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RD 1 4 Dyer Co @ 1 Henry Co 3 Portland @ 2 Southwind 4 Northeast @ 1 Munford 3 Memphis C. @ 2 Springfield This is how I see the 1st Rd shaping up. Im assuming that NE beats Kenwood on Friday that gets them in. I think Munford beats Memphis Central as well.

Then it was Maryville… LoL you comparing what your team did to what Maryville has accomplished over the last 20 plus years is hilarious… Maryville finally having a year or 2 where they might not be quite what they’ve been before doesn’t mean anything’s over . It’s amazing that Maryville has just reloaded year after year and sooner or later there had to come a time when the talent level overall might be a little lower. My bet is nothings over and we’re gonna be back to a Championship game before you are … I could be wrong but who knows

^^^^ Dead nuts on.

Was just listening to Thunderbolt radio interviewing the area coaches and they ask South Fulton coach about the numbers and he said he'd seen them but would keep his opinions about them to himself.Would be willing to bet he was referring to Union City.

Thanks SS!

Thanks Stars. Have to admit that was a tough one. Maryville gave us everything we could ask for - which makes me laugh when people say you are “down”. It speaks volumes about your program. If one or two breaks go a different way, the outcome changes. Praying for 0, hope it’s not as bad as it looked. Mrs. Meritiii would definitely have enjoyed this season to date. Hope we can live up to the hype and finish it out. Did not pull for you tonight, but always pull for our fellow Rebels for the every other game. Your program has set the bar for where every other program wants to be. Glad Maryville and West will continue the series.

It fell last year when Oakland went to Maryville in the Semifinals and whooped them, it was the end of an Era The new classification cycle coming will be the beginning of a new age

Region championship at stake after seeing ladeux run amok on West last night will Frank Johnson iv carry the cats to victory or does West finally get it's 1st perfect reg season

Thanks and im starting to see it too...my heart has a special place for the 2013 and 2014 West Rebels as the two best but if this team goes 15-0 then they are the best West team of all time. Best of luck to you guys as well and I hope Vaughn is good to go for you guys.

43 game losing streak and will be 44 after the Red Bank Game this coming Friday night, This is what good old consolidation gets you, some school systems never learn. Anyone know the record in Tennessee for consecutive losses. I remember a long time ago a team in upper Tennessee was getting national attention for losing so many years in a row (North Greene).

This is the Best West Rebel team ive seen . Solid play on both sides of the ball and the D swarms to the ball. The offense executed well except for the times our 95 & co got to the qb. I knew going in that we had it to do and we didnt do it. # 14 I think they call him Butter ? Should be a Mr Football candidate for sure. Much respect here for yall and I hope yall go all the way 15-0 and get that gold ball!

You must be pulling our legs over here, trying to get a rise. Dyer county iiiiiiiif they come to Henry County. They will be beat before they got off the bus. Please tell me you are joking. And last year Memphis Central didn’t even score on Springfield, Springfield is even better this year they won’t lose that matchup. However if you are serious you may need to make an appointment with Doc Schwartz and get him to up your dosage on your crazy pills.

I’m right there with you. We would all lose our minds. I hope it’s like last year. The best out of Memphis looked strong and Portland almost beat them. Springfield left a “powerhouse” offense (Memphis Central) with a big 0. We had messages on social media from Munford that HC was going to take an L. HC cleaned house. We almost had a clean sweep in region 7. Fingers crossed.

I give it to, those are some serious upsets

Even if Central beats Munford, and assuming Southwind beats Brighton, the seeds would be the same. Munford would be the 1 in a three way tie, and then Southwind has the head to head over Central.

Yes, I would be one of those transplants in the last 24 months or so (as for living here) I bought land about 5 years ago. Things have sky rocketed with building and us out of towners moving in. Your first sentence is propbably the most accurate. "Rumor" Hats off to the WHS administration and coaching staff, they pulled off a huge "ruse" on the rest of 2A for sure. Hiding 150+/- students was a major accomplishment. Even got a brand new Dollar General on the main hwy. Convenient and really impressive.

Oh I dont make your top 5 list??Thanks man.LOL only cause we dont go to bed mad at each other. You nailed it tho we all disagree from time to time but we always have each other's back when it gets rowdy. I remember the first time I met @gcapride.The folks on our side said theres a guy looking of OnB we didnt tell him who you are.Few minutes later guy came back,(he was on the field) went down the fence asking for OnB.I said I'm over here,he said we are having dinner at the half we would love for you to eat with us.Of course I was the terror for GCA back then and I said NO WAY.You sweatervesters will get me up there and jump me.LOL. Few years later they invited me and GFD and we went and had a great time.All those folks said they hated me in 10 thru 13.But they loved reading it.Pride is a good one!! Then after a Coalfield game up there our Oline coach came and said the Henry bros asked for me to come to the field house,I said NOPE!Those were two big ole boys.I wouldnt have been seen again.lol

I'm still not sold on mavs getting past GV. If they don't win it this year, it'll be a minute. With what they lose this year, next year is going to be... woof

I don't know who #2 is, but I'm sure the coaches have a reason why he's not playing more. I admit I didn't understand the coach's reasoning for going for it on 4th down in his territory, down 9 with that much time left. Obviously he felt like they could get a first down there, and I'm sure he regretted it after it failed. I wouldn't have attempted it under those circumstances - but that's me. The only thing the DC had a right to be livid about is his defense giving up 49 points.

I would say quite a bit. Not much coming up from middle school, however the current group looked that way too so we will see, but I’d expect a significant drop off.

