Noble

Jellico High School is around that....I think Williamsburg high is about 250 max on a good year, so JHS is still larger than they are, but you are correct about them being competitive, they have actually seemed to go backwards the past few years.

who said it was an excuse for Williamsburg. Was just stating a fact that most of the time the line for Wburg is outsized and yet they still do pretty good. I realize Mcreary is not a power house but they are a bigger school, was just an example of what the burg has to face...and bring on Corbin and Middlesboro? Why not just stay in the same district with those schools?

Williamsburg special teams have got to get better or they are going no where.

yep Williamsburg by a lot!

With a school and team as small as W'burg playing large schools usually means you are playing bigger players. Williamsburg line is almost always a 20 to 30 pound underdog in weight to most schools they play now. There is only so much they can do with they have and playing these tougher opponents so to speak might make them better but at the same time it can hurt them (the cloudland game last year killed Wburg the rest of the year because they never recovered from those big ol TN boys). I mean Mcreary is what a 3A school (maybe 2), Jellico is twice the size of Wburg, Onedia is pretty good size also and won a championship in TN a few years ago, KC is 3a.... every school they play is bigger than them....want to talk about somerset playing a tough non-district next year? Will they play Corbin and Middlesboro to warm up for that new 3A disrtict they chose to play up in?

That Cole Kid was very impressive, best WR I have seen in a while. After hearing scouting reports about other teams in the District I have to say that Somerset is easily the favorite to win the District and take either First or 2nd in Region...and I have to correct myself, the jackets committed one turnover on a half back pass from root.

If Harlan is a running team I think Burg can beat em, but if they are fast and pass as good as somerset than nope.

do you ever have anything good to say about Williamsburg?

I can tell you for a fact if the Visitors side is poorly lit then the field is too. Williamsburg has a fine visitor section and the best field in the district.

Somerset defense is not very good, Williamsburg could have scored 3 or 4 more TDs if Frazier had pulled a few passes down. 2 of those touchdowns were on Kickoff returns.....botched special teams by Williamsburg. Basically it was a shoot out with Williamburg beating themselves because of miscues... no turnovers at all by either team....2 good offenses but Somerset the better team tonight. I guess both teams had that middle school defense tonight.

Williamsburg will break out the Middle School defense and come away with the Victory.

game will end very quick as the Mercy rule kicks in.

I should hope Corbin would beat them 8 of 10 times. Corbin is a 2A school (a pretty godo sized one at that) and Williamsburg is a pretty small 1A school. Now, how good would the Burg program be if they had the numbers that Corbin did? Honestly you're comparing 2 unequal schools here and the same should go for when Corbin has to play those Big 4A schools. Honestly Corbin has played some tough teams this year from Big Schools and may have lost but have done pretty well against them. However you must admit that Corbins district is pretty weak though, not near as tough as the 1A district Somerset, Lynn Camp, Wburg, Harlan. Not saying those teams are better than Corbin just comparing Districts at that level.

I think perhaps the fact that the coaching around the area has improved a lot. Alot of teams have changed their playstyle and perhaps Corbin has yet to adjust to some of that. I also think that parents today baby their kids too much. Nothing drives me crazier than a kid doing something dumb on the field (or court for that matter) and their parents telling them its alright, even though the coaching staff has told them numerous times not to do that very thing. I think Corbin will be fine was they get into district play this year and I expect the program to pick up some next year with the new districts. Too bad somerset didn't want to stick around for that.

Thanks for the clarification.

I was told Cloudland declined.

Williamsburg did indeed beat them last year.

Mcreary didn't look all that great with their starter in to be honest. #23 seemed to be there playmarker but he took a hard hit in the 1st and didn;t do a whole lot of after that. The jackets are laying some hits down this season, although I thought their defense tonight was not very good after the 1st half, could have been all the subs. We'll have to wait and see how they play against a better team. They had some mental errors that could cost them in a big game.

I think most everyone can agree that Williamsburg out played KNox that night but did not get the win. What seats where you in again? and going 12-0 and then losing in overtime to a good Pikeville team is hardly a one hit wonder.

Dusty Brown as a freshman is looking good.

the jackets should have won last week vs KC, but the dice was not in the air so to speak. Going into this game I thought Jellico would give them a much harder game, but to be honest with you , Jellico gave up after the 2nd TD. I thought this years Jellico team woud be better than last year but I guess I was wrong. TN has some really good football programs and we'll see a true test of the burg when they go against Oneida. I know McCreary is better than last year but Root is good at fullback. He should have been running last year instead of center. I honestly think if root had been the go to runner last year the burg would have made the playoffs. They lost a lot of close games and root could have been the difference last year. The Kid has some GAME speed. The thing I like about the burg this year is that they will lay some hits on kids, it is football after all.

I heard Jellico got a new coach and at the moment there is high hopes he can right there ship. I wouldn't count them out but I think the jackets will dominate this from start to finish.

do Private schools have the same restrictions as Public schools when it comes to booster money?

I guess it is the same kind of fair for a 1A school of about 250 boys playing against a 4A school with about 1200 boys in Basketball or Baseball.

anyone know the scores on this?