Alcoa vs Smith County

[tornadogold]

I have a question does anyone know if anybody who shiverdecker, sommer, sikes, and hicks are looking at or interested in?

 

Word on the street is that Sykes is considering UT and LSU, Lanxter has committed to West Va., Carson-Newman wants Shiverdecker (UT thinks he's not big enough...they're loss!). Haven't heard anything about Sommer (he's a junior) or Hicks. Also hearing that most of the D-Line is looking at Maryville College, but nothing confirmed on that.

Edited November 21, 2006 by tornadogold

[I Love HS Football]

This is the article from their home page:

 

Wanted: A Challenge

 

 

Wanted: A decent challenge for the Alcoa Tornadoes.

 

Give the Tornadoes style points for bravery and tenacity in

scheduling tough opponents like Div. II Chattanooga

McCallie, 4A Maryville and 3A Fulton. No one can argue that

they have one of the toughest schedules in the state.

 

But, at the end of the day, Alcoa rarely is challenged in

Region 2, 2A. Let's crunch some numbers:

 

The Tornadoes have outscored playoff opponents the past

two weeks 123-7. That's 17.6 TD's to 1. Sherman didn't

have this much success in Atlanta.

 

The regular season was equally easy, as the Tornadoes

racked up 326 points vs. regional foes in 2006. Thats an

average of just over 54 points per contest.

 

Is any of this Alcoa's fault? Of course not. Have they made

their Region 2 opponents tougher the last several years?

Almost assuredly. Ask Rockwood or Sweetwater.

 

The Alcoa coaching staff will be quick to point out that it starts

with the kids. That's true. Most 2A teams...heck, any team in

Tennessee would love to have Shiverdecker, Lanxster,

Sommer, Hicks, Sykes, Cobb, Dunkin, LeQuire and a 100

player roster. Nearly 75% of the schools entire male student

body. Yeah, football's popular.

 

Note to 2A teams: Alcoa might just be tougher next year!

 

By reading that article, it looks as if you all know that your good. Don't need to prove anything to anyone.

Edited November 21, 2006 by I Love HS Football

[tornadogold]

By reading that article, it looks as if you all know that your good. Don't need to prove anything to anyone.

 

Feel free to look around check out some of the information...we'd love to hear what you have to say, and give you the chance to hear what other Blount Countians are saying!

Just to be fair, I have NO idea who Don Moyer is...I'm thinking he may be from Knoxville, so it wasn't an Alcoa person writing it (that I'm aware of). And, it's not our home page.

And, the article is only talking about our region, not all of 2A.

Edited November 21, 2006 by tornadogold

[I Love HS Football]

By reading that article, it looks as if you all know that your good. Don't need to prove anything to anyone.

Feel free to look around check out some of the information...we'd love to hear what you have to say, and give you the chance to hear what other Blount Countians are saying!

Just to be fair, I have NO idea who Don Moyer is...I'm thinking he may be from Knoxville, so it wasn't an Alcoa person writing it (that I'm aware of). And, it's not our home page.

And, the article is only talking about our region, not all of 2A.

 

I wasn't able to find the helmet that you said to look for.

[tornadogold]

It wasn't me, but if you saw the article, you were already past the helmet.

[I Love HS Football]

Smith County's website is www.smithcountyfootball.com

[tornadogold]

THanks. I'll check it out.

[I Love HS Football]

That's interesting....so Maynord isn't from Carthage? My memory is bad I guess but I don't remember him being on the staff at Riverdale prior to Gary arriving but I'm sure I'm wrong. I don't know if I will make it to the game as I live in the Tri Cities. I would love to see the town.

 

Brad Tackett, another great coach, who is coaching at SC right now, was also at Riverdale on the same staff with Rankin that Maynord was.

[titans89]

Good Luck Owls.Keep it up

[Rocking Chair]

No, you have it reversed. or county), b Kids that live in the city can play where they want (city ut kids that live in the county have to pay to go to Alcoa or Maryville. And, it just so happens, Maryville has tuition students solely for the purpose of playing sports. They'll deny it, but it's soooo true.

You'll find players that live in Alcoa that play for Maryville (there's one such bigtime player there now), live in Maryville that play for Alcoa, and kids that live in Alcoa and Maryville that play for William Blount. I highly doubt that there's any that live in Maryville or Alcoa that play for Heritage, but there may be.

Hey I didn't mean to get anything started about public -private open -closed zone or whatever. I was just saying that Alcoa should have all the D1 studs playing for them b/c the kids have the option of where they want to play. If you were a good player would you want to go to Alcoa-Maryville or Heritage- William Blount ? Smith Co. don't have the luxury of having that many kids to choose from. However don't think that these kids down here will be imtimidated by Alcoa. Yeah Alcoa may have a receiver or 2 that is as good as the Bishop kid that played at Fulton 2 yrs. ago and that may be the difference between these 2 teams. But everywhere else Smith Co. will hold their own.

[sleep23]

This is the article from their home page:

 

Wanted: A Challenge

 

 

Wanted: A decent challenge for the Alcoa Tornadoes.

 

Give the Tornadoes style points for bravery and tenacity in

scheduling tough opponents like Div. II Chattanooga

McCallie, 4A Maryville and 3A Fulton. No one can argue that

they have one of the toughest schedules in the state.

 

But, at the end of the day, Alcoa rarely is challenged in

Region 2, 2A. Let's crunch some numbers:

 

The Tornadoes have outscored playoff opponents the past

two weeks 123-7. That's 17.6 TD's to 1. Sherman didn't

have this much success in Atlanta.

 

The regular season was equally easy, as the Tornadoes

racked up 326 points vs. regional foes in 2006. Thats an

average of just over 54 points per contest.

 

Is any of this Alcoa's fault? Of course not. Have they made

their Region 2 opponents tougher the last several years?

Almost assuredly. Ask Rockwood or Sweetwater.

 

The Alcoa coaching staff will be quick to point out that it starts

with the kids. That's true. Most 2A teams...heck, any team in

Tennessee would love to have Shiverdecker, Lanxster,

Sommer, Hicks, Sykes, Cobb, Dunkin, LeQuire and a 100

player roster. Nearly 75% of the schools entire male student

body. Yeah, football's popular.

 

Note to 2A teams: Alcoa might just be tougher next year!

 

By reading that article, it looks as if you all know that your good. Don't need to prove anything to anyone.

 

lil cocky. u make get what u wish for.

[aliastn]

sleep23:

You obviously didn't read a previous post by tornadogold:

 

"Just to be fair, I have NO idea who Don Moyer is...I'm thinking he may be from Knoxville, so it wasn't an Alcoa person writing it (that I'm aware of). And, it's not our home page.

And, the article is only talking about our region, not all of 2A."