The current Manatee PA guy is no Jim Fossel (sp?) either, and since you mentioned the Lake Minneola PA announcer.......I mentioned to my wife Friday night during the game, that the Lake Minneola PA guy must have went to the same PA announcing school as the Manatee PA guy in as far as style and manner he called the game, in addition to having having apparent vision issues as the Lake Minneola PA guy regularly made huge ball placement as well as down and distance errors with his calls. Had no affect ultimately on the outcome of the game, so I just looked at it as it was what it was. My concern was that the officials were keeping that all straight.....
There were a few instances where ball placement wasn't the best, and I thought they perhaps were allowing a bit too much grabbing holding of Manatee defensive players, as there seemed to a bit more than usual torn jerseys issues with the Manatee DL? All in All I thought the game was called about as well as could be expected......except for the 2 instances I will mention below.
I didn't want to say too much, as it will only lead to Janbun making one of his appearances to virtue signal on behalf all referees aboard. During Manatee's last drive before halftime. Manatee was attempting to conserve time to allow for Manatee to get into a potential scoring opportunity. There were at least 3-4 instances once the clock got down to less than 2 minutes, where the clock operator would allow the clock to continue to run for an additional 2-4 seconds after the play was dead. It surprised me Jaquez didn't it bring it to officials attention after it happen the second time during that drive, as it ultimately led to Manatee kicking the FG as opposed to getting a couple more cracks at getting a potential TD?
The officials also bent over backwards to assist with Lake Minneola fast break offense, as they allowed the snap numerous times despite the folks with sticks and down markers not being in place, as well as with the ball rotation Lake Minneola employed, there were many instances where the ball used from the prior play was still in the process of being removed from the field when the official allowed Lake Minneola to snap the ball for the next play anyway.......one play the ball from the previous play was still in the middle of the field, when the official allowed for the ball to be snapped