By any chance, did anybody here attend the finals at the Superdome and see the 4A final? Bastrop won the title last year but was stripped of the trophy for violations involving use of players displaced by Hurricane Katrina. As one might imagine, the controversy has been rehashed heavily in the past year.
Bastrop cruised through this year and won it all again. Fueling the fire, Bastrop was flagged for a record number of penalties in the final. (approximately 20, I believe) I wondered if anyone without a dog in the fight had an observation on the game. Specifically, did Bastrop commit every conceivable infraction? Did they hit late on every play? Or what? I heard just the last couple of minutes of the game on a Bastrop area radio station. The outcome was decided when we tuned in so the announcers at that point seemed almost amused by the number of flags which continued to rain down. But interestingly, as the broadcast closed the lady at the radio station (she didn't see the game) commented on the huge number of penalties and blasted the "horrible officiating." The Bastrop coach (he was at the game

) said he would wait to look at the films to decide if the officials were "overzealous." Gotta love the media.