HouseofPain

Getting the confidence up during 7-7 tournaments is a great start to the season for MC. I am very excited for the season and I am anticipating a very successfull season and the kids that play for MC are very deserving. I aggree with cellking that the 1st 3 games are very important to MC and the 1st one being Taylor then Pineville then Knott Co. These three are must wins if MC is going to make a run at the 3rd spot of the district (or higher). I personally think they have worked hard and has what it takes to win 8 games this year but I will say it definalely should be a 6 win season and a trip back to the playoffs!

Back at you old friend and hopefully I will get a chance to see you guys play this year. Good luck Rockets!

I am excited for the season to start. I truely believe that McCreary has an excellent opportunity to atleast match their best season ever. They are loaded with athletes and experience and as was said earlier they have a favorable schedule. I think the key for the Raiders will be offensive line play and how well the defense performs. The Raiders O-line will be relatively young as experience goes so it will be up to the coaching staff to coach them up and have them ready to perform. Defense has always been the weak-link in McCreary football and I am not sure why. Even the years I coached it seemed we had to just out score our opponents because we had a hard time stopping them. We have good athletes and they are aggressive but defense doesn't come natural to them and it seems everyone always just wanted to play offense. So, getting the Raiders to have a defensive frame of mind and pitch a few shut-outs will be another key to their success. So in review: O-line and defense is the two big keys and if the Raiders get both of those things lined out every one should watch out because the Raiders will be capable of winning many games. My prediction is 5-5 at worse and 8-2 at best with a good shot to return to the playoffs! Good Luck Raiders its time to pack your lunch and go to work!

Taylor and McCreary do open with each other and I am ready for HS football to start. This should be a very good game and with no surprise I give McCreary the edge because they have a very good group of athletes coming back this year. It would help if someone from Taylor Co would give us some info on their program so we can get a better idea of how the two teams will match up!

LoL!

Originally Posted by Heartbreaker Not surprising. Polson means as much to West as Watts did McCreary. That was exposed last night. region12hoops that is too funny, I am glad you called him out on that, LoL, he is always trying to rile people! Most of the stuff he posts is to get a reaction from other people, he has gotten me more than once!

Someone once told me that the past is done and gone, the present is what you have to deal with and the future is what you make it! Oh yeah and there is the other one, Champions are not born, they are created through hard work, sweat, determination and dediction. These are the things that has to be instilled in all areas of an athletic program if you are going to have winning teams year in and year out! IMHO!

You aparently don't know much about MC athletics but I agree he was one of the most grittiest athlets I have known.

I'm not saying a word. LoL!

I am 100% positive you are right on the money Hatz. I was just taking an opportunity to have some fun (that I knew would cause an uproar) that stems from the Bell/Knox thread! I really wasn't serious or meaning any disrespect, I was just having some good ole' BGP fun! I have a lot of respect for both programs, coaches and fans. Congrats to Bell on a great season and good luck to Boyle next week!

I wouldn't have guessed anyone could hold Bell to 85 yards rushing. Also, can't believe Bell had all of those turnovers they always seem to take care of the ball. Must have been a domminating performance by Boyle County. Congats to both teams on a great season!

Happy Turkey day to you too bellbobcats! Also, Happy Turkey day to all of the BGP faithfull May God Bless you and your families!

Well, this has been fun but I think it has run its course as I feel the thread is just starting to revolve like a door. I have to say this has been one of the more interesting threads I have posted on but not sure why. Maybe it is because I am not associated with either team or because a few other people that has posted isn't either but just found it intriging as I did. Anyway, I have people at both schools whom I have met and became friends with over the years. Coaches and fans at both schools have always been very hospitable to me over the past 20 odd years and I have a lot of respect for both programs. I wish both programs the best for years to come and Wish bell good luck for the remainder of this year! Maybe we will do this again next year since I will not be able to attend any more football games this year due to other commitments. Or, maybe I will just get on here after Friday's game and give my opinion on a game that I don't attend. LoL! Yes i had to get one more in before I signed off! LoL!

Thanks TRENCHMASTER, I don't ever start fights, matter of fact I am as meek as the Easter Bunny. I am just on here argueing my point like all of the other fine BGPers. LoL!

Yeah I know the score almost always tells you which team outplayed the other but it doesn't always tell you how closely the game was played for that you must attend or watch on tv!

You definately got a point. Human nature tells us that a fan who is supporting one of the teams playing is most likely going to see things leaning more towards the team they support. However, a fan of the game who just went to watch for the love of the game with absolutly no ties to either team is more likely to give an accurate discription of what took place. I was just stating the obvious, how many points scored do to turnovers? How many points scored in the 2 minutes when the game was out of reach? IMO the ball game was played competitive by both teams and that in itself means that neither team dominated the other. You are right, everyone has an opinion and I am not saying mine is right nor wrong I am only saying mine in an un-biased one since I am neither a fan of Bell or Knox!

I know bellbobcats but you see most things thru Bell County tinted classes. LoL!

136 yards difference between the 2 teams. Sound win......yes. Domination.............No!

Again, I can't believe I even care enough to post anything. I guess I just have a need for things to be told in a truthfull manner and not in a tunnel vision view of "that's my team". I have always tried to tell it how it is but that is hard for some people I guess but it is even worse when people don't even go to the game and try to tell us the way it is. This just makes me wonder how truthfull most of the posts on here are. I am not saying people don't post what they perceive to be true I just think their version of the truth is blurred by favorite teamism! But atleast they are at the game!

Now I am going to split hairs. You can't feel the score of the game because the score of the game before it happens is abstract and in order to feel it it has to be concrete. You may think it or believe it but you can't feel it!....................................................I'm just saying!

Not!

Yeah and bell scored twice in the last 2 minutes. Before that it was 28-7 which was the exact spread I predicted. However, take away a great catch by a Bell receiver, an interception 20 yards out and bell with an extremely short field and the fumble by a Knox receiver as they were on route to score, all of this in the first half and all were key plays. Everything else in the 1st half was played equally IMO as an unbiased obserever. The 2nd half Bell's 1st offensive series was a dominant one as they marched right down the field and scored but after that Knoxes "D" held their own. Knox's "O" moved the ball in spurts all night but Bells "D" held and never broke. But again, this is not the definition of dominate, sorry, it's just not. It is however proof that Bell is a great championship caliber football team. Please use terms that properly describe what happened. Man, I can't believe that I even care!

That's why you should actually go to a game instead of just reading about it and look at the score because it was not a totally dominated game. Again, as I say that I am not saying that Bell County didn't out play Knox but there was just a few key plays that gave Bell the edge and that is not domination. Domination is what Bell did to everyone else on their schedule!

I'm sorry, I didn't see anywhere in your first post where you mentioned the defense or the phrase IMO, not even the second time that I read it. But Knox did score once in the first half and they moved the ball ok (not great) the entire game and I would definately call it a stellar performance by Bells defense but not total domination. I promise I am not trying to argue but sometimes fans can give the wrong impression of a game because they have tunnel vision (I am guilty of this as well) I was just trying to give an un-biased opinion for those who did not attend because your accounts of it were not actually what happened. Also, I constantly have conversations on here with people who post things that are insulting to the opponents of the team they support just to have them reply and say I wasn't meaning it to be insulting. I would say 90% of them don't mean any insult and I would say you fit into that 90% Bellbobcat but sometimes you just have to read your post back to yourself and ask yourself if it would be offensive to you, the players and coaches of your team if someone was writing that about your team. Anyway, I agree that Bell had a dominate performance it just wasn't total domination and I hope they keep having dominate performances all the way to through the championship game and brings the title to Log Mountain!