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• Glad its over !!!!

• @9:10am
  Thanks for the insight. I kinda wondered how a village of ~3000 can keep churning out all this talent. They have to be getting it from abroad. Have to admit Ithica is well coached. They try to strip the ball on every play and the O-line holds like crazy, especially when the QB scrambles...very opportunistic! Head coach is pretty arrogant, didn't give CC any credit during the press conference. It was there fault they lost because the offense didn't play well...had nothing to do with CC's defense I guess. Jack gave them complements - showed some class. Don't care for the press coverage. Seems like its all about the streak ending and how Ithica is handling it...very little about how well CC played. Happy that we won but sad to see the season end. This has to be the most exciting season in memory! Def looked forward to Friday nights. Thanks Chris for what you do...its great that folks can come here and voice their opinions, good or bad. That's what America is all about and it makes life exciting. Can't wait for next fall! The Huron League should be very interesting!

  JI

• Leave the system alone. What you are saying is we don't have the athletes to compete and it's not fair. Life is not fair you must be a democrat. Orange slices and trophies for all. Also Ithaca lost because they choked at the end and CC's defense made key stops. Defense wins championships period!
  So say what you they had this chance and that chance but the fact is the final score and that is all that matters. Excuses are for losers.
  On a side note when they started to chop block and took out two players with knee problems I was glad to see them fall. Shame on Ithaca's coaching staff.

• Already telling boys from SMCC that they will not be that good. When you going to learn. Jv only list to view and they were missing some good player's if I remember correctly. They will be solid and this years freshmen are good. They easily will contend.

• Great Job SMCC football team you are all MVP and STATE CHAMPIONS

• 10:25pm
  Meh, I don't know about this. I'm more about limiting the number of state champs in a state rather than increasing it. With these 3 tournaments, since there are less teams in each, say there are about 4 divisions in each. With the separate playoffs like this, you'll have a total of 12 state champions, and each playoff would have a state champion similar in size/enrollment to another state champion in the other playoffs. It reminds me of wrestling, where you have 4 state champions at each weight class.

  While I think the concept is intriguing, you're creating a separation of talent. I never like that separation, so I would debunk it. What about a playoff for the current system, though?

  You get the 8 state champions, then do a playoff. On one side you have D1 vs D2 and D3 vs D4, the winners facing in the semis. On the other side you have D5 vs D6 and D7 vs D8. Now potentially you could get Muskegon Catholic Central vs some huge D1 Cass Tech or Clarkston or something, which is scary. Even though it'd never happen due to the time and amount of games per season, but I'd love to see the overall state champion.

• 10:18am
  An SMCC player punched it out, and there were about 4 more Falcons there swarming the return man. So Ithaca didn't "give" them a TD, SMCC forced a turnover and ran it in. Good or bad play call, SMCC was in position for the underthrown ball...that's defense for ya. Your claim that Ithaca outplayed SMCC is questionable since play-calling, executing, and limiting turnovers is part of out-playing a team. SMCC did a better job than Ithaca in every one of those departments. They outplayed Ithaca when it counted.

  To say we had "luck on our sides" is also questionable. In the JLC game, Willis was starting both ways for one of the first times of the year and had 51 carries(!!!), more than twice his average per game. When a kid has to do that much to keep the game within reach, he's going to get tired and more prone to make mistakes / SMCC stripping him. You may call it luck, I call it executing when it counts.

  You said it best at the end...there have been a lot of games SMCC was really close to winning...except on the scoreboard. This felt like one of those games, and SMCC came out on top. Ithaca is young...they'll be back to win a state championship next year I'm sure. I would be fine with Coach Giarmo leaving...but SMCC will be decent next year. They won't be the same team they were this year...but solid nonetheless.

• Anonymous said...
  Whoa SMCC did not outplay Ithaca. Ithaca gave them a TD (YES THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF GIVING A TEAM A TD) and called one of the worst plays in the history of play calling going under center and throwing a reverse pass when they had been chewing CC's defense up and down the field on the ground. Ithaca scores there and it's lights out. CC went the final 6 possessions punting. They were just about given their final score after holding Ithaca. Chris hit the nail on the head Lamour had several huge plays on D and the big gain he had on 3rd down changed field position. If they don't gain those 20 yards Ithaca has 3 minutes and decent field position. Then everyone is on here questioning play calling after CC was sacked twice trying to throw back to back plays on 1st and 2nd down after. CC fans you earned it, but you have to admit you had some luck on your side. It's better to be good than lucky. JLC was about to score when their stud puked the ball up..Ithaca gives you a score in the 1st half and gift wraps a pic for Windham in the 4th qtr. I'll give SMCC credit, but you were outplayed in my opinion. The drive you had at the end of the game took time off and was impressive. There were so many times in the past when SMCC had a much better team than other schools and lost games like this. in 2010 they were much better and dominated Ithaca, but Ithaca won on the scoreboard.
  Yes I agree with the private vs public school, no coincidence that private went 4-0 and had teams in the finals.
  Congrats CC you represented the HL well
  Remember ...Ithaca had 4 seniors. They will win it next year going away. I hope coach jack gets out because they don't have much coming up after the junior class.

  November 29, 2014 at 10:18 AM

  BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH. Woulda ,shoulda, coulda.
  FALCONS WIN.

  If my aunt had (bleep), she'd be my uncle.

• Yeah. I think the PA announcer @ Ford Field was at The ELWOOD pounding shots before the games. He must have mispronounced the same name 5 different ways! Not very professional, dude. Not everyone has the last name of "Smith".

• Anonymous said...
  i don't hate anyones success and actually, i think we need 3 state championship tournaments.

  1) private school

  2) public schools that have 'open enrollment policy'.

  3) those public schools that only have 'in district students'.

  this seems like a fair answer.
  and i think the "open enrollment"
  tourney would have the most schools. hey, stosento u for this?

  November 29, 2014 at 10:25 AM

  Seriously? C'mon, soccer mom. Pretty soon you will want to reduce the game to "everyone gets a trophy for just showing up". This is football. It's not like that, and hopefully it never will. Unfortunately, we now live in a society that is so "PC" that we have to have little leagues like that for kids, so NO ONE has their feelings hurt. Bottom line is, you have to learn how to WIN, and you have to know how to LOSE. If you just sit around and just expect mediocrity, what is that teaching our future generations? They have nothing to strive for. If you have no goals in life, you're not a well-rounded human being. You don't think that SMCC learned anything from their past playoff losses? Most football teams in the country will tell you that in order to be considered the "BEST", you have to beat the "BEST. Plus, if we had it your way, the MHSAA Football playoffs would be over in April.