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The program is bigger than just one guy, and at this point, the whole program just looks dead in the water. With the talent we have on this team at the skill positions, there’s simply no excuse for us to be as bad as we are. The whole program needs to be rejuvenated, IMO. We just don’t and haven’t looked like a well coached team throughout this season. Hopefully if some changes are made, Joe can still be an integral part of the program in some capacity or another. I’m not sure in what form that would be, but he does deserve it with as much time and effort he’s put into it through the years.

At closing in, if not @ 70, I believe it’s time for ole Joe to hang it up and enjoy the rest of his life peacefully. He’s put in so much time and effort through the years for the big OR, and as a fan who knows him and grew up with his son, I truly appreciate everything he has done for the program from the bottom of my heart. But, you have to wonder if it’s time to bring in a younger fella to pump some new lifeblood into the OR program.

Not enough rent payers to compete in this one.

The fights not with you holiday! I beg to differ sir. We started a game. Play for blood, remember? I was only foolin about. I wasn't and this time it's legal

https://boxcast.tv/view/oakland-football-vs-riverdale-635823

Yeah, I think there a lot of people that don’t like Blade, but he’s a pretty solid coach. There’s no reason OR should be where they are right now and it doesn’t look like it’s going to change until some changes happen.

Monterey - Oneida will be streamed on Yoobtoob.

Well we thought about going easy, but Coy Dillard has been talking that mess, so I hear that Creasy man changed his mind

Congratulations on the Region title TomCats

Congrats to the Tomcats on the win and the region championship! When you come out of Medina with a win, you know you earned it!

Congrats to Portland

We need to be ready to play Portland next week

They have some talented freshmen and eighth graders coming too.

Pretty ugly game in the 2nd half, but I'll take a 17pt win over a team of Riverdale's caliber. Made some mistakes on special teams that you don't see alot with Oakland, gonna have to clean those up if you want to repeat. Big congrats on the guys for going 4-0 in this recent stretch, that was 3 teams that are pretty freaking good

Congrats to the Tomcats. Y'all have a great team. I kinda felt like the team that made the fewest mistakes would win the contest. The game was closer than the scoreboard says. SGC got inside the redzone 4 times and came up fruitless all the 4 times. I think is safe to say that Haywood has improved the defense! I appreciate the sportsmanship, banter, and quality posters from Haywood. I wish yall nothing but luck moving on.

I was going to comment earlier in the week that I thought Monterey would win by 2 scores at the least. I watched the game online and Oneida totally dominated this game. Those two quick scores rattled Monterey and they never really got it together after that. Plus I thought the play calling for them wasn’t that great. 23 for Oneida held his own out there at corner.

Oneida wins!

Great job Cyclones!!

Omg what if they beat Forrest

I’m watching Haywood and South Gibson on Facebook

Penalties killing us

Came here to see Shad's word of the day and I'm disappointed. The concession lady did tell me however that she hoped WB lost tonight because she's ready for football season to be over and didn't want a playoff game.

Good post! It's good to see a team outside the top ten get recognition for their accomplishments. Oakdale is definitely deserving and hats off to Coach Voyles for a job well done. Considering what he has to work, I'd say he does a good of a job as any.

Good thread.

Dang!!!! That fall from the Top didn't take too long! Don't worry, I KNOW THE FEELING!!!!

The times Ive seen OR play, they lack an identity on offense. Honestly feels like they are trying to put a square peg in a round hole instead of adapting to the personnel they have

Just got word that kickoff is now slated for 6:00PM.

Anderson County plays good ball, so most kids are gonna play there that are in that area. They probably benefit more than either OR and Clinton as far as transfers go.

You and me both brother! The farther I'm behind, the more chances I'll take. That's why I had 7 dogs last week. Sometimes it pays off ....sometimes....not so much!

I think Marion beats both but any of the three would be good measuring stick games. Forrest has a solid group of 15-16 guys that get rotated in. We are undersized and have no depth. We were very fortunate to leave that game without any injuries right before the Cascade game. I don't think playing a team that runs Marion's style offense benefits our defense this year. Any team in 2A would challenge our offense. Forrest has to beat Lewis County and/ or Riverside to accomplish their playoff goals. IMO, Marion's offense does nothing to prepare you for either. They just line up their 300 pounders and bulldoze you. Trousdale is similar to Lewis and Watertown runs a similar offense to Riverside. And if you get super lucky in the west you run into Westview. So I would be getting all the spread work I could get to get ready for that.

Yep,I think this may be my last Topic,at least this year.We have had ZERO interest in any of our games.

