I wish you the very best this holiday season too. May you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year after that. God bless you.

I can also tell you that no one posting these negative things about SCA is from OF. There’s a great amount of respect or the Tigers up here and the reason you saw the fans storm the field was in part due to that. So many people told these kids they couldn’t beat SCA…they have too much depth… No one goes 2 ways… Too much offensive firepower blah blah blah. I think everyone just let lose when it was finally over. Kids are kids….and that win was major monkey off this programs back.

Its been 20+ years since OF has had a team like this…(before there was a real state playoff system) OF has plenty of EC titles in the trophy case (from when the EC meant something) but has not been able to put together a real state contender until the last few yrs. For a school that regularly graduates 65-75 students a year…getting a squad together that is capable of playing at that level tends to be fairly rare. No doubt that SCA is the measuring stick in the east… That will be the case for some time….it’s not like any other A team is close to racking up 6 titles. In the mean time…expect to see major celebrations on the rare I occasions that your Tigers lose a game…it’s the ultimate expression of respect for a team that so few are able to compete with…let alone get a win.

I didn’t see or hear of any of that. If it is true, then it is shameful that it happened. Maybe a couple of wild kids from the student section or something, because the rest of us – the actual fans – showed respect. If that actually did happen, and I’m taking your word on it that you wouldn’t lie, then I apologize for them and hope their parents set them straight.

To label an entire fanbase though, is a bit extreme. I know that not all Southern Columbia fans are as arrogant and as rude as the ones I’ve ran into from time to time, heckling our own fans saying that we’re going to get run over, but it’s the few who are that end up ruining it for the rest. And even though that in turn reflects badly on your school, community, etc., I know it isn’t representative of it as a whole. I hope you understand the same in true of us or anyone else.

So know that it is the same on this end. There’s 90% that’s there to support their kids, and 10% there to ruin the experience. That applies to EVERY school. I know I always make a conscious effort to treat other teams’ fans courteously and with kindness, because I want that to reflect on us as a whole in a positive light. That’s why your comments bothered me.

If you took that as “insulting a community” then I apologize. But it was your kids (again not the players)who were doing the insulting, which does reflect on your school, community, etc. as you say.