3A STATE TITLE GAME - ALCOA VS COVINGTON

[rebelwoman87]

21 minutes ago, Jmm475 said:

What's up with these stupid videos? Surely y'all are smart enough to carry on a conversation. If I wanted to see videos I'd watch t.v. Alcoa' s record speaks for itself, so save your little cartoon videos. 

Oh no. You asked for it...

[CHARGERFAN]

22 minutes ago, Jmm475 said:

What's up with these stupid videos? Surely y'all are smart enough to carry on a conversation. If I wanted to see videos I'd watch t.v. Alcoa' s record speaks for itself, so save your little cartoon videos. 

I suspect that some of these posters are still looking forward to getting a drivers license. 

[FOOTBALLROCKYTOP]

12 hours ago, Throwdeslant said:

Our Fresh are pretty good. Could play with most varsity teams in TN. Alcoa is fairly deep at most all positions. Subbing isn’t much of a problem. We dress about 75. 

Looking forward to a great game.

I've always wondered how all these 3A schools dress 75 with a 3A enrollment. 

[rebelwoman87]

49 minutes ago, CHARGERFAN said:

I suspect that some of these posters are still looking forward to getting a drivers license. 

Y’all are about to get Gooned...

[Throwdeslant]

20 minutes ago, TENNFOOTBALL88 said:

I've always wondered how all these 3A schools dress 75 with a 3A enrollment. 

Is that so? Well, you should feel pretty good! In past years, Alcoa has dressed around 100! 

[Throwdeslant]

29 minutes ago, TENNFOOTBALL88 said:

I've always wondered how all these 3A schools dress 75 with a 3A enrollment. 

[Throwdeslant]

1 hour ago, crow6424 said:

 

[BoardHater71]

Covington fans are awesome on CoachT because they aren't the type to enter into a trash talking competition.  Had Pearl-Cohn won last night this thread would already by 20 pages deep.  CoachT accounts everywhere would have been suspended.  It would have brought back the good "early days" of CoachT.  

[Throwdeslant]

8 minutes ago, howdoitknow said:

Covington fans are awesome on CoachT because they aren't the type to enter into a trash talking competition.  Had Pearl-Cohn won last night this thread would already by 20 pages deep.  CoachT accounts everywhere would have been suspended.  It would have brought back the good "early days" of CoachT.  

Agreed! Really hasn’t been much trash talking from Alcoa fans. Just questions about what Covington brings to the table. However, ole Crow from Upperman is bringing some heat! 

[bglass]

Is Upperman still playing...I don't think so!!

[BCsportsfan]

11 hours ago, TENNFOOTBALL88 said:

I've always wondered how all these 3A schools dress 75 with a 3A enrollment. 

You have stumble onto Alcoa's success. Getting a high percentage of your male population to play football instead of walking the halls is the main part. Kids want to play for a winner. Plus, Most of the kids start out in the feeder system at 5 to 6 years old. They want to play at the high school and play for state championship at a young age. The youth football programs in Blount County are the best in the state. It use to be, freshman never played til their sophomore or Jr. year. Now freshman are coming to the high school level ready to play. Alcoa and Maryville have had serious talented freshman the last couple of years. Alcoa starts several freshman this year. if a typical roster is 50 players and 15 are freshman that need to be developed then your at a disadvantage against a 75-80 player roster,especially when the freshman are well coached and ready to contribute. This builds depth,and allows the Coaches to rotate players for different schemes just like college teams. Alcoa has 6 or more great RB's . They rotate in and out. All can take it to the house. Linemen rotate the same way and for different packages. When Alcoa had their best success against Maryville they were dressing closer to 100 players. They had the physical size to keep fighting for 4 qtr.

Bottom line it's success builds sucess. Build it and the kids will come. If I wanted to jump start a football program, I would start by building up the youth programs in the community. 

Edited November 26, 2017 by BCsportsfan

[rebelwoman87]

1 hour ago, BCsportsfan said:

You have stumble onto Alcoa's success. Getting a high percentage of your male population to play football instead of walking the halls is the main part. Kids want to play for a winner. Plus, Most of the kids start out in the feeder system at 5 to 6 years old. They want to play at the high school and play for state championship at a young age. The youth football programs in Blount County are the best in the state. It use to be, freshman never played til their sophomore or Jr. year. Now freshman are coming to the high school level ready to play. Alcoa and Maryville have had serious talented freshman the last couple of years. Alcoa starts several freshman this year. if a typical roster is 50 players and 15 are freshman that need to be developed then your at a disadvantage against a 75-80 player roster,especially when the freshman are well coached and ready to contribute. This builds depth,and allows the Coaches to rotate players for different schemes just like college teams. Alcoa has 6 or more great RB's . They rotate in and out. All can take it to the house. Linemen rotate the same way and for different packages. When Alcoa had their best success against Maryville they were dressing closer to 100 players. They had the physical size to keep fighting for 4 qtr.

Bottom line it's success builds sucess. Build it and the kids will come. If I wanted to jump start a football program, I would start by building up the youth programs in the community. 

Great post BC