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The Lady Warriors Beat Buford Geogia (#5 In The Nation ESPN POLL / #14 In The Nation USA Today) on Bufords home court. These Lady Warriors are some kind of good and they are letting their actions do the talking for them... Congrats to the Lady Warriors on another Invitational Tournament Championship and getting your new national recognition. 14-0 AND COUNTING!!!!

Look at Ron Crawford Very little talent in Brentwood, but he's in the running every year. Some wish Tom would have waited a lil longer on Ron to return that call. Who beter than the student who beat his teacher. As for Rankin leaving he was board and tired of the warrior greed. He cleaned his office out every year if he didn't win it all and put his name in hats for jobs becaues he felt if he didnt win it he could or should be fired.....He went from playing in the hardest region in the state then 4 play off games to a garenteed champion ship

I would like to say so. Me and they guy's call Oakland the Oakland Warriors. You can change the uniforms adminstration wat ever you want but you cant change a winner. don't get me wrong Oakland is a good football program always has been. they fell off for a minute here and there due to coaching. All there missing is wyant, britton, and rankin....lol is there a coach on there staff that hasn't been at riverdale. It wasnt a smart move to come in behinde rankin all these coaches new that, but im bout positive one of them will be the next hc...regardless if rankin was there or not that 07' team was expected to win state. wat coach wants that 1st year pressure. as soon as they made the hire i thought oakland would win it and i new sadly to say they would beat riverdal. If you can find a riverdale team that has lost to a wing t. i want a time date score and verifcation from the tssaa........lol. so why would mac and his staff lose to one. they probaly didn't even practice for riverdale that week. I no we never practiced for a wing t. we consintrated on wat we wanted to do and wat we were going to make them do. once again the wing t is simple if your players are coached up and unselfish. Coach Mac could have came in to oakland and went 7-5 and every one would have been content. didn't feel like thanksgiving not going to a 4th round game this year.

So no 2001 Riverdale. There were some studs on that team they only had the best running back and receiver in riverdale history with a great pocket passing QB. With like a million role players that would have been stand outs any where else. Wasn'yt there like ten all- staters on that team and a couple of all-americans. There were players that made all-state in positions they didnt play I think Edrell Smith made it as a safty and he played out side backer.....lol he never roled to safty in a 2 high look

I don't agree you can win them all, but it takes a year around program with commitment a staff that demands it a staff that has little or no family life. Steve brittion Jr once told me i'v seen my father mroe in the past three years than i have in the last six and thats only becaues he was a junior and he played for his father. as soon as you start thinking you cant win them all you want.

There were plenty of years Rankin was down on talent.....98' young team lost star running for several weeks 12-1 00' offensive seinor skill players laid an egg and never showed up 13-2. 02' turned to a 60 to 40 pass run team after king ralph left the thrown to get the ball to a stand out receiver. He died or something in Lincoln Co. 3rd game of the year 13-2. You can find talent with in your team its there. In 02' dave thomas was 2nd team corner back up Qb. the running backs were sometiming so rankin move dave to running back and it save the season.

Word is Central now a middle school will be turning into a magnent high school, allowing students in the near by community and county open addmission to education. Is there any truth to this

I heard that 70's Central team was great. 10 shut outs is crazy. 2004 put up good #'s i think the best did they even have a close game, but guys off that team say 94' 97' 00' 01 Riverdale. I also feel the 98' Oakland team was very good, and uder rated. I saw teams like 94' 97' R'dale and 98' Oak and tryed to be them on saturday playing youth ball for the mustanges......lol

Me an the guys sit around and talk football and this question never can be answered. Maybe you all can help. I personaly think Riverdale 1994

Its hard to repeat. I played in 3 straight state championships, we had the best of coaching an more talent than any one in the state stuff happens like we physicaly abused an steped over Brentwood in 2 a days. With 4 stand out players out hurt enjoying the show from the side line. Crawford just came to work that day no preaperation just a lil full contact. yeah a few mounths later he went home with the gold ball. 1 night it was suppose to b light rain slight chance of sleat.......lol yeah that was the weather in pregame warm ups. after we came out there was 2'inchs of snow its hard to play on turf in nike turf speed shoes. Gearld Riggs was making cuts like it was a hot summer night in regular rubber studded cleats. what im saying is its hard espeacialy when you have a target on your back like Oakland they have always had a state program.There want be teams playing to when a play off spot or state championship there game against oakland will be there season. You want to see a celebration go to all the oakland games maybe not this year but when they loss it will be one. Smryna snuck up on people for 2 years no 1 took them for real.

Sorry correction i was looking at it wrong oakland was state runner up 88' 89' so so in 90' 92' not good.

