blazer1set Posted November 18, 2024 Report Share Posted November 18, 2024 Oh yeah, I forgot about 4A Alcoa. Unless Elizabethton can find a way to kick it up a notch then they are most likely going to be a 2nd round playoff team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheriffofRedRock Posted November 18, 2024 Report Share Posted November 18, 2024 Something stirring over this weekend. There is 100% talks being made between Gillum and Benanti behind the scenes. If Rangman leaves OR, Gillum will be the next HC. He wants his son to be surrounded by better athletes, this is based off of the middle school programs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCCS87 Posted November 18, 2024 Report Share Posted November 18, 2024 No chance he'd leave AC for 6A Oak Ridge fighting for a 4-seed... AC has just as good, if not better athletes than Oak Ridge. And kids will want to play with his son if I'm a betting man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noonesfool Posted November 18, 2024 Report Share Posted November 18, 2024 4 hours ago, blazer1set said: Oh yeah, I forgot about 4A Alcoa. Unless Elizabethton can find a way to kick it up a notch then they are most likely going to be a 2nd round playoff team. Betsy vs Gibbs 1st round for the next couple of years. Not a a given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titletime Posted November 18, 2024 Report Share Posted November 18, 2024 (edited) The county transfer kids have dried up at Elizabethton, some of the best athletes at the school are simply not playing, dark days ahead I am afraid, dark Edited November 18, 2024 by Titletime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betthefarm4life Posted November 18, 2024 Report Share Posted November 18, 2024 (edited) I do agree talent does run in cycles . These other schools just have better talent than Elizabethton right now . I mean their program is good enough to beat the volunteers and Grainger's but no where near the Greeneville,Alcoa's or Anderson County Edited November 18, 2024 by Betthefarm4life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawnman Posted November 18, 2024 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2024 The Cyclones will have some good teams coming I promise.Lawnman is not worried about Betsy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHSTrack06 Posted November 19, 2024 Report Share Posted November 19, 2024 It's not doom and gloom just yet. Most elizabethton knowledgeable football fans didn't have high hopes for this year's team and honestly I thought we over performed. Before we left 3a we gave Alcoa one of the best games they had played up till that point in the season. And that was with a team not anywhere near as good as our title teams. We might have rough years here and there but we will bounce back. Up until a couple years ago no one mentioned AC and title in the same sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betthefarm4life Posted November 19, 2024 Report Share Posted November 19, 2024 58 minutes ago, EHSTrack06 said: It's not doom and gloom just yet. Most elizabethton knowledgeable football fans didn't have high hopes for this year's team and honestly I thought we over performed. Before we left 3a we gave Alcoa one of the best games they had played up till that point in the season. And that was with a team not anywhere near as good as our title teams. We might have rough years here and there but we will bounce back. Up until a couple years ago no one mentioned AC and title in the same sentence. I would like to know your definition of over performing 🤔 you guys got blown out by Science Hill,Greeneville and Anderson County and should have probably lost to a little above average Fulton team. You guys got wins against mediocre opponents for the exception of Cherokee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotallynotLEO Posted November 19, 2024 Report Share Posted November 19, 2024 I don't know the landscape up there in the Tri-cities area. That said, most teams run in cycles. AC does this too. They'll have a couple good classes come through then a few average ones. It's all cyclical. Good programs will still win and compete year in and out, just not at the highest levels every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMorton Posted November 19, 2024 Report Share Posted November 19, 2024 (edited) The three year run will be hard to match much less beat. I don’t know that anyone saw it coming before it happened. The two years before we did the standard go to AC in the second round and get demolished. We’ve fell back into that pattern. But a core group of players decided they had enough of that and started the morning lifts and putting in more work individually outside of practice. They demanded more from the staff. I believe that’s what it will take again. The question is do you have the players that will take charge and do it? I’m not close enough to the program anymore to know if they have that kind of leadership. Let’s hope so. Edited November 19, 2024 by JMorton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazer1set Posted November 19, 2024 Report Share Posted November 19, 2024 21 hours ago, Titletime said: The county transfer kids have dried up at Elizabethton, some of the best athletes at the school are simply not playing, dark days ahead I am afraid, dark Boone has had this happen way more times than I could count. About 6 years ago there was a 6'5" guy who could run like a gazelle, great mobility and balance, long arms.... Played baseball instead. I do not begrudge the kid at all, but sure would like to have seen him at tight end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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