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I apologize for my comments. I took the disrespectful actions of a couple of knuckleheads and applied it to an entire fan base, which is an unfair assessment. Also, after reading the post with a cool head, I can see how my comments could be seen as a shot at the team. This was most definitely not my intent, but sometimes when you’re typing while angry, things can sound worse than you intended. Peabody’s team played with class and fought hard. They are a good team and I wish them well moving forward! When people feel the need to kick other while they are down, it really get under my skin, but this is not the forum to vent those frustrations. From now on, I’ll follow Danny White’s advice and text a buddy lol.

Yeah, she went down with a knee injury in the 3rd quarter. Not sure how bad, but the way she was screaming, it did not sound good. Prayers for her! Hopefully nothing serious.

The keys for Greenfield are definitely handling the press and rebounding. Other than Darby, our girls can get flustered by a quick team that presses full court. Also, our lack of size hurts our rebounding. If we can take care of the ball and box out, I think we have a good chance. Biggs and Crouse have really turned it on here lately and are knocking down 3s like crazy. Peabody should be a good game. I’ve heard great things about their team being quick and having a couple guards that can really shoot. Hopefully we can pull this game out and make another trip to state. Either way, our girls have exceeded my expectations considering all that they lost from last years team. Coach Tori is a great coach and will have them in the mix for years to come.

I don’t know if this is true or not, but I’ve heard they are clearing the gym after each game to allow each team to have all of their fans in the gym. Hopefully it’s not true because I enjoy watching all of the games throughout the day

I understand, and we pull for West Tennessee teams when we’re not playing them. Greenfieldfan and I are the only Greenfield fans that I’m aware of on here. Other people are fans of other teams or are people who just created accounts. I just can’t stand their comments being made into generalized statements about our town/fanbase being cocky and arrogant.

If you’ll notice, both GC and Westview were brought into the conversation by fans from their own fanbases because they couldn’t stand people from other fanbases talking about how good the Greenfield team is. After that, people from other fanbases argued with GC and Westview fans. Please quit trying to paint Greenfield fans as terrible and arrogant people. We can’t help other people saying that we are a good team. But to get back to the point if Westview and GC fans don’t insert themselves into the conversation, nothing would have ever been said about their teams.

Here how GC was introduced to the conversation.

Here’s how Westview was introduced to the conversation.

People discount the importance of Tess Darby far too much. She is a dead-eye 3pt shooter, our lone post presence, our best rebounder, and our best post defender by far. Also, she is the anchor on the back end of our press. Even if you break the press, she is probably going to block your shot, steal the ball, or force you to back off the fast break. She has a different role from Chloe, but that doesn't make her any less valuable. Chloe's role on the team is just far more visible when watching the game because of her play making ability for others and herself, along with her ability to take over games with her elite athletic ability. I do agree that co-MVP's are not my favorite and Chloe probably should win the award, but people act like Tess is a scrub sometimes and it's simply not true.

I didn’t like the fourth quarter stalling, although I understand it. It resulted in 4 or 5 straight turnovers. I like slowing it down and making them get out of the packed in zone, but try to score. It’s basketball, not keep away. However, I think Coach T did it because our top 3 players had some foul trouble and he was scared of them fouling out. After our top 6-7 players, it gets very thin on players who are ready to play at this stage. As far as the last 1:30 of the 3rd quarter, I had no problem with it. Save the last shot for us, try to get GC out of the zone, and keep one of our girls from picking up a 4th foul.

I would say the 3 favorites for 1A are Chloe Moore, Karly Weathers, and Tess Darby. There may be some girls from East TN that I don't know about, but these seem to be the top players in at least West and Mid-West TN. All 3 have been nominated for Miss Basketball in previous years, with Chloe Moore winning it last year.

Schedule as of today for Saturday: 1:00 Gibson County vs Greenfield boys 2:30 St. Agnes vs Gleason girls 4:00 Loretto vs Greenfield girls 5:30 Gibson County vs Westview girls 7:00 Loretto vs Westview boys

I think likely. I think the week 11 matchup against West Carroll will determine whether we play in the 2nd or 3rd round of the playoffs.

They have a lot of speed and run a weird offense that is hard to defend. They are not going to win state or anything, but they have a good team. Again, in my opinion, 1-4 are on their own level, then 5-20 are all about even. Some teams in the 5-20 are better than others, but I don't think any of them are blowing out the other. Whereas, Lake County, Huntingdon, South Pittsburg, and Greenback are going to blow out most any other 1A team they play.

I look forward to it. There's not much room on the visitor side bleachers, so tell everyone to bring lawn chairs. I hate Wimpy's won't be open for y'all to eat before the game!

We have a good running back named Keylon Thomas #6, but I don't see him being able to get out of the backfield with the swarming defense Lake County has. Lake County has made a major commitment to the weight room, and it shows by the size and speed of their defense. Against normal defenses, he is rushing for 100+ yards in a game. Our strength of schedule has not been great this year, but we did beat another top 10 opponent in Memphis Middle College. I believe we have a good team, but the top 4 in the state are just on a different level.

I don't know who is saying that. I thought we had a chance last year, and we learned quickly they were at a different level. We have a very good team for us, but LC has a team that doesn't come around a lot for small 1A teams. I just hope we can give them a competitive game.

Humboldt, Gleason, Lake County, then West Carroll

For comparison, they had 1 turnover and 35 yards in penalties. As General Neyland said, the team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.

Turnovers and penalties killed us in this game. We had 3 turnovers and 130 yards in penalties. We need to work on cleaning up the turnovers and penalties if we want to beat good teams. It seemed like every time we had a good drive going, a holding or personal foul would get called and it would kill the drive. Also, we did a good job of containing the running back for most of the game, but at the end they put Kimble at QB and spread it out. It was almost impossible to stop. We all know he can run, but he also has a cannon. If I was the Fulton County Coach, I would keep him at QB.

This game used to be an easy W on our schedule, but Coach Briggs at Fulton County has turned them into a competitive team. They are a big team and have one of the best running backs in the area. We were able to slow him down last year, but we lost several seniors off of that defense. If Greenfield can pull this game out, it looks like Greenfield vs. LC could be two undefeated team battling it out on Oct. 25. How do y'all think this game goes?

Because Freedom Prep hasn't played anyone at the same level as Greenfield. If you take out the Greenfield game, then you have a comparable schedule to make decisions on how good Middle College's defense is compared to Freedom Prep. I think there are only 3 teams (South Pittsburg, Huntingdon, and Lake County) that are much better than the rest of 1A. I think the rest of the top 10 in 1A is pretty even and can beat each other on any given day. I think Freedom Prep and Middle College are pretty evenly matched schools. It's not that I'm saying Freedom Prep has a bad defense because Greenfield learned last year that they are pretty good. I'm just saying against evenly matched opponents they wouldn't be posting shut outs every game.

They have it remodeled and ready to open, but the owner says he can't find anyone to work. Right now, it is being used for private events. Hopefully we can make it to the LC game at 8-0. It would make for a great game atmosphere! We have to take care of a couple of games before then though, so we better not look ahead.

If you take out the Greenfield game, Middle College has only allowed 1 TD the whole year. I think the fact that Freedom Prep has not allowed a TD is a little overblown because of the competition they have played so far. I think this game will be a high scoring dogfight and I think it's a coin toss as to who wins.

Also, I was wondering if anyone had an update on the young man from Middle College that was taken off in the ambulance. He has been in our thoughts and prayers!