Ftballfanatic

Well i speculated you were sad and bitter from reading your posts, and you speculated from reading my post that i was uneducated, which proves you don't know me either, so i guess we can call it a draw. BTW how did your devils fare in close ballgames this year when the talent level was fairly even, in my opinion that is a far better measuring stick of a well coached team.

barb owning a computer and making almost 3,000 posts does not make you an expert on high school football, and when you make statements like the one about claiborne having enough talent to have blown out their conference foes it shows you don't know as much as kev-o said. The better measuring stick of a well coached team is winning close games vs teams they are evenly matched talent wise with especially when they play on the road. How did your devils do in close games this year when they played teams that were close talent wise? Also the polls mean nada in high school football, why get your panties in a wad when the playoffs will take care of rankings. I do not know you personally but your posts make you seem like a sad and bitter person.

This won't be the blowout that greeneville has been putting on their conference foes but the devils will pound central. The devils are very good, probably got the best kicking game in the state, including UT, and burley is a tough place to play so it may be a long trip back down I75.

I have to disagree with you on this one point. Greenville is much better than brainerd but that still does say claiborne will beat them. I do like your point about barb though. You may be right, i don't know much about brainerd, but they handled A-E pretty well and the roadrunners would give greeneville a good game in my opinion.

For crying out loud, i click on the claiborne-brainerd thread and get to read a lecture on barbs vast football knowledge, how refreshing, never seen that before. Barb u should just give it a rest big daddy is making u look silly. Brainerd may be the best team claiborne has seen so far including greeneville, i don't know a lot about them but they beat austin east and i know the roadrunners are very good. Claiborne would have to win the turnover battle in a big way to advance in my opinion.

Sorry barb, not meaning to argue and not going to, but it most definately goes BOTH ways when you win you gain confidence, and when youre a confident team you win. I am not a claiborne fan but i know coach liles from my coaching days and trust me they are doing it the right way. At some point when they have 65 kids to work with instead of 30 they probably will strengthen their schedule although i doubt they would ever drop a rival like hancock or CG regarless of classification because of their history and proximity. As far as confidence goes i guarantee their players are confident or they would not be 8-1, and that is all that matters, whether their fans get on coacht and pound their chests at how good we are has zippo to do with what the players do on the field on friday night, fans don't play players do.

Winning breeds confidence, and confidence breeds winning, you have obviously never coached a team that had to build something that they had never had before with marginal talent, a winning tradition cause your logic is flawed and would only work with a team with superior talent. With your logic if you coached claiborne they would be home come playoff time watching some other conference team geting the fire-snot beat out of them. I'm sure they will take the playoffs and a cheer of mediocre from their cheerleaders over the alternative.

barb what works for greeneville don't necessairly work for everyone. Claiborne is where they are at right now because they are fundamentally sound, VERY well coached, and they did exactly what they should have done to be where they are schedule wise. They could have played that tough non conference schedule like greeneville gotten their brains beat out lost confidence and these conference games they have been winning close they would have surely lost, or they could have done just what they did soften up the non conference schedule play a good team in gibbs and build some confidence in a team that physically is no better than CG or SG the very teams they have beaten to be where they are. Sorry, but claiborne did exactly what they should have done to build some confidence and get kids that were walking the halls interested in football, cudos to the bulldogs on a great season.

EXCELLENT post bidaddy devil fans can show some class congratulate claiborne on an outstanding season and say good luck next week, or they can act like arrogant buttholes continue to slam a team that they are going to play for their conference title and at the end of the season say our conference really sucks, we really had a bang up season we beat ONE good team all season. It's really quite simple.

Howell is a great looking athlete....don't know exactly where he would project at the college level, but he is versatile enough to play either side, kind of reminds me of the Teague kid at Tennessee. Also his running style reminds me of former Cane Anthony Span only in a bigger package. Lots of athletes on both teams, and a great high school game, great setting as well....Burke-Toney stadium is one of the better venues in East Tennessee to watch high school football. The decision to install turf was a good one as the field was a mud pit by mid-season in years past.

I don't know much about Claiborne football but I did hear you got a new coach helping out. If he is half as good a coach as he was a high school and college player you got a good one.

ScottIndian Well you asked me to read the whole thread to see who the classless ones were so I did and I must say you are at the top of the list. This is your post from page ONE post #7 above....and you think THEIR fans are classless....you sure went to a lot of time and trouble to dig up those stats to run down Claiborne's program and I saw no posts by Claiborne fans slamming ANYONE before your post....it is apparent from the first line of your post that you have an axe to grind with Claiborne for whatever reason....maybe someone from Claiborne kicked sand in your face as a youngster who knows regardless posts like these serve no purpose but to run down someone else and should be deleted.

I am not a Claiborne fan....but I hope that your lack of class is not a reflection of most Panther fans.

For that matter how has Greenville performed against a good passing game....there has not been two teams with good passing attacks in the 5 rivers conference since Cody Baugh was at Greenville and Jared Pallazola was at Mo-East...and the Devils were fortunate enough to have Baugh on their side.

Does Claiborne and Scott county play each other?