The last 1:18 of that game rivals any coaching meltdown at any level that I've ever seen. You have an 8 point lead and the football at your own 40. Your opponent has two timeouts, meaning that those first two plays aren't going to milk much of the clock. You have a RB that has rushed for well over 200 yards on the night. Instead of giving the football to Hillsman while stressing ball security in staying inbounds, you snap the ball 7 yards deep to Monds three times and he takes a quick knee. You CAN'T be going that far backwards in that situation. Then you compound the yardage lost by having EJ White take a safety, giving up a worst case scenario of going to overtime, and putting your team in a worst case scenario of LOSING the football game in REGULATION. When Vero took over at the 40, the worst case scenario is that you fumble or are forced to punt and it's blocked. If that happens and LM scores, they still have to convert the 2 point PAT to get to overtime. In no universe should this game have been won in regulation by Lake Mary. Should Jankowitz be fire? No, of course not. His record is stellar and he seems to be a good man, but the last 1:18 of that meltdown can't be rationalized by anyone.
Do you feel that the Indians are a well-coached team overall? Are some of the issues that popped up in the State Championship Game indicative of a trend, or was it an anomaly in that game?
There should be 4 classes plus rural and have an open division for teams who have a certain amount of football transfers. Maybe 5-7 for that year. If you acquire 5-7 transfers from the day after the prior state championship games all the way to on or before the last regular season playing date then you enter the open.
And the way they can classify the teams is by enrollment first, and then winning percentage to balance them out. So teams with the worst winning percentage the 2 years prior are eligible to move down and the teams with the highest can move up.