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5A high school football playoffs: Shoddy first half not enough to stop Alta from reaching semis
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Davis you were close. great year. your soph QB will be much better next year, along with your jr RB. think your good enough to take region?
Alta, please play bingham to a tie in the state championship.
The miners are a fantastic team. Although it's debatable, they might be playing the best football in state right now.
But...
Look at the past four Alta-Bingham matchups. They have been low scoring, defensive battles. This one (assuming both teams advance) will be no different. Especially not with a state championship on the line. Alta's D is good enough to keep them in any game. The offense had SIX turnovers against Davis and still only allowed twenty points.
The mark of great programs is to overcome adversity.
I'm hoping for the matchup between Alta and Bingham for the title game. It should be another one for the ages.
Could've, should've, would've....
Then they lost one of their rotating D-lineman and got tired - no more pressure. Couple that with Altas great D and the Dart offense not being able to move the ball at all in the 2nd half and it just gave Alta too many chances. If the Darts O moves the ball at all in the second half, that Dline is still in Olsen grill. They were for real. Alta versus Cuse is intriguing but I dont think they will be able to put the kind of pressure Olsen saw Last night. That is what forced all four picks, plus they 4 or 5 sacks. Cuse is better on O. Hamblin must make a few big plays for Cuse to keep pace.
Alta deserved to lose that game, and that's an Alta fan saying that. To make that many mistakes on both offense and defense in the first half is unacceptable. Not to mention unrecoverable!
That's why your overrated statement is hollow! The worst performance of the year in a half and they still come back and win!!!
I think it's more of a wake up call!! Thanks Davis for a great game and a smack in the face!! The Jordan game should have already done that but aparently the kids thought it was just a rivalry game and nothing more.
Work harder and get things rolling or your going to lose to Syracuse!!!!
There was a reason Olsen was second string before he broke his foot and his performance yesterday showed it.....Alta made a very young unpolished Davis look like an all-star team!
And as for Alta's defense the 3 linebackers from last year were better than the four they have now anyday!
Enough with all the comparisons......Alta had better fine tune and come to play aggressive football and execute your game plan with zero mistakes ....or your season is over.....
The go news is Bingham isn't as good as last year either......if Alta just plays like it can....its all over for Bingham....and Alta will be wearing rings AGAIN!
Maybe you're right, though. Maybe we should still talk about Alta and Bingham being great on offense. Winning by one point or 28, their offenses did enough to give them both at least one more game. As did Skyline's and Syracuse's.
1. out line was dominated by Davis all game long
2. Coaches you did a good job with adjustments
3. Thanks to the offensive coordinator from Davis. You must have more then 5 plays.
4. Davis does have the best defense. Turnoves were caused by Davis at lest give them some credit.
5. Worst officiated game i have watched. (remember i am a Alta fan). Pass interference on Davis, Yea right. I believe we should have had 3 called on us. The Back judge (never ref again, please)you witnessed 4 different players from Alta throw punches and did nothing. Who are you related to on our team had. Holding on the fake punt (can offensive line tackle defensive lineman?) This happened right in front of the refree and linesman.
Refs plase do not cheat for one team or another. Let the kids decide who will move on. Whoever assigned hese officials to ref should be fired right now.
What were the penalities like 18 - 3 against Davis. High school football has integrity please have some as well.
MouthoftheMountains said it right on his comment that Davis lost it when they did not have anyone to rotate on the line. This something they did all year long and it cost them several games. Davis had some studs on the sidelines who just watched the starters get tired game after game.
I think Bingham will beat Alta unless this game served as a wake up call.
Seriously its a four quarter game, and a few bad calls won't win or lose the game! There are atleast 30-40 plays that each team had and it was all about who was making plays when they needed to!
You can talk all about the Alta defense if you want, but the fact is that Davis has not been a good offensive football team all year, they have NO quarterback and have had to rely so much on the running game that they are so predictable it's not even funny. In the end in was Davis's poor play offensively that was the difference in the game, not Alta's great offense. So, don't blame the refs, it wasn't their fault, nor was it the great play of Alta. It was the poor play of the Davis offense, AGAIN!
Once again, Davis LOST. Alta WON. See you next season Darts
on to the turf.
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