BarneySox2007

The clear cut winner for this dumpster fire is in no doubt Sweetwater, followed by Scott County and as always giving their part is Union County for third place.

Barney's winner for 2A is Cumberland Gap then Tellico Plains on a close second followed by West Greene.

The winner is Sunbright followed by Lookout Valley and Cosby.

They'll put the thing out of business. They have everyone driving all over the place every year to play 45 teams all across the state for an enrollment system that don't work. I'm a contractor/business owner that predicts games every week and I was 80.5% this year without the help of any media or info on most teams but I do that for fun but most and forall to show how predictable it is and why people don't show up at games like they used to because it don't take an Albert Einstein to figure out who will win so most chose not to waste time in boredom that night and do something different and save the 100 mile drive.

CaptainGuru I'm sure someone will apply but I hope they do some hard thinking before uprooting their family to move into an environment where a pack of local dingdongs turned a school into suspending a coach on an investigation which really turned out to be a crock of BS over a zealous town idiot with a pocket full of money and a little bit of power who thought his kid should be the starting QB. Whoever inherits this mess will have to deal with it for the next three years and hope there's no younger brothers coming down the line. Most likely they'll have to keep one or both of the assistants that stuck a knife in the past coaches back also from what I have read. For the kids sake I do hope they find a good coach but whoever does think they can overcome what was allowed to happen to the past coach they better think real hard before diving into a mess like this.

After getting beat by Bradley twice and watching Oakland do the same to the Bears and them Houston manhandled the Patriots like they did it sent me into an abyss, I see no hope of ever returning to the stage we once took for granted. This has no bearing on GQ leaving or Coach Hunt's coaching ability. We plainly don't have the athletes or the size players that schools like Oakland or Houston have or ever will especially the size. It's very hard to accept knowing there aren't any good answers and what's worse is watching Bearden join the crowd right in front of our eyes.The game has caught up to us. I myself would rather not do as some schools have and go raid other programs or support this NIL nonsense which is the beginning of the end. An uneven playing field is now before us that only the TSSAA can fix before it gets so far out of hand people will quit coming to the games,

Been waiting 20 years for the right person so far. This place is the birthing child of Karns and Farragut but it definitely looks like Karns is the mother of this place. I'm working on something right now called the Dumpster Fires of East Tennessee Football and will put it out here like I do Barney's Favorites in a couple of day's.

Didn't see that one coming.

I hope the new coach can stop the raid from other schools and restore this program to what it was 15 years ago.

No but I did hear Travis Tapp did go by and eat the hot dog.

Yep it's starting to hit the press right now. I was really hoping he would go back to high school and coach but he must enjoy the college game.

I went and watched them his last two years and at the time I wasn't impressed with his offense after being used to watching Maryville all those years blister teams when GQ was there. As time has gone on I've actually watched a couple of teams do the same with his offense and I was pretty impressed. Last year I watched Lenior City just destroy Heritage when the coach they ran off was running that. I also watched MTCU in the state championship game look like a road grader busting one big play after another. I know a lot of people would laugh about this from Maryville but we have the right people in place to do that to prefection. Our offense has great players but gets bogged down very easy on a costly penalty or just a hambone offensive call. Anyways McCamey would make someone a good O.C. in my opinion.

Call McCamey back. The man did win over there. He ran a pretty good offense that works well for that size program. The man went through a lot dealing with the loss of his son and pretty sure that would take a toll on anyone.

The way they stopped him from breaking anything and keeping him check was why I picked Oakland to win. The same with East Robertson and their 3,000 yard rusher. I figured if they could beat York the way they beat other teams this year then they were my choice. The rain could or messed them up but the kid that decommitted to Kentucky yesterday might should reconsider that move because he isn't an SEC football player.

I was really surprised how Oakland shut him down. It didn't match up with what I seen of him in other games.

Something I would trust more than a job as H-C at this place.

Thanks BC. There sure didn't look like the McCallie that came over to Alcoa for that scrimmage this past summer did it.

2023 has came to an end and I ended up with record of 430-104 for a 80.5 percent. Last year I was 384-103 for 78.9 percent. That's not to bad if you think about it. Doing this every week without the aid of any newspapers or a Murphy Fair Book to even go by the past two years. I'll put my trophy up to look at all winter and work on crossing the 85 percent mark in 2024.

The size of those lines in the game last night and the McCallie game says it all. Oakland has repeatedly come up with lines every year we have played them. This new team Houston was one of the very first teams I've seen that made Oakland look small. They controlled that game up front.

7-2 for the state championships. Missed the last two but pooring rain really messed with the playing of those last two games.

Bradley needs linemen, that's why Oakland ran all over them, even Maryville and Bearden racked up yardage because they had linemen.

You can get away with it when your team can over power teams but they found one tonight they couldn't.

They've been bushwhacked.

Had to see it to believe it. Looks like a new dog in town.