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Stormsurge1

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Oh that super tough 4a football. Eff'ig Fred T Foard upsetting anyone is chaos.
Talked to some Hickory guys today, said HH was the worst team they played all year. Now maybe they came in unprepared or uninterested. I fully believe that could be the case.

Oh I just remembered, Fred T Foard is on Hickory’s schedule. Oh well, I guess they put up a better fight than HH did.
 

DeBoer31

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Talked to some Hickory guys today, said HH was the worst team they played all year. Now maybe they came in unprepared or uninterested. I fully believe that could be the case.

Oh I just remembered, Fred T Foard is on Hickory’s schedule. Oh well, I guess they put up a better fight than HH did.
Since HH is so shyttty- SC should get them on the schedule and see if they can keep up. Nobody said HH would win that game. My score prediction I think was within 5-6 points of the actual score. Fred T Foard. That's the football hill you wanna die on? Sounds about right.
 

Stormsurge1

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Since HH is so shyttty- SC should get them on the schedule and see if they can keep up. Nobody said HH would win that game. My score prediction I think was within 5-6 points of the actual score. Fred T Foard. That's the football hill you wanna die on? Sounds about right.
Haha, no it is not, but fact Cramer beat the team that finished 5th in your conference. HH finished 6th. That would be taking a step back in our non conference schedule, and we can’t have that.

CC guys I am sorry for invading your board with this but Deboer is trying to get Cramer to not post on the Gaston County thread that Rulz was so nice to create because it is on the 5A/6A platform. I know you guys are open to all viable discussion no matter what the classification is. Hopefully Deboer can meet the high standards you have set for board rules and etiquette.
 

BoltsUp

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Huss mailed their season in after the Ashbrook game. Their focus was immediately basketball after that game.
Assuming that is true, I wouldn't find that as an excuse for a good football team. That sounds like more of a reality for a bad team with no pride. I have never understood this excuse from fans. My team didn't care enough about football, so they gave up? Terrible if that is ever the case.
 
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ShutdownD24 2.0

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Assuming that is true, I wouldn't find that as an excuse for a good football team. That sounds like more of a reality for a bad team with no pride. I have never understood this excuse from fans. My team didn't care enough about football, so they gave up? Terrible if that is ever the case.
It’s Huss. What do you expect? They did play Ashbrook really tough a week prior and had a great shot to win the game late. That was the Huss Super Bowl. My point has always been that Huss has potential and athletes. Year in and year out those athletes can give teams problems when motivated. I am not jumping in the SP vs Cramer cat fight but I do think that Cramer should have a winning record or have beaten teams before dissing them. For the record Huss is 8-3 against Cramer and Huss have won the last two of your matchups. I like Cramer and think you are built this year to do well in the playoffs. I believe Cramer would come out on top in a head to head matchup this year with Huss but it would be nowhere as easy for you guys as you think because of your style of play.
 
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BoltsUp

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It’s Huss. What do you expect? They did play Ashbrook really tough a week prior and had a great shot to win the game late. That was the Huss Super Bowl. My point has always been that Huss has potential and athletes. Year in and year out those athletes can give teams problems when motivated. I am not jumping in the SP vs Cramer cat fight but I do think that Cramer should have a winning record or have beaten teams before dissing them. For the record Huss is 8-3 against Cramer and Huss have won the last two of your matchups. I like Cramer and think you are built this year to do well in the playoffs. I believe Cramer would come out on top in a head to head matchup this year with Huss but it would be nowhere as easy for you guys as you think because of your style of play.
I’m no way "dissing" Huss. This has only come up since some on these boards felt like Huss would run roughshod in our conference, which I disagree with. You can fill in the blank with any team not named Huss. My point still stands. I am not a fan of explaining away a loss because the kids don't care or have moved on to basketball.

Any team saying Team X would be more competitive if they were mentally tougher or cared more is no different than saying Team X would win if they had better athletes physically. Both can cause a team to lose, but for some reason we like to make excuses for teams that have mailed it in mentally.
 

