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Let me just say this about the line. I would give anything to have another year on this team because behind this line there COULD be a lot of damage. We are averaging about 250-270 across the board. If nothing else it will be one of the biggest lines we have ever had. We will have 3 three year starters with Josh McIntyer, Lindsey Roberts, and JC Clonts. Alan Webster will start one guard and the other is up for grabs. Other possible impact players on the line will be Dameon Allen, Mike Richman, Hal Wright, and young guys like Reece Davis, Cole Webster, and Garrett Payne. It will be one of the deepest lines we have had in quite some time. Anthony and Weston will have a fun time running behind these guys. And on the whole recruiting thing. I for sure was not recuited and I know that last year we had about 18 different guys start and all had been there since Middle School or before except one or two. In the past four years I can only think of maybe two players that were not from TN so you can argue all day about it with me and I will always win.

That might be the stupidest comment I have ever heard. An all-star game is totally different than running a actual team. The coaching staff has a month to get this team together and get it running like they like it. I can promise you that there is not another coaching staff in this area that prepares harder for a game then Boyds. There might be equals but none will surpass them. Please name another team that has been playing in December the past three years then i will say you have a good argument.

What is the difference in 1 or 2 weeks. Boyd and Tyner play week 10 and the playoffs start the next week. Your comment makes no sense because if the Tyner players are not tired by week 10, then they will be fine entering into the playoffs. I know first hand that Boyd has lost a lot from last years team. I am with Coach Akins every night and I am constantly getting updates on how the team is progressing. Do not believe for one second that Boyd will be down. The upcoming seniors have felt the joys of winning the State Championship and the pain of losing it twice. Replacing the whole back field will be hard especially Matt Henley. Filling in for me, Drew Akins #11, will be Weston Perry who has played a considerable amount of time in blow out games and shown great promise. Matt Peardon #23 will be replaced by Anthony Hathaway, who as Dad/Coach Akins says has the potential to be better than Peardon. The defense has some large question marks and a considerable amount of inexperience, but are also under one of, in my opinion, one of the greatest coaching staffs in Tennessee and will have hopefully hit stride by season time. If there are anymore questions about Boyds team in 2005 ask, I should know.

3-0 Boyd, Boyd wins the district but the "easy" part is over

BBS STARTERS: QB- Drew Akins 11...........................DE- Joseph Welch 42 RB- Matt Peardon 23.........................DT- Chris Payne 71 FB- Matt Henley 25............................DT- Lindsey Roberts 65 WR- Tripp Wingo 3............................DE- Ben Hogan 45 WR- Daniel Atchley 13.......................LB- Robert Colman 17 WR- Hunter Wallace 8........................LB- Matt Henley 25 WR- Weston Perry 7..........................LB- Jason Davis 51 TE- Andrew Boone 1..........................LB- Seth Williams 56 RT- Josh McEntyre 70........................CB- Drew Akins 11 RG- Chris Payne 71...........................CB- Tripp Wingo 3 C- J.C. Clontz 53...............................FS- Daniel Atchley 13 LG- Seth Williams 56..........................DB- Matt Peardon 23 LT- Lindsey Roberts 65.......................DB- Andrew Pritchard 9 Kicker- Weston Perry 7 Punter- Weston Perry 7 Holder- Drew Akins 11 Snapper- Chase Cook 54/Cody Thomas 30

Are you kidding me? you are not going to pay any attention to the Times Free Press' poll which includes the votes of many sports writers, but you are going to bring up the Stump on Sports poll. Haha. i love the job Stump on Sports does but you are just looking at the information that you want to look at. and you are very wrong in saying that the TFP is the only poll with Boyd above all these schools. all but one of the computer rankings i have looked at have Boyd above Ooltewah along with Tyner, Red Bank, etc. So everything you have say has become stupidity to me.

The fact is that even if we would try to play Ooltewah it would never happen. Why in the world would Ooltewah, a 5A school, schedule a team like us, a 1A school. That is pure stupidity. There would be nothing for Ooltewah to win. If they did win, big deal it is against a 1A school. If they didn't win, wow they lost to a 1A school. Granted a lot of people would love the see the game and trust me a lot of players would want to play in it, but Coach Gatewood would have to be stupid to schedule that kind of game. I am #11 of boyd and i can tell you first hand we didn't play our best game against East Ridge. We have to give East Ridge credit, they play their butts off. But we probably played the worst 2nd half we have played since my freshman year. They caused some problems for us but we caused our own problems too.

It is at boyd. Please come!!!

last night was a very strange game for us at boyd buchanan. we came out in the first and i promise i had not seen us play much better than we did. we should have scored twice in the first but i made the mistake of throwing the ball to the wrong team. a big play pretty much broke our spirits. we lost our mindset entering the second quarter. our offense lost the battle of the line and our defense lost the passion we had played with all year. during halftime dad (coach akins) gave us a talk i hadnt seen since my freshmen year when we went 6-6. we then came out in the second half and scored quickly and our defense made a huge stop. that is when varsity players were taken out. we got humbled in the second quarter and were shown that we werent where we wanted to be yet but coming out in the second half and stepping up really impressed me and the rest of the team.

Also, this is hearsay but I was told by my father who had talked to coach Pack formerly of CPA and he did say that Wooden tore his ACL. How factual that is, I have no idea. It shouldnt matter to the teams in the east though because they wont have to face them till the championship game. until somebody gets there then they can worry about it. Drew Akins

My name is Drew Akins. I am privilaged and lucky to play quarterback for boyd. I am very biase because of my friendship with matt peardon but there is not anyone running back in the state in 1A or even up to probably 3A or 4A i would rather have that Matt. He is a threat in so many ways. He makes our passing game what it is. How in the world can you say Matt isnt the best running back in 1A? He ran for 160 yards against a very good defense in the biggest game of the year. He is the best in my mind and i wouldnt have anyone else besides him.

