thefourwinds wrote:Here we go with excuses from the Bishop Ryan fans. ORCS had a starter from last season out all this season recovering from knee surgery. Another starter from earlier this season has been out every game since the first week of February with a broken finger. During the district championship, another starter was playing with an injured back and a fourth starter missed the entire 3rd Q with illness, but came back to play in the 4th Q and OT. Tonight one of their starters was playing on an injured ankle.
Good teams overcome those kinds of situations, and that's what ORCS has done all season.
The District 12 fans have been underestimating Our Redeemers all season. They beat all comers in the district and the Region, many of them 2 or 3 times apiece.
thefourwinds wrote:I'm talking about on this board. If you look back through the comments on this board, you had fans from every other team in District 12 (especially Ryan, DLB, and Berthold) talking about how their teams were all such great 3-point shooters, so look out. You also had about half of the predictions on this thread predicting Ryan to win "because it's hard to beat a good team three times."
The fatigue story that you're talking about after the Shiloh game was the angle the sportswriter took. He took it in the article itself, and he took it in the way he posed the interview questions to Feller. If you go back and read that article, you can see it in the way the story comes out.
Was Ryan a good team? Yes. Were they good enough to beat any of the best teams they played? No.
As for whatever stories you have heard, everyone hears stories. I have heard stories about Ryan supporters rooting for the Knights because of the way the respective teams handle themselves. So believe whatever stories you want to believe.
lions700 wrote:thefourwinds wrote:I'm talking about on this board. If you look back through the comments on this board, you had fans from every other team in District 12 (especially Ryan, DLB, and Berthold) talking about how their teams were all such great 3-point shooters, so look out. You also had about half of the predictions on this thread predicting Ryan to win "because it's hard to beat a good team three times."
The fatigue story that you're talking about after the Shiloh game was the angle the sportswriter took. He took it in the article itself, and he took it in the way he posed the interview questions to Feller. If you go back and read that article, you can see it in the way the story comes out.
Was Ryan a good team? Yes. Were they good enough to beat any of the best teams they played? No.
As for whatever stories you have heard, everyone hears stories. I have heard stories about Ryan supporters rooting for the Knights because of the way the respective teams handle themselves. So believe whatever stories you want to believe.
Talking about beating a good team three times. I have had people tell me stories about back in their playing days, they took heartbreaking tournamment losses after winning the first two. Whatever happens, I heard dodgeball with basketballs sent that one kid down. That is also frustrating, but understandable.
With ORCS, Shiloh, and Trinity at the B, get ready for all the comments about how private schools shouldn't be allowed to play or should be in their own league or how they cheat or how they are corrupt, etc.
Etc. etc.
Whine, whine whine. Complain, complain, complain. Get ready to have your teams called class
A cause you are a Class A "town" even though A and B has nothing to do with town size. I'm waiting, folks. Bring it on!!!
senditin wrote:Schools in class A cities should be in class A. They'll adjust over time because they have the advantage of a larger pool of players. NDHSAA needs to take off the blinders on this issue.
lions700 wrote:thefourwinds wrote:Here we go with excuses from the Bishop Ryan fans. ORCS had a starter from last season out all this season recovering from knee surgery. Another starter from earlier this season has been out every game since the first week of February with a broken finger. During the district championship, another starter was playing with an injured back and a fourth starter missed the entire 3rd Q with illness, but came back to play in the 4th Q and OT. Tonight one of their starters was playing on an injured ankle.
Good teams overcome those kinds of situations, and that's what ORCS has done all season.
The District 12 fans have been underestimating Our Redeemers all season. They beat all comers in the district and the Region, many of them 2 or 3 times apiece.
I'm trying to get where you are coming from? When do Bishop Ryan fans come up with excuses? I think they mean it is frustrating, not an excuse. The kid ended his career with food poisoning. Our Redeemer's won so their fans are happy, and especially their coach. I guarantee you if they would have lost, he would have handled it poorly. I have heard a lot of bad stories. Bishop Ryan's players and coach took it like champs. Hopefully Feller gets his team being tired problem all ironed out for state next week cause that was the excuse against Shiloh in December. It's like, "Dude, you wanna win state, but you are too fatigued after back-to-back game days." Just so you know, you gotta win three in a row in three days.
Remember ORCS, whatever happens next week, it is just a game. The world will not end, I guarantee it. Now I am moving on with life cause, frankly, this doesn't matter that much.
And are you saying Bishop Ryan isn't good? I think they are underestimating Bishop Ryan. Sports writers back me up on this one. The media hoists ORCS, believe me. I love how before the season everyone was picking Glenburn and Rugby at the top of the region and Bishop Ryan wasn't though highly of and when they surprise people, silence! 5 losses. 3 to ORCS (10,6, and 3), Shiloh by 1, and Dunseith right after Christmas break. But, please, explain the underestimation you feel.
sportsnut5 wrote:The AD's in Region 7 have tried other options, like moving it to Watford City or Bismarck, but the NDHSAA will not allow the region to play the games outside of their region boundaries. The only options are to play at Trinity, Hazen, or Beulah. They are the only facilities in the region that have the seating capacity large enough to host the tournament. Someone would always have a home court advantage, moving it to Beulah and Hazen would just add more travel to the equation for many of the teams. Unless a facility is built in Dickinson that can accommodate the number of fans for the tournament, it will unfortunately be played at Trinity.
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