3rdandLong

2 hours ago, Mr. Postman1 said:

What are they gonna do sue you? It’s a public school game. Who really owns any right? They are owned by the tax payers 

Schools choose to be a part of the TSSAA. They can choose not to be a member, and not play in the TSSAA playoffs, and broadcast however they choose. 

This is gonna be a scrum. 

3 minutes ago, Mr. Postman1 said:

Tell us again how many home school kids y’all have playing over there this year that don’t count toward enrollment! LOL

Sumner County is open enrollment. Also my understanding is that Westmoreland has had homeschool kids playing on their athletic teams the last few years. 

Six underdogs. IMO three should be favorites and three are more like pick ums. On the favorite side 5 or 6 are really pick ums. I could be out of the top 20 by midnight!

24 minutes ago, pujo said:

It sure don't get any easier this week.

Yep. Turns into a crap shoot for many games from here on out. Gets down to a turnover here or there and there is no way to predict that. 

1 hour ago, MidTennFootball said:

I'd call it beginners luck but I've doing this a long time and been nowhere near the top so I'm celebrating what I'm sure will be my short lived reign at the top. Too bad Nolensville was banged up at QB. There were 3-4 that I pretty much just guessed on

 I felt like Nolensville was a solid favorite. I wondered what happened. Makes sense now. Good luck to all the prognosticators!

Watertown takes this first round matchup. 

London is well known for its footballers. 

11 hours ago, Southtowner said:

On the west side I would say so.

You have a top 4 on the east side? 

1. Marion and Smith/York in a dead heat for 2 in the East. It wouldn’t surprise me to see these east bracket teams upset in the early rounds by a physical, less talented team though. 

Huntingdon and Riverside top two in my opinion. 

9 hours ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

No we just don’t pay our coaches in EBT funds…

Be non taxable. 

Thanks fellas! I enjoyed the race and banter. Y’all are some good pickers and good luck in the post season!

1 minute ago, Khall555 said:

Are we sure Trousdale isn’t in the playoffs? According to the TSSAA website it is not a guarantee they do not make it.

TSSAA ain’t sure. 

Got three dogs. No guts no glory. 

1 hour ago, GBO52 said:

I heard Westy had a kid that has been at school all year that they just found out could run a 4.33 40. 5'11 190 pounds and he joined the team! Should be a nice addition for the Eagles!

Should be easy to coach him up in a couple of days. 

7 minutes ago, H2Oman said:

I’ve been watching H2O for 40 years plus and there is no doubt we were never as talented as we were there for about a 4-5 yr span and I may never see it again, but the team I seen last night laid down from the opening kickoff.

 

I’ve been a Webster proponent and thought highly of Hackett ( still do) but that team was not mentally prepared to play last night, which is puzzling seeing it was senior night.

 

100% agree with a lot of these posters about Jimmy and joes, but a well coached team doesn’t lay down like they did last night when they are well coached.

Doesn’t mean I don’t think Webster or Hackett forgot how to coach, but last night was not a good showing by anyone on the team.

From an outsider, your responses on this thread seem logical and reasonable. 

1 hour ago, H2Oman said:

This what I’m talking about… do we have the talent we had 3 or 4 years ago.? No, but we have more talent than to let a kid run for nearly 200 yards and go untouched numerous times in the first half.

 

Was MC better than us… absolutely! Were they running clock better than us… I don’t think so!

 

You can talk about Jimmy and Joes all day, but somewhere the coaches have to be held accountable when you get beat in this kind of fashion.

 

MC only scored 21 against Gordy and beat them by 14. We beat Gordy???
 

Last night wasn’t just a Jimmy and Joe issue. It was a team failure including the coaches… that means Hackett too! 

I haven’t had the opportunity to see Watertown this year, but did a few years ago. You guys had talent all over the field. Most games it wouldn’t have mattered who your coaches were, except when you were playing Trousdale or out of region. Appears that’s a different situation now. 

23 minutes ago, pujo said:

Bet we both would have missed Alcol,lol

Webb cost me tonight. 

11 minutes ago, pujo said:

Bet my dog is bigger than yours, lol

My dog was bigger earlier in the week. 

I would have went with Alcoa. One large dog this week. 

5 hours ago, Merlyn said:

Wilson County you have to file an out of zone request and it has to be approved. Normally requires some type of hardship, past issues or academics. 

I have no issue with schools playing within the rules set forth. That being said, some posters want to promote the idea that some schools don’t have advantages as a result of these rules, which is asinine. Schools that gain athletes from larger schools have an advantage. That’s just indisputable common sense. 

Furthermore, stating the only out of zone kids that have played sports at Watertown (or any other school that’s an open zoned school) had a “hardship, past issues or academics” you are either being disingenuous or haven’t been involved with the inner workings of high school sports and are just simply naive to the truth. 
 

5 hours ago, UpperCumberlandMan said:

With Tigers being in a  opened zoned County, the Macon County all star team will be way to much for  H20 to handle. To many advantages on Lafayette's side. 

Macon by 14. 

Watertown is in an open zoned county as well, much like Putnam. Nice effort though. 

20 hours ago, Southtowner said:

I understand.   But General is giving me the "vibe"  that losing to 1A Gordonsville is somehow beneath his 2A Forrest squad. 

 

There isn’t much doubt about which one of those programs has been the strongest. 

I imagine this game will be very similar to the Westmoreland- Macon score. 

The east appears to be very weak in 2A. I haven’t seen Marion or upper East  but have seen York, Smith, and East Robertson and several others. I would say York has a slight advantage over Smith.