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Darn it! So close but yet so for the Raptors. Oh well, great season for them they outdid everyone’s expectations. Good luck to Cane Ridge, those kids will have the time of their lives practicing on thanksgiving.

I do not believe that Cane Ridge will go down without a fight. Very good team. I am just predicting that Ravenwood will win at the end of the night. Yep I could be wrong and if that's the case than Cane Ridge will have done a good job and I'm sure will give the next team all they can handle. I don't know why being a metro school would make them worse when Ravenwood has both won and lost (including getting boat raced by Overton last year) to metro teams.

Yep it is totally possible they lose next week, week after etc because the level of competition they are playing at is very top notch. I’m just saying I believe in them until it happens

Everyone picking Cane Ridge in this one the “experts” picked Notre Dame to beat Miami. Both Notre Dame and Cane Ridge are great teams but I’ll take the Raptors in this one 41-8

All they have to do is beat Cane Ridge and a down-ish whitehaven team and there in. Both teams are very good still. But What happens in Cookeville? I don’t know. I just hope they can make it in the semifinals because I’ve not been in the midstate this season and can make it back during thanksgiving.

Ravenwood continues its march to cookeville with a win over Indy. Daniels with what he did this year deserves serious consideration for state coach of the year.

This is an unpopular opinion but that's why the TSSAA playoff system used from 2009-14 was the best. You win 7 games you should be in the playoffs, you win 4 you should not. Not every region deserves four teams in, while some deserve more. Lenin and the Bolsheviks would love the existing system. "But our schedule was hard!" Bummer. You can't play that card in college football so you shouldn't be able to high school football either. "But we have to travel out of state to find game every year! Poor us!" Bummer for Rutherford teams. You schedule RePublic and complain about having to play Hoover or Bowling Green to fill the schedule. Bring back the Z-plan

Not impossible. Depends if they can get out of Wilco bracket and who they draw from the other side. 6A is wide open.

Man I miss being in the mid state! Heard the Raptors got the better end against some Kentucky boys who thought they were the stuff! There’s a reason Sam Harp couldn’t coach a lick in TN!

Ravenwood already played a team with a Notre Dame lineman and beat them. RHS improves to 6-2 on their way to another impressive season. 6-6A crown a real possibility.

Ravenwood's freshman many years ago beat Ensworth. Ensworth would go onto win multiple state titles while Ravenwood endured several years of 2-3 win seasons. A few years later RHS has some horrendous 9th grade records whose players would go onto win a state title as seniors.

What a game. Raptors are back. Control their own destiny for a region title and a return to Cookeville.

Hopefully it will be better than last year's game in the 2nd half. I know Ravenwood has improved but so has Brentwood. Tomorrow could be epic.

That's interesting. I would expect more from our AD. Oh well, the Raiders do have talent and Ravenwood is outperforming expectations this year. It would've been a great game between two good teams this year.

Honestly just curious, what program are you with right now. I've been out of the midstate for awhile now and haven't been following TN HS FB as closely so I genuinely don't know what team tried to schedule Ravenwood. As for trying to schedule easy wins, the previous coach made the schedule and was the type who would have turned down offers to play good competition. Daniels soon after being hired was able to swap out Rhea Co late because the travel would have been hard but other than that is stuck with the current contracts for the next two years. When he gets the chance I'm sure he'll schedule some good teams.

Last time I checked Siegel is a 6A team. I understand through, Page and Fairview want to play good competition. Page is not the sleepy, small country school anymore. Growth in the area is on fire and soon they will be equal in numbers with the "traditional" big WilCo schools. Not located full-time in the midstate anymore so last night was the first time I saw the Raptors this season. Coach Daniels is going a heckuva job. Historically it's been feast or famine for Ravenwood in terms of season-by-season results, so we'll see if this team can make a deep run this year.

That is the greatest post in the history of coacht.

The rain

The varsity was fine. The young guys struggled. Loads of people are running track this spring. It was also clearly MJ's super bowl after getting smacked around twice last year by RHS. Ravenwood historically has had bad springs, even the spring before the state title run after the loss the year before saw a smackdown by Marshall County. I haven't missed a game in six years, and a home game in even longer than that. I will be relocating late this summer to another city so I'm gonna have to follow the Raptors from a distance. I will prowl the message boards and YouTube for highlights cause I would be lucky to make one game this fall.

On a more substantive note, this win and the Indy/MJ game is reflective of one thing and it's the rise of Williamson county basketball to eliteness. Don't forget, Indy needed OT to beat Franklin in the 4/5 game in district or else they wouldn't be here at all.

No relation to Jack Daniels. Matt Daniels was the DB's coach last year. Before that, he coached in Falls Church, VA just outside of Washington. This is a great hire because the Ravenwood community wanted to stay in house. Coach Daniels give the Raptors a great chance to navigate the toughest district in the state.

The announcement will be made as soon as Vaden wants to.

Yeah, and the coaching search started a month later as well.

We should know this week