Upperman hammers Alcoa

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27 minutes ago, WingT08 said:

Sounds like an excuse to me

Alcoa has 650 students. They aren't even at the top of 3A in enrollment. Why should they move up to deal with extra travel, etc. other than other schools in 3A are wanting them to because they aren't as successful as the Tornadoes?

Maybe other schools should step up their game instead of blaming Alcoa ? All things run in cycles. Alcoa will have a down year some time down the road.  Let the kids enjoy this historic run while it lasts.

[Throwdeslant]

6 hours ago, WingT08 said:

Sounds like an excuse to me

Nope. Facts. Name the 4A region smart one....

[Throwdeslant]

5 hours ago, 32hammer said:

Alcoa has 650 students. They aren't even at the top of 3A in enrollment. Why should they move up to deal with extra travel, etc. other than other schools in 3A are wanting them to because they aren't as successful as the Tornadoes?

Maybe other schools should step up their game instead of blaming Alcoa ? All things run in cycles. Alcoa will have a down year some time down the road.  Let the kids enjoy this historic run while it lasts.

Anxious to see her 4A region idea. I’m betting Alcoa is flying to Florida on a weekly basis. What a clown...

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17 hours ago, Throwdeslant said:

No local 4A teams to play (unless Knox county teams that decided to bump to 5A move back to 4A. ). As as whole 4A is not as strong as 3A anyway......

This is true. 

[BCsportsfan]

21 hours ago, WingT08 said:

Alcoa should move up to 4A in 2021.

 

It'll be OK there wingt .....we know 4A is way too tough for Alcoa!  

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19 hours ago, Throwdeslant said:

No local 4A teams to play (unless Knox county teams that decided to bump to 5A move back to 4A. ). As as whole 4A is not as strong as 3A anyway......

Top 2-3 in 3A this year would have won 4A and 5A.

11 hours ago, Throwdeslant said:

Anxious to see her 4A region idea. I’m betting Alcoa is flying to Florida on a weekly basis. What a clown...

Do they have Alcoa flying to Florida to play other 4A teams or to do sum Crootin?

1 hour ago, BCsportsfan said:

 

It'll be OK there wingt .....we know 4A is way too tough for Alcoa!  

LOL.

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1 hour ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

This is true. 

Yes sir!

[BCsportsfan]

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14 minutes ago, 32hammer said:

Top 2-3 in 3A this year would have won 4A and 5A.

Very Very Debatable.  Who would you say the top 2-3 teams in 3a were (Not including Alcoa).  The PC team that showed up to Cookeville and only put up 105 yards against Alcoa didn't impress me at all.  I believe AE had a better team especially on O.  That same AE team got Handled Easily by a 4a team that didn't make the Finals.  I don't see PC, Covington, AE, Loudon, Etc beating Betsy or Knox Central based off of both Centrals and Betsy D and how they played in game 15

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8 minutes ago, Swipes said:

Very Very Debatable.  Who would you say the top 2-3 teams in 3a were (Not including Alcoa).  The PC team that showed up to Cookeville and only put up 105 yards against Alcoa didn't impress me at all.  I believe AE had a better team especially on O.  That same AE team got Handled Easily by a 4a team that didn't make the Finals.  I don't see PC, Covington, AE, Loudon, Etc beating Betsy or Knox Central based off of both Centrals and Betsy D and how they played in game 15

Alcoa had a bunch to do with the PC team that showed up to Cookeville.  I don’t think the games would have been much different had Alcoa played Betsy or Central. Other than Rankin would have probably kept his offensive foot on the gas for 4 quarters rather than 2.....

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13 minutes ago, Swipes said:

Very Very Debatable.  Who would you say the top 2-3 teams in 3a were (Not including Alcoa).  The PC team that showed up to Cookeville and only put up 105 yards against Alcoa didn't impress me at all.  I believe AE had a better team especially on O.  That same AE team got Handled Easily by a 4a team that didn't make the Finals.  I don't see PC, Covington, AE, Loudon, Etc beating Betsy or Knox Central based off of both Centrals and Betsy D and how they played in game 15

Yes debatable. But that's the fun of forums. lol.

PC beat MBA, Indy and Cane Ridge. They beat all three of those teams by a larger margin than they beat Covington. Loudon was a pretty good team as well. Central lost to Gibbs and South Doyle. Elizabethon is a good team, but I don't think its a coincidence they won their first championship since 1938 after they bumped up to 4A.

Central has been around for about 100 years, had never won a state title now has two in 5A in the recently created 6 class system. Farragut won its only championship in 5A a couple of years ago and now is back in 6A were they belong and will likely not see another title for a long time. I think Knox West also won their first title in their school's long history in in 5A in the 6 class system. These are not coincidences.

I think the evidence is strong that PC and Covington would both have won in 4A this year. To be fair, I do think Greenville would have won 5A as well as 4A the last two years.

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10 minutes ago, Throwdeslant said:

Alcoa had a bunch to do with the PC team that showed up to Cookeville.  I don’t think the games would have been much different had Alcoa played Betsy or Central. Other than Rankin would have probably kept his offensive foot on the gas for 4 quarters rather than 2.....

I wasn't talking about Alcoa vs Betsy or Central.  Yes Alcoa has a Dominate D and have proved that all year long.  Betsy and Central both have great D's (Not on Alcoa's Level) but feel PC would have had trouble against both of those D's as well.  The game is won on the line of scrimmage and I feel like Betsy and Central would have controlled the line of scrimmage against PC also.