Williamson County

[delaWarr]

Hey Guys, Speaking of "Franklin's demise", hate to bring it up, but...remember the Bruins up the road and their miracle wins that got them dubbed the "Brentwood Buckeyes", and how the "Brentwood Buckeyes" followed the lead of the real Buckeyes? Had that comparison never been brought to the light of day by some astute wit seeking some amusement at his neighbors' expense, it may not have taken on a life of its own, smiting the Rebs with their own miracle playoff wins before their falling victim to Buckeyetis...a jinx given life by some of their own faithful.

 

Charity may be one of the safest positions not to come back to haunt you.

 

Would also like to add that the Rebs were an exciting team to watch, and they played some truly inspired football.

[fromthetop2]

Lucid analysis and perspective as always delaWarr. Luck is fate when it happens to you, fate is luck when it happens to the other guy.

BDD, you do inadvertantly bring up a good point in asking about BGA's schedule. If a "weak schedule" is not a valid benchmark for declaring who had the best team, then what IS the criteria we all should be using to judge? Seeing no other basis than results as having any consistency to work with, I'll stay with results and still pick BGA. Using that same logic, you then have give the nod to BA over Franklin as "silver ball vs. no ball."

[playthegame]

I'm only going to focus really hard on FHS and BA cause that's where most of the argument is.

 

2) Brentwood Academy- Didn't seem to improve much to me from week 0 to week 13. However, they did have some awesome spurts and beating MBA in week 10 will be a great memory for those guys. Very one-dimensional on offense. If you could shutdown the run, you would have a great shot at beating the Eagles. Defense was stellar... except in the Clinic Bowl. Two great RBs and a solid line. A good WR corps if the QB could get it to them. Decent kicker and special teams.

 

BA's offense was one dimensional but part of that reason was because BA’s QB suffered a stress fracture in his foot after the 3rd game of the season. He continued to play but it limited his practice time and forced BA to change the offensive direction that they had been practicing since the beginning of two a day practices back in August. As to your comment “A good WR corps if the QB could get it to them.” BA does have very good athletes at the WR position but all through the year they continually dropped passes that were right on the money (and many of them deep for what would have been TD’s ). BA receivers dropping passes was a consistent theme throughout the entire season and not a case of the QB getting the ball to them!

[WesVLT]

WesVols calls Div II AAA "The Big Seven" ....I call it "The Only Seven"

Minor correction...I call it the Super Seven. It's cool, though. I wish there were more teams in it as well, but I guess we can't do too much about that since we have no representation on the TSSAA Legislative Council!

[Rebelguy]

Just my two cents worth, but having seen Franklin's D all year, I would have to give Brentwood Academy the nod simply because of that. Out of the three teams that brought power offenses against Franklin, Franklin lost two of those and had to come back against a large deficit at Hunter's Lane. I love Franklin and I'd do anything for those guys, but that doesn't change the fact that they just weren't quite as good as BA.

Edited December 13, 2003 by Rebelguy

[kangaroo]

WesVols calls Div II AAA "The Big Seven" ....I call it "The Only Seven"

Call us whatcha like BDD, but there is no denying the quality of the league. By the way, BA is the best team in Williamson County in 2003.

 

Sonny Moore Ratings

 

1. MBA - (Super 7)

5. Brentwood Academy - (Super 7)

9. Christian Brothers - (Super 7)

11.Franklin

 

Ken Massey Rankings

 

1. MBA - (Super 7)

2. Brentwood Academy - (Super 7)

4. Christian Brothers - (Super 7)

12.Franklin

13. McCallie - (Super 7)

 

 

unapproved website ratings

 

1. MBA - (Super 7)

2. Christian Brothers - (Super 7)

3. Brentwood Academy - (Super 7)

11. Franklin

12. McCallie - (Super 7)

[BigDogDaddy]

BigDogDaddy, why should I go away...because you see me as annoying..that's nice, don't care though...I have as much business on these message boards as you do....

FHSRebel, I understand that the original posting concerns the best in Williamson County....so, as I was reading through the posts on each person's thoughts I came across a statement made by you which got a reaction from me (about how Franklin should have won the game).  What does "should have" mean?  If Franklin had scored and made the PAT to tie at 17, finally winning in OT, and I got on this site saying how Germantown "should have" won....what would you think about me? 

It means Franklin didn't play to their potential and 7 times out of 10 we can beat Germantowwn. Point is this was one of the three. Congratulations you win....now will you go away!

Edited December 14, 2003 by BigDogDaddy

[BigDogDaddy]

Call us whatcha like BDD, but there is no denying the quality of the league.  By the way, BA is the best team in Williamson County in 2003.

 

Sonny Moore Ratings

 

1. MBA - (Super 7)

5. Brentwood Academy - (Super 7)

9. Christian Brothers - (Super 7)

11.Franklin

 

Ken Massey Rankings

 

1. MBA - (Super 7)

2. Brentwood Academy - (Super 7)

4. Christian Brothers - (Super 7)

12.Franklin

13. McCallie - (Super 7)

 

 

unapproved website ratings

 

1. MBA - (Super 7)

2. Christian Brothers - (Super 7)

3. Brentwood Academy - (Super 7)

11. Franklin

12. McCallie - (Super 7)

No doubt the Super 7 are 7 great football programs and they have some of the finest traditions! It just annoys me that 1) BGA doesn't make it the Super 8, they certainly are of the same category of winning tradition, great coaching, and can play to that level 2) Div I have to compete against 32 teams for State while DivII have SEVEN!

 

I was actually trying to be complimetary of all in the Super 7 and BGA.

Edited December 14, 2003 by BigDogDaddy

[houstonsdead]

BigDogDaddy, wonderful statistics...where did you get them? If only Germantown had played at our "potential"~~~gosh, I guess we'd win (let me pick some random probability) 9/10.....BUT.......we didn't need our "potential"...

[FHSrebel27]

I didn't see anyone trying to prove that Franklin was better than Germantown until you arrived into our debate about WILLIAMSON COUNTY. I simply said that I think we should have beaten the state champs, using that in our debate on FRANKLIN being better than BRENTWOOD ACADEMY. It's too bad that we will never be able to vivat veritas about who would be better between these two teams (FHS and BA).

[BAJ16]

the more i hear Fhsrebels27 remarks, the more i realize that some people have no idea what they are talking about

[houstonsdead]

FHS, even if BA and Franklin were to meet.....the probability of who should win v. who shouldn't win might become a factor and skew the game.......thus vivat veritas would not prevail.....for instance, say BA would win 7/10 times....and Franklin happens to win (3/10).....well, you're going to have BA fans on here talking smack about how the Eagles should have won..blah, blah, blah...oh wait, that's just Franklin!