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I saw the Brentwood/White Station game and IMO, either would lose to either Riverdale or Maryville. Stranger things have happened, but I see Maryville taking the Gold ball possibly BIG.

First of all welcome to Williamson County, you'll find the Brentwood announcer to be "BRILLIANT" You'll see what I mean by this .haha He needs to chill out, and they need to turn the volume down just a bit on their PA. It's as loud as LP field, and I can hear him a mile away, even though I don't want to. That sounds pretty terrible... I was at the Franklin/Brentwood game (with no dog in the fight) and the people I was with commented on his "announcing" He was even screaming into the mike at the snap as Franklin was attempting a FG (a miss). He was trying to be the entertainment instead of letting the kids play.

The Brentwood High school TV station replayed the game this weekend. Go the school website www.wcs.edu/bhs then go to the media site. There should be an email address and you may be able to order a copy. (Williamson Co. website appeared to be down Sun night, but keep trying) BTW, Congrats to the Spartans on the win. I know the team has been knocking at the door for several years. My son played on the 2006 Ravenwood team that won down in Memphis. Good luck next week.

Given the craziness of matchups this year, predicitions are a shot in the dark. I was looking at the 6A bracket and noticed it didn't pay to be an odd number seed this year. Only 4 total made it to rd 2. 1-#1 1-#3, 1-#5, 1-#7. Don't follow 5A much at all but I will prediction Henry Co. 6A is full of possibilities. Blackman has had a good run, but playoff inexperience may come back to bite them. I'll go with them from the East on a hunch, and from the West it probably comes down to winner of Brentwood/Franklin, so.... I'll go Brentwood. I don't see how they keep doing it, but Crawford always has them lined up right. Between Brentwood and Blackman, I'll go Brentwood in the rematch. Don't hate, all these are pure speculation.

Like in TV games in the past, place kicking sunk them. Not FG's mind you, extra points. Missed PAT's cost them games against Brentwood, BA, and now Hillsboro. Could we PLEASE find someone to kick. They've never had a stud kicker in their existance. Come on soccer guys, they need your help. I agree with Spoon (#74?) they didn't look disciplined at all. Hillsboros 1st TD was a disgrace with 8 missed tackles, but props to the RB for continuing to churn those legs. The offense moved the ball adequately but couldn't close the deal which has been the problem the past 3 years. Things don't look very promising from what I saw last night. It's going to be a long year I'm afraid.

As an RHS supporter from the jump, I have seen the program both with and without a freshman program. The year my son played freshman ball was really a waste. It doesn't fully prepare them for varsity football near as much as playing JV. Yes, they will be playing soph and some juniors, but at Ravenwood, you will almost always be playing teams with better size and speed athletes so you better get used to it. Rector gave soph a chance to prove themselves at least on varsity special teams and many turned this into regular playing time at the varsity level. If an 18 yo is playing jv, he probably HASN'T been pumping wts and playing ball or he would be playing Varsity. When a freshman program is in existance, it has a tendency to be separated from the varsity players and by eliminating freshman ball, Rector brought freshmen into the fold with varsity players so they could be mentored. Those who chose not to take advantage of the mentoring or special teams opportunity, well that's on them. Who knows what the new coach will do, whatever the decision, I will support them.

Aydelott has 2 kids at Ravenwood but the Wing T would be a disaster there as they don't have the personnel to even attempt it. However, the principal will do the hiring and that's a scary proposition in itself as she has absolutely no athletic IQ whatsoever. Whoever is hired will have to teacher a full classload, so it limits canidates who want to primarily or exclusively coach instead of primarily teach and also coach.

Hey Rappy, Any word on who Rector has scheduled? I know he has to schedule 5 nonregion games instead if 3 as in the past and in the past had trouble getting any public schools to play them. Wonder if he's contacted BGA, FRA, or Father Ryan...close schools for gate reasons and games that are winnable. As far as returning players, I know the QB and RB are back but only 1 OL, Not sure about WRs or defense, do you know?

I was just looking at the new district and noted the following: Since 2002, all teams except Centennial have appeared in at least 1 Championship game; That's 10 appearances with 4 Gold balls and 6 Silver balls; Brentwood- 1 Gold Franklin- 2 Silver Ravenwood- 1 Gold, 1 Silver Independence- 1 Silver Hillsboro- 2 Gold, 2 Silver Cenntenial- None, but still a tough team This District will be brutal with only 2 guaranteed 6A and 1- 5A berths Let's hear some opinions.

Congrats to the Patriots! I didn't think you could do it but you proved me wrong. Franklin had no hopes of stopping any 3rd down less than 3 yards. Your boys are big! Bass impressed me more than Valentine, may be Franklin keyed on him and I believe the ankle was bothering him in the 2nd half. You kept Franklin from getting their usual big plays and they killed themselves with turnovers. On the play of Oakland's 1st score, it was 3rd and 8 and Webb had pretty much the entire D on the line of scrimmage. When Bass broke thru the initial line, there was no one between him and the goal. Why was that D called??? On offense, several times low percentive passes were thrown killing drives. KEYLO was the key to winning which was under utilized. He was effective every time a pass was thrown to him. A game plan of multiple short passes would have given Franklin a much better shot as Oakland's Dline was too good to have the run as the primary play. Ford may have gotten his long runs if the Dline was looking pass. I'm not saying it would definately gotten the win, but Franklin left alot of plays unused. Congrats to the Rebel players for a fine season, coaching seemed to hurt you. Again, congrats to the Patriots, you seemed to win with much more class than the Bulldogs.

Actually, it's never really known how good each team is related to the other because they usually have no common opponents. WhiteStation appeared strong, but apparently their region was not as strong as region 6. It will be interesting to see which team can bring home the gold ball. I'm hoping for a good (close) game as the 1A and 2A games tonight are rather boring.

I completely agree and if they pull it off, I'll be impressed and the 1st to congradulate them.

FYI- on Sat night no one will be allowed on the MTSU field so it's great to have your team come to YOUR fans' side to celebrate rather than sprint to the opposing side to grab your crotches and taunt. Good luck to both teams. I am rooting for Franklin and don't see how they can be beat, but I admit I haven't seen Oakland but am hearing alot so if you do win, Pros to you, you will have earned it. Only 27 hours to go. To everyone involved, enjoy the experience, you'll always remember it...win or lose, trust me, I've been thru both.

Yes he was but Ravenwood fans know winners when they see them. Good luck Rebels!

This is the problem I have with the new system and I'm sure Smyrna may have the same issues as my team Ravenwood. Smaller or weaker teams wouldn't schedule them in the past when non region games really didn't matter. Now that they weigh much heavier, no one will want to play a good team if they think they have any shot at the playoffs. It was hard enough for Ravenwood to get 3 non region games and look who we had to get...BA,MBA,and Goodpasture, all strong D II schools. No way we can continue to play that type schedule, but who do you get, and now they need 5 non region games. This may end up being a major mess IMO. What's everybody elses opinion?