When did Coaches start avoiding playing good competition?

[BelieveITorNot]

Quick question for my fellow posters.... When did Coaches start avoiding playing good competition? The past two years I've been hearing things that blew my mind. There seem to be Coaches afraid to play solid competition, to the point of playing less games and leaving good teams without a full schedule. Why is this a thing? Good Coaches should know that Iron Sharpens Iron. I would rather go 6 - 4 and make it to the quarter finals versus 9 - 1 and get beat in the 1st or 2nd round.

[JustinBuck]

Alcoa has been doing it forever in the post season and Maryville has never had the jam to play a good out of state program.

[BelieveITorNot]

1 hour ago, JustinBuck said:

Alcoa has been doing it forever in the post season and Maryville has never had the jam to play a good out of state program.

Lol... You can't select who you play in the post season. Maryville should def play a South Carolina or a North Carolina team. But Maryville hasn't gotten past big bad Oakland in a while so maybe they are focused on that. 

[Random1234]

4 hours ago, BelieveITorNot said:

Quick question for my fellow posters.... When did Coaches start avoiding playing good competition? The past two years I've been hearing things that blew my mind. There seem to be Coaches afraid to play solid competition, to the point of playing less games and leaving good teams without a full schedule. Why is this a thing? Good Coaches should know that Iron Sharpens Iron. I would rather go 6 - 4 and make it to the quarter finals versus 9 - 1 and get beat in the 1st or 2nd round.

I think the answer is rather simple, 9-1 will keep you hired year after year. 

[Booger]

3 hours ago, BelieveITorNot said:

Quick question for my fellow posters.... When did Coaches start avoiding playing good competition? The past two years I've been hearing things that blew my mind. There seem to be Coaches afraid to play solid competition, to the point of playing less games and leaving good teams without a full schedule. Why is this a thing? Good Coaches should know that Iron Sharpens Iron. I would rather go 6 - 4 and make it to the quarter finals versus 9 - 1 and get beat in the 1st or 2nd round.

BelieveITorNot bein new to the sport of American Football.....cruisin back in history to bout late 1800s in New Haven, CT to one of our nations strongest brain washin higher educatin facilities named Yale....check up on a clockbuilder that was there imposturin as a coach by the name Walter.....not only did this dude just make up all kinda new crap in his head that folks never saw before....he'd make his players do that stuff.....he would camp out and write all that stuff down in a bunch books for the whole country to see...

......Booger thinkin coaches started avoidin playin good competition soon after Walter started implimentin all that FB stuff he wrote down.....BeliveITorNOT dont have to ponder the matter no more..

...that timepiece maker would become so good coachin players and writin plays down in books they would chizel a trophy, name it after him....then give it to the best all round FB player they saw that year...

Booger just sayin  

[JustinBuck]

6 hours ago, BelieveITorNot said:

Lol... You can't select who you play in the post season. Maryville should def play a South Carolina or a North Carolina team. But Maryville hasn't gotten past big bad Oakland in a while so maybe they are focused on that. 

I was thinking of Maryville during the GQ years. I know they're not the same type of program now.

Alcoa has chosen to play small school ball for years and not test themselves in an appropriate classification (5A or 6A).

[DVP41324000]

57 minutes ago, JustinBuck said:

I was thinking of Maryville during the GQ years. I know they're not the same type of program now.

Alcoa has chosen to play small school ball for years and not test themselves in an appropriate classification (5A or 6A).

You do realize, they are in the appropriate classification for the enrollment of their school......

[JustinBuck]

6 hours ago, DVP41324000 said:

You do realize, they are in the appropriate classification for the enrollment of their school......

But not the enrollment of their football program. With the way they recruit they should be in the private division. They are cowards..

[Booger]

8 hours ago, DVP41324000 said:

You do realize, they are in the appropriate classification for the enrollment of their school......

its been documented and recorded in the T archives for eternity......that there is "absolutely no realization" when ones cerebral space is and has been bein infected and held hostage rent free 24/7 365 by Alcoa....aka Alcoa Deranged Syndrome

....it is the equal to one experiencin mental insanity by TDS

Booger just sayin 

[DVP41324000]

6 hours ago, Booger said:

its been documented and recorded in the T archives for eternity......that there is "absolutely no realization" when ones cerebral space is and has been bein infected and held hostage rent free 24/7 365 by Alcoa....aka Alcoa Deranged Syndrome

....it is the equal to one experiencin mental insanity by TDS

Booger just sayin 

So this would be TDS in another way lol.

Tornado 

Deranged

Syndrome

Edited February 14 by DVP41324000

[Booger]

20 hours ago, DVP41324000 said:

So this would be TDS in another way lol.

Tornado 

Deranged

Syndrome

Booger just sayin 

[ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood]

On 2/13/2025 at 2:09 PM, BelieveITorNot said:

Quick question for my fellow posters.... When did Coaches start avoiding playing good competition? The past two years I've been hearing things that blew my mind. There seem to be Coaches afraid to play solid competition, to the point of playing less games and leaving good teams without a full schedule. Why is this a thing? Good Coaches should know that Iron Sharpens Iron. I would rather go 6 - 4 and make it to the quarter finals versus 9 - 1 and get beat in the 1st or 2nd round.

Maryville seemed to have popularized this strategy over 20 years ago and it worked for them for a long time. There's a few schools out east who seemed to have copied the strategy. Good news being midstate schools like Oakland went in the opposite direction.  They seek out competition and it makes them more formidable in the playoffs. Imo the best ball and best prospects come from the midstate and that's no accident. Iron sharpens iron.