RedGrange

What? Your first O played against 5 freshman on defense, most of them in the secondary and your on here celebrating scoring on them.There is no telling how many three and outs you guys would have had if the scrimmage had been down and distance. Huntingdons offense chewed you guys up real bad. I don't recall ever seeing us get less than a five yd. gain and we scored everytime we had the ball. I think we threw it one time on a two pt. conversion and completed that with a 5'2 freshman qb. One of your td's was set up by a td on a hail mary by the qb while running out of bounds against a freshman corner. You guys are better than last year but don't get carried away.

Nobody in 1A plays the schedule Huntingdon does. lets get it on

Huntingdon will be minus a bunch of starters. We'll get to see a good look at the future.

Duck I agree with you spot on. But with the teams on our non region schedule we should be well prepared for anything the 1A playoffs can throw at us. Although we are on a bit of a downswing the last couple years we all know it wont stay that way for long, it never does around here. We've been there three times and surely its not been forgotten the effort it took. Heck, we were the last ones to give alcoa a decent game.

My understanding is they will be looking for a def. back coach. I've heard a name from middle tn.

From talking to the players i've seen they say the weightroom work has been absolutely brutal. I expected no less. I think we'll see a much more physical team this year.Defense should be very good this time and offensively it will depend on how the qb position comes along. Spring practice will probably be without any baseball players if our team makes its usual deep run so some younger guys could get some valuable playing time.

Look to me like the weight room is paying off. Zach Wallce , Tyler Simpson look like they've gained 10 pds of muscle. Went to the baseball game against Gibson Co. and noticed Ben Carter. He looks thicker. Are the baseballers been hitting the weights also?Excitement around here is about as much as i've seen in a long long time. I'm getting antzy. /popcorneater.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":popcorneater:" border="0" alt="popcorneater.gif" />

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I'm going to agree with you on ben carter. He is special at that position. Also one heck of a lb'er. Walters is quick also at the LT position. Pretty darn good. Whats with all the knee injuries. Mama's boys? What everyone needs to keep in mind is that Huntingdon has these spells of being down a little bit. We will have a drop in talent and get taken advantage of by our neighbors and they will start squeeling like little pigs claiming the king is dead. But.....the king will return, and return with a vengence its just a matter of time. They know it, we know it .

If the past is any indicator then i'd say no, but I would guess that if he has a reliable backup then the fear of warbritton getting banged up would not be as great. Just seeing some of the boys around town looks like we've added alot of muslce over the winter. We are still going to be very young. Cant wait for spring practice.

Word I get are there are two scrimmages set; One is Obion Co. and the other is Hickman Co. but I don't know about the dates. I am ready for me some foozball. It will be interesting to see what we look like in the spring without the baseball players. /popcorneater.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":popcorneater:" border="0" alt="popcorneater.gif" />

Wow. I was just prowling the boards this morning and ran up on this doozy. Is this the same school coach swenson came from?

They will still be a very young football team with around half of the players being freshman right now. With that being said they coach played alot of sophmores and jr.s last year and took some lumps early but it might pay off. I see them going deep if they can survive their schedule, which is brutal. Alot of younguns at key positions but we return almost the entire defense.

The Huntingdon game could be a prelude to late november.

Comer = Bye Bye

Huntingdon will be competing in 1A in the playoffs.

If Huntingdon can survive the front end of their schedule I think you might be right.

Kennon Holder-Huntingdon (JR). 1900+ yds rushing while missing two games. Set the state single game rushing record with 503yds vs. USJ in the first round of the playoffs.

Your power houses listed are in 1A, exactly where I predict west tn. will become well established. with the drop down of Huntingdon. TC is a county school while Huntingdon is a city school. Besides that TC goes 2A next year, as do most of the rest you mentioned.

IMO the east vs west debate comes down to numbers. Much of west tn. is rural, where the students that are going to said school are born and raised within that schools boundries. Moving from one school to the next is not as easy as in other areas. Three great examples of this are Milan, Huntingdon, and Mckenzie. These rural areas are also void of any real industry to attract workers with athletes as children. What we have to offer is good country living almost totally devoid of outside distractions. These towns are still much like the town in Hoosiers, where buses are followed, towns still have pep rally's and the school and its athletics are still the biggest show. The stars and moons truly have to align with a great group of kids to be able to compete with more big market teams from the east and middle regions. With that being said I think that the move of Huntingdon down to 1A gives west tn. a very viable threat for a muti year champion in that division IF the talent level improves to levels of previous years in our small town I don't believe you'd find anyone who would argue with that . Our down cycles tend to last from two to three years. I also see Milan as being a legitimate threat to alcoa next year because they return some major components next year and when the get on a run they generally have a very good one that results in a championship or two. Mckenzie will be just as good in 2A as they were in 1A. They've had good jr. high teams the last few years that have eclipsed Huntingdon teams and thats a very good measuring point athletically in most years.

Don't get me wrong, I like the schedule but it is brutal. If they stay injury free it could help. The way I understand it our scheduling is pretty tough and always has been. I'm sure teams like milan are in the same boat.

Baseball does not translate to football nor vice versa.

Now, now now love. Your tongue is getting all over itself.

So red boiling springs should be state champs, right? Yes kids will practice hard because like adults they like to win. Titans you win the grand prize today for having a brain.

You obviously have no idea how scheduling works so i won't go there. And please, don't give me the old "you get better by playing better teams" line. This isn't the nfl. /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> and its not 1965 either.