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31 minutes ago, THE KING said:

When cland was a state power,  we had several transfers from avery co.  A lineman named Paul Laws in 89 along with Eric Hicks.  Lineman Averil Cooper in 92.  Keith Buchannan,  Allen, Storie,  and Brandon Jones during the Mark Byrd era.  That's only a handful but they were big contributors during Cland's state power days.  The kids were here because they wanted to be and they were legal.  We even stole one from Hampton in 94.  We would not have been near as successful that year if he did not come.  In 2018,  moving forward,  cland would help themselves if they would put the work in necessary to become good blockers and tacklers.  We lived in the gym in the early 90's and reaped the rewards.  They players of today have become lazy during the offseason.  Not only cland but the rest of the county schools as well.  I feel like they love football and they love to go all out on Friday nights but they don't want to live, breath, and drink it during the off season.  If it were me,  I would personally see to it and make it a requirement to train and condition all winter and summer.  If they don't want to do it, then shut football down.  I would rather be dead than to put the product that Jellico and unaka put on the field every year.  This generation of soy boys have got to go and it starts at home.  WE have to worry about cloudland, not greenback's transfers.  Cland has to work to put cland in the best possible position to win football games

We are on the same page!Good luck to the Landers,i hope you all get a good one up there!

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1 hour ago, orngnblk said:

We are on the same page!Good luck to the Landers,i hope you all get a good one up there!

Respectable post King! The first part of your post sounds just like GB over the years! Only difference in then and now is back then the kids didn’t have to move or it wasn’t enforced like it is today. A lot more kids moved around back then because the families didn’t have to pick up and move the family 5 miles or less down the road. Greenback sits in the tiny narrow eastern most part of Loudon County. Some of Greenback actually sits in Blount County and is somewhat populated for a rural area. We even have kids living in GB pay tuition and go to Maryville  over the years with a couple I know of currently. Greenback isn’t doing anything different than they always have with the exception there are stricter rules now and we don’t accept out of county students. All our players are legal but some for whatever reason just can’t deal with the success as of late. I mean correct me if I am wrong but even Whitwell gained Josh Wingo through transfer from Grundy County. Great for him & great for Whitwell. Him and Petty make a great duo and compliment each other nicely. Not sure if there are others but who really cares. If Cloudland gets a few nice additions good for them. I like your concept of let’s worry about what we do and not what other teams are doing. Nobody’s cheating and the boys are working hard! I think this gets blowed out of proportion with all the funny jokes going around about goats and exaggerated comments about pipelines etc. Take it with a grain of salt and for what it is....hot air humor!

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2 hours ago, THE KING said:

When cland was a state power,  we had several transfers from avery co.  A lineman named Paul Laws in 89 along with Eric Hicks.  Lineman Averil Cooper in 92.  Keith Buchannan,  Allen, Storie,  and Brandon Jones during the Mark Byrd era.  That's only a handful but they were big contributors during Cland's state power days.  The kids were here because they wanted to be and they were legal.  We even stole one from Hampton in 94.  We would not have been near as successful that year if he did not come.  In 2018,  moving forward,  cland would help themselves if they would put the work in necessary to become good blockers and tacklers.  We lived in the gym in the early 90's and reaped the rewards.  They players of today have become lazy during the offseason.  Not only cland but the rest of the county schools as well.  I feel like they love football and they love to go all out on Friday nights but they don't want to live, breath, and drink it during the off season.  If it were me,  I would personally see to it and make it a requirement to train and condition all winter and summer.  If they don't want to do it, then shut football down.  I would rather be dead than to put the product that Jellico and unaka put on the field every year.  This generation of soy boys have got to go and it starts at home.  WE have to worry about cloudland, not greenback's transfers.  Cland has to work to put cland in the best possible position to win football games

I played against cland in the mark byrd era and man they was big and good....I played on some good football teams in the early 2000s I along with 7 or 8 other starters was supposed to be at William blount...none of us wanted to go there because we started all our youth ball at greenback and we all stuck together and played all the way through high school...it was no big deal when Satterfield was there...it was pretty much if you was good at football come on down lol....I think it all comes down to how the rules have changed is why everyone is making a big deal out of it...I get that but if its done legal and no rules are broke then there should be nothing said

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20 minutes ago, ladykee said:

Respectable post King! The first part of your post sounds just like GB over the years! Only difference in then and now is back then the kids didn’t have to move or it wasn’t enforced like it is today. A lot more kids moved around back then because the families didn’t have to pick up and move the family 5 miles or less down the road. Greenback sits in the tiny narrow eastern most part of Loudon County. Some of Greenback actually sits in Blount County and is somewhat populated for a rural area. We even have kids living in GB pay tuition and go to Maryville  over the years with a couple I know of currently. Greenback isn’t doing anything different than they always have with the exception there are stricter rules now and we don’t accept out of county students. All our players are legal but some for whatever reason just can’t deal with the success as of late. I mean correct me if I am wrong but even Whitwell gained Josh Wingo through transfer from Grundy County. Great for him & great for Whitwell. Him and Petty make a great duo and compliment each other nicely. Not sure if there are others but who really cares. If Cloudland gets a few nice additions good for them. I like your concept of let’s worry about what we do and not what other teams are doing. Nobody’s cheating and the boys are working hard! I think this gets blowed out of proportion with all the funny jokes going around about goats and exaggerated comments about pipelines etc. Take it with a grain of salt and for what it is....hot air humor!

