Cats defend the can

That will knock Fortuna down the ol' power rankings don't you think. I guess those three wins over crap schools didn't prepare them for a real football team. Did Fortuna even have 100 yds of total offense? That's PATHETIC!

Ferndale would have beaten Eureka 3 of the last 4 years.
And Fortuna will give Eureka all they can handle twice this year.
Who were the guys in the bronze Dodge pickup in front of the Ferndale locker room? They had several hunting rifles in the back seat in full view.
So fans can now bring rifles inside the fence at high school football games? Only in Ferndale.

I think they were Troy Ghisetti's scouts looking for the next Little 4 team to play for homecoming...

Tiger wrote:

Ferndale would have beaten Eureka 3 of the last 4 years.
And Fortuna will give Eureka all they can handle twice this year.
Who were the guys in the bronze Dodge pickup in front of the Ferndale locker room? They had several hunting rifles in the back seat in full view.
So fans can now bring rifles inside the fence at high school football games? Only in Ferndale.

The only Eureka team Ferndale could have beat was the 2006 team that went 3-7, any other year no way. Remember last year Ferndale squeaked by Fortuna and Arcata who Eureka beat both soundly. That's no rip on Ferndale, because for the size of school they have, they are the best. But if your just matching up both squads, Ferndale would not hang for an entire game with Eureka.
This years Eureka team is going to pound Fortuna. The only way the score will not be worse than yesterday's game is if Eureka calls off the dogs in the second half. Tiger, I always thought you put up good posts, but your talking out of your ass on that one. I'll let that be your mulligan.

Sure, there's something to be said for playing great schools i.e. Eureka, but there's also something to be said for long-lasting effects.

The Loggers did the same thing last year and it hurt them in terms of making the NCS Playoffs. Their preseason losses weren't looked upon kindly by the committee and they weren't picked despite having a decent record in H-DN play.

Standing at 0-4 before league starts could hurt Eureka once again.

I remember hearing committee members remarking on how Eureka beat up H-DN teams but couldn't play with "real" teams.

The Loggers might have to win the Big 4 title out right to not be overlooked again.

Tiger, your usually good, but your off base on that one. Logger fan, maybe its best to talk big after the game, your starting to sound like Mack.

Del Norte and Eureka have been in a class of their own over the past few seasons. If you compare common opponents there is no way that Ferndale would have had a snowballs chance in hell over the last few years against any Del Norte team(post maualuga era) and probably just the single eureka team. Hats off to ferndale like logger fan said. If eureka or del norte got per capita the kind of production that jorgenson gets out of his players we would be talking about which team(Eureka or DN) was going to play in the state championship this year...even thoughDel Norte wasnt that far away from a bowl game last year since they lost to Novato 18-14 who lost to Oceanside in the state title game...hmmmm

If that's the best Fortuna has, then they better cherish the two Arcata games because that's the last two victories they will see. There is no way in hell they beat Eureka or Del Norte. Actually if Couch or Harper can bust a few around the end, Arcata could give Fortuna a run. The Huskies are SLOW!

Logger-1st did you see the game, not sure where you get the slow from? 2nd, they don't have to beat Eureka. Eureka seems to beat themselves. Ferndale is a solid football team, the best coached team, and they took advantage of their opportunities. Fortuna did not. The game was a battle.
BTW-Eureka-due to its size and ethnically diverse population should dominate this area. They have the numbers and the athletes, and some years they do well, until they play programs of their size. Lakin could have won the games he did if Bill the Chimp was coaching.
Don't count Fortuna out. They will compete with Eureka and Del Norte.

Huskies Fan wrote:

Logger-1st did you see the game, not sure where you get the slow from? 2nd, they don't have to beat Eureka. Eureka seems to beat themselves. Ferndale is a solid football team, the best coached team, and they took advantage of their opportunities. Fortuna did not. The game was a battle.
BTW-Eureka-due to its size and ethnically diverse population should dominate this area. They have the numbers and the athletes, and some years they do well, until they play programs of their size. Lakin could have won the games he did if Bill the Chimp was coaching.
Don't count Fortuna out. They will compete with Eureka and Del Norte.

First of all jackass, I would think Soma Vainuku, Greg Allen and the rest of the "ethnically diverse" players on the Eureka team that your speaking of, would probably want to be referred to as Somoan or African-Amercican, before you go grouping them together with some ignorant ass term of "ethnically diverse". Better yet, don't even bring that into the conversation at all because when you say stupid crap like that, white people like myself are embarrassed, making it sound like we're all still segregated or something.
Secondly, as I stated in an earlier post, yes I was at the game standing down on the sidelines. Fortuna's team speed is slow. You obviously wouldn't know that playing teams like Hercules, El Molino and Brookings, but as you saw in the Ferndale game, a team with any sort speed is going to hammer Fortuna. Especially with Fortuna just being an average in terms of physical and athleticism. If you didn't notice, Ferndale ond defense was packing nine players in the box because they knew even if Fortuna ran something outside they would still be able to run it down. Which they did continuously.
When Fortuna plays Eureka, you'll see what I mean by good team speed. Meaning that the Eureka D-lineman are as fast as Fortuna's running backs.
By the way the deference between Fortuna's non-league schedule and Eureka's, is that Fortuna is playing the bottom of their division while Eureka is playing the top. If Eureka was somehow able to win those first four games of the season, they like Ferndale, would be in the drivers seat for the state bowl game. It didn't work out that way, but you can't fault Eureka for trying.

