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I wonder if they have heard of us there???

Coach Grider is checking it daily (or maybe several times a day). I'm not sure what discussions he has already had. Too many big schools with a lot of depth would be pretty brutal at the end of the season. We have Boyd week 8 and Polk week 9. Be pretty tough if we have to add 3A or 4A size schools week 7 and 10 too. We might not have enough kids to play in the playoffs

We are replacing most of our line, our 2600 yrd back/DB, our senior QB and most importantly all the senior team leaders that made this team come together and be championship caliber. The talent is there but I'll have to see if we have some leaders step up. A team without leaders won't survive our schedule as a team

Weeks 2, 5 and 6 are our 3 region games... jasper, LV and Whitwell but maybe not in that order. 7 and 10 are still open. Even talking to some KY teams

Yea I'm wondering the same thing???

From what I saw on the game film Perry County is a good football team but they ain't SP

We have a Sonic!!! And a Subway is about to open

Hey...we have week 7 open. I heard ya'll had a game week 7

I have now...open dates week 7 and 10 (and I guess 0 if we have to) Heard we tried to get a game with some west teams but open dates are hard to find

No SM moving up is causing region schedules to be shuffled. We are still playing them but it is a non-region game now. Tyner may not have had a open date. still have to have the same dates open for it to work

Yeah Grundy in week 1. I hadn't heard that about the Boyd game.

I think conflicts with region schedules with the realignment 2 years ago made us unable to schedule with Tyner. When there are mutual open dates is where it is an issue. Grace chose not to schedule us so we chose not to schedule them in other sports. Only fair

From the rumblings I have heard Boeck is on the hot seat at jasper...needs the wins so picked up an easier game

We only have 19 games on the schedule plus a tourny this year. I think games with Boyd may be in the future to replace Grace. Unless he tries to play more it doesn't look like BB games will be a problem

Since there are many schools that don't have football teams baseball and basketball games that we drop are not hard to fill. We have a pretty big district in baseball and basketball so we have a pretty full schedule just playing those games. The only teams I know for sure that refuse to play us in football are Bledsoe and Grace but I'm sure there are more. As far as picking only teams in baseball and basketball that we think we can beat is false... we have lost a lot of games over the years for that to be the case. We just lost big to Grace last week...for the last time anyway. Aren't you a Grace fan?

My opinion..... we might not have mercy ruled them but the way our line was blocking and my son was throwing the ball (and running) and the fact we have 3 other good (but young backs including Raquis' brother) we still win. If ya'll don't lose him early it might be a closer game but one player doesn't make a team 35 points better (or worse). Now if we lost Raquis and Travis.... it might have been a close game BTW ...I saw film on 4 games and what happened was about what was expected if we played our game.

Article in Chattanooga TFP Area’s elite have trouble scheduling From that article >>>> “There are a couple of teams that have either backed out of playing us or their coach has lied to my face about not having open dates,†said Grider, whose program has played just one nondistrict 1A opponent in the last 10 years. “So we’re making a policy to not play those schools in any other sport beginning right now. We won’t play them in the basketball games we were scheduled to, and we won’t keep them on our baseball or softball schedules, either. “It’s fine for them to beat us by 30 points in basketball, and we’re just supposed to smile and take it. But they won’t play us in football. How do you expect your program to ever get better if you don’t play good competition your own size? There’s a whole other district of teams our size in Chattanooga, but Boyd-Buchanan is the only one of them that will play us. The people dodging us better hope they don’t meet us in the playoffs, because I have a long memory.â€

Week 8 and 10 are the only open ones

I think they gave us all they had...just wasn't enough

The Pirates didn't play as well defensively against G'ville as they did JB. It would have been a good game between the 2 of them

I think we would if we could be competitive. We just don't have the depth to play with them...... and prob not the talent from what I saw in the Championship game. The Polk game took a toll on us physically the last two years. I think they and Signal are about all we can stand of powerhouse teams with just 40 kids on the roster.

I know Grundy is week 1 and Polk is week 9 but other than that I don't know weeks. SM leaving cause some scrambling in the schedules and I have seen the actual line up. I did hear that jasper dropped Boyd (I think Coach B is feeling the heat and needs wins) . And Bledsoe picked up Whitwell instead of playing us as did Cascade.

The weeks we need are 8 and 10. Grundy decided to play week one. And we really don't need an Alcoa or a CAK. Already have Polk, Signal Mtn, Grundy and Boyd as non-region. We only have 40 kids so depth is a real issue.

Talked to them

Talked to them