YoungBuck

1 hour ago, dawgs82 said:

YoungBuck, West is 5A, but they would be pretty high in the 6A rankings if they were 6A, maybe only behind Maryville in this area.

I Know they are. I just like to make that joke when they open up with two wins against 6a region 2 teams

If I am not mistaken, the West Defense held the Bearden offense to 1 yard rushing all night.  Their DC is probably one of the best around if you ask me.  I see West having no issue having the best record in 6a Region 2 after Friday. 

31 minutes ago, oridgecat said:

YB, not comfortable giving names and specifics when it comes to injuries.  Both are receiver/dbs

Scott won't care if you just put their numbers out there...

7 minutes ago, oridgecat said:

Yeah, never was a fan of jamborees.  It's all risk with very little reward or benefit to your program.  

Which two kids got hurt?

On 8/6/2022 at 12:00 PM, olhickory said:

Ran into to Coach Gillum and he says Knox West will travel up I 75 Monday at 6 for a scrimmage at Anderson County.  Should be a great scrimmage.  Mavs got rained out at DB last night.

Heard the herd got plowed by West. Had Gillum screaming "Just Punt It".  Hamburger patties laying everywhere.  Folks said AC couldn't score until West put their 3rd string in.  Did you go to this one ol hick?

Who cares if the coaches wearing their jackets on the sideline shows people they care more about who they are than who their players are, it looks cool and that is really what matters.  

15 hours ago, Mavericksinflight said:

Yeah true most of the staff probably never lettered or were Allstate. May have never even played. Probably just nerds.

Yeah that's what I said too cause it always  has mattered to me how good a coach was as an athlete back in high school. When will people understand that that always translates to good coaching...

On 8/2/2022 at 1:12 AM, Mavericksinflight said:

I am still a little upset with Knoxville News sentinel. They apparently know something we all know more of. If that makes sense. Knox News Having the Mavs go 9-1 to me means the Mavs only lose 1 game then add 5 games and the championship is the Mavs at 14-1 . Which makes more sense. I don't think Knox News was very clear or rather they just wanted to leave my mind cursing every breath at them. Not only me but the Mav players are very upset that Knox News stating Powell will put a whipping on the Mavs; well in so many words. When Powell comes into town the Mavericks will be so fired up over Knox News taking sides. This is one for somebody by name of Katy to bar that dang door shut in Maverick stadium and no one goes home that night! I mean call for Uber to deliver a midnight dinner at halftime. Powell will not get out until the Mavericks say so .....capped off with a Win! And I mean it!

I think the News Paper knows that the head coach and staff wear letter jackets on Fridays and they just don't take the staff at AC serious 

10 minutes ago, keepitmoving said:

Number 8.....who is that?  

9 

22 hours ago, olhickory said:

Fake News, friend.,  I have been by the 7v7s and practices.  GT is there and is a live wire as usual. He brought back his old friend and Maverick favorite, Tony Lambert and the party seems to be on in Maverickland.  Stop by next Friday and watch the Mavs host Stone Memorial , and I am sure you will see Coach GT or hear him on the field.  

Thank god that’s not true

2 hours ago, keepitmoving said:

LOL.....Powell Players LOVE Coach Lowe and staff......The players and staff are very close!  Maybe you were watching the middle school team play or something?  

p.s. I think I would know.....wink, wink

Yeah you are right, I may have been. I mean Gipson was out there so it may have been the middle school. Just funny how desperate some coaches looked for Powell trying to get their “star” athletes to even run off the field. Guys on that team are more worried about the next level and NIL deals. Greene is the exception IMO. Kid loves to compete and is probably the heart and soul of the senior class. It sure ain’t number 8 

11 hours ago, OrangePylon said:

Is Hardin Valley still going to be bad this year?

Saw HVA in a 7 v 7 and no shade to the previous group, but it is very apparent that the coaching is 2x better if not more.  New HC has put together a pretty good staff.  May be to early to compete late, but this team will win. 

12 hours ago, olhickory said:

Anderson County Makes the Bus ride to Kingsport DB August 5 for a scrimmage.  It was a hard hitting physical affair last fall, and should be again.  Anderson County's skill players were just too much for DB last time they met at AC.  I will be looking forward to watching this one, as me and a few guys will make the trip up to see what the 2022 Mavericks look like.  

I heard GT is no longer coaching on staff.  I think this is something that may give DB and teams throughout the year an advantage over AC.  Chris Thacker calling plays > Davy calling them...

28 minutes ago, HTV said:

Same coaches as last year. Tell me how that one turned out. And Powell won't miss a beat offensively with Matt as the head coach. Don't care who had or has the OC title, Matt is as good of an OC as there is on this side of, of not the entire, state.  It's his team. 