Apples and Oranges Ladykee, thats not you're fault. Tis what it is. Think the last good transfer Cloudland had was about 2003. Actually lost the best Player in this County to Elizabethton .Was a senior this year and a 4 year starter, I'm sure he will be on the  4A all State team when it comes out.

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Just now, muskox said:

I played against cland in the mark byrd era and man they was big and good....I played on some good football teams in the early 2000s I along with 7 or 8 other starters was supposed to be at William blount...none of us wanted to go there because we started all our youth ball at greenback and we all stuck together and played all the way through high school...it was no big deal when Satterfield was there...it was pretty much if you was good at football come on down lol....I think it all comes down to how the rules have changed is why everyone is making a big deal out of it...I get that but if its done legal and no rules are broke then there should be nothing said

Mark Byrd wouldn't have even been the QB at Cloudland if another kid Had went to Cloudland , He lived in Carter Co near the State line and went to Avery, had another kid who would have been an all state Receiver  that did the same thing. With those 2 ,Cloudland would have really been loaded. 

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8 minutes ago, pujo said:

Apples and Oranges Ladykee, thats not you're fault. Tis what it is. Think the last good transfer Cloudland had was about 2003. Actually lost the best Player in this County to Elizabethton .Was a senior this year and a 4 year starter, I'm sure he will be on the  4A all State team when it comes out.

Well the season has wrapped up and I for one am ready to focus on family, friends and the holidays! With a little basketball thrown in. Our GB boys beat Cosby 66-64 to start 1-0 in the district last night which is a pretty big win for us considering we just got our few football players back and Holden is still sidelined for awhile. Hope everyone has a nice Christmas! Merry Christmas Pujo and the rest of the Coach T bunch!

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6 minutes ago, muskox said:

I played against cland in the mark byrd era and man they was big and good....I played on some good football teams in the early 2000s I along with 7 or 8 other starters was supposed to be at William blount...none of us wanted to go there because we started all our youth ball at greenback and we all stuck together and played all the way through high school...it was no big deal when Satterfield was there...it was pretty much if you was good at football come on down lol....I think it all comes down to how the rules have changed is why everyone is making a big deal out of it...I get that but if its done legal and no rules are broke then there should be nothing said

And Cloudland has never had anything close to that, that about how many transfers they've had in 25 years.

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Just now, ladykee said:

Well the season has wrapped up and I for one am ready to focus on family, friends and the holidays! With a little basketball thrown in. Our GB boys beat Cosby 66-64 to start 1-0 in the district last night which is a pretty big win for us considering we just got our few football players back and Holden is still sidelined for awhile. Hope everyone has a nice Christmas! Merry Christmas Pujo and the rest of the Coach T bunch!

And Merry Christmas to you also, You are all really good people and I'm sure we would all be good friends.  Good luck with the BB and hope that youngun heals well and fast. God Bless

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54 minutes ago, ladykee said:

Well the season has wrapped up and I for one am ready to focus on family, friends and the holidays! With a little basketball thrown in. Our GB boys beat Cosby 66-64 to start 1-0 in the district last night which is a pretty big win for us considering we just got our few football players back and Holden is still sidelined for awhile. Hope everyone has a nice Christmas! Merry Christmas Pujo and the rest of the Coach T bunch!

You may not realize it, but that win over cosby was BIG deal.  That is a traditional basketball powerhouse.  Looks like we're gonna have our hands full with orange and black on the hardwood as well. 

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1 hour ago, muskox said:

I played against cland in the mark byrd era and man they was big and good....I played on some good football teams in the early 2000s I along with 7 or 8 other starters was supposed to be at William blount...none of us wanted to go there because we started all our youth ball at greenback and we all stuck together and played all the way through high school...it was no big deal when Satterfield was there...it was pretty much if you was good at football come on down lol....I think it all comes down to how the rules have changed is why everyone is making a big deal out of it...I get that but if its done legal and no rules are broke then there should be nothing said

We had some studs for sure.  I got to meet Satterfield a couple times.  That's one tough coach

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21 minutes ago, THE KING said:

You may not realize it, but that win over cosby was BIG deal.  That is a traditional basketball powerhouse.  Looks like we're gonna have our hands full with orange and black on the hardwood as well. 

Our 6’6 big Bailey poses problems inside on both ends. My nephew Ty Cullen runs the offense pretty good and is a sharp shooter. The inside out works pretty good. The thing I liked the most is the GB boys played hard and never got intimidated and finished off a nice comeback run in the final moments. It was a nice game to watch. Cosby big was pretty quiet all night and 90% of their points were 3’s and they shot a very high percentage from outside. Bailey was swatting and altering shots underneath so they were going to live or die with the long ball.

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