Huskies Fan wrote:

Logger-1st did you see the game, not sure where you get the slow from? 2nd, they don't have to beat Eureka. Eureka seems to beat themselves. Ferndale is a solid football team, the best coached team, and they took advantage of their opportunities. Fortuna did not. The game was a battle.
BTW-Eureka-due to its size and ethnically diverse population should dominate this area. They have the numbers and the athletes, and some years they do well, until they play programs of their size. Lakin could have won the games he did if Bill the Chimp was coaching.
Don't count Fortuna out. They will compete with Eureka and Del Norte.

Lastly, Fortuna needs to beat a school of 800 less students before they start talking crap about Eureka losing to schools of their size. What was that, seven losses in a row to Ferndale? When's the last time you beat Eureka, 1999? Ouch!

Easy with the state bowl bid. Loggers are good, but not elite in their division. Which they would need to be to be in the running. Their preseason schedule was no doubt tough, but they are playing teams within their division. Maybe Fortuna's preseason was not against the "best" in D3, but for a new coach to schedule some relatively unknowns for year one, gotta give him the nod.
Not many Samoans or African-Americans living outside Eureka. And no, I am not white My comment was not meant to be demeaning. Let's look at the number of outstanding/great Loggers that were not white.

benbow? just another average coach who cant think outside the box to find winning system. they should have hired sarvinsky...at least he is previous winner with heart....

Huskies Fan wrote:

Easy with the state bowl bid. Loggers are good, but not elite in their division. Which they would need to be to be in the running. Their preseason schedule was no doubt tough, but they are playing teams within their division. Maybe Fortuna's preseason was not against the "best" in D3, but for a new coach to schedule some relatively unknowns for year one, gotta give him the nod.
Not many Samoans or African-Americans living outside Eureka. And no, I am not white My comment was not meant to be demeaning. Let's look at the number of outstanding/great Loggers that were not white.

I didn't say that they were going to the state bowl game, I said if they were 4-0 right now, plus given the fact that Cardinal Newman is in Eureka's division for NCS, and as right now is the nor-cal rep for the bowl game in Div. 3, Eureka would definately have the body of work to be there.
By the way, the 2003 Loggers would have been in the state bowl game for their division if there was one that year. People in the Santa Rosa/Bay aswell as the Redding/Chico area said that was one of the dominant teams they had ever seen. Which goes to show you Husky fan, teams from Eureka can have what it takes to get to the elite status.

Logger Fan,talk,talk,talk. Why dont you let the kids play the games first,maybe win one then you can go on your ego trip that you apparently couldnt take advantage of when you were in school.

wrong choice wrote:

benbow? just another average coach who cant think outside the box to find winning system. they should have hired sarvinsky...at least he is previous winner with heart....

Give me a break, the only thing average was the Fortuna players. Coach Benbow had his boys playing hard and with heart. The only difference was that his players weren't as, hold on let me think of the word, oh yeah, GOOD, as the Ferndale players. Gee, what a concept, the team with the better players won. Freakin' ridiculous people.

wrong choice wrote:

benbow? just another average coach who cant think outside the box to find winning system. they should have hired sarvinsky...at least he is previous winner with heart....

Sarvinski? He is a nice guy, does have the genes. When he did coach at Fortuna he did nothing but stab the staff and program in the back. That is not what a program needs, no matter if he believed in what was going on you don't bad math the head coach. He had his shot. And his heart is in the wrong place He is suited for younger kids.
I don't believe he ever beat Ferndale either.

I agree with you Logger, the players were average and they played hard for Benbow. Ferndale is a school rich with tradition, the players are prepared and leave everything on the field. 2003 was just that, 2003.
I believe Eureka is the team to beat this year, but do not act like they are so dominant. They don't have an easy path. You will see.

Huskies Fan wrote:

I agree with you Logger, the players were average and they played hard for Benbow. Ferndale is a school rich with tradition, the players are prepared and leave everything on the field. 2003 was just that, 2003.
I believe Eureka is the team to beat this year, but do not act like they are so dominant. They don't have an easy path. You will see.

I was just making a point, like Eureka in 03', Del Norte in 07' and now Ferndale in 08', teams in the H-DN have chance to make a run at the state bowl game. That's all I was saying.

I think that Del Norte's 2005-2006 was better than their 2007-2008 team...even though they didnt have a chance at the state bowl game that year, there were also better teams in 2A NCS that year...Del Norte lost to Marin Catholic that year 20-6 in what the San Francisco Chronicle called the Prep Game of the Week. That Marin Catholic team produced UCLA running back Khalil Bell and Cal Poly SLO running back Jono Grayson. The Del Norte team produced now Nevada Wolfpack running back Sean Reed and a few other JuCo players. It had the likes of Max Perez, Kyle Newton, and a young freshman QB by the name of Chad Freeman....