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Any chance we could land Walt Smith? Was very successful at a small school (Mt. Pleasant) and was just in the 4A state championship game in 2013 while at Giles County... Would he run the WingT?

"Citing personal reasons, Tom Turchetta has resigned as coach of the Spring Hill Raiders..."

I guess having multiple Division 1 prospects on your team and only managing 3 wins would be a personal problem for almost any coach. 

Who applies for this job? Kriesky seems to have sent his resume to every school in the state with an opening, so I guess he'll be a candidate here too. Any local coaches who might throw their hat in the ring?

I just question how wise it is for a county in such dire economic straits as Giles County to be literally creating new administrative and teacher positions for football coaches. The teachers, students, and families of Giles County will be the ones who suffer due to the drain on valuable resources. 

Heard from a source in Giles County that all county employees are going to have to take a 1% pay cut in order to finance all the new positions and salaries for the Giles coaching staff. 

This will be a dogfight for sure. Marshall Co needs to watch the Mays kid closely. He can get very aggressive and throws lots of punches, literally. He holds alot and is a big slow body and not what I expected with all the hype around him. I saw him get trucked several times against Greeneville. He also loves to taunt the fans on the opposing side. He is young and will mature hopefully as his high school playing progresses. Ofcourse UT will either make him what they want or cut him loose so time will tell. They say his dad is the same way so I guess he gets it honestly. Rodgers was impressive when he got his hands on the ball for sure but again not what I expected. Wood, Rowen, and Kuershchen were the unsung heros of that game. They did great and won the football game for KC.

What do you expect from a school that hired a head coach who had just gotten a DUI the year before in Murfreesboro? A shining light in a dark world, huh!?

Shouldn't these add up to 100%

Chances of winning it all:

 

1. Memphis East 49%

2. Catholic 33%

3. Greenville 31%

4. Pearl Cohn 27%

5. Marshall county 19%

6. East Hamilton 15%

7. Lexington 8%

8. Springfield 2%

In Pulaski this adds up to 100%.

LMAO at whoever asked about a next day article in a Chapel Hill newspaper. We will get a writeup chock full of errors in a week. I'm not kidding. Marshall Co Tribune. Look around Wednesday for a recap. Most of the posters on this forum are better writers.

Well, Puca always does our write-ups, and he's a Chapel Hill guy...So maybe you should take it up with him!

I just really hope that we were holding back. Running mojo 23648203 times just isn't going to work against the boys from Jasper.

 Wow, you ask way too many dumb questions. I doubt the coaches and players give two cents about how you "feel". Their job is to win and advance, and that's exactly what they did. Go Rockets. 

That's what I'm saying Mr. Watungas. 

I was just making an observation, truth2008. I can't have an opinion too? Why do you get so butt hurt every time somebody has an opinion other than yours? Starting to wonder if you're a coach or maybe a coach's lady friend as defensive as you get about everything.

I dunno, I didn't leave the game feeling very good. We look so slow and Marion is going to pick on our tiny little cornerback all night. Didn't understand why our tackling was so bad and why we kept running toss sweeps. QB looked shaky. Missed a bunch of open guys. How hard did we practice this week? Maybe we need to shake things up.

And how come we only run the ball to our side line? I don't get that at all. Are we afraid that a coach or player on the other team's sideline is going to take one of our players out?

not heard of Forrest, but we've been called a little Rhea county. Running the Wing T with around 45 rushed a game, and 4 more than capable ball carriers running it

Little school north of the Duck River--on the good side of Marshall County. Named for the great Confederate general himself. Not much skill or speed, but we will buck sweep and trap your butt all night long. 

Heard that Stone Memorial is like a bigger Forrest. If that's the case, look out bobcats. 

Wing T >>>>>

Yes, but the whole point of me doing this is to go through each scenario if a tie remains (which, as you can see, is extremely likely).

The bottom line is right now Spring Hill is on the outside looking in. Even if they beat Lawrence and Giles beats Tullahoma, they are not in the playoffs as of TODAY by virtue of only having played 4 teams with a 50%+ winning record, while Lawrence and Giles have each played 5 teams with that 50%+ winning record. 

Forrest and Marshall Co will not ever schedule again. And I believe the last time was in the 80's. Unless they somehow end up in the same region and classification. Ive heard several stories about why not. Don't know how true they are.

As for who would win it this year, who knows. But I bet the over/under would be a hundred. Posey and Co would pick us apart, and Marshall wouldn't stop the run. Just my opinion though

I'm a true rocket, but I believe the combined score of the two JV games the last two years and the spring scrimmage last year is something like 122-28, soooo.....

Passing game - Wash

 

Running game - Page

 

Pass Defense - Marshall

 

Run Defense - Page

 

Special teams - Wash

 

New Region 4-4A title goes to Rudderville... Patriots by 14! 38-24

LOL, you are smoking something. Page with a better run game???? Marshall has two RBs that are averaging over 8 yards a carry plus a big QB who carries it a lot as well. 