KRP, Drew Akins. How are you? i am great a little sore. i would like to know what you ment by saying i didn't like to get hit. I did take a couple of hard hits but i got up after everyone of them. I would like to think i showed class by getting "worried" about number 65 when he went down. I also believe I showed that I am not a one man team but a TEAM working together to WIN. SP you played great. great year.

this is drew akins. i usually dont say anything on here about other teams but i am choosing to do it this one time. i am not sure why. south pitt is the best team defensively we have faced all year. the defense kept the game extremely close. to those who say that south pitt lost because of turnovers, please check the stats and see also that south pitt's only score was off my turnover just before the half. so take aways the points off turnovers. it is hard to win with no points on the board (10-0 score without turnovers). so everybody get over this game it is over and look to next week, not the third round of the playoffs. there is 7 weeks till then. both teams have to make it that far to play again. best of luck to south pitt and i hope to see you again at boyd in the third round.

hey boyd people, this is your quarterback, Drew. Please do this one thing for me if you are going to be on here. dont say anything that is going to get the other team fired up in anyway. i will tell anybody that we have the best fans in chattanooga. dont disprove me by getting on her and making us as a team look bad. let the other teams talk. we need to keep our mouths shut because the last thing we want our school to be known for is a dirty talking, dirty playing school. Thanks fans and i love you all.

Boyd beat Hixson 4tds to 1td. Hixson won JV 1-0

So you want us to quit advertising our school? How else do schools get kids to come to their school, athletes or not? The last year South Pitt won the state championship they had Sam Pickett on their team. Sam was zoned to go to whitwell. But somehow went to South Pitt. Don't tell my South Pitt didnt advertise themselves to get him. We have nothing to give to kids. We can't give them money to play, We can't pay their way. We have nothing to recruit with.

i am really good friends with Matt Peardon. i am also pretty close to Coach Akins. I'm his son. My father has never recruited a player in his life. He hadn't even met Peardon till he came to school. So that name is not going to work for you.

how did sp's spring practice go? how are they looking right now? and dont give me any bull crap, tell me honestly what they look like?

What does south pitt have coming back besides Blevins and Ridley? i know they are going to be the team to beat out of the east BEHIND Boyd.

we dont even need to consider if south pitt would have scored on 8 plays from the 10, because south pitt was not there. i believe that south pitt is going to be the team that we are going to have to be to go back to state and i know that they will have a great team next year, but we will too. healy and nelson was not our whole team. we have said all year that we have no stand outs on this team but we work as one and without everyone on the team, all the way down to scout team, we would not be where we were. i hope to see yall more than once next year because i should would love to play yall in a playoff game. i cant wait till we see you in the fall.

i admire your son, and it truely ment alot to me when he came up and talked to me after the game. i wish i had been a little bit more classy at the time. i am sorry for that. Even though it was not one of my best moments, i would like a picture of us together. you can mail it to my home at 9412 Berkshire Circle Chattanooga TN, 37421. it will be much appreciated. your son is a class act and i hope i can be like him if we win one in the next two years(or even if we lose one). Thank you.

CPA, congratulations on a great win. yall are the classiest team we played all year. i am Drew Akins, #11, the player Dan Williams, #5 from CPA, was talking to after the game. Dan if you are reading this, i appreciate you so much for doing that. it did mean alot even under the circumstances. i apoligize to the CPA players and coaches for not going though the line after the game but i did try to see as many of yall as i could after i realize how classless i was for doing that. i respect the football program very much. Coach Pack, you are a great man. there is nobody i would rather lose to in a championship(if i had to) other than you. i respect what you do with your players and i hope to see you again next year with a different outcome of chorse. Boyd is not totally out though, even through the lose of Healy and Nelson, Miller, puryear, smith, john taylor, blake, and alex, we have the leadership and atheletic ability to be right back where we were. but SP fan you just keep counting us out. we like it that way. Boyd fans yall were great to us all year and i am glad we are gettin more of our student fans back. about the call of Coach Akins, my father, hindsight is 20/20. when you have coached for 26 years and have won a state championship(in Alabama) and lead a team that was 10-40 in 5 seasons before you became coach and turned them around to be 64-25 and a state contender in the 7 years you have been coach(Boyd) you come talk to me. he knows what he is doing and i will tell you before anyone that i think he should have ran the ball but i will not go against his discision. he has taught me a lot about the game and i know he did what he thought was best. once again congratulations to CPA and Coach Pack. i hope to see you again next year.

we played horrible but about that game it is over and to tell you the truth the team is over that and are ready to make the trip to seeing them again but right now we are going to have to focus on this game and nothing but this game b/c if we look past south pitt we will have an extremely hard road to the playoffs. like i said this is the home field advantage game. and the pride game to say i was on the region champion team in 2002. its going to be a major game for both teams.

what game are you talking about. you will never sell that,"Boyd plays nobody," stuff to me. we have played East Ridge and Rhea County who, as of this week, are 11-2 not including the loses to boyd. we played Ezell and played a horrible game. they are a great team though. we played Oliver Springs who before we played them had only lost twice and were ranked 7th in 2A. and later we play lipscomb, who is a good 2A team. not to mention our region. South pitt is a great team and it is the most important game of the year for both teams. its for the home field advantage which is so important in this sport. if you want a good game to watch then come to this one, it will be the 1A region 3 game of the year if not the eastern tennessee game of the year in 1A. but please quit saying that we have not played anyone.

the game was repostponed to monday at 4:30. the superintendant from coppen basin would not allow them to play on sunday.