No disrespect taken. I like a little banter and friendly smack talk. From everything that I have heard from multiple people that I trust all I am getting is Haywood is nasty. They are really good against the run and can score almost at will. SGC has been able to score points against Haywood the past few season so I hope we can get into another high scoring affair. We will all know here in a few hours. Again, no disrespect taken I just like a little banter.

I understand what you’re saying, but Oak Ridge will always have talent, frankly because a lot of it comes from 1 small area of the city. I could go into specifics, but I think you know what I mean without having to do that haha. Actually, the city is slowly coming around in terms of the median age range. The school has actually grown the past few years, to be honest (we may find ourselves in 6A again soon, unfortunately, BTW.) It’s a cycle with things like that. BTW, we may not have things to attract the young families with kids, but in all reality you don’t really have to because OR still holds a very strategic place in that area because of the location of the city. I mean, West Knoxville is a simple hop & skip away and right over the hill. You can live right there within easy driving distance without having to deal with the hustle and bustle of West Knoxville, so it does have its advantages there. As far as the age range, it can only go down from here, as the older crowd continues to die off. It’s still a wonderful place to raise a family. And as you said, the academics speak for themselves. High school football in TN is just a completely different animal these days. Back in the older days, you didn’t have kids transferring back and forth from school to school like you do now, and frankly OR is at a pretty distinct disadvantage when it comes to that because of our location, not to mention our extremely high tuition, which is much higher than other schools. The West kids who transferred in this year is a rarity @ OR. Yeah, we get our occasional transfer like Middleton and the West kids, but if you do it, you have to live in OR city, whereas in some places like Powell, you don’t have to because of how the zoning alignments are in Knox County now. Most every year, we just have to wing it with mostly born and raised OR city kids. Not saying y’all are recruiting BTW, just giving an example.

Still think you're going to have make one guy the play caller. Play calling is an art and you can't have two different guys calling the game because the feel and setting up certain things will be different.

I’m sure there’s one on the NFHS Network. SP/Sale Creek is I believe, but I wouldn’t call it the “best” game to watch.

Guess wee will see. That picture says alot though.

Completely agree, SS. This may be harsh, but from an outsider's perspective (one who also works in OR), what is going on with the football program isn't that different from what is going on in the city of Oak Ridge.

^^^Just want to put this out there. A friend over from Tyners way sent this to me last night. Hilarious. Personally I think the Ram Train is about to catch a brake job….

Under JG’s guidance, we have lost to 2 teams that we had lost to in 80 some odd tries 1 time, and now we have lost to them both the past 8 years. I don’t care how much better they are, OR just isn’t supposed to lose to Karns or CC, period.

We had one coach promise the players he would wear shorts every game until we lost. 13 degrees at kickoff and single digits by the end and he wore a pair of khaki shorts with tennis shoes that night lol.

They are metal, guess we could build a fire underneath them

Yes, it is past time.

They ain't your sisters beavers either bobcat

When Camden got out of the Flex Bone and got back to running the Single Wing they instantly got better because they are now able to mount success on the offensive side of the football and shorten the game by chewing up the clock. They are much better than their 1-5 record suggests. Waverly is very good. Camden lost their former QB after the Waverly game and then lost their current QB the day before the McEwen game. They are already think and trying to play against McEwen without a QB really killed their chances of winning that contest. I honestly believe they would beat McEwen if the two teams played tonight. Martin-Westview is very good. Parsons-Riverside is very good. Fairview is very good. Union City will be very good. They beat Houston County very convincingly. The game was well in hand throughout the contest. They won 64-48 but they were up by 3 scores for the majority of the contest. I'll be eager to see how their new/improved offensive approach fares for them against Union City and Gibson County. Coach McConnell, Coach Wolf and those guys are very good coaches with proven track records. They should be commended by the way that they've held the team together throughout the season. They are still playing very hard and competing against very tough competition. Good Luck to the Lions this week.

One Ball isnt a culture!!!!!!! Their other Gold Balls was long ago, changing it to kids being pillars in the community as they become young adults, no coach worth his salt just wins ball games !!!

Pride I garuntee tide21 needs to bring that stuff to Ronnies red eye one night. Where in tarnation is that @ShaneJacobs man finding these lunch ladies that can nock over a dumpster and play in the sec? Our boys havent chased chickens since Grider left. That snake oil salesman Jones man made a beach on the end of the field and all our boys do is go down there and put sun tan oil on and get tan. You think im joking but im not.

I hope Deshaun Bishop gets 3000 yards and plays for UT one day.