logcabinman

Such a tired statement. I don't think anyone is scared, but going and taking a high scoring loss every season is tough, especially week one. Coaches are trying to get player buy in and it takes weeks to recover. Cupcake, McMinn played 3 teams in Centrals region. Probably didn't help there team playing smaller schools either. As I stated, a black and blue game imo is the best option. Really McMinn has the most to lose if they are defeated in this game.

Fair enough, but I just feel a scrimmage can be more controlled.

I like the idea of the Black and Blue scrimmage. Charge $5 and split gate 50/50 sell some hot dogs and burgers and let that help both programs.

Computer is wrong. Sweetwater was a good ball team, that is all.

Alcoa will win big! Sweetwater was descent at best. Not taking anything away from their season. GP was an excellent team this year and got throttled this past week.

I agree with this statement for high school. Sometimes successful coaching at this level is not winning on the field, but teaching kids hard work, community, and life lessons are far more important. Rural schools will always cycle. Just because a coach has a winning record, in high school, doesn't neccesarliy mean he is the best coach, and sometimes it does. What I am trying to say is, in high school, it takes a community. Alcoa and Maryville benifit from strong community involved feeder programs where those people work with the schools to run the schemes and such. Small rural communities have to come together and try to be the solution, instead of blaming a one or two year head coach for a program not seeing success.

Had to comment to clear things up. Martin is a good coach!!!

Honestly this is a good post. Sweetwaters Coach is a wonderful man and they do have really good athletes. This Sweetwater bunch is an up and down team. They have the athletes to hang with Giles, but will Coaching be the difference. Loudon staff is a phenominal coaching staff, and correctly stated, they are a little down this year. Keep this in mind, Sweetwater handled Loudon with relative ease. Alcoa, is a whole different story. Being from the east, Alcoa is always your state championship game. I say this will be a good game early, but I give the edge to Giles.

Yes, I knew that potential was there. Molly is an amazing ball player! Young ones did a good job as well.

They played well last night.

Yes, winner get the honor of playing Alcoa. Alcoa is amazing this year!

Sweetwater is quite a bit better than Loudon. This is a toss up for me.

I agree, Sweetwater should win, but Central has a punchers chance. I would stack the box and take my chances.

Great win for the Chargers!

I knew it was one of the news channels game of the week. Guess I'll be tuning in to Todd and Chris on 99.5

Does anyone know if this game will be streamed?

You could take top 2 then have an at large based on strength of schedule.

I have no problem with the top 3 teams from each region. Sometimes the opposite regions are just that much better.

Also, there is a McMinn County High School in the County. Could have been called McMinn East, but Central works fine.

This could be a good game.

Why would they want to let him go? Seems to me he worked hard to help the program this year.

I have a friend that coaches in Michigan. It is wild there. Teams have to qualify for the playoffs based off their body of work. One year you might be in the 2A playoff, next 3A, or 4A. It's crazy. I'm assuming local commities set it up. I would be cool with this, but classsifications would stay the same for me. Make a 4 Quad scenerio made up of 8 teams. In the east there would be 2 Quads, 2 Middle Quads, and 2 West Quads. Sometimes a 5-5 team is better than a 7-3 team in a different region.

Another factor is the amount of seniors on this years team. One can say what you want, but that matters when dealing with a closely matched game. Central can cause trouble for teams, but for the most part, they give more trouble to themselves. I've been pretty spot on this year with wins and losses, but I feel like this is a winnable game for the Chargers.

It's crazy to me that Loudon is probably playing the best ball out of all these, with maybe the exception of Sweetwater, but if they lay an egg tonight they could be sitting at home.

They have a turf field at Loudon.