for primetime so their best WR had to play QB as a senior, they have a weak junior class outside of henderson, and the good class of sophomores were just too small still. They will be interesting to watch next season with Henderson back but basically all new junior starters across the board. They should finally be able to go back to the spread/power run combo though. I think the new coach will open up the offense more.
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They'll be back, the youth football culture in Brookfield is a good one and has always had good community support. Drysdale, Reich, and some others were part of a Pop Warner team that made it to the National semi finals or something a few years back.
 
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Mr. Conehead said:
That is such a Connecticut (and New England) thing to say. What's it, 50 miles between the two towns?

A colleague's son plays football for Loveland HS in Colorado, which is in north-central Colorado near Fort Collins. They were the higher seed in the second round of their state playoffs and hosted some high school west of west of Grand Junction. That school had a 5 hour drive across the Rock Mountains in November to get to a game that they then lost 43-7. A week later, Loveland had to take their own 5 1/2 hour tour across the Rockies to play Montrose in SW Colorado, which they won. Now, he's really psyched, even if his freshman son is not playing much, as Loveland only has to drive 50 miles south to Mile High (guess the old name is back now that Sports Authority had died) for the title game.
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That's what happens when you live in a state that has a population density of 2 people per square mile. Lol
 
huskymedic said:
Jeff Jacobs: In state playoffs, especially Class M, there has to be a better choice
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Old news in Jersey, though its the Catholic high schools that are the issue and not the Vo-Tech schools. Vo-Tech education for the most part is integrated into the regular public schools with a few exceptions, such as Passiac Tech. P-T is treated as a 'regular' Public school as they can field an array of competitive sport teams, including football, from the 3,500 or so students that attend. As for the Catholics, who swear they don't recuit (LOL), it got bad enough about 20 years ago now that they were separated into their own state playoff sections (Non-Public A and Non-Public B). In North Jersey, they have their own divisions (large and small) within the Big North Conference to separate out regular season games. Publics just can't compete with the Catholics in most sports, especially football and hockey (Lax will be next), as they draw in kids from all over NJ, NYC, Putnam & Orange counties in NY, and even eastern PA. The only cross-over between Public and Catholic schools is usually in the County Tournaments, which do no include football.

If I remember correctly from living in Massachusetts years back, they have separate leagues and playoff section for Vo-Tech schools.
 
Class L Semifinal game between Hand and Windsor has been pushed back to a 3:00pm kickoff due to potential thunderstorms. :rolleyes:
 
kris1 said:
Class L Semifinal game between Hand and Windsor has bee pushed back to 3:00pm due to potential thunderstorms. :rolleyes:
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I played multiple sports for 10 years and had one or two games delayed because of lightning. That's thousands of games, and it happened once or twice. There have been more games this football season postponed or delayed because of lightning than I can ever remember.
 
kris1 said:
Class L Semifinal game between Hand and Windsor has been pushed back to a 3:00pm kickoff due to potential thunderstorms. :rolleyes:
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“Wussification” indeed!
 
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kris1 said:
And Sheehan has turf!!! Lol
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jarvis looks terrible. these are old school football conditions. I don't like Ansonia but I hate Bloomfield. Hope you guys can win this one and lose in the final lol
 
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I support Ansonia, but I’m pretty honest about how “good” they are from year to year. This isn’t a great Ansonia team. However the Ansonia/Bloomfield matchup was a sloppy (literally) but an exciting one to watch. It could have gone either way. Bloomfield made some big plays down the stretch that allowed them to squeak this one out after giving Ansonia an opportunity to tie or win in the final minutes. Crazy ending to this one. Both teams were evenly matched. Bloomfield made a few more plays . Neither team is great to be honest. Ansonia returns a lot of players from this team next year. They’ll be back next year. Bloomfield should beat H-K for the S title. I think this game was a perfect example of Ansonia’s NVL schedule hurting them. They’re not tested in the NVL and they have a hard time winning (finishing) close games in the state playoffs.

Greenwich is scary good. Arguably the best team I’ve seen in a long time. They’re clearly the best team in CT and it’s not even close (sorry Hand fans). I know NC is on fire right now and they’ll have a chance to win, but Greenwich’s defense gets after you and sets them apart from everyone else. They’d beat UConn too!! ;)

By the way....I hope The staff is recruiting Mozi Bici. That kid is an absolute stud.
 
kris1 said:
Bloomfield made some big plays down the stretch that allowed them to squeak this one out after giving Ansonia an opportunity to tie or win in the final minutes. Crazy ending to this one. Both teams were evenly matched. Bloomfield made a few more plays
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Brayden turning into a decent QB for Bloomfield as a soph. Seems to be able to make the throws when necessary. Should be interested to see how he develops over next two years.
kris1 said:
By the way....I hope The staff is recruiting Mozi Bici. That kid is an absolute stud.
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He committed to Brown a few weeks ago.
 
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