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Fire them all and disband your football program for 12 months. Signed the remaining schools in the Mountain 7. Wise Central, Lee High, John S. Battle, Abingdon, Ridgeview, Gate City!
 

Fire them all and disband your football program for 12 months. Signed the remaining schools in the Mountain 7. Wise Central, Lee High, John S. Battle, Abingdon, Ridgeview, Gate City!
 

Fire them all and disband your football program for 12 months. Signed the remaining schools in the Mountain 7. Wise Central, Lee High, John S. Battle, Abingdon, Ridgeview, Gate City!
 

I know RV won the district and all -- but how do you not put GC's coach as CoY?! 

Championship week is here! The 2022 TSSAA Football season has 9 games left. Division 2 starts things Thursday!
In the 2A State Title Game. Lipscomb Academy (12-0) takes on CPA (7-5) in what will be Lipscomb Head Coach Trent Dilfer's last game. He was hired yesterday to coach UAB! The game kicks off at 11:00am EST
In The 1A State Title Matchup Nashville Christian (10-2) plays (12-0) Friendship Christian. This game kicks at 3:00pm EST
In the Night Cap in the 3A game MBA (12-0) plays Baylor (10-2). 
The public schools begin play on Friday. 
The 3A State Title game kicks at 11:00 am game and features (13-1) Alcoa playing East Nashville (12-2) East Nashville is good but not Alcoa good.
The 1A Game is at 3:00pm. Clay County (13-1) plays (14-0) McKenzie.
The 5A Game kicks at 7:00pm and has Knox West (14-0) playing Page (12-2) in a rematch from last year.
The Saturday Schedule.
The 4A State Title game should be the best game of the weekend has (14-0) Anderson County vs. Pearl Cohn (12-2) and kicks at 11:00am 
The 2A Title Tilt has Tyner (12-2) playing Decatur County Riverside (12-2). 
The 6A Championship has Oakland (13-1) playing Beech (13-1). 
All Games are at Finley Stadium in beautiful downtown Chattanooga. 
The games will Televised in the Tri-Cities on WCYB.2 CW. 5.2 on digital antenna, Channel 4 on Charter Spectrum, BTES and Bristol, VA Utilities!
I hope you all enjoy the games! 
 
 
 

He must have knocked your son on his ass at some point...

The first time Gate City beat Union they made "lucky plays" the playoff loss is because of the "flu" you all will have a year to think up the next excuse!

My bracket has Coalfield, Clay County, McKenzie and Peabody advancing in 1A. Monterey, Tyner, Lewis County and Huntington in 2A. Alcoa, Sweetwater, Smith County and Covington in 3A
Greeneville gets the nod until Anderson County actually beats them, Red Bank (my sister-in-law's school) Pearl Cohn and Haywood (who is really good) in 4A. 
Knox West, Powell, Nolensville and Henry County in 5A and Maryville, Oakland, Cane Ridge and Germantown in 6A 
In Division 2. FCS over USJ and Jackson Christian over Nashville Christian in 1A, Chattanooga Christian over CPA and Lipscomb (the best team in the state in any class) over Webb in 2A and MBA over McCallie and Brentwood over Baylor in 3A.
 

That’s good because GMen need to practice pass coverage. I’d be surprised if this is a blowout either. I think Gate City will come to play and they are obviously well coached. Any team that beat Union twice cannot be taken lightly. . 

I'm going to go Graham big. I would be very very surprised if it's under 24 points. I love Gate City. I absolutely love the Devils history and program and probably like them second best only to Giles of course out of any other program. Any team that runs it and runs the ball well historically is one a Giles fan will often like, BUT I just dont see it for This game for This season regarding being close with Graham. The Devils are one year away from being back....as in back back....very deep playoff run potential. If I'm wrong, I will post it quickly and say so. Just my opinion.

Evidently you have watched zero film on GC, they can throw it and throw it well, when they want to! I don't look for the Devils to win but I don't believe they will get blown out either.

I know one reason that's never going to be true that the teams they lost to are just better than they were!

