2A AP Poll Week 9

[crow]

1 minute ago, uknoit2 said:

If we could play a lil later in the season, I'd love the game to end back up on our schedule 

Me to, and I certainly don't think Hampton is dodging anyone. I'm meaning in general, not comparing schedules or even referencing particular schedules. Just an overall opinion. 

[orngnblk]

3 minutes ago, crow said:

I know our game is a regin game but I can assure you we are better for playing it along with the Upperman and GB games. We know a lot more about our team than if we'd scheduled oakdale, RBS and Pickett county. Not to knock those kids but those are 3 struggling programs right now. We'd likely be 9-0 instead of 6-3 but I can assure you we would not be better off. 

Very good point

[uknoit2]

Just now, crow said:

Me to, and I certainly don't think Hampton is dodging anyone. I'm meaning in general, not comparing schedules or even referencing particular schedules. Just an overall opinion. 

I know that crow but we get the "you're soft cause your SOS is soft" a lot over the years...And sometimes that's been true, but we were soft regardless of the SOS, if you get my drift 

[orngnblk]

20 minutes ago, uknoit2 said:

I don't like the cupcakes either crow, but getting your brains beat in just to have a tuff SOS never made sense to me.....It's about match ups. If you recall, our 2015 team was gonna get destroyed by SW, GCA, AE, and on and on because of our SOS...Didn't happen. And if we'd been healthy, we would have given MC all they wanted and more in the semis. 

We were sort of in the same situation as you all.Loudon beat the brakes off of us then we started off the Meigs County game in the first quarter playing the same way we did against Loudon then the kids started coming around and by the second half we were playing pretty good football but that came from playing to really good programs.I don't think we'd be where we're at right now if we'd started off with a couple of pushovers

[crow]

1 minute ago, uknoit2 said:

I know that crow but we get the "you're soft cause your SOS is soft" a lot over the years...And sometimes that's been true, but we were soft regardless of the SOS, if you get my drift 

Yeah, I'm not saying SOS will make an average team great, I do think it can be the difference sometimes between grinding out a tough win and not. Said it earlier, I honestly don't think we beat rockwood without the GB, os and upperman game (hadn't played Meigs at that point)  

[crow]

2 minutes ago, orngnblk said:

We were sort of in the same situation as you all.Loudon beat the brakes off of us then we started off the Meigs County game in the first quarter playing the same way we did against Loudon then the kids started coming around and by the second half we were playing pretty good football but that came from playing to really good programs.I don't think we'd be where we're at right now if we'd started off with a couple of pushovers

I wish we'd gotten one of those off nights you're talking about. Imagine how good y'all would be now if we'd beat you to! 

[uknoit2]

6 minutes ago, crow said:

Me to, and I certainly don't think Hampton is dodging anyone. I'm meaning in general, not comparing schedules or even referencing particular schedules. Just an overall opinion. 

 

2 minutes ago, orngnblk said:

We were sort of in the same situation as you all.Loudon beat the brakes off of us then we started off the Meigs County game in the first quarter playing the same way we did against Loudon then the kids started coming around and by the second half we were playing pretty good football but that came from playing to really good programs.I don't think we'd be where we're at right now if we'd started off with a couple of pushovers

We had 5-A David Crockett on the schedule in '17 & '18....Played em close in '17 and got killed in '18. Went to Rockwood and got slammed (OnB was there)

My point is, you either got "it" or you don't....SOS doesn't make a difference if you don't 

[orngnblk]

1 minute ago, crow said:

I wish we'd gotten one of those off nights you're talking about. Imagine how good y'all would be now if we'd beat you to! 

I dont know what to say to that one!

[orngnblk]

1 minute ago, uknoit2 said:

 

We had 5-A David Crockett on the schedule in '17 & '18....Played em close in '17 and got killed in '18. Went to Rockwood and got slammed (OnB was there)

My point is, you either got "it" or you don't....SOS doesn't make a difference if you don't 

This is a good point too.

[uknoit2]

4 minutes ago, crow said:

Yeah, I'm not saying SOS will make an average team great, I do think it can be the difference sometimes between grinding out a tough win and not. Said it earlier, I honestly don't think we beat rockwood without the GB, os and upperman game (hadn't played Meigs at that point)  

Agreed 

[uknoit2]

1 minute ago, orngnblk said:

This is a good point too.

The beat down from Crockett did nothing to help us last year...Would have been more beneficial for us had teams like 4-A Sull East and others not refused to schedule us....We pick those games back up, with Johnson Co and Unicoi (when they're decent) and we'd be tested enuf for post season most years 

[Appvol]

5 minutes ago, uknoit2 said:

The beat down from Crockett did nothing to help us last year...Would have been more beneficial for us had teams like 4-A Sull East and others not refused to schedule us....We pick those games back up, with Johnson Co and Unicoi (when they're decent) and we'd be tested enuf for post season most years 

You know the game I like to see on the schedule for Hampton and it would really help both teams. 

Edited October 22, 2019 by Appvol