wolfgang

My prediction is Rodney Ellison, Kwayu Graham, or a mystery applicant, and it will be announced next week.

I'm glad OR won but you said first one to 30 would win. I guess you were right because OR scored 30, but actually the truth is that the first one to 7 won.

Maybe I'm alone in the way that I feel, but OR has a third round game at East Hamilton, and with no disrespect toward Coach Gillum intended, I'm not sure why he and his son's future are being discussed on this thread, especially right now. I just don't care one way or the other about it, and I doubt many OR football fans give a hoot about it either.

If your thinking is accurate, then OR won't win. Since OR lost it's top offensive weapons, they have averaged 17 points per game, while East Hamilton has averaged allowing 16 points per game this season.

We are all able to interpret things as we choose, and that includes you. My take is that this was the slowest and least athletic team I have ever seen OR have, and that was before the injuries. When you take away the fastest player on the team and the only real big play threat they had, that's a problem, which you are free to refer to as an excuse. Then when you take your next best athlete and receiver off an already athletically challenged team, with another season ending injury, that's a problem, which you are free to call an excuse. Then when you take your next best athlete off your team with yet another season ending injury, that is yet another problem for a team that wasn't all that talented to begin with, but you are free to call that another excuse. Teams all have injuries to deal with but I can't ever remember a team having to deal with this many season ending injuries to their top offensive weapons. OR won last week despite the injuries and I hope they can do that again this week, but as the competition stiffens as OR goes deeper into the playoffs, winning will become less and less likely because the teams who progress deep into the playoffs are the teams with the best players, and most of OR's best players are gone. Nobody is crying about it and you can view the mere mention of the injuries as excuses, but I call them facts.

The OR offense has been completely decimated by injuries and there is no real fire power anymore, although the running back is good. If what I have heard is right (that the McMinn QB missed the first game but is back now), then OR will have a tough time winning because I'm hearing that the injured OR players will not return this season.

Here are some candidates in no particular order and they may or may not be interested. Kwayu Graham, Rodney Ellison, Jeff Miner, Don Colquit, Matt Bates, Scott Cummings, Stanton Stevens

Oak Ridge must not have that policy.

Oh, I never thought of that. To change the subject, will OR play tonight? Nobody else seems to be.

Congratulations on the successful theft, but more importantly, what does it mean or imply? I guess I'm lost on the meaning of Coach Schmedium

Coach Schmedium? Please explain

LOL

I'm not going to disagree with you because I can't even remember their names, but their mother used to run along the streets of OR for exercise. It seems strange to me that someone who lives in Knoxville would drive to OR to get in her running. Is running in neighborhoods not allowed in Knoxville?

It seems like OR had brothers who moved to OR from Bearden 5-6 years ago. I can't remember their names but they were good players.

I agree with you about OR's inability to keep the Powell offense off the field. Word is that the OR LB will be back but that won't be enough. Powell wins the battle upfront with their OL overmatching the OR DL. I'm afraid the score will be in the neighborhood of 31-17, with Powell on top.