Rhea Co. @ Soddy

[Eagle4life55]

With last night's loss, we are looking at back to back losing seasons. This has only happened one other time in over 20 years! We, taxpayers, deserve a better product than we are getting for what we are paying. No one wants to talk about the fact that there is an undefeated team across the river with 5 or 6 starters that played middle school or part of their high school ball here. We need to be asking those in charge why these kids are leaving. I understand the one starting at Baylor, that's a great school and a great opportunity but not the others. No one is coming to the games, kids have and are leaving for other schools, our number of players is way down over the last few years, we don't have a single respectable win, and we are looking at back to back losing seasons. It's time we start asking why!

[Rhea Co.]

12 hours ago, Eagle4life55 said:

Hats off to Soddy for making plays when they needed to. Those two turnovers and the chop block in the first half sure didn't help us out any. I just have to wonder why after driving the ball down toward the red zone on the last drive did we attempt to throw on 2nd down and take that sack. Then we tried to throw it on third down and got sacked again. The 4th down incomplete pass looked like it was trying to set up a trick play like a hook and lateral or something. At that point we were too far behind the sticks and had to try something. At this point, I'm just glad Blackman opted not to play us. We all know we can't beat Cane Ridge and can't win on the road against Oak Ridge or Fulton. We just don't have that kind of team. We are going to have a 4 win season with one of those being a 2A Marion, a 3A Brainerd, Walker Valley that's going to be 0-10, and Lenoir City. Oh well, there's always next year!

Go Eagles!

This year has been a down/off year for sure. Starting with the “rain out” at Cleveland. The injuries through out the season at key positions. The fumbles and just turnovers in general have killed us. The penalties have also hurt us badly. We do not play well in the 2nd half this year. The first half we are alright but after half time the same team just doesn’t return to the field. Literally we are 4 TDs away from a very different season. 3 pt loss to Soddy, 8 pt loss McMinn, and 7 pt loss to  Bradley, 

As for the game last night. We actually looked good at times in the first half. We still fumbled the ball way too much and the chop block killed that drive. The defense played alright but we are still missing a lot of tackles. Giving up the TD on the jet swipe was a back breaker. We left a lot of points on the field last night. Congrats Soddy on basically winning the Region last night, just hope Catholic beats LC.  

Edited October 13, 2018 by Rhea Co.

[Indian]

Rhea is fortunate not to be in 6A. September 2016 enrollment used by TSSAA was 1489, third highest in 5A. October 1, 2016 enrollment on the Department of Education website was 1554. Not sure why there was 65 student difference in two weeks, quite a difference. 

They would have had more than Ooltewah and Cleveland and two less than McMinn County.

Edited October 13, 2018 by Indian

[Rhea Co.]

16 minutes ago, Indian said:

Rhea is fortunate not to be in 6A. September 2016 enrollment used by TSSAA was 1489, third highest in 5A. October 1, 2016 enrollment on the Department of Education website was 1554. Not sure why there was 65 student difference in two weeks, quite a difference. 

They would have had more than Ooltewah and Cleveland and two less than McMinn County.

Very true we are fortunate. In that regard 

[kentuckyman]

Of the four wins Rhea co has none are quality wins every team has a losing record

brainerd 3-5

marion 3-4 

walker valley 0 for season 

lenoir 4-4 

not a good season anyway you look at it. And 2 of those teams are 2A and 3A

[Eagle4life55]

3 hours ago, kentuckyman said:

Of the four wins Rhea co has none are quality wins every team has a losing record

brainerd 3-5

marion 3-4 

walker valley 0 for season 

lenoir 4-4 

not a good season anyway you look at it. And 2 of those teams are 2A and 3A

Very good point. If you really look at the wins and losses, this is as bad as the 1-9 & 2-8 teams of the previous Head Coach.

[kentuckyman]

It really is sad we’re the program is when these kids were in middle school there was talk of a state championship possibility well let me rephrase when this senior and junior class were in middle school. Most of the middle school players that had so much success are not playing anymore for whatever reason.

[Eagle4life55]

We all know the reason several kids left and some aren't playing. When kids don't have a fair chance of earning playing time or in the position they want to play, they are either going to leave or they aren't going to play. It's that simple. There still is talk of a state championship for many of those kids that had so much success in middle school, it's just with another team and I wish them all the success in the world. I just wonder if our school officials are going to step up and do something before this bunch completely destroys our program.

[DonDraper]

25 minutes ago, Eagle4life55 said:

We all know the reason several kids left and some aren't playing. When kids don't have a fair chance of earning playing time or in the position they want to play, they are either going to leave or they aren't going to play. It's that simple. There still is talk of a state championship for many of those kids that had so much success in middle school, it's just with another team and I wish them all the success in the world. I just wonder if our school officials are going to step up and do something before this bunch completely destroys our program.

Maybe Pemberton leaves anyway.   Hasn’t he always been kind of a Nomad?  Maybe you guys can hire Cummings if that happens.

[Indian]

Maybe bring JF home.

[Eagle4life55]

13 hours ago, DonDraper said:

Maybe Pemberton leaves anyway.   Hasn’t he always been kind of a Nomad?  Maybe you guys can hire Cummings if that happens.

I don't know too much about him but he has coached several places. I don't know who would be hired, but something has to be done about our good kids going to other schools or just not playing. No one is coming to the games, the number of players is way down from last year, we are going to have 2 straight losing records, and we are going to be third in a very weak region. Enough is enough.

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18 hours ago, DonDraper said:

Maybe Pemberton leaves anyway.   Hasn’t he always been kind of a Nomad?  Maybe you guys can hire Cummings if that happens.

Nah, they can keep him in Cleveland.  Don't care for his coaching style either.  I don't see Fitzgerald coming back either.  We're in a bind.  Let's let this thing play out.