I don't have overall records but, Oakland 88' 89' 90' so so Lincoln Co. 90' days of the falcon Farrgut 93' 3rd round close loss to Riverdale Jefferson Co. 96 loss to Brentwood Academey in the state championship

Me and you. I hate when im out and about an people are like what happen to the dale........lol

Rankin threw a flea flicker on his own 1/2 yard line in chatt 1 year. in a big game he feels safe with fakes an trick plays. i once heard him say it's not a trick play if we rep it like toss sweep. i thank he's wright. his trick plays and fakes work a good percentage of the time...

Rankin took over in 90' he went 4-6 that year with a couple of close loses including oakland. the next 4 year he built a power house that im sad to say might be gone. 91' 10-1 92' 12-1 93' 13-2 94' 15-0. it's just going to get worst for coach A. they questioned an complained when rankin lost which was near never. they were saying he got out coached. if play side stands there ground and back side fallows the puller or pullers that criss cross mess don't mater. its going to be a tfl. wing t o is good when your playing an uncoached d that the d-line just runs up feild and past the ball. 06' 07' the first game smryna and wc. d-line over ran it every time secound game rdale had 0 offfense its that simple. the reason y people steel run it in high school is becaues high school players r selfish an uncoachible. havent seen to much wing t on sat. or sun. lately.......lol

I have seen some pretty good football teams in the past 10,15 years being from middle tenn. I hunge around the Riverdale program until last year. 3rd, 4th round they traveled or a far west or east team came in to play. This year and a little of last year I have watched the mid west 2a teams like Hickman and Lewis. No disrepect there is a big gap in the skill talent and level Im use to seeing. Coach Gary Rankin is working with the same type of talent and skill he had in Murfreesboro on top of his great coaching. The man has been in Murfreesboro the 1st weekend of December for like the last 8 years with 2 diferrent teams. I have yet to see a skill player that run a 4.4 40 or a backs benching over 315.I no Gary and he keeps fast kids I don't care where you send him he's gone find speed and make them strong. The best player I have seen out there is Hickmans DJ Key so if you all can stop 5 or 6 Keys then you deserve the gold, but not the Lewis I saw. Lewis you are a good team, thats a good region for you, and you compete well there. Don't make statements like we can play with Alcoa thats like saying your ready to play a 5a schedule there is only a hand full of non 5a teams that could do that Alcoa is one, and you are not. Lewis that wing thing you run works against East Hickman. But Gary Rankin no. You all are not 2TD's better than Hickman. There were to plays where at least 3 tackles were missed, not broken by the running back,but missed and you all capitalized and scored on thoes plays. Now secound round with Scott back and Haymanes back I don't no if you make it to Alcoa. If you make it 40+

Lol no deal Riverdale alum baby 99,00,01,02 whats good. Not a fan. just saw them play. Iv been around real football an there a physicaly good team. i guess ur a Marshall county fan im realy close freinds with the staff over there.where im from they have had 2 down years 12-1, 11-1 . 11 and 12 wins ant enough where im from don't get it twisted. Im use to seeing all-staters, all-americans, players that pay no mind to all- region honors even though they play in the best region in the state.Its cool i understand you didn't no you thought i was some country red neck die hard hickman fan. like a guys said earlier watch what you say on here. You don't want to do marshall vs rutherford. I never said hickman would win i said their well coached and they have a chance to be in the 2a title game never did i say their gone beat the brakes off marshall, i can tell you who want have a chance at the 4a title game. You one of them dudes who was on the team and didn't play or dont play. You from marshall how you gon talk down on hickman point and laugh at your self.

The true Warrior fans are tired of sitting in the growd with there hands over there face watching that wing T thing that i don't think has won a 5A state title. We don't deal with this lose stuff very well a change needs to be made. Sack it get him out me an former team mates didn't do all that hard work bringing the gold footballs home to watch it fade a way

Hickman is not bad they have gotten away from the wing T and spread it around a bit it want come down to coaching. Nick Patterson is a former player and coach from Gary Rankin's old University of Riverdale, helped start the Eagleville program,went Hickman last year as D cordnator. His boy's wil be physicaly prepared, if any flaws they will be mental.Good team on realistic possible trip to murfreesboro if they can hold it to geather.

Thats what they all say until the next year comes around and their working in a factory. They don't just give a way play football in college tickets, He has no body, and his stats are not good enough to overcome that. My bad their is always NIIA or what ever that is they call football.

Thankyou most ok players from ohs are, the only player from ohs that was great like they all claim to be was Alvin McDermin. Youree might have been on special teams at rhs

Thankyou it's not magic it dont just happen over night. I played the year we lost to DC. We new they were a good team they just had not finished a game that year even the ones they had won.

You right, it's bad when the best player in blackman history from 00-02 be like.I should have stayed at riverdal thats the worst thing I ever did. I mean we had a chance but, it's just the fact you playin Riverdale and no matter how much time left or what the score is or how many times they turn the ball over You just cant stop riverdale and eventualy they gone stop you. So the best thing is just to hope a lot of people get hurt and they run out of time. Becaues they have only been physicaly beat 3 time in the last 14 year,and all them teams were final four or better teams

Thats all any of them did........lol