Are these teams actually scheduled to play or are you just asking out of curiosity?
Seems to be a hypothetical question, since hes asking who would win, 2007 LeRoy or 2007 Geneva. Two very strong football teams who made it to their state's semifinal in their respective classes.
Seems to be a hypothetical question, since hes asking who would win, 2007 LeRoy or 2007 Geneva. Two very strong football teams who made it to their state's semifinal in their respective classes.
Ah, sorry, didn't take note of the 2007. I would put my input in here as I know quite a bit about the LeRoy football program over the past years but I do not know anything about Geneva so my $0.02 here would not mean anything.
gotta say it would probably be a good game to watch but in the end i think LeRoy would pull it off. The entire team is solid with the exception of coach Moran. Granted hes lead us to several sectional titles but we've been close to a state title several times. The 2007 season ended on a bad note because moran opted to try and punch in the winning TD instead of kickin a field goal from the 2 yard line to win the state title. With a coach that could balance the run with more passing, LeRoy arguably couldnt be beat by many teams.
gotta say it would probably be a good game to watch but in the end i think LeRoy would pull it off. The entire team is solid with the exception of coach Moran. Granted hes lead us to several sectional titles but we've been close to a state title several times. The 2007 season ended on a bad note because moran opted to try and punch in the winning TD instead of kickin a field goal from the 2 yard line to win the state title. With a coach that could balance the run with more passing, LeRoy arguably couldnt be beat by many teams.
If that field goal was kicked and made, or even if LR scored on that last play it wouldn't have won a state title for them, it would have sent them to the finals. That being said, I would have loved to see these two teams play eachother. I think it would have been a fantastic game.
I'll be the first to say that Le Roy's power-style game of football is one of the most impressive in Western New York, and has been for years. That being said, in high school football I think a true speed/quickness-oriented team will still always win out in the end. Since my area of expertise includes the areas in and around Genesee County, I'll use the examples I know.
Le Roy vs. Onondaga: this was a few years back, when Onondaga had Mike Hart. He alone embodied speed and quickness. Though it was a close game, Hart's and Onondaga's speed were too much for Le Roy's in-your-face power game to overcome. Look up "Mike Hart The Run" on YouTube ( ) for a great example from this game. 64 yard run vertically, with about another 40-50 yards horizontally of precision cuts and all out quickness.
Oakfield-Alabama vs. E-R/Gananda: what a game. An O-A team that had blistered most of the GR takes its legendary and powerful modified Wing-T offense into a game against one of Rochester's high-profile and high-scoring air and ground attacks. Suffice it to say the game was a classic, but E-R comes out on top, with a whopping 441 yards through the air alone over O-A's slightly smaller and slightly slower defensive backs.
Oakfield-Alabama vs. Tuckahoe: again, O-A brings John Dowd's vaunted system into a game against a finesse, extremely speedy team. Systematically, Tuckahoe pulls away in this one, big gain by big gain. Another video example here ( http://www.videofiend.com/Tuckahoe-F...s-7666274.aspx ). You can see the instances where the Tiger players in white are just outrunning O-A's players, or charging quickly into the backfield to neutralize Oakfield's own speedster, McCracken. What a shame for such a talented team like 2006 O-A to go down at the end
of a wonderful year, but again--speed persists.
(Let it be noted that Oakfield did outpace an Onondaga team in the game before that featured Mike Hart's brother and several other fast young men. But this also goes to show that Onondaga was not the top-caliber, well-coordinated speed team that Tuckahoe was.)
Elba vs. Randolph: regional qualifier, 2005 (?). A Joe Zambito-coached team coming off impressive wins and a sectional title takes it to Section VI's finest at St. John Fisher. I won't say that Elba wasn't speedy in this year--certainly Matt Richenberg at wide receiver was a quick kid, and Dave Burr was no slouch at RB. However, Lucas Torrey--not too fast, power runner when he did run. Ciaci Zambito, same story at fullback. The Lancers were outclassed physically in many ways by Randolph, including speed. This one wasn't even close as Randolph went up and down the field on an impressive Elba team that unfortunately hit a buzz-saw here.
(Please note that I am not saying that power teams do not have fast runners, because they certainly do. My point is that they aren't oriented on using that speed to outrun defenders to and past the line of scrimmage. All speed does for a power team is eliminate angles of pursuit for the opposition once the power team's running back is twenty yards down the field running at full tilt)
Anyone else have other examples of this? Or arguments against it?
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