ptown_man

Let's get this one started a week early...I'm out of the loop so I want to hear it all.

That TRAIN HORN at Portland every little move that horn goes off I hate that thing

I've been waiting for someone to write this one...I love that horn, although, they could just use it on big plays and big hits...not on every 2+ yard gain...

I would really like to hear the Portland White House game...I'm not in the area so my only chance is to listen online...if anyone knows how I could make this happen let me know. I would like to listen to the local Portland radio station, but if it's the White House station that wouldn't be the worst thing.

The most memorable game for me was Portland at White House in 2003...Portland was written off for the year and huge underdogs going into thier season opener. I think only two flags were thrown the entire game, both were 5 yard penelties...players from both teams should've been thrown out, but the refs just looked the other way. Everyone left it on the field that night. The game went down to the last play with White House winning...I don't remember the score.

I've been out of the loop for a while...I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about Portland this year. Other than things that happened in the offseason. Anything about how they stack up against the teams in the region and state.

Personally I think working out year round does help every player to be better in all sports. Weightlifting helps to protect against injury, as well as all types of running. All the coaches of every sport at that school need to get together and deceide when the best times are during the day to practice for that sport. In my experience most of the coaches of other sports, except basketball, are normally football coaches. With that said I don't see where the argument is. I at least practiced year round for football and couldn't wait to get in pads and get to camp. So if coaches have a problem with kids not wanting to get in pads as soon as they can then I think the coaches need to reevaluate the situation.

I did hear from one of my friends that they don't hit like they used to...That makes my stomach turn...Portland football is known for how hard they hit...I'm not putting them down by any means, but if this is true then some of the alumni needs to talk to these guys and get them fired up...

I haven't really heard much coming out of Portland like I have in years past so if anyone has any information on them let me know.....

If you actually played you can look at my name and # on here and know exactly who I am so I am kinda questioning if you ever played and by the way the teams that had to pass to beat us...no offense to them I would never put down another ball club, but they couldnt have beat us anyway. My remark about different guys suiting is just what I have heard from younger players. That doesnt mean that I agree with it. I think that football and discipline go hand in hand. I was just saying that we might see some talent that we might not have seen if Coach Perry was in. I thought Coach Perry was a good coach and I hope the next coach is alot like him because hate him or love him he can put together a good football team. And the 3-3-5 my senior year had one lineman that weighed over 200 lbs. in the starting lineup. Any offensive line with just decent size can do pretty good damage on 3 undersized guys. Dont get me wrong they were good and fast and gave it their all, but in some cases size does matter.Thats why I recommended the 5-2 and Ill say it again. I know that I didnt stand alone on that opinion.

ok ur right and wrong at the same time i'm gonna say i did play. my senior year was the first year of that defense and i liked it when i first saw the only thing i didn't like was the pass defense that came with it. i agree with you i prefered the 5-2 because it had more lineman and could stop the run but with the guys we had at linebacker and you know you i'm talkin about we had a great run defense and if we could have stopped white house's pass we would have won and i have heard that from several white house players so i agree and disagree with you i am sorry if i offended you...

Well I will make no comment about the portland offense when Coach Perry was in because for the most part he always put points on the board. The only thing that I didnt agree with much was that my junior year we switched defenses. I myself liked the 4-4. If I could have chose and I know that I didnt stand alone on this opinion...I wished that we could have ran the 5-2. Its kinda hard to stop the up the middle run when you just have 3 lineman.But I do wish Coach Perry and Coach Duncan luck at their new school. There are few coaches in high school that make you strive for excellence and except nothing else but your best as they did. I dont know who will be the new coach of portland but I do know that after a little time portland will be a powerhouse again. And no offense to Coach Perry but I know for a fact quite a few guys will now suit up for the panthers that were not going to play if Perry was in.Best of luck to the Panthers next coach and the upcoming Panther Team.

in case you didn't pay any attention that entire first year of th 3-3-5 all but one or two teams had to pass to beat us because the speed and movement of the d-line. and as for the little comment about there will be more guys suiting up thats bull crap because those guys just can't take the discipline and they shouldn't even be on the team period and i don't see the rules changing anyway because that's why they didn't play if you actually played then you would know this.

pressman you said it. coach perry is a great coach a lot of people have quit in the past because they couldn't take the discipline. i wish coach perry and coach duncan the best of luck at mount juliet. and the 3 play remark is total crap i played for portland when we won state i was a freshman and we worked harder than anyone else in the state there is no doubt about it. when i was a senior we put in all those other formations with no backs and all that i really can't remember them i played on the line so i just blocked but either way there is no way a team with a offensive line that was almost always undersized compared to the opponents could have only ran 3 plays for all those years. so if you can prove me wrong go for it boss...