This thread has the potential to go as long as the Chris Akers thread from a few years ago! I am proud of the Blue Devils they don't do anything extraordinary except grind out wins. Are they state championship contenders, NO! not even close. They have 8 wins and have helped to restore the brand and should be at least decent for the next few seasons. To all the Union supporters the sun will come up tomorrow and be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. You are one bad hire from years of being irrelevant! 

Cloudland over Oliver Springs on what should be a muddy field.
Coalfield big over Unaka
Hampton over Monterey
York over South Greene
Pittman over Chokey Duck
Alcoa big over Pigeon Forge
Greeneville big over Gibbs
Betsy upsets Anderson Co.
Boone in a close one over Central
West mercy rules West
Far-gut over SHHS
 

Every year people from Central get on the message board and proclaim that. 1. They have this "super group" of athletes coming. 2. They are going to dominate the next season 3. Not just in football but every sport. Same post every year, same results every year!

Every year people from Central get on the message board and proclaim that. 1. They have this "super group" of athletes coming. 2. They are going to dominate the next season 3. Not just in football but every sport. Same post every year, same results every year!

The 2022 TSSAA playoffs begin Friday across all 9 classifications. With reclassification taking place in 2023 the teams and regions will be different next season. 1A and 2A have the makings to be good playoffs, 3A's is Alcoa's to lose. 4A should be Haywood out of the west verses Greeneville or Anderson County. 5A is Knox West's to lose and 6A should belong to Oakland come December. 
Here are the first round games:
1A: Oakdale (7-3) goes to Roan Mountain to take on Cloudland (5-5), Cosby (4-6) travels to Oliver Springs (5-5), Greenback (5-5) travels to Stoney Creek to take on Unaka (6-4) and North Greene (1-9) travels to Coalfield (9-1)
2A :Oneida (4-6) goes to Hampton (8-2), Happy Valley (2-8) travels to Monterey (8-2), South Greene (5-5) hosts Rockwood (6-4) and Cumberland Gap (2-8) travels to Jamestown to play York Institute (6-4)
3A: The Black Knights of Chuckey-Doak (9-1) host Austin-East (3-7), Unicoi County (9-1) travels to Gatlinburg-Pittman (8-2), Pigeon Forge (5-5) visits the Buffalos of West Greene (8-2) and Johnson County (2-8) makes the trip to Alcoa (9-1)
4A: Fulton (4-6) travels to Greeneville (10-0), Gibbs (6-4) hosts Grainger (6-4), Knox Carter (6-4) travels to Elizabethton (5-4) and Seymour (3-7) goes to (10-0) Anderson County.
5A: Knox Halls (2-8) comes to Gray to play (10-0) Daniel Boone. Tennessee High (5-5) goes to Knox Central (6-4), Sevier County travels to Burley Stadium in Morristown to play West, the winner gets the prize of travelling to Knox West (10-0) who play Crockett (5-5).
6A: Science Hill (6-4) hosts Bradley Central (7-3), Jefferson County (7-3) travels to Farragut (8-2), Bearden (6-4) comes to Kingsport to play Dobyns Bennett (8-2) and Morristown East travels to Maryville (7-3)
All Games start at 7:00 pm local time. 
 
 
 
 

@sixcat
So 1-4A, 1A champ would be the best of the worst and the rest are legit champs based on enrollment. Idk about that. I sure wouldn't celebrate as 1A champs. Then the next season the 1A champs are rewarded with being placed in their actual classification based on enrollment, just to go back to being non-competitive? 

You guys need to clean up your acts!!!
Stop calling out people NOW!!!
Stop with the racial accusations NOW!!!
Act like adults or I’m shutting this whole thing down!!

Don’t ask why I deleted a certain post on the board, YOU ALL KNOW WHY!!!
This board is up for renewal right now and I’m not sure I want it to continue the way many of you are acting. 
If I do keep it going, there will be lots of changes. I won’t be putting up with the crap that has been going on here lately.  
 
