Dawgs

[imported_DAWG]

4 Hours 44 minutes til kickoff. Dawgs, as you walk down those steps toward the field, Think of Coach Turner. Think of all the hard work you've put in. Think of all the motivational speeches from coach turner in the past. Think of whats happened to your town over the past few months.

Tonight, when you walk down those steps, The school, Town, Old Dawgs, and Coach Turner will be right behind you. You represent all of that. Go hard, 100% on every play. Dont quit until the whistle, play hard for 4 quarters. Be Bulldogs.

Very flat tonight.
Got to come out with more fire against Burton.
We needed to change the offense up more. Stayed in the I to much. Even when RC was taking it away.
Got to change up.
A win is a win. But we have to step it up for next week.

[imported_burrhead]

Life goes on. Tom is gone and . Time for Coach Austin to step up and be a HEAD COACH. Needs to rein in Travis from what I heard.

[SWVA-Football]

Yeah, tonight I was fairly unimpressed by the determination shown by Appalachia. They didn't do TERRIBLE, they just didn't come out with as much determination to win as I'd hoped for.

The running game was pretty well-established with Morgan Ireson (#20) and Sammy Jessee (#22) getting in some really good runs. Brett Leedy (#30) had some pretty good runs as well.

The passing game was fairly lacking.. Cody Richardson overthrew several long bombs that could have been huge completions, and even threw a short pass that ended up being intercepted.

The Appy defense got the job done, but was nothing to write home about.

It was a pretty good ball game nevertheless. Although Appalachia picked up the pace later on and started to play harder, Rye Cove played a good game as well and fought hard to the very end.

Appy versus Burton next week will be an interesting game.. I just hope the Dawgs can get fired up enough to bring what it takes to go 100% versus the Raiders.

[imported_DAWG]

I came home tonight finding myself Disgusted. What I saw tonight was players just goin' through the motions.
I was very let down by the coaching also. Whats with not running the T-formation at all in the first half? We dont have the team to spread the field... am I the only one who sees that?

Next week the Coaching better be much improved, and the players better show up to play 100% for 4 quarters or you're gonna be embarrassed. Im talking 50 or 60 points worth of embarrassment.

Its time to Step it up, Dawgs.

Guys i love you to death.

But next week is a big game a Div. game, time to come out with some fire and some big time plays.

If not it could get embrassing really fast.

[SBG]

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The passing game was fairly lacking.. Cody Richardson overthrew several long bombs that could have been huge completions, and even threw a short pass that ended up being intercepted.

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Chubz, the passing game is a 2 man show. Those WRs need to bust a hump to get to that ball. Cody had to put the ball where he knew only his man had a shot at catching it. After he lets it go, it's up to the receiver to finish it off with a catch. Passing in a gametime situation is a lot different than just passing for fun. And that short pass for an INT was due to the rush that the O line let through. Ya know, they call QBs and RBs and WRs skill positions, but it takse some skill to play on that line and our guys just didn't show much tonight. And even though they say a win is a win is a win, tonight's effort won't get it done against the Raiders. Maybe this is all a part of how long they waited to appoint a head coach which led to some slacking on the part of the players by not practicing enough this summer. And maybe as the season wears on and they practice and get better in shape they'll do a lot better. We can hope anyway.

[MikMo]

I feel kind of bad for Roger Austin...if things start going bad, all you'll hear is "....wasn't like that when Coach Turner was here." Matter of fact, I heard somewhat of the same thing from some people tonight. I wish him the best of luck, though.

[imported_Counts]

I know it was the same way when Meade took over for Cummins at Clintwood it is hard to take over for a legond IMHO Auston and the BullDaws will be fine so long as the kids do not constently hear how coaching is screwing them up.

Look at it this way With the exception of Burton Rye Cove is the next best team in Div 1 and a Flat Appy took them by 2 TDs lets not string up the coach just yet

[TheBeast]

Am I the only one that realizes that Travis actually runs that team and they had to put someone in as a head coach (and it obviously can't be Travis) so Roger got the title.