Coach Holmes must be doing something right down in Georgia. I wish he had not taken Coach Barham and Coach Perry. Portland's program has not been the same since they left. No disrespect to the staff now but there was something special about those two guys. Coach Chad Perry took a head job in north Georgia this year so he is no longer at Dublin. Coach William Barham (who could be a head coach anywhere) and Coach Holmes are life-long friends having played together at Westmoreland and then Holmes went to MTSU to play and Barham went to Auburn to play, they reunited at Beech out of college. Holmes stayed at Beech and family ties pulled Barham to Portland. Barham has continued his baseball success in Dublin being the head coach at that school and breaking records down there. Don't know much about what Chad Perry is doing at his new school. Westmoreland should be proud of these coaches since they all got their start there as players. We at Portland really miss both these guys and wish they would come back home.

you ain't kiddin man i played for coach barham and when he was there you gave it everything you had in practice and games if you did that you would start and when you messed up as long as you did it at full speed and still hit somebody he didn't get mad but he let you know about it. he is a great coach. coach chad perry is also a great coach i never played a position for him but he was one of the main weight coaches and he taught us a lot in the weightroom

Football is not for the politically correct.

It is a game for warriors.

It is played from the heart.

It is not a pretty thing.

It's supposed to be brutal and punishing.

Only the strong survive.

Football is nasty.

So put a dip in your lip and enjoy the game!

SPOKEN WELL!!!!

people are gonna do what they want regardless all you can do is try to regulate it... when i started dippin i was 14 and a freshman my coaches dipped but i didn't know it till after camp that year by then i'd already started nobody is really gonna start dippin because their coach does it but the upperclassmen will give it to them... and just for the record i bought the dip myself before i turned 18 and my mom didn't find out till i was 16 and she said you're gonna do it anyway so oh well

not completly correct...

 

state law prohibits smoking inside school buildings..... any time there is juveniles present..... i don't think it addresses smokeless tobacco....

 

persons under the age of 18 cannot possess or use any type of tobacco products....

 

and, if the school wants to, they have the right to make the campus a "smoke free zone" 24x7, and if you light up, then they can ask you to leave, and if you refuse, you can be charged with criminal trespass....

 

i am not aware of any state law that prohibits smoking or the use of smokeless tobacco on the campus...it may be a local board policy, but the only state law i am aware of is the one prohibiting smoking "inside" a building that is used by students...

i know you can't smoke in the buildings but when i was in high school me and all of my friends dipped at basketball games and we did it in a way that we wouldn't get caught because if we did and the coaches found out about it we had some punishment... i personally started dipping because an upperclassmen gave me half a can of copenhagen i took a dip and i liked it so i kept on doin it.

Wow...first they take away prayer at our football games and now they are going after our copenhagen....SATANISTS!

you hit the nail on the head buddy...besides you can have tobacco products school grounds after 6 o'clock...no matter what

yea Coach Barham and Coach Chad Perry from Portland went down there too

hey bigpun19...i think you were one of those guys who is a neverwas and is mad about not ever playing probably because u didn't give it all u had...in 02 i was on a losing team and i was out for eight weeks with an injury and stood by for 6 games watching my team lose most of those games but i couldn't wait to get in there and play...that winter we worked our butts off so the next year wouldn't be the same we went into the 03 season knowing we could win state we didn't even win the region but i know 9 out of 9 seniors on that team were able to look each other and the rest of the team and coaches in the eye and everybody could tell we gave it all we had and a little more but we still lost to smith co. in the playoffs...so quit bashing players that played harder than you ever could in your mind. i may be wrong about u not ever playing but i don't really care...