IF YOU HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH WHAT I JUST POSTED, PACK YOU BAG BECAUSE YOU’LL BE GONE…PERIOD!!!  I DON’T CARE IF YOU HAVE BEEN HERE FOREVER, GET OUT OF LINE ONE MORE TIME AND IT’S OVER. 
G-Man

Well, if you're going to hang out here you need to understand a few things:
Union folk are never happy.
Giles is experiencing a civil war.
Tazewell somehow has become overrated.
Graham is Graham
Ridgeview will only go as far as their Dline will take them.
We can't figure out Gate City
Lee is on the upswing.
Eastside is on the downswing.
We're not sure about Burton.
The whole damn board dislikes Central.
We have our own internal drama, so you may not go directly to the front of the line.
Enjoy.

All cycles renew next year.  This is the second year of the Lebanon/GC contract.  GC played at Lebanon last year.

Legion Field is a tough place to play, the stands are right on top of the field and contact is easy because of the condensed space. The seating arrangement is odd also at GC, the press box side is all reserved seating and the rest of the fans have to go to the other side to sit and the conduct by fans borders between inhospitable and down right obnoxious! When the stadium is full and rocking I could see the intimidation on the opposing team. Legion Field is (was) no different back in the day from Bullitt Park or Riggs Stadium or Pennington. As a Blue Devil Alum the worst place I was ever treated was Powell Valley and Appalachia. 

It has talked about since 1985 and they are no closer today than they were in 1985.

First take a big deep breath and hold it for 5 seconds and exhale. I like the banners but I am not sure there are 27 street lights in Gate City to hang one for each championship, if there are them honor them with a street light. Gate City is suffering from the perfect storm of apathy, changing culture and the death "of the greatest generation"...let me explain! First the support issues Gate City athletics were supported by a mix of "old money" "coal money" and "community money" all that has changed. If Gate City needed anything the Smith family, the Kilgore family or the Humphrey family just wrote a check to get it, but the old money has died off, the coal money has dried up and the community just doesn't care that much any more. The opioid drug crises has crippled families and kids just don't care about playing sports like they used too. As a late 80's Alumni of Gate City you didn't need to display pride, we had it in our hearts and wore it on our sleeves at football games. The last decade of GC football has been horrible but there have been bad decades before and if they never win another State Championship at anything they have given me the the best days of my life (I have witnessed 4 of the 5 state championships) (and numerous other titles) and for that I am forever grateful. The Community support will return when the wins do in football. But by all means honor each state champion and also honor the 6 VHSL Hall of Famers who played or coached at GC ( Fry, Baker, Colobro, Reed, Sheets and Bishop) and realize that there are more HOFer's coming (Mac and Coach Gardner)....The banners are a good start but Basement Baller you are now the generation that must carry the torch and quit complaining about the past and do something for the future. Lead by example and fight on! Start an Alumni Group and raise money to buy the banners and the paint for the murals. Oh and I am proud to be from a Hick Town like Gate City!

First take a big deep breath and hold it for 5 seconds and exhale. I like the banners but I am not sure there are 27 street lights in Gate City to hang one for each championship, if there are them honor them with a street light. Gate City is suffering from the perfect storm of apathy, changing culture and the death "of the greatest generation"...let me explain! First the support issues Gate City athletics were supported by a mix of "old money" "coal money" and "community money" all that has changed. If Gate City needed anything the Smith family, the Kilgore family or the Humphrey family just wrote a check to get it, but the old money has died off, the coal money has dried up and the community just doesn't care that much any more. The opioid drug crises has crippled families and kids just don't care about playing sports like they used too. As a late 80's Alumni of Gate City you didn't need to display pride, we had it in our hearts and wore it on our sleeves at football games. The last decade of GC football has been horrible but there have been bad decades before and if they never win another State Championship at anything they have given me the the best days of my life (I have witnessed 4 of the 5 state championships) (and numerous other titles) and for that I am forever grateful. The Community support will return when the wins do in football. But by all means honor each state champion and also honor the 6 VHSL Hall of Famers who played or coached at GC ( Fry, Baker, Colobro, Reed, Sheets and Bishop) and realize that there are more HOFer's coming (Mac and Coach Gardner)....The banners are a good start but Basement Baller you are now the generation that must carry the torch and quit complaining about the past and do something for the future. Lead by example and fight on! Start an Alumni Group and raise money to buy the banners and the paint for the murals. Oh and I am proud to be from a Hick Town like Gate City!