Stormsurge1

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It’s Huss. What do you expect? They did play Ashbrook really tough a week prior and had a great shot to win the game late. That was the Huss Super Bowl. My point has always been that Huss has potential and athletes. Year in and year out those athletes can give teams problems when motivated. I am not jumping in the SP vs Cramer cat fight but I do think that Cramer should have a winning record or have beaten teams before dissing them. For the record Huss is 8-3 against Cramer and Huss have won the last two of your matchups. I like Cramer and think you are built this year to do well in the playoffs. I believe Cramer would come out on top in a head to head matchup this year with Huss but it would be nowhere as easy for you guys as you think because of your style of play.
I’m not dissing Huss, SP or anyone. I was a fan of only SP (and still hope they have success) until 4 years ago until I had a child at Cramer and they became the school I pull for. I am not sure what you mean about having a winning record or having beaten a team is reason to have discussions and disagreements on a message board. That is almost like saying you have had to win a state championship in the last decade for you to have discussions about winning a state championship in the current year. I know you are smart and keep up with kids and where they started and where they go. Last 3 years of the previous regime, players that started 9th grade at Cramer and left to start at other schools (without naming names), KM (former center), Ashbrook (former DE who was their defensive player of the year and former starting QB), Robinson (starting RB from last year), SP (starting FB now), Crest (starting DE now), and I’m sure there are more but this is a few. Since coaching change we have had no defections and starting QB and leading tackler on defense this year came from other schools (they were living in the district but were going to other schools). So you can talk about all the records before the coaching change but I look at kids not wanting to be there and leaving and now I see kids not leaving and new kids coming in. Since my kid is a senior I am going to continue to talk because I saw two years of the before and have seen two years of the new. It is night and day.
 
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crestrulz

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Some people to include fans, do not understand that the playoffs have a way of separating the teams with big reputations from the teams that can actually back them up.
Steve Austin What GIF
 

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In the spirit of this post I will like to introduce the Out of Playoffs Couch. There are plenty of snacks and a couple of free basketballs to help those on the sofa to get ready for b-ball season. Each week I will add the posters on this thread to the out of playoff sofa expeditiously!!! Please save some snacks for your friends 😂
 

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crestrulz

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In the spirit of this post I will like to introduce the Out of Playoffs Couch. There are plenty of snacks and a couple of free basketballs to help those on the sofa to get ready for b-ball season. Each week I will add the posters on this thread to the out of playoff sofa expeditiously!!! Please save some snacks for your friends 😂
Ruthless.. I like it
 

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In the spirit of this post I will like to introduce the Out of Playoffs Couch. There are plenty of snacks and a couple of free basketballs to help those on the sofa to get ready for b-ball season. Each week I will add the posters on this thread to the out of playoff sofa expeditiously!!! Please save some snacks for your friends 😂
Somebody got plenty of money if they're buying Copenhagen.
 

crestrulz

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I watched it. (NOT A PEEP) Did you watch ours?

I wished yours had a call in. I would have liked to asked the host a question or three.

He was talking big :poop: in that pregame show about KM running on everybody and his exact words were "I don't see that stopping tonight"

Question 1 - Did you see it stop?

Question 2 -Why didn't you mention missing offensive lineman before it was 28 to 0?

Question 3 - Were you missing defensive linemen too?

I know, I know. You're on to Watauga....... I don't blame you.. Believe me! But those are legitimate questions.
 

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I watched it. (NOT A PEEP) Did you watch ours?

I wished yours had a call in. I would have liked to asked the host a question or three.

He was talking big :poop: in that pregame show about KM running on everybody and his exact words were "I don't see that stopping tonight"

Question 1 - Did you see it stop?

Question 2 -Why didn't you mention missing offensive lineman before it was 28 to 0?

Question 3 - Were you missing defensive linemen too?

I know, I know. You're on to Watauga....... I don't blame you.. Believe me! But those are legitimate questions.
So you don’t like teams mentioning missing players until after the game is over? Join the crowd 😂😂.
 

crestrulz

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So you don’t like teams mentioning missing players until after the game is over? Join the crowd 😂😂.
Correct. I swear just go listen to hat broadest on YouTube and really listen to what they say before kickoff and then listen to what they start saying once they saw the absolute coaching clinic of a lifetime that was on display.

When we kicked the 49 yarder to go up 31-0 they actually said when we kicked off with a couple minutes to go in the half that if we could score on this drive then we get the opening kickoff in the second half and we could score then and we'd have ourselves a ballgame.

