Rhea County 2018

[QB14]

With spring practice almost here, what are some thoughts on the Eagles this season? Any players you are looking forward to seeing or you think are underrated that could get more attention? Feel free to post different things. Just trying to get the conversation rolling.

[Eagle57]

How bout the young man (running back)  who transferred in from Florida last fall?

[QB14]

13 hours ago, Eagle57 said:

How bout the young man (running back)  who transferred in from Florida last fall?

I think his name was TJ Anthony. I haven't heard anything about him, but he did express interest in playing on the team this season since he had to sit out due to transfer rules last season. He was able to play in one JV game if I'm not mistaken, and I attached the link to it below. He looks awesome and would probably make the two deep at running back if he comes back.

 

[Eagle57]

Yes, that's him. He looks like a speedster to me. Hope he plays. Thanks for the info.

 

[RCfan]

On 4/3/2018 at 10:00 PM, Eagle57 said:

How bout the young man (running back)  who transferred in from Florida last fall?

I don't know the details or if it's 100% true but I heard he has moved back to Florida....

[Eagle57]

Darn.............we could always use speed.

[Eagle4life55]

That running back is no longer here. Losing over 20 seniors including our leading scorer is never easy. One good thing is that we got Blackman off the schedule and replaced them with Brainerd who only won 2 games last year. That along with Marion that is also a 2A team, gives us 2 easy wins. We should always be good enough to beat McMinn, Soddy, Walker Valley, and Lenoir City so we should have at least 6 wins with this schedule and be 2nd in the region. Pemberton will be a third year starter at QB and that experience always helps. The rest of the backfield will not have a lot of experience but should have some talent from the Jr. class. Remember, those are the kids that went undefeated at Rhea Middle and beat Baylor and Maryville. I think this could be a really good year for us.

[Eagle4life55]

I heard yesterday that we were losing a senior lineman to Meigs. Not sure if that's correct, but that's what I heard. Anyone else heard that?  

[QB14]

48 minutes ago, Eagle4life55 said:

I heard yesterday that we were losing a senior lineman to Meigs. Not sure if that's correct, but that's what I heard. Anyone else heard that?  

I've been hearing we could lose one to either Meigs or Bledsoe. Not sure if he will leave or not, but wouldn't be surprised if he did. 

[Eagle57]

9 hours ago, QB14 said:

I've been hearing we could lose one to either Meigs or Bledsoe. Not sure if he will leave or not, but wouldn't be surprised if he did. 

Ugg!

[Eagle57]

Being new here to the Tn area I'm not to familiar with the inside doings of high school sports here but is Meigs county  actively recruiting our kids away from us? I keep hearing about Rhea kids playing for Meigs and now another one.

 

[QB14]

1 hour ago, Eagle57 said:

Being new here to the Tn area I'm not to familiar with the inside doings of high school sports here but is Meigs county  actively recruiting our kids away from us? I keep hearing about Rhea kids playing for Meigs and now another one.

 

Meigs County HC Jason Fitzgerald is a former Eagle and had a fairly long tenure as Rhea County HC. He left before the 2011 season, so he still has some connections to families in Rhea Co. His brother is also on the football staff.  I'm not saying he is "actively recruiting" but it is sort of fishy to me when a stud QB (who was a RB), WR/DB, and possibly now an O-Lineman from Rhea mysteriously end up moving to Meigs when it is looking like they won't see as much time on the field as they would like with the Eagles...