You were incorrect in your Region 4 tie-breaker scenario. Here is a copy & paste from the topic I just started about all of the tie-breaker scenarios for Region 4. 

I've spent the last hour doing the full breakdown of the tie-breaker scenarios, according to the TSSAA's website. First, the simple scenarios:

If Lawrence beats Spring Hill, Lawrence is the #3 seed and Giles is the #4 seed. Even if Giles were to lose to Tullahoma, it wouldn't matter. This would technically create a 3-way tie for the #4 seed, but Giles would get in because Tullahoma would be eliminated by having a worse overall record (1-9) than either Giles (2-8) or Spring Hill (2-8). Giles then gets the nod because they beat Spring Hill head to head. 

If Spring Hill beats Lawrence and Tullahoma beats Giles, Spring Hill is the #3 seed and Lawrence is the #4 seed (each would have two region wins and Giles would have one region win. Spring Hill gets the #3 seed by virtue of beating Lawrence.)

Now for the fun part--and most likely outcome in my opinion--

If Spring Hill beats Lawrence and Giles beats Tullahoma, then there is a 3-way time for the last two spots in the playoffs. All three teams would be 2-3 in the region and share a 3-7 overall record. The next tiebreaker is, "Team who PLAYS the greatest number of teams who win 50% or more of their games." Lawrence AND Giles have both played 5 teams who have won 50%+ of their games. This number will not change for either team because neither team has played a game against a team that has only won 4 out of 9 games thus far. (In other words, every single team that both Lawrence and Giles have on their schedule has either already won 5 or more games or have only won 3 or fewer of their games and thus cannot reach 5 wins.) Spring Hill CURRENTLY (see below) has played 4 teams who have won 50%+ of their games and would thus be eliminated in this scenario. Lawrence would be the #3 seed and Giles the #4 seed by virtue of Lawrence's head to head victory of Giles. 

BUT, Spring Hill has one opponent on their schedule that has not reached 5 wins yet but could with a Week 11 victory--Father Ryan. They have 4 wins, but are unlikely to get to 5 wins because they play Baylor this week, so they are big underdogs. 

If Father Ryan were to upset Baylor, that would leave all three teams--Lawrence, Giles, and Spring Hill--with 5 games against teams that won 50%+ of their games. So, we move to the next tie-breaker, which is, "Team with the greatest number of victories over teams winning 50%+ of their games." None of these three teams have a single victory over a team that has won 50%+ of their games (what does that say about how bad these three teams are?). This number will not change because all three of these teams play teams with a losing record in Week 11, and none of the victories that these three teams have so far have come against teams who could potentially earn a 5th win in Week 11. 

Moving along, the next tie-breaker is, "Team whose opponents have earned the most victories." This would put Spring Hill 3rd (opponents have won 42 games thus far) and Giles 4th (opponents have won 41 games thus far). Lawrence's opponents have won 40 games thus far. How crazy is that!?

So, the HUGE caveat here is that these numbers--42, 41, and 40--don't mean anything just yet. The final opponents' season win total after Friday night will decide which two teams get in. 

IF there is somehow a 3-way tie in this scenario--meaning the opponents of Giles, Lawrence, and Spring Hill all finish with the same number of total victories--the next tie-breaker is, "Team whose opponents have received fewer defeats." Now, this is an almost pointless tie-breaker, because virtually every team in the state plays 10 games, meaning that when you are figuring up the previous tiebreaker--opponents' total victories--their number of losses is directly proportional to their number of total victories. So, in this scenario, the results would be the same entering Friday night: Spring Hill 3rd (opponents have lost 48 games thus far), Giles 4th (opponents have lost 49 games thus far), and Lawrence would be left out (opponents have lost 50 games thus far). Notice that when you add this number to the corresponding number for each team in the last tie-breaker you come up with 90 every time? The only way this scenario could possibly break a tie is if one of these teams had played a game against a team that had only played 9 games instead of 10. Spring Hill, Giles, and Lawrence have all played teams who had full, 10 game schedules, meaning this tie-breaker is completely irrelevant.

The next tie-breaker? Coin flip. LOL

I've spent the last hour doing the full breakdown of the tie-breaker scenarios, according to the TSSAA's website. First, the simple scenarios:

If Lawrence beats Spring Hill, Lawrence is the #3 seed and Giles is the #4 seed. Even if Giles were to lose to Tullahoma, it wouldn't matter. This would technically create a 3-way tie for the #4 seed, but Giles would get in because Tullahoma would be eliminated by having a worse overall record (1-9) than either Giles (2-8) or Spring Hill (2-8). Giles then gets the nod because they beat Spring Hill head to head. 

