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Not a Science Hill fan here, but it's nice to see that level of talent in the Tri-Cities, wish him well this season

No offense to all the Science Hill guys who work hard to make the team successful, but..... the 2025 Hilltoppers will meander thru the regular season, maybe win one playoff game, and then it's basketball time.

Daniel Boone is a 5A high school in NET (Tri-cities). Several years ago one of Boone's feeder schools went 10-0 and their avg margin of victory was 50+ points. If I remember correctly only one team scored on them the entire season. As you can imagine all of us HS fans started drinking the Boone-shine in anticipation of the team we would have in a few years. Turns out that only 2 guys from that team ever played in high school. Lotsa reasons... several played other sports & gave up football so as not to risk injury, others just lost interest, some discovered girls, etc. Now, let's contrast that with a playoff game I saw at Greeneville (4A) a few years back. Walking in to the stadium there was a big grassy area where some young kids (single digit ages) were playing pickup football. An errant pass landed by me so I stopped & tossed the ball back to them. They were all wearing Greene Devils jerseys and they told me that they couldn't wait to play for Greeneville when they got to high school, so that's why they were out practicing on a cold Friday night in November. For those not familiar with Greeneville, since 2009 they have played in 5 state title games and won 4 of them, and are in the running every year.

Page very well may be the better team, but...... turnovers, penalties, etc.. it's all part of the game.

17-7 at the half Everyone who expected this please raise your hand.... *looking*..... no hands??

Westview fans - I am from east TN and familiar with Alcoa. What they are doing to you is what they do to most everyone they play. You obviously have a very fine team based on the fact you're playing in the title game plus your record this year speaks for itself. Sounds like you guys have a good shot next year with Alcoa moving up to 4A.

Wow, no kidding about that Page D. I just went out there and looked, and found this: - Page has pitched 8 shut-outs - Nobody scored on Page until game 7 - Nobody has scored double-digits on them, highest score is 7

This is the only game where both teams are 14-0, makes it a bit special huh?

4 slam-dunk wins (Gate City, Mo East, West Ridge, Claiborne) - these are not even debatable Very probable win (Knox Central) - Central has not been very good the last couple of years 50/50 (Asheville, Oak Ridge, Jeff Co, Bearden, Science Hill) - Maybe Jeff Co should be above with Knox Central, not sure....

Could this game go back & forth any more??

I have mentioned a few times lately that Oak Ridge seems to be one of those teams who can embrace mediocrity in the regular season and then play lights-out in the playoffs. Guess I'm pulling for the Smoky Bears since they are from R1 but I'm picking the Wildcats to take this one.

Hey Tri-cities guys: We are all pretty much off the T now until next season (2025) so Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. We'll pick this thread up again around mid summer 2025. Ya never know, could be some coaching changes in 5A/6A by then.........

I got to meet him at a couple of Greeneville games. Even though we were complete strangers he treated me as an old friend, like we had always known each other. We would launch into a football-based conversation like you've never heard. Batman, very sorry to hear of your loss, keep the faith Bro

Ahem.......

Oak Ridge seems to have this thing about regular season mediocrity, but playoffs excellence