Recent content by bsmith51

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    A topic I have not seen much discussion about

    After having watched 4a and 5a schools for some time, I don't believe there is any appreciable difference at the top. Briar and Tuscarora jumped up to 5a in 2013. Briar made it to the state title game in 2013 and Tuscarora made it in 2014. (and the 2013 Briar team was far weaker than its 2012...
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    Shocked

    Re: Cross Brackets in 4a will be a financial disaster. I think the overall differences between D4 and D5 are not that great. The 2012 Briar Woods team that won D4 was far better than the 2013 Briar Woods team that made the state championship game in its first year in D5 (and barely lost a team...
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    Tuscarora's Offense

    I am a BW fan but have a tremendous amount of respect for Reimers. He is an awesome back. I have heard people ding him for not being fast but he always seems to be pulling away from people in his film and every time I have seen him this year. Plus, the kid is a work horse. I wouldn't blame...
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    LC Bird/ Tuscarora

    Missing Polk hurt. I also think the injury to BW's middle linebacker (Chris Larco) was a killer. BW was pretty much shutting down the run while he was in there. Once he got hurt late in the second quarter, Bird started churning out the yards.
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    Tuscarora impressive.

    Tuscarora looks very good. They are much more athletic than I thought and Reimers is playing like a man amongst boys. Did Massaponax have a lot of injuries? They were not very impressive. They have a couple of athletes but were pretty small and just looked outclassed from a physical...