I really like West's coaching staff, but I think even they would tell you that it's more about the athletes than it is the coaching. Both staffs have good schemes and put their kids in positions to make plays. 

I'd beg to differ in the sense that I do not believe the West coaches believe Powell has better athletes then them. In fact, Powell in many preseason competitions have proven to not be the same team.  Powell coaches DO NOT have the respect of their players, I've seen this with my own eyes.  Coaching is more than the scheme that is built on Sundays.  West coaches are putting their kids in better positions as young adults and the play translates on the field. 

On 5/10/2022 at 10:01 AM, oridgecat said:

They won't play AC either, that's so weak.  

It's about that time ORkitty! whats the word these days? 

1 hour ago, blazer1set said:

This guy has Powell finishing the season 8-2 and winning the 5A title.     So who beats Powell in the regular season, Murvil and Cat-lick?

West beats Powell this year. Better coached 

1 minute ago, HTV said:

I don't get "offended" when Powell is brought up.  I simply call out that those who are pointing fingers need to look at history of what has gone on for decades and the fact that everybody in Knox County plays in the margins.  If you think I am offended, your interpretive intuition is way off and you don't know me.  I simply have no room for hypocrisy.  

And a big deal was made of the way Clinton supposedly hammered Bearden in a scrimmage.  Again, just pointing out the "real story".  

 

Did you go back and watch the film we talked about last week?

21 hours ago, HTV said:

Cheated is a strong word.  

I prefer to say they may have fudged a bit.  

If I were Bearden and/or Bearden alumni I'd also try to say something such as this to make it seem that Clinton "fudged" the score.  Who even puts stock in the "score" of a spring game.  There is a pretty easy way to figure out the fudging of the score scenario: watch the film and count scores.  Then take it a step further and count how many of those scores were with the best of the best vs say the old Bearden kids vs Clinton's freshman team.  I think Bearden had alot of scores during the later

Just now, oridgecat said:

Yes it most definitely has. 

Well, I was going to but what's the point.  Yall just want to run down the team and the program so nevermind.  

Come on OR cat, don't take your ball and go home.  That sounds like loser talk right there...  

Cummings will get some guys in there, just wait.  Him and the "Money man" aren't done yet.  

2 minutes ago, ORDT said:

Heard there was a blend of those short out passes however the QBs failed to deliver on those as well. I think the word is most of the passing plays resulted in the QB standing around looking for someone to get open. Wasnt there but didnt sound very pretty for a pass completion perspective.

Guess losing their returning starter at QB has hurt their progress. 

In all serious, it sounds like Cummings tried to do everything he will not do in the regular season.  Most of his pass game is short play action passes that catch you in the wrong spot, so deep balls seems like he either wanted to keep it vanilla as he can, or work on the things he knows his offense is the worst at... 

If you run the veer, you have to be ready and able to throw it or you get beat all the time but he will use the hundley kid as a HB slot which will be most of his pass game and he was in track. 

38 minutes ago, oridgecat said:

I don't know who you talked to but I don't agree with much of any of that.  I was there.  You have to remember that none of the guys that ran track were on the field.  Very few starters out there last night.  So, your source may not have known this and their expectations may have been a bit lofty.  The team we see in August will be night and day from what we saw last night.  Heyward and Rodgers were the two that stood out to me.  They both look stronger and faster.  #17 is junior Andrew Fererra.

Is this Cleveland High School all over again?

6 hours ago, NoleNation3 said:

So your big plan is to throw crap out there about Oak Ridge and hope some people start to believe it? You want people to think Cummings is not doing a good job and having problems.If he wasn't a good coach you wouldn't be investing so much time into trying to bring him down.I just can't imagine being apart of such a laughing stock program but spending my time worried about anything else.You have a culture that is years of losing and beat downs to fix but continue to be infatuated with what SC is doing at Oak Ridge.You and military man need to quit worrying anybody else but Clinton.The purple pounders are coming to Clinton this yr and I wouldn't want y'all to choke on that cupcake again.Eat all your cupcakes and then you might be allowed to speak on a real program and be taken seriously.

Okay, sounds good OR cat...I mean, "Nolenation3"

4 minutes ago, oridgecat said:

His point is there are no hand picked athletes!  They do say if you hang around there long enough your IQ will drop.  

You must drive through there on the way to work then.. 

thats what I love about OR fans…they finish each other sentences and interpret each other’s thoughts 

thank you for my daily OR sucks fix, it couldn’t be possible without you OR cat 

1 minute ago, SweetScience said:

“Handpicked athletes” Haha. If that’s the case, we need to do a much better job at handpicking ‘em, since we haven’t won a state championship in over 30 years now. 

Now you see my point SS! Thank you