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Yep, I've seen a few guys that have no business on the field or at any other sport.Most truly try to be impartial and do the best they can.Some of those are just not to good at it.I have to say that the refs I personally know up here in Kingsport do a fair job and are like " Barney Fife", they would flag their own kids team equally.I was the same when judging a Martial arts fight, even if I personally knew the contestants,if they got beat or won,I scored what I seen.

SH has a chance against Maryville, I would take 36 and SH for a quarter today.DB has a chance against Greeneville,being a Greeneville fan I'd take Greeneville and give 13 for a quarter today .Bottom line is ,I wouldn't bet on either game but DB probably has a lot better chance then SH whatever the score ends up.

I didn't see the game ,hope I can catch a replay sometime.I haven't read through either but did see the BC video of the ref spotting the ball.This is exactly the thing I talk about with my Devils.If you don't play a clean game and different things happen ,yes a DB or Oak Ridge can beat you or several teams can send you home in the playoffs. Where can I catch a replay online

I lived in Englewood for a year when I was a kid.Stayed out of school for two days to go watch the " SuperStars " that was being filmed nearby . Oddly enough,OJ Simpson I believe was the winner that year.That's way back when he as running through airports and not the version we all know now.

Just watching the local sports news on channel 11 and they are going to talk with Coach Christian on the 11:00 news. Maybe by then they will figure out that Greeneville is not 5a.Yes I'm assuming they talked to the DB coach when they visited Kingsport.

Well,one thing might be for sure.We will find out in about a day what DB has for the Devils. Same as Oak Ridge, I never overlook a DB team nomatter what their record is. Last time I checked, 5-0 and will be fired up headed to Greeneville to try and disprove everyone who is picking them to lose.

Man, this is definitely a game I would like to see and I hate to listen like the old days.I remember my dad telling about coming home and listening to the rebroadcast of his Greeneville basketball game with his dad.Grand dad had been in the fields all day and didn't think the game had already been played.Atleast this will be live on the air.

I've got a question for everyone interested in this game.It may have been posted but there isn't a bigger game in NET, is anyone going to carry it on TV.

I don't know who all the middle school coaches are now but there wasn't enough for the numbers they use to have.I seen good coaching from Robinson with Coach JF and the very few coaches he had helping with the 7th and 8th grade one year.His eighth grade lost to both Sevier and Greeneville during the regular season but beat them both in the playoffs with adjustments.That Greeneville bunch was loaded with 7th and 8th graders that would win the 2017 and then 2018 state championship four and five years years later. I won't beat that dead horse but Sevier was loaded that year and destroyed pretty much everyone , including Greeneville during the regular season.Coaching won that championship for Robinson against Sevier.Meaning,there needs to be a lot more in the system from the ground up.

I'm sure there are many things to consider and the one I use to bring up for years was the strength program.I can't imagine DB not using the guys with the most knowledge about strength training on that staff. Those two former college players and record breaking strength guys have knowledge that compare with any high school staff in the state. Why wouldn't the DB system be in place in both middle schools. The peewee and midget's or whatever they are called today should be where every young man learns the simple things like watching the ball on defense and not holding twenty yards behind the play. DB coaches shouldn't have to teach those things. The good thing is even in a rebuild year,this staff has DB at 5-0 and a game against any quality opponent will only help .

A blowout wouldn't surprise me , but neither would a close game . I'm not ready to put my Devils in the same sentence as a Maryville until they have done a lot more work and brought home about a dozen more gold balls.The difference is nobody has stopped the Rebels from making it to at least a semi final game but maybe a few times since Davy Crockett was alive. That's dominance in East Tennessee that only Alcoa can compare with .

Yep,coach Christian and all those coaches I like and respect will have Dobyns Bennett fired up and ready as well. This is one of those games that if either team shows up and thinks they can just go through the motions and the other team will just fall down,then that team is mistaken and in for a bad surprise. I'm saying that it would surprise me if Greeneville doesn't come prepared for an undefeated eighth ranked 6A DB team.Had to throw the ranking that means nothing in there because I'm sure the DB boys have heard all about Greeneville's ranking that means squat until the playoffs are over.Bottom line is DB ,Oak Ridge and about Five 4A teams in the playoffs are capable of beating a Greeneville team that makes a lot of mistakes and doesn't play a good game.I know that and the Greeneville staff knows that,their job is to simply make game plans and change things when it's not going well and they are very good at that.With this book written,it would not at all surprise me to see Greeneville lay a beat down on my kids old team like they have never seen.Greeneville has speed and speed kills when all else is even.You can't coach it and it's hard to stop .These are the sons and nephews of many of my old friends from Greeneville and man they are talented.So for this game and myself , it's GO Devils !