Accurate as always

Yep. That’s why I’m a fan of 4 classes. 8 regions at 8 or so teams each. 60-70 teams per class and roughly top half (32) go to post season. This crap of 32 out of 35-40 making the “cut” has softened Tennessee high school ball dramatically. “Making” the playoffs was an accomplishment up until the Z plan fiasco and the 6 classification garbage. Now terrible teams are celebrating their “accomplishments” and their below average production is rewarded. It has bred a culture of mediocrity across all regions and classes with the exception of a very few programs.

Needs to play non region. No that wouldn’t guarantee wins either but very tough to play their own size schools right now.

I agree with parts of this. However, the gap between Alcoa and other 3A teams is massive. Covington will walk to the semis this year and having a home game against an East Nashville more than likely could go either way in my opinion. I think silver balls are very attainable with this team.

I sincerely wish Covington would play up to 4A and be in our region next year. It’s just not right to me not having Covington, Ripley and Dyersburg in our region. Ripley and Dyersburg are both cowards for not keeping us on their schedule.

I have a friend that played on the 70 Maryville team that saw one of my post saying I can't remember seeing a defensive backfield this bad going back to when I can remember the teams real well 52 years ago. He told me I was dead right and he can remember back to the early 60's and said we can add a few more years to that statement. Maryville has a qb that is serviceable at best, wr that can't get open, db's that are the worst in modern history running a 3 4 defense. Now we have just lost our best player running him to death trying to hide the bus riders from being exposed and I'm pretty sure it will only get worse from here. Without Vaughn next week we'll really get a peak into what next year will be like. I bet our travel heard will thin out next week going to Bradley and look like one of these schools that are ready for basketball season.

Would have been easier to just say "Yes, that was me." Take a breath man, it's just high school football.

Covington can beat teams with far less talent, but they simply cannot beat teams with equal or more talent than them. They run an offense with zero scheme and the coaching staff does very little to put the team in advantageous situations when playing better teams. It seems as if the game plan last night was to run the ball up the middle and then hopefully use that to open up other parts of the offense. A blind man could have seen that Covington was not going to run the ball up the middle consistently on Haywood. The Covington coaching staff is fine but they are in over their heads when it comes to trying to out scheme a team better than them. They simply cannot do it. It’s been that way since Coach Wheeler left for East Tennessee. I’m not sure Covington has won a game where they were at a talent disadvantage since then. haywood is a great team, and there is no reason to hang your heard when losing to them, but I expect more out of Covington as an outsider and I’m sure their fans do as well. If 8/9 regular season wins is the goal, then you will get that ever year at Covington. If state championship appearances is the goal, good luck. That’s not happening.

City has no control?? Are we not going to talk about how huntland had 2 ejected for trying to fight? City’s players could’ve fought back but had enough control not to retaliate

Just shows how big of gap there is between Haywood and rest of west Tennessee. They could’ve put 50 on Covington

Thats fair, I would say though the goal for WR isnt beating the Knoxville teams its beating DB and SH. 8-2 needs to be 9-1 or even 10-0 every once in a while.

Great job of LC coaches adapting and getting the most out of what they have to work with. Rather than try to be something they don’t have the talent to be, they found a way to have success with their limited talent. Lined up in heavy single wing formation and just pounded the ball by putting more bodies at the point of attack than Heritage had. Ate up the clock and just methodically worked their way down the field. Loved the old school approach.

What concerns me is this. In 1996 Maryville struggled because of so many sophomores starting which made the 98 team tougher. In 2000 and 2009 Maryville struggled some because of playing a bunch of sophomores. 2018 team lost to Alcoa and Oakland but that team was Junior dominated. This years team is senior dominated. Only 1 starter returns on defense. Offense loses a lot plus no upper class man Quarterback to lean on. I think next year will be worse.

And I am not talking about McKenzie. Think it is MASE. Lake County should test the waters in 2nd round.

Great post Doug.

Vandy I think you're becoming a Mustang fan. You watch the Mustangs move the chains, burn the clock offense enough you learn to appreciate it.

is it injuries or the kids that got in trouble for the locker room incident?

Clark kid from Bledsoe co

Oh no, what happened? Congratulations to DB, BTW. Forgot to say that.

Both teams won going away! Good night for both camps (Blaze & Bears) - and my Cougars made it to 8 - 1 with Friendship this coming Friday to determine 1st in the region.

31-13 F

Congrats two West.....Thay weal bee a tuff out fer ennybodee inn 5A.......Fer tha furst time inn mimree Mairvul iz gettin' werser az tha seesun goes.....Tha time managemint beefour haiftime wuz jist pathetic.... Onn a brighter note congrats two my good buddee Merit#3.....Mrs. Merit is smiling tonite.....

Feel good after the crazy loss last year to them and now the refs doing all they can to help Catholic from my perspective.

Bearden is a solid 6A team, but they don’t have a snowball chance in he$& of winning 6A. Good win for AC.

Shouldn't take that crew long enough to need a hierarchy to have everything "fixed". Might need some security though...how big a boy are you?

Would you cry if they took the name Pearl out and changed it to something else? When they closed Pearl and Cohn and combined them they could have named the school after someone that 99% of the kids had never heard of, but instead they paid homage to the alumni of the two schools and named it Pearl-Cohn. New School should be either Hillvue or Bellwood, period.

I can understand if that team was actually good and competing for titles but they don’t so that’s why I don’t get his trolling

Region 1 Chuckey Doak, Unicoi County, Johnson County, West Greene, Claiborne Region 2 Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg Pittman, Alcoa, Austin East, Union County Region 3 Loudon, Kingston, Scott, Meigs County, Sweetwater, McMinn Central Region 4 Tyner, Brainerd, Chattanooga Central, Sequatchie County, Grundy County

Good point. I have always called Daniel Boone, Boone till this year. I need to revert back to calling them Boone again but add Mister in front of Boone.

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