Clinton Dragons 2024

[oridgecat]

13 minutes ago, 92Dragon said:

No offense taken. You're right. It's going to be very difficult to replace the graduating seniors and any of the underclassman that decide to transfer out.

With all this talk about not being able to rebuild or replace the talent will just motivate Coach Keith and the coaching staff to prove everyone wrong. They literally use the doubters and criticism as motivation.

It'll be interesting to see what happens in the off-season for sure. 

I do appreciate your loyalty, but if you don't have the jimmies and joes, then they can be motivated all they want, it ain't gonna matter.  4-6 regular season with that roster is just not getting it.  Unless they replace all those dudes with equal or better talent, next year is going to be extremely difficult on whomever the head coach is.  I still say he looks at the big picture and realizes it is a total 3-4 year rebuild.  I doubt he signs back up for that.  Hey, beating OR once will be his high water mark at Clinton.  I mean 19-24 with THESE dudes.  C'mon man.

[atrisk]

Who knows what Keith will do. Maybe he gets a bigger van. Maybe a large addition to his house. Possibly a even larger pipeline into ORHS. I think there were several guys from OR that ended up at Clinton this year.

[oridgecat]

2 minutes ago, atrisk said:

Who knows what Keith will do. Maybe he gets a bigger van. Maybe a large addition to his house. Possibly a even larger pipeline into ORHS. I think there were several guys from OR that ended up at Clinton this year.

They didn't get any that would have contributed this year.  That always happens, they get a few "Oak Ridge kids" every year, but only one of them ever has really contributed or started for them and that was not this year.  If you leave OR to play for Clinton, good luck to ya.  Means you can't start at OR.  

[atrisk]

To be candid, if I were Keith I would go watch my son play wherever. He's probably has a very good retirement and life is too short.

[oridgecat]

1 minute ago, atrisk said:

To be candid, if I were Keith I would go watch my son play wherever. He's probably has a very good retirement and life is too short.

That to me is the most likely scenario.  That military pension is no joke.  I mean he could go watch his son on Sat. and still coach.  I just don't see him taking on a total rebuild with all his dudes gone.  

[atrisk]

So what makes you think replacement "dudes" don't appear. Dinners at Calhoun's Oak Ridge can brighten young eyes.

[oridgecat]

3 minutes ago, atrisk said:

So what makes you think replacement "dudes" don't appear. Dinners at Calhoun's Oak Ridge can brighten young eyes.

Not a list of players like that.  Also, kids are pretty smart, they can look at what's left at Clinton and realize what little they have left.  What is the selling point to a kid that would make him want to go there.  Sure, there is playing time but it won't be any fun going 2-8 next year for anybody involved over there, especially the players putting in the year round work to have a losing record.  

[atrisk]

That's where the "handlers" and "agents" come in.

[oridgecat]

4 minutes ago, atrisk said:

That's where the "handlers" and "agents" come in.

They've got nothing to sell,  "you will be a star on this 2-8 team, I guarantee it!"  You're still 2-8.  I don't think so.  

[atrisk]

Oh, you've heard some of selling lines too.

[DragonMaverick]

As long as they still have Jaquan Blakey and his pipeline at D1 training in Knoxville, then they will have no problem getting more recruits!  Don’t know how, but he can do it.

[SweetScience]

6 minutes ago, DragonMaverick said:

As long as they still have Jaquan Blakey and his pipeline at D1 training in Knoxville, then they will have no problem getting more recruits!  Don’t know how, but he can do it.

Yep. They’ll get some more, don’t worry.