Reading through some of the post and I'll say this when comparing teams. Throw out scrimmages because every team uses them differently.Even when comparing common opponents during the season can be misleading. I've been around a while and know that when any team in NET plays Dobyns Bennett, it doesn't matter who you are,that is a game you circle as huge. I know the Devils are loaded but nobody has beaten these Indians and you never overlook a Kingsport Dobyns Bennett team.I guarantee you this Devil staff will have the team fired up and ready to go .

You never know what's going to happen when a bunch of 14 to 18 year olds have a game plan to execute . I understand the simple question as to why would there be a running clock in this game because you have two teams that are undefeated coming in with good coaches and good players. The best answer to that would be that this year Greeneville has speed and a lot of it. That doesn't mean every pass will be caught or on target .Also,that DB won't draw up the perfect game plan.I personally hope it's a tough game that the Devils have to use every weapon to get a well deserved win. That would go a long way to keeping the Devils humble while still building confidence.

I guess I'm old school,I would never call Oak Ridge a cakewalk,even if they are down from normal.

I don't know if it's a true story but one of my uncle's told me years ago that we had a great grand dad who was so stubborn that he wouldn't show the Confederate army how to cross the river and was shot dead on the spot.

Ha, that's exactly what I always told my kids and their teammates about the Devils when they were either in middle school or at DB. First time I said that I believe was before a 9th grade game that came down to the very end with DB winning.That Greeneville team would be the first to play for a championship when they were seniors, but came up just short.

I like this Greeneville schedule.Nobody knows how good any team will be from year to year but Greeneville done a great job of getting some teams on the schedule that most years your going to circle as a big game, especially for a school with less then a thousand students.Central,Oak Ridge ,Dobyns Bennett and Morristown West to go along with your region rival Elizabethton. Nice job of trying to get some really good competition on the schedule.

Well,for this game Batman is wearing the Greeneville Devil in place of the DB symbol.

I believe that was Orville and Wilbur

I've never seen that plaque.It may have been there for a hundred years but I never noticed it.kind of like the plaque they put way out on 93 going towards Kingsport that I seen.It's for the land that Davy Crockett's family had after his birthplace and maybe before they had the mill towards South Greene or moved to the Morristown area.I might have that wrong but I've been wrong before.

The thunderbolt of the Confederate army ,General Morgan spent his last night in the the house Batman was born in 98 years later. So much history in Greeneville and this area. Next week the Tribe goes to Greeneville to try and make a little more.I believe my Devils have to much speed but as I always say, it's not over until the game is played

I've always been able to spell at or below a third grade level but corrected my 2nd grade teacher on a math problem.She may have been the one who came up with those numbers. Maybe someone thought a bunch of students would go to DB ,TH or other places instead of West Ridge.When you talk to a lot of former North,South, Central players or parents, you should probably figure most of their kids will stay in the county system.It's pretty much like a lot of Greene county folks were about sending their kids to Greeneville way back when I was growing up.My coach at SunnySide ask how many would go to South Greene if he went to coach there,only one didn't raise their hand.He tried to recruit me to West Greene after I got burnt out on football and stuck with baseball for the Devils.

I married into the Tribe and will be pulling for the wife and kids school in this one .I use to pull for them against my own school but there was a pretty good reason. I like the coaches and remember a couple that played with one of my Indians.I really appreciate a few of those coaches that worked with both my Indians in multiple sports.Still, when they play the Devils this time around, I hope they have a great game plan and DB does well but I have to wear Greeneville Green.Roll Tribe

The lottery can be pretty bad as well. Over the years I have put a few dollars in the hat if my co-workers wanted to play but I figure the thousands it has paid towards my kids college compared to the maybe two or three hundred I've spent,I've pretty much won the lottery game. What's sad is those people we all know that have a problem and can't stop.I hate the way some of the stars are pushing the on-line gambling now.