Mcminn Central Chargers @ Giles county

[TigerNation]

10 hours ago, 2001Bobcat said:

Interesting that MC doesn’t line up and shake hands after the game. 

Not very familiar with McMinn Central, I take it?

[Swipes]

12 hours ago, catchnburn said:

It's a score prediction that you said was impossible. It is. I knew for Central to win they would have to score 62 points. I'm not wrong. If they hit Masingale in stride, they'll still hit 62

Fixed it for you. Are you ready to eat your crow and just say you were horribly wrong? 

[kingofthenorth]

So they didn't shake hands after the game? What a bunch of babies. Are they mad because Giles put a 70 piece on them? Stop playing man against a team with a ton of athletes on offense. 

[charger05]

14 minutes ago, kingofthenorth said:

So they didn't shake hands after the game? What a bunch of babies. Are they mad because Giles put a 70 piece on them? Stop playing man against a team with a ton of athletes on offense. 

I think it had nothing to do with the 70 and more to do with cheap shots and celebrating when they would injure players.

[Charger64]

17 minutes ago, kingofthenorth said:

So they didn't shake hands after the game? What a bunch of babies. Are they mad because Giles put a 70 piece on them? Stop playing man against a team with a ton of athletes on offense. 

Were you at the game? Suppose not.

The coaching staffs did shake hands after the game. The Central squad was sent to the locker room as to avoid any negative interaction between players. Done as much for Giles County as Central. With the way the game ended, it was the best decision.

Giles has a very good team. 

[RidinSplinters]

McMinn kept their starters in the game down 70-29 — which is fair — it was their last game in a Charger uniform.

Giles County began rotating several backups in the game, but a big hit by a GCHS starter drew a personal foul. That kid was promptly taken out of the game to avoid a messy situation and cheap suspension in meaningless minutes. The next play, MC passed to the sideline and a GC DB made a tackle. Who knows what was said, but he was shoved to the ground by several MC sideline players. Offsetting penalties and that player, too, was taken out of the game to avoid a second penalty.

 

At this point, with the clock running, the game should be over. But with tempers now flaring, McMinn takes a timeout with eight seconds left for some reason. Their coach rallies the entire team onto the field for a mass huddle.

 

And decides to run one last play.

 

The GCHS radio announcer @wneely said it best: "just remember folks, whatever happens next... the McMinn coach could have let this clock run out."

 

They run a draw and the standout rusher for McMinn is largely allowed to run downfield as GCHS did not want to breathe on him and risk a personal foul and ejection. But a GCHS defender made a legal tackle on the sideline and it appeared as if the MCHS RB was injured on a final, meaningless play of his senior year. I hope he's ok.

 

Both the tackler and another GC defender ran over to console and check on the young man, but with the game now over, MCHS promptly walked off the field. The coaches did shake hands, but it was a very weird end to an otherwise fun game.

 

MCHS has a really impressive offense, but they had no answers for the Giles offense.

[RidinSplinters]

I tip my cap to the MCHS coaching staff, tho, they coached to win the game. Late in the second quarter, they were down 37-22 and called a timeout to force GCHS hand. GCHS then kicked a field goal to make it 40-22. But by calling the timeout, MCHS set itself up for backfire if they did not score on their next drive. Which they didn't. GCHS got a quick stop and then MCHS had a horrible punt snap that was eventually blocked for a TD.

 

But so many coaches play scared and would have let GCHS dictate the end of the half. If MCHS scores, it's 37-29 entering the second half with MCHS getting the ball. But this particular gamble backfired as their special teams was horrific. Giles County would have had 2-plus minutes to drive either way, but instead they blocked the kick.

[charger05]

26 minutes ago, RidinSplinters said:

I tip my cap to the MCHS coaching staff, tho, they coached to win the game. Late in the second quarter, they were down 37-22 and called a timeout to force GCHS hand. GCHS then kicked a field goal to make it 40-22. But by calling the timeout, MCHS set itself up for backfire if they did not score on their next drive. Which they didn't. GCHS got a quick stop and then MCHS had a horrible punt snap that was eventually blocked for a TD.

 

But so many coaches play scared and would have let GCHS dictate the end of the half. If MCHS scores, it's 37-29 entering the second half with MCHS getting the ball. But this particular gamble backfired as their special teams was horrific. Giles County would have had 2-plus minutes to drive either way, but instead they blocked the kick.

Special teams has been strange for us. We were fine until about 2 weeks ago and then it all went crazy.

[kingofthenorth]

No I wasn't at the game. I was shocked because the previous week against Watertown everything was fine. So I was shocked and then another poster said you haven't known McMinn Central long

[Charger64]

8 hours ago, RidinSplinters said:

I tip my cap to the MCHS coaching staff, tho, they coached to win the game. Late in the second quarter, they were down 37-22 and called a timeout to force GCHS hand. GCHS then kicked a field goal to make it 40-22. But by calling the timeout, MCHS set itself up for backfire if they did not score on their next drive. Which they didn't. GCHS got a quick stop and then MCHS had a horrible punt snap that was eventually blocked for a TD.

 

But so many coaches play scared and would have let GCHS dictate the end of the half. If MCHS scores, it's 37-29 entering the second half with MCHS getting the ball. But this particular gamble backfired as their special teams was horrific. Giles County would have had 2-plus minutes to drive either way, but instead they blocked the kick.

Giles has a great kicker. All touch-backs except the one return we misplayed. Field goals would have been good from fifty.The bad snaps cost us 9 points and really 16 cause I believed you scored after the safety. Good year for the Chargers no less...got plenty to work on this off season.

[logcabinman]

On 11/11/2023 at 11:45 AM, RidinSplinters said:

McMinn kept their starters in the game down 70-29 — which is fair — it was their last game in a Charger uniform.

Giles County began rotating several backups in the game, but a big hit by a GCHS starter drew a personal foul. That kid was promptly taken out of the game to avoid a messy situation and cheap suspension in meaningless minutes. The next play, MC passed to the sideline and a GC DB made a tackle. Who knows what was said, but he was shoved to the ground by several MC sideline players. Offsetting penalties and that player, too, was taken out of the game to avoid a second penalty.

 

At this point, with the clock running, the game should be over. But with tempers now flaring, McMinn takes a timeout with eight seconds left for some reason. Their coach rallies the entire team onto the field for a mass huddle.

 

And decides to run one last play.

 

The GCHS radio announcer @wneely said it best: "just remember folks, whatever happens next... the McMinn coach could have let this clock run out."

 

They run a draw and the standout rusher for McMinn is largely allowed to run downfield as GCHS did not want to breathe on him and risk a personal foul and ejection. But a GCHS defender made a legal tackle on the sideline and it appeared as if the MCHS RB was injured on a final, meaningless play of his senior year. I hope he's ok.

 

Both the tackler and another GC defender ran over to console and check on the young man, but with the game now over, MCHS promptly walked off the field. The coaches did shake hands, but it was a very weird end to an otherwise fun game.

 

MCHS has a really impressive offense, but they had no answers for the Giles offense.

Giles has a pretty good team.  MCentral has been suspect all year, with a good offense.  #11 for Central told me all the players for Giles were respectful all game.  The last play the Giles player pushed #11 out of bounds and he gave him a shove back. Not much more to it than that, I have the video if you want to see it, No other players got involved.  Point is, I feel some of you are making a bigger deal than it was.  Good luck the rest of the way.  Alcoa is a beast.

[RidinSplinters]

No the last play was the one after McMinn coach called a timeout instead of letting the game be over in a 70-29 game.

And the McMinn senior running back appeared to get hurt.