They hadn't even been across midfield at that point............................ Not once................ 🤡🤡..

They did have 135 yards on the ground on 28 attempts and that's 4,8 yards per carry. And I'd say half of that came on the only scoring drive they had when our backups were in and it was 45 to 0.

I guess I can understand not mentioning all of that by coach Herron, but the other dude was talking mad :poop:.

KM has massive amounts of talent. To be fair they are young in critical spots and Heron was a class act before the game so nothing towards him at all.
 
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BIGSAUSAGES

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I watched it. (NOT A PEEP) Did you watch ours?

I wished yours had a call in. I would have liked to asked the host a question or three.

He was talking big :poop: in that pregame show about KM running on everybody and his exact words were "I don't see that stopping tonight"

Question 1 - Did you see it stop?

Question 2 -Why didn't you mention missing offensive lineman before it was 28 to 0?

Question 3 - Were you missing defensive linemen too?

I know, I know. You're on to Watauga....... I don't blame you.. Believe me! But those are legitimate questions.
Great questions for some fans of KM to be very confident all year until the week of the game.
it was their Get Back tour
Now all they want to do is move to Watauga
Be careful you can’t stop the run you may be in for a long evening Friday.
Go back and watch the loss to Weddington coaches show the week after we lost. Talked about it , didn’t hide from it.
short reminds me of the slappies on KTC post game except Chip (the best on show)
No clue what he talks about like the Davis’s , Boykins among others.
 
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BIGSAUSAGES

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Correct. I swear just go listen to hat broadest on YouTube and really listen to what they say before kickoff and then listen to what they start saying once they saw the absolute coaching clinic of a lifetime that was on display.

When we kicked the 49 yarder to go up 31-0 they actually said when we kicked off with a couple minutes to go in the half that if we could score on this drive then we get the opening kickoff in the second half and we could score then and we'd have ourselves a ballgame.

They hadn't even been across midfield at that point............................ Not once................ 🤡🤡..

They did have 135 yards on the ground on 28 attempts and that's 4,8 yards per carry. And I'd say half of that came on the only scoring drive they had when our backups were in and it was 45 to 0.

I guess I can understand not mentioning all of that by coach Herron, but the other dude was talking mad :poop:.

KM has massive amounts of talent. To be fair they are young in critical spots and Heron was a class act before the game so nothing towards him at all.
It’s the fans who think they are on Crest level
And the announcers on that broadcast
 
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DeBoer31

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How dare Crest have a strong conviction about their team and season. You need to be less confident, worrisome, make up stuff about these other teams to deflect and redirect the truth and bring up fantasy-based hypotheticals instead of what has happened on the field and amongst your towns.
SMH. Way too much machismo....way too much confidence. The manbun mafia won't like you very much.......you'd better watch yourself.
 

ShutdownD24 2.0

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It’s the fans who think they are on Crest level
And the announcers on that broadcast
It’s their an echo on these boards?
So you don’t like teams mentioning missing players until after the game is over? Join the crowd 😂😂.
I can’t and will not speak for Craig. Did any of you ever play or coach high school sports? You try to not give bulletin board material, scouting reports, or injury reports before any big game. That’s football 101 plus no one is going to feel sorry for you anyway. We had a bye week, a great week of practice, and were able to reset as a team. Crest played their best and most complete game when it mattered. Crest has gotten better congrats but yes we are on to the playoffs. The Crest game is in the rear view for us. The last time we came to Crest prior to this game on these boards, I predicted a KM win, told you why we would win, KM won, and I didn’t say a lot much about the game on the boards or try to downplay Crest. It’s was on to the next game. We had won so there was no need to troll you. The ‘W’ on your own field on senior night no less did enough talking on its on. There is plenty enough time to revisit the season at a later date.
 

crestrulz

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It’s their an echo on these boards?

I can’t and will not speak for Craig.
He spoke for himself. He sounded nuts. Like he didn't watch film.

I'm glad KM has moved on. I said that. But this is a message board and we discuss things here. We'll never know why he said those idiotic things and that's why I said I wish we could call and ask him. I even said Coach Herron was a class act and he was.

