Jellico Blue Devils

[sharkey]

Guys, I heard that Jellico only has about 15 players so I went to watch them practice the other night, I never did count how many they had but they had to run their offense against the wind because they didnt have enough to play defense. It's none of my business, but this is setting these kids up for injury. Jellico never could get numbers and have a great coach in Mr Peel, but if hes smart he will get outta there. That place is a black hole. I miss the great Jellico teams of the late 90's. This is in no way a negative post, but do you think they could drop down to jv or just drop football for a couple years and just rebuild?

[RodgerDodger32]

10 hours ago, sharkey said:

Guys, I heard that Jellico only has about 15 players so I went to watch them practice the other night, I never did count how many they had but they had to run their offense against the wind because they didnt have enough to play defense. It's none of my business, but this is setting these kids up for injury. Jellico never could get numbers and have a great coach in Mr Peel, but if hes smart he will get outta there. That place is a black hole. I miss the great Jellico teams of the late 90's. This is in no way a negative post, but do you think they could drop down to jv or just drop football for a couple years and just rebuild?

I watched them scrimmage Scott Friday and they had at least 20 players. Probably more honestly 

[TSSAAfootball]

3 hours ago, RodgerDodger32 said:

I watched them scrimmage Scott Friday and they had at least 20 players. Probably more honestly 

How did both teams look? 

[RodgerDodger32]

10 minutes ago, TSSAAfootball said:

How did both teams look? 

Looked like Jellico has some good skill kids and size. Scott looked about like normal they’ll struggle pretty bad in their division. 

[Spike016]

Well Oneida hosts Jellico Friday night for a scrimmage along with Cumberland Gap. This is not a knock on either team at all but Oneida has no business scrimmaging teams of that caliber. I just think Oneida should be scrimmaging somebody to make them better and I just don’t see that happening with this scrimmage. 

[RodgerDodger32]

8 hours ago, Spike016 said:

Well Oneida hosts Jellico Friday night for a scrimmage along with Cumberland Gap. This is not a knock on either team at all but Oneida has no business scrimmaging teams of that caliber. I just think Oneida should be scrimmaging somebody to make them better and I just don’t see that happening with this scrimmage. 

Agreed. Haven’t heard or seen much on Cumberland gap recently. Would like some updates later this week if you don’t mind. 

[Spike016]

1 hour ago, RodgerDodger32 said:

Agreed. Haven’t heard or seen much on Cumberland gap recently. Would like some updates later this week if you don’t mind. 

Will do! If CG hasn’t changed last year they were a wing T/wishbone run it every single snap. If I remember correctly Oneida played them 2 years ago and CG kept the ball the entire 1st qtr and part of the 2nd. 

[TSSAAfootball]

13 hours ago, Spike016 said:

Well Oneida hosts Jellico Friday night for a scrimmage along with Cumberland Gap. This is not a knock on either team at all but Oneida has no business scrimmaging teams of that caliber. I just think Oneida should be scrimmaging somebody to make them better and I just don’t see that happening with this scrimmage. 

Would you rather they scrimmage teams like they did last Friday and get their brains beat in? 

[Spike016]

2 hours ago, TSSAAfootball said:

Would you rather they scrimmage teams like they did last Friday and get their brains beat in? 

What good comes from Jellico? Be honest 

I would rather play better competition that is gonna make us better than what’s gonna happen this Friday.  You wanna be beatin your chest after Friday night cause you beat Jellico 6-7 TDs in a scrimmage? I think a lot more people will respect getting beat by bigger and better competition then beating the brains in of a team that’s one of the worst in the state in all classifications 

[Spike016]

When November rolls around IF we make the playoffs I bet a lot of people are gonna look back and say “Man that scrimmage against Jellico and CG really prepared Oneida for York and Hampton”. 

[RodgerDodger32]

On 8/1/2023 at 1:43 PM, Spike016 said:

When November rolls around IF we make the playoffs I bet a lot of people are gonna look back and say “Man that scrimmage against Jellico and CG really prepared Oneida for York and Hampton”. 

Any news on how the scrimmages went? 

[Spike016]

Oneida looked decent given the competition. Everyone I talked to said they looked better than the scrimmage at Tech but again you can’t base anything off the scrimmage tonight. 1st team D looked pretty good and didn’t give up a TD to either Jellico or CG. Offensively the offensive line is gonna be Oneidas downfall this year. They are not gonna line up and smash you for 4 qtrs. The passing game was ok not great a lot of rollouts and deep balls.  They have a few good young RBs that looked good tonight and will have to play a lot of snaps this year. 
 

Jellico was better than CG in my opinion and honestly they looked like a good football team. They had some good skill guys and a big offensive line but they were slow and depth across the board this year will hurt them. They had a kid or 2 that would start on a few different teams around the area.