Twelve years in 3A football did a lot for the Portland Panthers. The Panthers made it to the playoffs all twelve years and won their first round game eleven times in a row, including last year. They made it to the quarter-finals six times, the semi-finals four times, and played for the state championship three times where they brought the gold ball home to Portland in the Blue Cross Bowl in 2000. Six region championships were won during this time and we had four 10-0 regular seasons, 95, 99, 00, 01. The 2000 State Championship season began a steak of 27 wins in a row for the Panthers! Now, we move on up to 4A. I hope Portland can do as well or even better the next several years as we begin a whole new list of rivalries while keeping some old ones in tact. Here is what the Panthers did while they were in 3A:

 

Class 3-A

1993 thru 2004 (W-L)

Regular Season (98-22) .817 pct.

Playoffs (25-11) .694

Overall (123-33) .788

1993 (6-5)

1994 (13-2) Region 5-3A Champs, State Runner-up

1995 (13-1) Region 5-3A Champs, semi-finals *

1996 (9-3) Region 5-3A Champs

1997 (9-3)

1998 (11-2) quarter-finals

1999 (14-1) Region 4-3A Champs, State Runner-up *

2000 (15-0) Region 4-3A Champs, State Champions *

2001 (12-1) Region 4-3A Champs, quarter-finals *

2002 (5-7)

2003 (8-4)

2004 (8-4)

* - 10-0 in regular season

 

Thank you Coach Perry and the Portland Panthers for a great tenure in Class 3-A! Good luck in Class 4-A!

and to think people say portland's wing-t offense is one of the worse offenses to run in football...go figure a team would do so good with it...not to mention we are supposed to be a horrible team that chokes it up in the playoffs...thanks PPride for this post

WING-T???? I DONT THINK SO. Name the last team in 10 years that has won a major Championship game?? All i know is Wartburg runs it and its horrible.

the WING-T portland runs a modified version and has for some time now and we have alot of different looks out of it yes it is slightly easy to defend but when you have 2 or 3 quick strong guards that can pull outside and hit a db and stay on him on one play and then on the next they hit a dt that out weighs him by about 50 pounds or so on a trap block and gets him out of the middle you win games...one more thing how many times in a row has portland been to the playoffs because i quit counting at 11 buddy!!!!!!!!

2000 STATE CHAMPIONS

But going back to Hillsboro, they spent all of their time perfecting the Wing -T and couldn't throw a pass to save their lives-and it ended up biting them in the butt.

As a current and a former head coach told me, the wing-T is perfect if you don't want to spend any time learning how to pass block. However, the forward pass has been legal for quite some time, and most "Wing-T" teams will now break it out and throw it.

 

Balance is the key to any successful attack.

 

BTW, Brentwood won the 2002 BCB with a spread offense that was balanced.

ok look pass blocking is one of the easiest things to do in high school football

"you couldn't fight your way out of a brown papersack at the bottom of lake erie"..."if i had the size and ability you have now i'd still be playin iin the NFL"(this coach wasn't exactlly the youngest guy on the staff)

Crockett County hosting Milan in week 10 in 1999 (I believe). Crockett scores a TD in final seconds to pull out win.

 

Attendence for the game was in the neighborhood of 6000+. An unbelievable night.

it surely wasn't in 99 cuz milan beat portland in vandy for state and their record was 15-0 ours was 14-1

2001-2004 White House Blue Devils, two region 6-4a championships, freshman and senior years. Quarterfinals appearance freshman year and semifinal appearance and 13-1 record senior year. My freshman team was also the Walking Horse Bowl champions in Marshall County(2001). I was a three year starter at center and started a handful of games at noseguard. #57 Loved every minute of it

yea i remeber you...you were pretty good but i played for portland 2000-03...i played guard my first 3 years and started at center my senior year...we won state my freshman year and went to the playoffs all 4 years...our biggest game was the white house game in 03 even though we lost everybody fought to the end and the refs stayed out of it and let us go...my family played and coached for white house in the late 70s and early 80s

hey bigswole i'd advise u to do ur homework before u put a post on like that and besides had we been in 4a all those years we would have won and won a lot the region we are in now ain't near as tough as region 4-3a was when us and white house were there not to forget about trousdale co. and smith co. portland is known by how hard they hit and when u hit hard enough u win ball games because u make people think twice about hittin the hole hard or goin high across the middle for the pass the qb put a little too high because you know ur gonna get hit and hit hard