Comments about ‘Cavemen no match for powerful Mater Dei’

I was at the game. Hippolito you have no right to frame the game like this. With 4 minutes to go in the 4th qtr. and down by 11 AF had 2 shots to pick balls that would have given them posession in Mater Dei territory. As it was, a blown coverage left a wide receiver wide open and they got an easy late score. I am shocked that you would write such an article. If you were at the game then what a waste of a plane ticket for your employer. Why not write something about the valiant effort made by the AF kids and how close the game really was. AF was a couple of plays away from upsetting one of the best teams in the nation....I really do want you to respond Mr Hippolito.

saw it on vootage.com (you can see a replay of the game) AF gave MD a great game. I think MD was rusty on defensive. Another issue is the number of games played. AF is already half-way through their season, whereas, MD is only beginning. None-the-less, AF is a great team and Utah football is for real.

AF put up a good effort. While MD was clearly on a different level that AF, I was impressed with the heart they showed. It would have been easy to pack it in after a quick 14-0 deficit but the Cavemen hung in there. A couple fluke plays (tipped pass INT returned for TD, bogus illegal block on MD punt return, screen pass for 75yd TD) made the game seem a bit closer than it was. MD was able to move the ball at will against the AF defense. #1, Murphy I think, is a great player and I'm surprised he's not going to a bigger school than BYU. Nothing to be ashamed about AF, you just were a bit out matched.

Don't worry. Mater Dei has been recruiting for years and years. If any school in Utah could recruit like that they would be a powerhouse as well.

Sounds like AF gave a good fight and represented well.

For the guy that said he is surprised the guy isn't going somewhere bigger than BYU, there isn't anything bigger than BYU for a mormon kid. That is where the good mormon players go. Kind of like the good catholic players get recruited to play high school ball at Mater Dei...

grreat job AF...ive been anticiating this an a few other out of state matches this year...sounds like the cavemen gave everything they could, which is something that is taught very well to utah football players...just think if we could schedule a MD match up with 801's big guns...bingham, alta, timpview, hell ill throw in east and c'wood too....1

Hippolito you were obviously not at the game. Nice to have a local newspaper cover the story and put two paragraphs about AF, and everything else in a totally bad article about AF. These kids came down here and played hard - they put everything they had into it. Jones had a great rushing and passing game. Murphy had a great game. Everyone else who got time did all they could. Pull your head out and give us a realistic view of the game.

da da da dear old AF High...

nice effort boys

To You Were Wrong!!!!

First, Mater Dei held a 23-point lead in the third quarter, which is difficult for any team to recover from.

Second, Davis Knight said it best about his own players: Some of their chests aren't big enough to hold their hearts, and lots of players left everything they had on the field. What more of a compliment do you want about a team's "valiant effort"?

Third, the story of the game was the MD quarterback. I dare you to tell me that any quarterback who throws for five touchdowns (three in the first quarter) and 440 yards (202 in the first quarter) in a winning effort *isn't* the main focus.

Fourth, all sportswriters have tight time and space constraints. After transcribing the quotes of my brief interview with Coach Knight, doublechecking my statistics and driving home, I had 25 minutes to write my story by deadline. That means summarizing the key points of the game quickly. When you can do that on a professional level and do it consistently, check back with me. Until then....

That's no surprise that Matt Barkley performed so well. He's supposedly one of the top football players in the class of 2009. I hope to see him in a USC jersey where he will most likely win the Heisman Trophy. Go Trojans!! USC 49 Nebraska 10.

Nice to know now that you are a SoCal guy working for the Salt Lake based Deseret News. I could see a local spin put out by the local papers here. But the Des news is a Utah paper. Glad to here you drove home from the game, the boys and their fans drove to a hotel/motel. Don't you think the MD QB gets enough ink. He played well and is legit. But to say that AF wasn't in the game late is just a flat out misrepresentation of the facts. If AF had not misfired on a few 2 pt coversion attempts late it would have been a 7 or 8 pt. game instead of 11 with 4 min to go. Either way their in the game. You tell me thats not in the game.....PLEASE

Hey Hippolito, we are forming a group and are going to blast your editor with our complaints of your incompetence and MD spin on what was a battle fought and almost won by the boys from AF HS.

stop complaining about the writer you gotta be kidding me what a bunch of babies

Great job A.F. Although Mater Dei is usually one of top 10 teams of Southern California, it is hard to compete against an area that has 10 times the recruiting power of the state of Utah. Living in So Cal you did my heart proud!

You AF fans are sure making fools of yourselves. And you don't understand how newspapers work. I guess the Dnews should have just gone with a boxscore instead of getting a Southern California writer to cover the game, because it appears you don't want an unbiased account of what happened at the game. I'm surprised that you're not blaming the loss on the officials or something. Honestly, you have no idea how stupid you are coming across. Why don't you clam up and go recruit some more Lone Peak kids to pretend to live in American Fork.

If I want read stories about the MD players I will read the SoCal papers. As a Utah resident I would expect "MY" hometown paper to write a story about our kids. The MD QB was outstanding but we had some outstanding play from our boys as well and I expected "MY" newspaper would have spent
more writing about our kids.

We aren't talking about unbiased. We are talking about professionalism. The local SoCal newspapers gave AF the respect they deserved and covered the game like it really was. It was a game late in the fourth qtr. Thats a fact. To imply a blowout is an incorrect representation of what happened. What Hippolito did in his article creating the picture that it was a blowout is an absolute insult to the effort and success that AF should be proud of.

utah football has no right to be playin against top cali football.david got smashed by goliath.

Unbelivable AF fans. The article wasn't negative towards AF, like someone suggested. I guess the reporter should have written, "if AF wouldn't have misfired on the 2 pt conversion, they could have been closer in the game. If they would have got an interception, maybe they would have scored." Duh.. He mentioned the great game the MD QB had, because it was a great performance. Coach Knight even commented on it. It's really funny that you're so myopic that you just want praise for the AF team rather than an article reporting the facts of the game. People reading the article don't want to know what if, and what could have been. It's ridiculous.

I agree with that one dude. You AF folks are sure coming across as poor sports. But I have heard that about you from other players, coaches and parents in Utah County, so this just confirms it for me.

unbiased fan. I'm sure you are. I'm no fan of AF but for a coach to talk about how well a player played and then read an article about how a team got the crap kicked out of them are way different. The player did play great but the article should have given a lil credit to AF as well. Don't blame AF fan for being a little upset that the paper gave them no credit. Unbiased that's a pretty funny name