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I agree Swanson. Neither team is very strong this year but I do think it will be the best match up between the two teams in about the last 5-6 years.

I pull for RBS to do well, but injuries had nothing to do with the outcome of the Watertown game. Might could have made it closer, but would not have changed the L to a W. Good luck RBS. I hope you win out.

I do wonder why they have things set up the way they do now, making fans drive 2 hours to watch their boy play one nigh then turn around and drive it again the next night to drive 2 hours again to watch the girls play. It seems to me things could be adjusted somehow.

I do understand. And I agree that a foul should have been called earlier, but the correct call was made on the intentional. I do not know what you mean by the "Watertowns finest" i missed something. I posted that because it appeared in the post that the original poster couldnt believe that it was called intentional when it clearly was. I do not think it was the best called game but I though it was consitently called bad for both sides at times. Again I was impressed with the Heart the JC boys showed in fighting back. A lot of High Schools host Region ball games. Its not always due to just the size of the gym, but also the amount of fire exits.

No hard times, but when they shove the kid completely out of bounds the way that kid did there is no other call that can be made, grabbing, bumping, smacking an arm, whatever is fine. But that was an intentional foul plain and simple. I posted this to laugh at the fact that he was admitting it was intentional and was obviously at the game and to call it anything other than intentional is hilarious to me.

Lets see, you admit you were trying to foul and cant understand why an intentional foul was called. hmmmmm I am not even from Watertown and I laugh at this. I was at the game, it was the correct call. JC did a great job fighting back and showing a lot of heart but the refs had nothing to do with the outcome.

No one cries about this in Football and every game in the football play offs has a team with the home field advantage. If you dont like it then start hosting in one of your gyms when it is your districts turn to host.

Great season Macon and hopefully you will build on it next year.

I was not making a projection. I was responding to the guy who made the projection and said he had never missed one. And I am not from east TN I am from Macon originally and live in Smith now.

Don't know how the game will turn out but my hats off to the boys on the hill. It sure is good to see things improving up there. I sure hope to see the Tigers extend the season another week. Nothing against DL but as a former MC player and coach I got to pull for the tigers. I sure wish I could be there tonight.

Never missed a projection, dang you should be able to make some money.

Great post Termite. As a former Macon County boy I am excited to see things starting to turn around and Congrats on a big win. You have seen what it takes to win now. Keep up the hard work and get some more this season. Good luck Owls, I hope both teams can win out and make the play-offs. It may be the only chance I get to watch either team play.

Mark was a GREAT man and will be missed greatly. I had the honor of playing while he was an assistant coach at Macon as well as coaching with him there as well. He will always be thought highly of those whose lives were touched by his strong Christian example. It is good to know that he is in a better place.

All this comparing scores really means nothing. Watertown was a much healthier ball team when they played FCS than they were when they played WHH or ER. ER has a very talented team, but I seen a great deal of individualism on that team as well. I question how they will handle adversity, and it will come their way against FCS. If they can play as a team, keep their focus, and play 4 quarters it will be a close and good game. If not FCS will win by 21 points or more. Either way I am picking FCS. Lets see how much dancing around, nodding the head up and down, running around with his helmet off so he can be seen number (well I wont put his # that would be slamming a player and I will not do that), but lets see how much he gets to do that this week. You want see that out of FCS. Their players will be focused on the task at hand. They will not be focused on themselves as an Individual. They play as a team.

You can't count on the "who beat who" thing. If so Sycamore only beat Macon by 1 in OT with Macon missing every extra point. Goodpasture beat Macon by more than 30. It all means nothing for the Sycamore Goodpasture game. You still have to line up and play. It will all come down to who executes the best. Back to the topic. I expect the Wildcats by a couple of TDs in this one but the Tigers are improving every week and I am hoping this is the week they break out. Keep up the Good work Goolsby. Never count out the Tigers.

The weather may be a major factor in this one. Go Tigers, I am pulling for you to get your first win of the season.

Why are you making this about me for? I was just saying that a person's ability to be a coach has nothing to do with their abilty to be an administrator. I have known great principals that were terrible Coaches, and great coaches that made terrible principals. He has not even had a try at the administration thing and someone has already started on him. You all got what you wanted, he is no longer Coaching. Why can't it be left alone and lets talk football. Anyone know how the players are responding to Goolsby and what the attitude in the locker room is like?

Are you saying that there were behavior problems on the field last year? His abilty to be an assistant principal has nothing to do with his coaching. Sounds to me like you have something personal against the man.

I think you misunderstood me as well. I did not mean to make it sound like I thought you were bashing or anything, I just thought I seen a few more positives is all. By the way, Watertown will be 2-A this fall, I know we are no where near the level of some of the teams you will be playing, but you all will be much better in the fall than you are now if everyone will continue working hard. Good luck Macon.

I thought the scrimmage went a little better for Macon than Goldenrod, not saying that I know more than golden, but here is my input. Coach Goolsby has had basically 8 days of practice time to put in a new and very complicated offense. It takes a while with the Tony Franklin system. Our boys have been running it here at Watertown for about three years. Macon started off really slow but once the QBs settled down a little things improved. I seen boys playing their back sides off and watched them get better on the offensive side as the scrimmage went on. People are going to have to be patient, but they will improve greatly before the season starts. There were some great catches made by some of the Macon recievers last night as well. As far as the score, we actually only scored 2 TDs when the starters were on the field and Macon actually scored first. Our third TD came with the 2nd teams in. As far as parents helping Coach, the only parents I seen on the field were helping spot the football. I did not see any helping coach ( but I could have missed it standing on the sidelines for part of the scrimmage ). My hats off to Goolsby, I thought his boys seemed to be motivated and they played with lots of Heart. I also think he has done a great job getting this offense in as well as he has in the amount of time he has been there. I was also impressed with the sportsmanship the boys from Macon showed last night. Very classy group of guys. Good luck Macon, believe in yourself, your team, and your Coaches and you will see great things happen over the next few years.

Good luck Keith. You are going to a great place. The county gets a bad rep because of a few, but the folks there are great as you already know.

I would say that is stretching it a lot. Clay County is no where near as good as last years Lookout Valley team. Not meaning to put down the Bulldogs, but they are not to that level yet. However, they are a team on the rise and I think they have the potential to get back to the level they were at in the late 80s and early 90s.

If you are familiar with RBS you know that the only available land is just as I described. No soccer fields, only farmland. That practice field could be made into a good one with several hundred loads of dirt. Which I will say the county road commission did provide RBS about 80 or 90 loads of topsoil in 2000-2001 to help level up the game field. I will agree that the Coach that turns that program around will be a legend. I would like to see the current staff do it.

I will have to agree, I just wish he would have been allowed more input when he coached at Macon County in the late 80's. I can still see him chewing one of us out with his eyes closed, GREAT TIMES. /roflol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflol:" border="0" alt="roflol.gif" />

I understand, my post was not in any way meaning that you were against RBS becoming successful. Doing things correctly takes somebody putting some money into the program. I do not know anything about the current staffs coaching abilities, but my hats off to them for taking on the task. For RBS to do some of the things you mention, it takes money that they don't have. The 1 year that I was there the only place we had to practice was in an old horse pasture on a hill side. One sideline was about 15-20 feet higher than the other. The kids there try very hard and some of the community is coming around and trying to be supportive, but they need the backing of the entire community and some money makers to step in as well. I believe the young staff they have will learn how to be successful if they can just get more support.