When I said that Montini's season was disappointing it was based upon Montini's past history of making deep runs in the playoffs. Heard that this is the first time in 23 years that Montini did not get past the first round so I would say that is disappointing to say the least.
Montini was up 28-14 with less than 2 minutes to go in the first half when DeKalb went 90 yards of offense in about a minute and 20 seconds to score a TD before the half ended. Montini never scored again and DeKalb scored 24 unanswered points for the final of 38-28. Not taking anything away from DeKalb but they obviously made 2nd half adjustments while Montini did not.
The games Montini lost this year were due to both the offense and defensive lines not matching up with the bigger linemen of their opponents. Montini's offense and defensive lines were quicker but they got beat down by the end of the 3rd quarter. The scoring statistics both on offense and defense shows Montini scoring a ton of points in the 1st three quarters and hardly anything in the 4th quarter. On defense it was the same story; good at the beginning and most points they gave up were after half time. To say that having only one defensive lineman over 220 lbs is not a detriment to playing good defense against bigger offensive lines is IMO not true after what I seen this year. This year Montini had a lot of kids playing both ways in the skill positions but only one or two linemen going both ways. One kid on offense Brian Jackson goes about 270 lbs and did a good job blocking on offense but did not play on defense??
I thought the coaches of Montini did a good overall job with what they had as far as players were concerned but their second half adjustments in all the games Montini lost was subpar IMO.
Montini was up 28-14 with less than 2 minutes to go in the first half when DeKalb went 90 yards of offense in about a minute and 20 seconds to score a TD before the half ended. Montini never scored again and DeKalb scored 24 unanswered points for the final of 38-28. Not taking anything away from DeKalb but they obviously made 2nd half adjustments while Montini did not.
The games Montini lost this year were due to both the offense and defensive lines not matching up with the bigger linemen of their opponents. Montini's offense and defensive lines were quicker but they got beat down by the end of the 3rd quarter. The scoring statistics both on offense and defense shows Montini scoring a ton of points in the 1st three quarters and hardly anything in the 4th quarter. On defense it was the same story; good at the beginning and most points they gave up were after half time. To say that having only one defensive lineman over 220 lbs is not a detriment to playing good defense against bigger offensive lines is IMO not true after what I seen this year. This year Montini had a lot of kids playing both ways in the skill positions but only one or two linemen going both ways. One kid on offense Brian Jackson goes about 270 lbs and did a good job blocking on offense but did not play on defense??
I thought the coaches of Montini did a good overall job with what they had as far as players were concerned but their second half adjustments in all the games Montini lost was subpar IMO.