BigStickDiplomacy

Average points scored Team W L G Off. O.avg South Pittsburg 6 0 4 206 51.5 Monterey 4 0 4 153 38.3 Copper Basin 6 0 4 146 36.5 Midway 4 1 5 175 35 Coalfield 5 0 5 169 33.8 Cloudland 3 2 5 157 31.4 Fayetteville 5 1 6 181 30.2 Collinwood 3 1 4 120 30 McEwen 3 0 3 89 29.7 Moore Co. 5 1 6 167 27.8 Average Points allowed Team W L G Def. D.avg South Pittsburg 6 0 4 13 3.25 Hollow Rock-Bruceton 2 2 4 18 4.5 Greenfield 5 0 5 49 9.8 Copper Basin 6 0 4 44 11 Monterey 4 0 4 44 11 Gordonsville 3 2 5 56 11.2 Wayne Co. 2 3 5 59 11.8 Moore Co. 5 1 6 73 12.167 South Fulton 1 3 4 51 12.75 Cornersville 5 1 6 81 13.5

My prediction is Lake County by 24.

You are right. So much parity: Fayettville(5) beats Moore Co(3) by six and Huntland (11) by six. Dresden(10) beats West Carroll(15) by 9 and loses to Lake County(8) by five and Greenfield(16) by 6. Greenfield is the lowest 5 win team in the state because of strength of schedule and margin of victory. They could just as easily be 1-4 but they aren't. If Bruceton, who appears to be playing solid defense, keeps wining and they manage to pull off the win v. LC they will really jump in the polls and ratings. Not sure how likely that is yet though. Moore Co really confuses me as they beat Cornersville(7) by ten and loses to Fayetteville(5) by six by but rate higher than F@$%ville???? Alas Sonny Moore doesn't start getting accurate till the next couple of weeks anyway.

Key Takeaways: Wow SP is up there. West is W I D E open. Not necessarily a tale of two teams.

R TEAM SOS PR W L Off Def W L Off. Def. 26 SOUTH PITTSBURG 90.91 137.65 1 0 55 6 6 0 208 13 116 GORDONSVILLE 102.45 116.91 2 0 73 14 3 2 128 56 152 MOORE COUNTY 96.61 111.06 1 1 55 51 5 1 167 73 169 HUNTINGDON 104.96 107.9 2 0 7 0 4 2 117 106 179 FAYETTEVILLE 95.48 106.55 4 0 124 62 5 1 181 105 181 COALFIELD 81.51 106.42 3 0 128 60 5 0 169 68 185 CORNERSVILLE 94.55 106.26 1 1 24 33 5 1 140 81 186 LAKE COUNTY 94.39 106.17 2 0 58 25 2 1 80 87 194 COPPER BASIN 81.46 104.61 2 0 48 0 6 0 148 44 201 DRESDEN 102.05 103.67 1 2 58 62 2 2 78 74 221 HUNTLAND 99.18 98.66 0 1 14 20 3 3 144 174 224 MIDWAY 83.72 98.41 1 0 41 20 4 1 175 92 225 GREENBACK 113.49 98.41 1 1 8 21 1 4 15 121 227 MONTEREY 74.15 98.15 2 0 91 20 4 0 153 44 236 WEST CARROLL 86.25 97.26 2 1 116 58 3 2 138 79 238 GREENFIELD 81.5 96.83 2 0 36 26 5 0 89 49

Huntingdon has a bypass as well. Not sure about East TN. LOL

I think if your town has a bypass it should not be in 1a.

Ok biggest question mark is Memphis plain and simple. If nothing is definitive then classification is at a standstill. Good news is several have submitted numbers, but there are several that have not. Not sure if anything can be read into that. Small school classifications will be impacted by new schools like Bluff City or magnet schools that choose to play football as well.

One more question. Is Memphis leaving the TSSAA as some have implied? How does this impact classification?

So I hear Huntingdon may move up a class due to larger enrollment. Who else may move up? That is the only way a team can move down.

I stand corrected. I am sure that I miss heard/remembered, probably will not be the last time I do so.

I am very curious how Lake County will fare against West Carroll and Greenfield. I have a feeling that the district title may not be as secure as you might think. @Mustang1969 what is your take on the underlined statement? On a separate note, how will they handle the playoffs for region 7?

Taking absolutely nothing away from what the talent at Lake County was able to accomplish last season, however, Lake County went to overtime with Dresden....not exactly what a State Championship caliber team does. Huntingdon could only score six point on Bruceton....again not exactly a dominate performance. As far as a notch below, we agree on that, thus the descriptor "outsiders looking in." We also agree about South Pitt, however, this team seems stacked "unusually" high. Much better players than South Pitt typically has.

From what I am hearing South Pittsburg is not ranked high enough. #1 just doesn't seem to be high enough after all they can only be taken down by Covid come November. There will be a real battle for the silver ball on the west side of the bracket. Lake County is still riding the State Championship wave which is understandable but they are nothing like they were last season. Huntingdon is also a shadow of their self from last year not impressed at all. I know nothing about Region 5. If there is a dominate team there they will represent the west side of the bracket in the State Championship game. Outsiders looking in McEwen, Collinwood, Dresden and Bruceton may make some waves.

Not entirely true. Not entirely false. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/basics/past-pandemics.html It took the Pandemic of 1918 to triple it. However with modern medicine it might not have been as high or with our current population it might have been much worse since it is the only time on record (http://www.demographia.com/db-uspop1900.htm) that our population dropped from one year to the next outside of maybe the Civil War. Back to football. Lets just play. Be thankful we can do so whenever the opportunity presents itself. Hopefully people will develop some immunity to it and a vaccine can be found.

Technically you are correct but not by more than 500 to 1000 deaths. There are years on record where the flu has killed more though. Current death rate attributed to Covid 2129. At the current number which will likely rise, it would be somewhere between 5th and 7th leading cause of death this year in TN. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/tennessee/tennessee.htm

Huntingdon drops after close win to Bruceton. Dresden, West Carroll and Greenfield not on here. West must be awful or this poll is way off.

Westview big.

Big game for Milan's new coach. He needs a win in this one.

I talked to someone down there. The head coach was out all of last week as well and they did not cancel against Greenfield. I have not heard anything that would change the status of this weeks game yet.

I am betting this is a sloppy game. Dresden wins.

Game of the week in my opinion. I can't wait to watch.

I just hope we have a season. I have my concerns about the likelihood of the of any interscholastic athletics next year.

Almost every county pays better than Weakley County from what I hear.

Ridiculous! Nick Saban quote on the Veer https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/11/18/18099110/alabama-citadel-triple-option-2018 You all are funny. The Veer is a great equalizer when you have less talent. At a 6A program like OB he can platoon O and D and actually be able to play real defense spend more time on Offensive wrinkles and Ball Security. I will gladly go on record as saying this will be a very successful move for Coach Bowling.