Gilman vs River Hill

[speedin23]

I disagree, RH does not have the right offense to hang with McD. McD's offense was so bad early in the season that RH would have had a chance early on, but there's no way RH beats the McD team that was playing at the end of the season with Wood at QB. I'd say 21-7, 21-14, or 28-14 or somewhere along those lines as a final score. The front 7 of McD is too good to allow that Wing-T offense of RH to drive against them on a consistent basis. RH's defense is good too, but I think Jabari, Taysean, and Syl Brown are too much for them athletically.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you need a great passing offense if you want to hang with MIAA teams. A CHC team in a down MIAA beat Dunbar by 24, Dunbar has given up 23 points total in the 12+ games they've played since then. MIAA defenses are too good to consistently move the ball on the ground. Even though they lost in the semis, I'd still give Westminster the best shot at taking down an A Conference team on a warm day with good conditions for passing. You need that quick strike element to match a team with more talent and/or better coaching.

I think Westminster would have a good chance against CHC and McD. It's too bad that Westminster turned down the offer from McD to play Week 4 this season. We would have actually had 3 good public vs. MIAA A games to look at. It's also too bad that RH is locked into the schedule they are, I'd like to see them play McD and/or CHC.

If Westminster wasn't losing most of their weapons on offense this year, I'd say I would like to see Westminster-CHC in the I-95 Classic to open up the 2013 season.

You are out of touch with reality. 2A Douglass manhandled a team that went 3-3 against your vaunted MIAA A. Douglass runs the ball on probably 75-80% of their offensive plays.

Gilman and Calvert Hall are both great teams. The rest in that league are lol

[GREYHOUND ALUM]

You are out of touch with reality. 2A Douglass manhandled a team that went 3-3 against your vaunted MIAA A. Douglass runs the ball on probably 75-80% of their offensive plays.

Gilman and Calvert Hall are both great teams. The rest in that league are lol

Actually Speed he's right. At the end of the year, the second best team in the league was McDonogh not CHC. McDonogh would have beaten CHC in the playoffs if the league didn't bow down to the exhibition game called the Turkey Bowl

[eaglesinsider]

You are out of touch with reality. 2A Douglass manhandled a team that went 3-3 against your vaunted MIAA A. Douglass runs the ball on probably 75-80% of their offensive plays.

Gilman and Calvert Hall are both great teams. The rest in that league are lol

I'd like to see Spalding play Douglass again, that Week 1 Spalding team was not the team that finished the year. Spalding doesn't win, but it's a much closer game.

Also, Spalding beat McD (pre-QB change), MSJ, and Loyola. MSJ was 0-5 regular season in the MIAA, Loyola was 2-3, beating McD (again pre-QB change) and MSJ. Spalding was dominated by Gilman and soundly beat by CHC.

Douglass would have a shot against McD pre-QB change just like RH did. You can't just look at a teams record and assume that they were the same team at the start of the year as they were at the end of the year. McD was on a roll at the end of the year.

[85Knight]

I'd like to see Spalding play Douglass again, that Week 1 Spalding team was not the team that finished the year. Spalding doesn't win, but it's a much closer game.

Also, Spalding beat McD (pre-QB change), MSJ, and Loyola. MSJ was 0-5 regular season in the MIAA, Loyola was 2-3, beating McD (again pre-QB change) and MSJ. Spalding was dominated by Gilman and soundly beat by CHC.

Douglass would have a shot against McD pre-QB change just like RH did. You can't just look at a teams record and assume that they were the same team at the start of the year as they were at the end of the year. McD was on a roll at the end of the year.

You're making a lot of excuses for the privates.By your logic Dunbar wasn't the same team at the end of the year so maybe the outcome would be different. If anything Spalding should have been ahead of Douglass in week one. You can't have it both ways.

[eaglesinsider]

You're making a lot of excuses for the privates.By your logic Dunbar wasn't the same team at the end of the year so maybe the outcome would be different. If anything Spalding should have been ahead of Douglass in week one. You can't have it both ways.

None of those teams made wholesale changes at the quarterback position. The McD team that played the first half of the season was nothing like the McD team that finished out the year. The same players were suiting up for CHC, Dunbar, and Douglass all season.

I don't know why you think Spalding should have been ahead of Douglass, the extra 2 days of practice or whatever it was they had really didn't make too much of a difference.

Dunbar probably does play CHC closer Week 10 than Week 1, but the same players that beat Dunbar by 24 were still playing for CHC, so I don't think they're 25 pts better than they were in Week 1.

[85Knight]

None of those teams made wholesale changes at the quarterback position. The McD team that played the first half of the season was nothing like the McD team that finished out the year. The same players were suiting up for CHC, Dunbar, and Douglass all season.

I don't know why you think Spalding should have been ahead of Douglass, the extra 2 days of practice or whatever it was they had really didn't make too much of a difference.

Dunbar probably does play CHC closer Week 10 than Week 1, but the same players that beat Dunbar by 24 were still playing for CHC, so I don't think they're 25 pts better than they were in Week 1.

I saw Dunbar scrimmage River Hill and I was the first one to come on this board and say that the Calvert Hall game wouldn't be close. Anyone who has watched them this season will tell you that they were in disarray early on and got better as the season progressed. I doubt very seriously that you know their roster well enough to know what changes they made over the course of the season and how much it affected them. On one hand you talk about how much better Spalding and McDonogh got over the course of the season but on the other hand you're not acknowledging that Dunbar and Douglass did too. I think it's because you watched McDonogh and Spalding but you didn't see much of Dunbar and Douglass during the season. Your argument seems flawed to me.

If you remember back to the start of the season the new practice rules that came out late caused the publics not to wear pads until the 1st scrimmage. This set them back a lot this year and their was such an uproar that there will be changes made next season. In normal years I'd agree that the practice difference between the publics and privates is negligible but that extra game the privates played this year gave them a bigger advantage than it normally would.

[agentorange]

i saw dunbar scrimmage river hill and i was the first one to come on this board and say that the calvert hall game wouldn't be close. Anyone who has watched them this season will tell you that they were in disarray early on and got better as the season progressed. I doubt very seriously that you know their roster well enough to know what changes they made over the course of the season and how much it affected them. On one hand you talk about how much better spalding and mcdonogh got over the course of the season but on the other hand you're not acknowledging that dunbar and douglass did too. I think it's because you watched mcdonogh and spalding but you didn't see much of dunbar and douglass during the season. Your argument seems flawed to me.

If you remember back to the start of the season the new practice rules that came out late caused the publics not to wear pads until the 1st scrimmage. This set them back a lot this year and their was such an uproar that there will be changes made next season. In normal years i'd agree that the practice difference between the publics and privates is negligible but that extra game the privates played this year gave them a bigger advantage than it normally would.

well done young jedi...thy foes are no match for you....