croz6110

I hate a 4 team region.

36 minutes ago, oneyewilly said:

Gv nor clay is better than Murphy. Are they similar in comparison yes I'd say so but I'd say the Murphy team that played us is better than both.... not saying that means a whole lot I'm not sure we've really improved at all since Murphy.  When your averaging probably 120 penalty yards a game it will be hard for us to beat any good team.  

I personally think Gville and Clay are both better than Murphy, but I guess we'll know for sure Friday.

Since Sp fans have been giving their keys to winning....

Gville will have to be as physical and high motored as they have been. If they do that, SP will have a hard time blocking them, and if they've had the penalty troubles like y'all have let on, that will get exploited. Pressure from the defensive front is key.

On offense, I think we can hit some plays in the pass game, but I think we need to run the ball physically. Personally, I'd love to see us just line up in the I and pound it. We have to be able to run the ball to win, imo. In the pass game, we need to be patient and take what we're given and hit the long ball when available.

35 minutes ago, CaptainLongbeard said:

Jeremiah is trolling Gordonsville. He’s not an SP guy. I believe this will be a good game. Gordonsville has a slight advantage this season with their numbers, overall depth, size, and larger experienced senior class. 

Nevermind him. He's from Carthage and doesn't know any better.

54 minutes ago, Jeremiah said:

Croz worst nightmare Starting off the season with an L in region play to big brother

Nah, Gville has won more in recent years. It's amazing how you Carthage folks forget last year and the year before...

Personally, I think it will be great to be in the same region, and I firmly believe the win streaks that happened in the past will be more rare going forward.

11 minutes ago, Speeding2Live said:

Croz I see Gordonsville in a 2A region with Carthage, Trousdale, Cannon and Jackson and maybe  Westmoreland. If Westmoreland stays in a west region you could take either Monterey or York. 

Oh, I don't doubt it. I think we will be 2A eventually. How soon is the question. Our growth has exploded the last couple of years.

16 minutes ago, Speeding2Live said:

 

This rivalry has about 3 more years. The next reclassification will end it. 

It might, and might not. We increased by 50 students in 2 years, and we'll have a similar number in 2 years, but it's likely to drop a little in the classification after.

41 minutes ago, rlh said:

The 2006 team never got over that game with Temple when Temple showed up with all those ringers from the previous year.  They were plenty good enough to have gone deep.  I don't think anyone is in this teams head.

The 2006 team had the athletes and they showed it the next year. FWIW, that Gville team was good enough to go deep as they lost in the second by one point to Friendship who ended as the runner up. So, there was no shame in losing to that Gville team.

8 minutes ago, LethalAttack said:

I expect the best years of Gordy matchups are ahead of us, which may be hard to believe. 

You may be right.

We play quite a bit more younger kids than I expected we would coming into this season, especially since we only lost 3 starters on each side of the ball.

They have gained quite a bit of experience that will only help in the coming years, so, hopefully we won't have the dropoff we did in 2013 after losing a comparable number of seniors.

53 minutes ago, powerp said:

This game will probably have that 2006 feel.

51 minutes ago, powerp said:

Side note, I still say Little man broke the plane in 2012.

3 minutes ago, LethalAttack said:

Man I haven’t thought about it but it seems like even the season has a 2006 feel sort of. Team just isn’t quiet there and then next year they explode. If I’m not mistaking I think we are playing a few freshman on offense and defensive lines at times. Glad to see #3 healthy (another freshman)

Hope so.

Nah.

We're playing a couple freshmen as well.

So, someone give a rundown on this game.

BTW, no one at the Tennessean is expecting anyone to stop SP until the finals.

This seems to be a perennial playoff matchup.

Gville hasn't won since 2012, and we have a senior heavy team like that year.

The key for Gville is to show the physicality that they've displayed the past couple weeks 

14 hours ago, Swarm said:

What is it Smith County is popular for?? 

Gordonsville.

8 hours ago, OldTownRoad said:

Got blown out by Whitwell that year, but let the game at South Pitt slip away from us. Hopefully we get a chance to avenge that one in Round 3 this year.

What? You don't want Gville to have a chance to avenge Friday's loss? 

11 hours ago, piratetom said:

C'mon Croz. You know you always look forward to your trip down to see me and my brother.

You're right, I don't really mind the trip, but I prefer when you guys come to see me.

3 hours ago, Southtowner said:

Let me see if I got this right.  Yall had a 15 yard unsportsmanlike penalty called on 1st and goal at the 2 late in the Clay game.  Why was this called?

I'm curious as we got a taunting penalty by a player of ours that did nothing more than turn around and looked at the chasing DB. No words were spoken and no gestures were made.  Just turned. 

He signalled first down. I've just never seen that called. I've seen spiking the ball called and it was called in Friday's game, but never signalling a first down.

Go Bulldogs!

1 hour ago, Roy Dillard said:

Croz I garuntee I saw on your clay county website you was already scheduling a rematch with them in the third round.  What do you have to worry about until then?

To answer your question, I don't have to worry about anything.

However, as far as the rematch, I did say we would have to get the SP monkey off our back, so I wasn't guaranteeing anything.

These two are playing for a chance to play SP at SP, that is, unless RBS beats them, which I would welcome, not because I don't want to play them. I just don't want to drive down there.

What were the adjustments that TC made on offense last night?

Congrats Clay...

As a Gville fan, I feel pretty good about the possible rematch, but we have to get the SP monkey off our back first.

I feel like Clay had to empty out the toolbox and this game took a lot out of them. They were gassed in the 4th, and we were able to do things in the run game later in the game that we weren't able to earlier. 

I feel like we stifled Clay's offense, but they hit a couple of plays that helped them, like the rb pass that set up their last TD, and of course the pick 6.

To simplify the outcome to a couple of things...the pick 6 was huge, as was the unsportsmanlike on our last drive when it would have been 1 st and goal from the 2. I've NEVER seen that on called, especially in that situation. For those wondering, our back pointed with one finger signalling 1st down. BUT, you can't let a game come down to one or two plays or calls.

Either way, Clay needs to enjoy the region championship, and I sincerely hope we end their season in the 3rd round in Celina.

On 10/23/2022 at 4:08 PM, Dog13 said:

Clay scrimmaged several good teams. Watertown, Monterey,&coalfield. They handled those scrimmages with ease. Lost to Dekalb in jamboree but only played starters a quarter at most. I’m going 22-14 Clay for their first ever region title.

We do have 20 seniors and around 70 players overall. Many of the seniors have started since they were freshmen.

Most of our players don't play both ways. Some of the skill players do, but none of the linemen do.

1 hour ago, OldTownRoad said:

Can someone explain how TC gets in the playoffs with a win and if Westmoreland beats Harpeth? It seems to me that in a 3 way tie, it reverts to overall wins, which puts Harpeth at 3, Watertown at 4, and TC out. If Harpeth upsets Westmoreland, I understand it's a straight tie for fourth between TC and Watertown, with TC getting in based on head to head.

In a 3 way tie, when the top team is decided due to overall record, the other two teams reverts to head to head.

27 minutes ago, Roooster said:

With both teams returning basically the same team as the last year and Gville winning, any reason for giving Clay the edge this year? Or just going by scores this year? 

Both teams return a lot, but Gville is a completely different team. Players are in different positions and more players are seeing the field as not many play both ways. We lost 3 starters on each side of the ball, but more are playing that didn't play much last year 

Gville has struggled with injuries this year, but we're healthier now, for the most part.