OT: St Thomas Aquinas vs Cocoa
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They def got hosed but I am glad they are not reversing the game outcome, that is a slippery slope.
Some Broward Home Cooking going on!
That was some dirty use of home field advantage. All Cocoa had to do was take a few knees and the game was over. Refs step in and make sure the outcome is different. These refs are trying out for the SEC or the NFL with that shady game control.
Cocoa should be proud. A team from a poor city played a team with probably ten times more resources and won. It was taken away from them, but still. I imagine if the refs had screwed up in the other direction the appeal would have gone differently.
Cocoa should be proud. A team from a poor city played a team with probably ten times more resources and won. It was taken away from them, but still. I imagine if the refs had screwed up in the other direction the appeal would have gone differently.
Gotta disagree with this one. One bad call changing a game sucks but this is like a coordinated effort to aid one of the teams for an entire 1:30 or so of game time.
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You are speculating widespread nefarious activity. If that is indeed true then I agree, but I don't think that's been proven.
Btw I live in Brevard and root for them
They should have won that appeal and it’s not at all a slippery slope under this circumstance. It should have been 1st down with like :55 seconds left. But due to the extra time out (which should have been corrected and clock should have run) and then the personal foul (should have been a 1st down). No time outs, kneel out….that was egregious
Appeals are never won bc the scrubs in charge never report to anyone but themselves. They clearly didnt have the balls to do the right thing here
I counted 12 players on the field. Not too hard to see that. Why they pick up that flag?
Referees association apologizes to Cocoa football for 'egregious' errors, suspends crew
Just as bad, but in a different way. Living with that win, or loss as any of those kids is a lot to deal with. You know any of the kids on that "winning" team knows it's bullshit. The other kids have to live with being cheated out of something. Tough. It's such a bad call, at the most critical time of the game, that it just seems like it can't even be real.
I find Cocoa being a powerhouse pretty funny. Back when I went to high school we saw them as a warm up act.
Merritt Island had 2 state championships in early 70's. Now MI is very middle of the road program and Cocoa the monster. Population of Merritt Island is older now with younger generation across the river just west of the Hurricane evacuation zone.
Merritt Island had 2 state championships in early 70's. Now MI is very middle of the road program and Cocoa the monster. Population of Merritt Island is older now with younger generation across the river just west of the Hurricane evacuation zone.
Merritt Island had some big-time players in the 80s . I remember the big TE who played in the NFL for a few years and went to Notre Dame looked like a huge man among boys
this is why they should have reversed the result
Yup, admitting the egregious mistakes but not reversing is dumb af, almost more a slap in the face by not overturning the outcome. It’s easy to see the game was over with kneel downs.
This one was for a win against a top 15 team in the NATIONAL rankings…for a HS team and HS kids, that is HUGE.
Aren’t they in different divisions? STAHS is in the 3M and Cocoa is 2S. They won’t see each other in the playoffs. Cocoa plays Seminole October 6th, which is a 4M school. Cocoa is not afraid to play much larger schools.
