Oak Ridge Football 2019

[bounder]

catswild you need to get someone to explain to you how schedules are set up. I won't even try.

[STILLNUM1]

One thing Ive learned about high school football is the reg season should be about getting better.I can understand your point of not wanting to play a great team right b4 a big region game.But in the playoffs you will have to do the same thing so great job by the coaches finding nothing but tough teams.I would rather play AC than drive almost to Nashville but there is more involved than what Oak Ridge wants.This sch will prepare us for the playoffs as much as any sch we have had in years.

[catswild]

10 hours ago, bounder said:

catswild you need to get someone to explain to you how schedules are set up. I won't even try.

I'm waiting..............................................................................................................

[catswild]

7 hours ago, STILLNUM1 said:

One thing Ive learned about high school football is the reg season should be about getting better.I can understand your point of not wanting to play a great team right b4 a big region game.But in the playoffs you will have to do the same thing so great job by the coaches finding nothing but tough teams.I would rather play AC than drive almost to Nashville but there is more involved than what Oak Ridge wants.This sch will prepare us for the playoffs as much as any sch we have had in years.

Your post actually makes some sense. But I still believe there's more to lose than they will gain because Powell and Fulton are immediately following.

[bounder]

District games are draw out of "the hat" as to who you play and when. You have no control over that. The other games you have to match home and away and open dates. And I don't like playing  DB, Farragut  anymore, even if it is supposed to make us better. So I agree with you on that.

[SweetScience]

Maybe the open dates with those teams didn't coincide with ours? I think Oakdale and Sunbright were open on that date though. I think we should've scheduled one of them. Would be a great game that would really get our guys ready and primed for a big playoff run.

Edited January 23, 2019 by SweetScience

[catswild]

5 hours ago, SweetScience said:

Maybe the open dates with those teams didn't coincide with ours? I think Oakdale and Sunbright were open on that date though. I think we should've scheduled one of them. Would be a great game that would really get our guys ready and primed for a big playoff run.

I'm pretty sure HVA, DB, Farragut, West, Powell, and Fulton will do that for us, don't you? Are you telling me that playing Mt Juliet, on top of all of the good teams I just mentioned, will be a difference maker in playoff preparedness??????

[bounder]

Well we have to play Powell, West and Fulton anyway. But HVA, DB, and Farragut ... well ya gotta play somebody. Course they're all 6A.

[SweetScience]

8 hours ago, catswild said:

I'm pretty sure HVA, DB, Farragut, West, Powell, and Fulton will do that for us, don't you? Are you telling me that playing Mt Juliet, on top of all of the good teams I just mentioned, will be a difference maker in playoff preparedness??????

Quit whining and enjoy life, Cats.

[catswild]

8 hours ago, SweetScience said:

Quit whining and enjoy life, Cats.

Not whining...just aghast at the stupidity of our "scheduler in chief"!

[STILLNUM1]

On ‎1‎/‎23‎/‎2019 at 7:36 AM, catswild said:

Your post actually makes some sense. But I still believe there's more to lose than they will gain because Powell and Fulton are immediately following.

That's fair.It really does help playing bigger faster good teams.Last yr it took week 10 b4 we figured out where we had to better to win in the big games.Maybe next yr those things will be exposed earlier and we can fix them.Look at AC last yr and how bad their sch hurt them while Greenville was way more tested.90% of time you don't get better playing bad teams.If we are good enuff it will be a really fun season.

[Cactus Jack]

From what I understand, Sevier County dropped us, creating the open date in the schedule or it would have remained the same.  Clinton then moved into the spot left by Sevier County as they lined up the Region games.  Then they had to try to fill an 8th game and an away game created by Clinton moving. Every potential opponent was contacted close around here, all declined to play including AC, Bearden and several others.  Even checked some Western North Carolina schools, schedules didn't match up (you have to have the same open date). Both Mt. Juliet and OR were talking but each was hoping they could find a closer opponent, but it didn't work out, so they agreed to play a two year home in home with us going there first, then they come here in 2020.  They are going to be pretty good and be a tough opponent.