If Spring Hill beats Lawrence and Tullahoma beats Giles, Spring Hill is the #3 seed and Lawrence is the #4 seed (each would have two region wins and Giles would have one region win. Spring Hill gets the #3 seed by virtue of beating Lawrence.)

Now for the fun part--and most likely outcome in my opinion--

If Spring Hill beats Lawrence and Giles beats Tullahoma, then there is a 3-way time for the last two spots in the playoffs. All three teams would be 2-3 in the region and share a 3-7 overall record. The next tiebreaker is, "Team who PLAYS the greatest number of teams who win 50% or more of their games." Lawrence AND Giles have both played 5 teams who have won 50%+ of their games. This number will not change for either team because neither team has played a game against a team that has only won 4 out of 9 games thus far. (In other words, every single team that both Lawrence and Giles have on their schedule has either already won 5 or more games or have only won 3 or fewer of their games and thus cannot reach 5 wins.) Spring Hill CURRENTLY (see below) has played 4 teams who have won 50%+ of their games and would thus be eliminated in this scenario. Lawrence would be the #3 seed and Giles the #4 seed by virtue of Lawrence's head to head victory of Giles. 

BUT, Spring Hill has one opponent on their schedule that has not reached 5 wins yet but could with a Week 11 victory--Father Ryan. They have 4 wins, but are unlikely to get to 5 wins because they play Baylor this week, so they are big underdogs. 

If Father Ryan were to upset Baylor, that would leave all three teams--Lawrence, Giles, and Spring Hill--with 5 games against teams that won 50%+ of their games. So, we move to the next tie-breaker, which is, "Team with the greatest number of victories over teams winning 50%+ of their games." None of these three teams have a single victory over a team that has won 50%+ of their games (what does that say about how bad these three teams are?). This number will not change because all three of these teams play teams with a losing record in Week 11, and none of the victories that these three teams have so far have come against teams who could potentially earn a 5th win in Week 11. 

Moving along, the next tie-breaker is, "Team whose opponents have earned the most victories." This would put Spring Hill 3rd (opponents have won 42 games thus far) and Giles 4th (opponents have won 41 games thus far). Lawrence's opponents have won 40 games thus far. How crazy is that!?

So, the HUGE caveat here is that these numbers--42, 41, and 40--don't mean anything just yet. The final opponents' season win total after Friday night will decide which two teams get in. 

IF there is somehow a 3-way tie in this scenario--meaning the opponents of Giles, Lawrence, and Spring Hill all finish with the same number of total victories--the next tie-breaker is, "Team whose opponents have received fewer defeats." Now, this is an almost pointless tie-breaker, because virtually every team in the state plays 10 games, meaning that when you are figuring up the previous tiebreaker--opponents' total victories--their number of losses is directly proportional to their number of total victories. So, in this scenario, the results would be the same entering Friday night: Spring Hill 3rd (opponents have lost 48 games thus far), Giles 4th (opponents have lost 49 games thus far), and Lawrence would be left out (opponents have lost 50 games thus far). Notice that when you add this number to the corresponding number for each team in the last tie-breaker you come up with 90 every time? The only way this scenario could possibly break a tie is if one of these teams had played a game against a team that had only played 9 games instead of 10. Spring Hill, Giles, and Lawrence have all played teams who had full, 10 game schedules, meaning this tie-breaker is completely irrelevant.

The next tie-breaker? Coin flip. LOL

Who's it going to be? Does the new director give it to Moos at Richland since he's only a couple minutes away? Does Kriesky at Forrest decide he's ready to graduate from church league ball and step up to 4A? Or, perhaps most entertainingly, do Blair and Flippo have a ladder match and the loser has to leave town?

 

Here is what I don't understand. A couple years ago when OC and yes Osteen were at Giles they continually ran the score up on teams. They would intentionally embarrass teams to stroke their own egos. If I remember correctly the Marshall County faithful would be the first to complain about how low class this was and how unsportsmanlike those coaches where. Well now their coach is running up the score and WOW all of a sudden it is ok and he is applauded. Really shows the true character of both communities. Turchetta was ticked off because Osteen was trying to embarrass his team and his players. I don't blame him for being mad. And yes Recruiting the Wallace kid and illegally practicing which is the word on the street is much worse than the finger. Sooner or later it will come around. It always does.[/quote

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The coach can't help the fact that the first team defense can't stop the second team offense from scoring. What are they supposed to do take a knee for three plays and punt on every possession?

Bingo. Spring Hill still had their STARTING defense in against Marshall County's JV offense and SH was blitzing 6 and playing press coverage. What should MC have done? Run it three times, lose 6 yards and punt it back? C'mon. 

 

And I guess Osteen knew that Turchetta was going to cancel the JV game (second year in a row!), so he had to get the JV some work somehow.