saw4ND

Good game, much closer than the score would indicate. CPA’s screw-ups hurt them worse than ND’s. CPA crowd support was impressive.

ND needs to play a “clean” game (which they have not done so far this year). I am still waiting for the Irish to play to their full potential. Next Friday would be a great time to do that!!

33-15 ND over CCS at the half. CCS cut it to 15-20, and ND got ticked off and reeled of 14 points in about 4 minutes thanks mostly to #3.

There's gonna have to be a whole lot of Rogaine involved if either of those two is gonna grow dreadlocks. Irish will definitely need some breaks to go their way to get to Murfreesboro. I fear a long streak for the ND ladies is about to come to an end....but who knows, stranger things have been known to happen.

Looks like there is more parity than ever in A-AA this year. How ironic.

Not many quality wins between #s 5-11 (or the "other teams receiving nominations), but it will all play out next week. The only ranking that matters is #1 at the end of May.

Tough to know how ND will look this year. They graduated a bunch, including their very reliable goal scorer, their keeper and 3 out of 4 from their back line. They have a good core returning, but they will be thin with no room for injury. They are going to need a few freshman and sophomores to step up big time to have a chance to get back to the Boro. As for McCallie (since they seem to be the subtopic of this thread)....if they don't win State this year, they need to get a new coach. They are freakin' loaded.

Dispite the sore winner posting from the Squatch faithful, Congrats and good luck the rest of the way.

I hated to do it, but I figured it was better that he hear it from me than from you or the troll

As much as it pains me to correct you, the Signal boys have beaten ND 2 times. Once in 2013 and once 2014. They tied in 2015. The world got back to the way it should be in 2016 though...at least for the ND boys.

Unfortunately you only need to watch the Irish for about 10 minutes to realize they are not playing well. I don't want to say they are not a good team, because they have some good players, that are just not playing with any patience, or playing as a unit. Good news though...Signal isn't that good either. Both teams are guilty of a bunch of one-touches to nobody. More than 3 passes strung together is very rare. I still think the winner of the ND/Signal district tournament semi could make it to State, because other than CCS, nobody in Region 3 and 4 appears to be that strong. However, from what I have seen, neither ND or Signal needs to worry about making a hotel reservation in the 'Boro for the night before the Championship.

My point was that sometimes a sports program's success is due to a committed coach that builds a competitive team with the players that show up every year. A successful program motivates the players to do the extra work (i.e., Club play) because they want the success to continue and they want to be on the field instead of the bench. Kids in some areas don't have access to Club soccer, or many families don't have and/or want to spend the money on Club soccer. Not sure what you do about that, since it is just a fact of life in all sports now. As for the ND football team, I don't know all the players, but I can tell you that the 2 players that are continuing their career at Tennessee Tech next year, and the one that will play at Furman next year all went to OLPH, which is a Catholic feeder school to ND.

ND comes out flat and gets dominated in the first half, giving up 3 goals. Half-time talk must have worked because they came out hot in the second half. Second half was very even but ND couldn't dig out of the hole. Final 3-2.

I love the name "abouttogetmessi", and I agree with him(her)? wholeheartedly about Central Magnet, White House and ND having a chance. I think the bottom of the bracket will end up Central Magnet vs CPA (sorry West TN, just my opinion), but the top of the bracket will come down to who shows up ready to play from the first whistle and stays focused for 80 minutes.

Your not kidding about Boyd having plenty of chances. Between your long throw ins and corners, it felt think we defended more set pieces into the box than we have all other games combined.