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.

[Dawg4_Life]

Life goes on. Tom is gone.... that is a very mean thing to say so yeah it may be true but you dont need to say it. The guys need our support not all this " well tom would have done this or that " junk.. our guys need encouragement from everyone... not criticism

[Ironlung]

True. But several of the morons can't get over things that happend over a decade ago. I wish Coach Austin the best, but I think he's in a no win situation.

Things are fine. Folks have got to realize. The changes your seeing didn't happen just because Tom passed away.
Tom was implementing them in practices a year or so ago.
Just was slowly bring some of the players up to speed, to get them to adjust to it. It's something that Travis and Tom and Roger all talked about.
Just now able to really work on it and have most healthy enough to do it.
My only concern was what i seen from the players. No sense of urgency at times in crucial moments. That will change to.
It's a new era. People have to learn to adjust.
How hard is that. Very hard.
Some need to remember Tom had done retired so there was going to be a change of some kind. Im just glad those in the program, got to keep going, with what they had been working on for a year or so.
It could of really took a more wild turn. Think about it.
But we will be fine as usual. It's a way of life. Nothing we haven't seen or been through. We will be fine.

[imported_burrhead]

Hey bud, my mom died at age 49. I miss her terribly. She is not coming back. Life does go on. Didn't mean it in a bad way at all. People need to try and adjust to life's bad situaions. Not everything is meant in a harmful way. Tom is gone and as the bible says---"The dead knoweth nothing". Maybe not exact quote, but it references that. I'm so happy my mom doesn't see all the horrendous things going on down here.

[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.