BATTLE OF THE BRIDGE

[Governm]

What changed from year 1? Hammontree has won a State Champ and decades of experience. What does Ridge have? What side of the ball did Ridge come up coaching? What is the worst phase of the team under his watch? Has discipline or buy-in gotten better or worse under Ridge? Name one thing he has produced on the field to support your blind faith in his ability to lead the Govs to the expectations you possess. I have different sources within the profession that have informed me of his ability to coach football. Interested in why you think he's the answer.

I can tell you that lots of the players on the team have matured alot and are working harder than they did last year. We still have a few slackers in the ranks but the other players are starting to call them out. And I saw Ridge get more angry and animated than I have ever seen at that scrimmage, he chewed those boys butts off and they responded and played better on D to end the scrimmage. We still have work to do but there has been some positive changes.

[qb#7]

I can tell you that lots of the players on the team have matured alot and are working harder than they did last year. We still have a few slackers in the ranks but the other players are starting to call them out. And I saw Ridge get more angry and animated than I have ever seen at that scrimmage, he chewed those boys butts off and they responded and played better on D to end the scrimmage. We still have work to do but there has been some positive changes.

Listen I'm not trying to be a jerk when I say this. Half of your response was about his actions and the reaction of a team in a scrimmage you claim to be meaningless where they gave up 8 touchdowns. The other half of your response speaks to slackers being called out by players and not coaches, which leads one to believe they are upset because they are getting away with it. None of that sounded very positive.

[Governm]

Listen I'm not trying to be a jerk when I say this. Half of your response was about his actions and the reaction of a team in a scrimmage you claim to be meaningless where they gave up 8 touchdowns. The other half of your response speaks to slackers being called out by players and not coaches, which leads one to believe they are upset because they are getting away with it. None of that sounded very positive.

I don't know what Ridge does behind closed doors. I don't know if he calls out slackers or not, i do know he got hot at that scrimmage. I also know that some of the players are stepping up to the plate and trying to be leaders and I see that as a definite positive.

[orngnblk]

Eh. Don't buy into the results of a scrimmage man.lol they don't mean a whole lot. Most years we win scrimmages and it hasn't helped us much, heck we even beat maryville in the jamboree and they still went undefeated and won state and we were mediocre. And one year when my brother played at Mcminn Central they looked amazing in their scrimmages and even beat Greenback 50-0 and MC ended up going 2-8 and Greenback went 10-0 and ended up beating a team that beat Central in the regular season. I could come up with about a million other examples of this. Scrimmages don't mean much. Another great example is Seymour beat Maryville in the jamboree in 2008 and Seymour ended up losing to heritage and maryville made it to state. We do have some issues on defense that need to be addressed but we don't need to panic over 1 scrimmage.

I remember that jaboree!GB beat WB 21-0 and took a knee inside the 5 to keel from scoring again.Boy was your coach mad.Ouch...Ridge was the assistant to the assistant D-Coord at the time and he was estatic.Also that was WBs varsity not the "JV". Edited August 5, 2014 by orngnblk

[Governm]

I remember that jaboree!GB beat WB 21-0 and took a knee inside the 5 to keel from scoring again.Boy was your coach mad.Ouch...Ridge was the assistant to the assistant D-Coord at the time and he was estatic.Also that was WBs varsity not the "JV".

You are thinking about 2008 i think.

[orngnblk]

You are thinking about 2008 i think.

If i am not mistaken that is what was in your post 2008.But yes 2008.