Hixson @ Meigs county 8/25/23

[Yeti]

Hixson comes to Meigs County this week. Hixson is coming off of a loss to East Hamilton with a score of 40-16. Meigs had a bye week with the hopes of our bleachers being finished. Anyone seen Hixson play, and know what to expect? 

[TigerNation]

If this goes like the typical Hixson threads you'll be talking to yourself all week @Yeti.

[blitzinbuc]

On 8/20/2023 at 9:36 AM, Yeti said:

Hixson comes to Meigs County this week. Hixson is coming off of a loss to East Hamilton with a score of 40-16. Meigs had a bye week with the hopes of our bleachers being finished. Anyone seen Hixson play, and know what to expect? 

Not sure if Meigs intentionally chose the first week as their bye-week, but if they had a choice I'd have thought they'd have scheduled an away game the first week if the issue was the new bleachers being finished.  Playing 10 straight weeks starting this week is tough.  
East Ham usually has a pretty good team, so it's hard to determine how good or bad Hixson actually is.  I'd say the Meigs coaches, players and fans are definitely anxious to get the season started.... and are welcoming the much-needed new bleachers and press box.
I was by the football field a couple weeks ago and the new bleachers looked virtually finished, though I'm sure they had a lot of small detail items to complete.  I have to go to a volleyball game at Meigs today so I'll drift by the football field to see how it looks.

[Yeti]

53 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

If this goes like the typical Hixson threads you'll be talking to yourself all week @Yeti.

Probably so, made a Sequoyah thread last week because I was bored. 

Im just Ready for some football.

24 minutes ago, blitzinbuc said:

Not sure if Meigs intentionally chose the first week as their bye-week, but if they had a choice I'd have thought they'd have scheduled an away game the first week if the issue was the new bleachers being finished.  Playing 10 straight weeks starting this week is tough.  
East Ham usually has a pretty good team, so it's hard to determine how good or bad Hixson actually is.  I'd say the Meigs coaches, players and fans are definitely anxious to get the season started.... and are welcoming the much-needed new bleachers and press box.
I was by the football field a couple weeks ago and the new bleachers looked virtually finished, though I'm sure they had a lot of small detail items to complete.  I have to go to a volleyball game at Meigs today so I'll drift by the football field to see how it looks.

I've been by there a few times they look great. We will still be in the sun though, but it's not so bad past the first month of football. Meigs normally fixes alot of issues after our first game of the year. Hopefully that won't hurt us so bad considering this is week 2 of football. I've seen Hixson on film, they look decent I thought. They definitely have a rb that's a threat if he gets loose.

[blitzinbuc]

On 8/21/2023 at 11:02 AM, Yeti said:

Probably so, made a Sequoyah thread last week because I was bored. 

Im just Ready for some football.

I've been by there a few times they look great. We will still be in the sun though, but it's not so bad past the first month of football. Meigs normally fixes alot of issues after our first game of the year. Hopefully that won't hurt us so bad considering this is week 2 of football. I've seen Hixson on film, they look decent I thought. They definitely have a rb that's a threat if he gets loose.

Kickoff has been moved to 8:00 pm, probably due to the sun still beaming on the new home side aluminum bleachers.  They'd be very hot at 7:00, or even 7:30, and may still be hot at 8:00, though they'll cool off as soon as the sun goes behind the tree line. 
I took a tour of the new bleachers and pressbox. By the way, the visitor's side got new bleachers too. Both side's bleachers are handicap accessible, also. The pressbox is state of the art, with sloped windows to prevent sun glare and rain. Each section inside the pressbox has it's own ac/heat unit. 

[Yeti]

7 hours ago, blitzinbuc said:

Kickoff has been moved to 8:00 pm, probably due to the sun still beaming on the new home side aluminum bleachers.  They'd be very hot at 7:00, or even 7:30, and may still be hot at 8:00, though they'll cool off as soon as the sun goes behind the tree line. 
I took a tour of the new bleachers and pressbox. By the way, the visitor's side got new bleachers too. Both side's bleachers are handicap accessible, also. The pressbox is state of the art, with sloped windows to prevent sun glare and rain. Each section inside the pressbox has it's own ac/heat unit. 

I took a peek a few weeks ago. It really is a nice upgrade all the way around. Should be a good time tomorrow night. I expect we should be able to pull it out, but being a game behind most others at this point I expect us to look sloppy. 

[Raider1234]

5 hours ago, Yeti said:

I took a peek a few weeks ago. It really is a nice upgrade all the way around. Should be a good time tomorrow night. I expect we should be able to pull it out, but being a game behind most others at this point I expect us to look sloppy. 

[Yeti]

2 hours ago, Raider1234 said:

We had a bye the first week. 

[Raider1234]

hope you guys fair well and new coach at helm

[Yeti]

15 minutes ago, Raider1234 said:

hope you guys fair well and new coach at helm

Appreciate it. He seems to be a good guy. Pretty sure he coached our Sweetwater game last year. We were down 22-8 going Into the 4th and came back to win that game. He seems to be able to get the kids to switch gears when needed anyhow. I hope he does well.

[blitzinbuc]

5 hours ago, Yeti said:

Appreciate it. He seems to be a good guy. Pretty sure he coached our Sweetwater game last year. We were down 22-8 going Into the 4th and came back to win that game. He seems to be able to get the kids to switch gears when needed anyhow. I hope he does well.

Coach Bunch is a great guy as well as having been a very good position coach and coordinator. Having learned a lot under Fitzgerald, he was a natural to be appointed head coach.  He had two schools very interested in hiring him as head coach even before Fitzgerald resigned, one of those schools with an offer.

[Raider1234]

Kind of quiet on here Yeti, good luck