Anyway, good luck to KM. Represent Cleveland County well.
 

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He spoke for himself. He sounded nuts. Like he didn't watch film.

I'm glad KM has moved on. I said that. But this is a message board and we discuss things here. We'll never know why he said those idiotic things and that's why I said I wish we could call and ask him. I even said Coach Herron was a class act and he was.

Anyway, good luck to KM. Represent Cleveland County well.
Theses CREST PEOPLE just like the SOUND of their on VOICE.
 

ShutdownD24 2.0

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He spoke for himself. He sounded nuts. Like he didn't watch film.

I'm glad KM has moved on. I said that. But this is a message board and we discuss things here. We'll never know why he said those idiotic things and that's why I said I wish we could call and ask him. I even said Coach Herron was a class act and he was.

Anyway, good luck to KM. Represent Cleveland County well.
After ugly losses a bye week is always good. As much as you want to get back on the field it gives you a moment to evaluate, regroup, and move forward. Throwing TWO freshmen out against that Crest front seven was like leading the lambs to the wolves, not pretty. We kept shuffling our o-line around which isn’t good against your front seven. We did have a starting slot receiver break a bone in his foot in that Wednesday’s practice prior and a starting db who broke his hand late in the SP game and did not find out until a week later. Every team gets banged up but we got hit all at once right before our biggest game when we needed everything that we had to win. Thats no excuse because I thought that Crest looked great overall. This Crest team is well balanced with a great kicker thrown in on top of all that. AJ has became the stud that I predicted he would be for your defense and his versatility and athleticism on the outside is a problem for everyone. Coach Barnes has my vote for Coach of the year in the conference because of the growth from week 1 to now by his team.
 

DeBoer31

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After ugly losses a bye week is always good. As much as you want to get back on the field it gives you a moment to evaluate, regroup, and move forward. Throwing TWO freshmen out against that Crest front seven was like leading the lambs to the wolves, not pretty. We kept shuffling our o-line around which isn’t good against your front seven. We did have a starting slot receiver break a bone in his foot in that Wednesday’s practice prior and a starting db who broke his hand late in the SP game and did not find out until a week later. Every team gets banged up but we got hit all at once right before our biggest game when we needed everything that we had to win. Thats no excuse because I thought that Crest looked great overall. This Crest team is well balanced with a great kicker thrown in on top of all that. AJ has became the stud that I predicted he would be for your defense and his versatility and athleticism on the outside is a problem for everyone. Coach Barnes has my vote for Coach of the year in the conference because of the growth from week 1 to now by his team.
Agree. Different team now than first couple of weeks. Should be expected I suppose since he was taking over for someone else...no matter how much experience you have. Always a feeling out and trust period in there.
I think KM is poised to make a run. I said so about a month ago.
 

ShutdownD24 2.0

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Agree. Different team now than first couple of weeks. Should be expected I suppose since he was taking over for someone else...no matter how much experience you have. Always a feeling out and trust period in there.
I think KM is poised to make a run. I said so about a month ago.
I think the top four teams in the Big South are going to be a problem for most opponents in the playoffs. If I am Ashbrook the freshman and sophomore backs will touch the ball a lot the rest of the way.
 
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crestrulz

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After ugly losses a bye week is always good. As much as you want to get back on the field it gives you a moment to evaluate, regroup, and move forward. Throwing TWO freshmen out against that Crest front seven was like leading the lambs to the wolves, not pretty. We kept shuffling our o-line around which isn’t good against your front seven. We did have a starting slot receiver break a bone in his foot in that Wednesday’s practice prior and a starting db who broke his hand late in the SP game and did not find out until a week later. Every team gets banged up but we got hit all at once right before our biggest game when we needed everything that we had to win. Thats no excuse because I thought that Crest looked great overall. This Crest team is well balanced with a great kicker thrown in on top of all that. AJ has became the stud that I predicted he would be for your defense and his versatility and athleticism on the outside is a problem for everyone. Coach Barnes has my vote for Coach of the year in the conference because of the growth from week 1 to now by his team.
Appreciate it SD.

You are correct about AJ too.

I hope your boys run through 6A SD.

You guys have real shot of making a heck of a run for the foreseeable future.
 
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