Yeah, I'm pretty sure I wasn't part of thatQuote:
Originally Posted by 1inStripes
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I wasn't part of thatQuote:
Originally Posted by 1inStripes
Didn't meet the height requirements?Quote:
Originally Posted by UTVols2
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Originally Posted by ironlung
its not so much "choked" issue as it is the teams JIB faced were better, hints the reason that playing better OOD teams would do nothing but help JIB be prepared for playing better teams. I dont mean DB Knox and teams like that, but i DO mean George Wythe, Radford, Gatecity, and not Rye Cove, Twin Springs, Castlewood and so on. Their are alot of better opponents then those weak schools that would love a shot at JIB. I guarentee that George Wythe wouldnt turn down that game, nor would Radford or Gatecity. Those arent Huge schools with "10 times the students" than JIB. Gate city is the only non D1 team. a one loss burton with a schedule with those teams on the board would be better than a 10 and 0 burton playing who they play now IMO
I think you are forgetting, or don't even know, that during those state runs that we were playing Gate City and won our fair share of games I think. hey, UT, what was our recent record against Gate City? didn't we play them for about 4 years? was that game was dropped last season? sorry I just can't rememeber that good. I remember the whole thing about having to change halloween because GC wouldn't change the game and caused Norton to be overrun with kids that year. of course where I live NO ONE comes up this way trick or treating.
Every year they lost at state they played GC. Clintwood has played a very good schedule over the past 10 years or so with lots of AA and AAA schools as well as Richlands and GC and still lost. The schools that beat them had a lot weaker schedules than Clintwood had. Sometimes a team is just better, it wouldn't matter if you played Ervinton 13 games before you got to state or played St Thomas Aquinas. The Clintwood, PV, Appy, and JIB teams that have made it to state the last 10 years just weren't good enough to win. The talent level here has dropped so much since the 90's it's scary. Not to mention the fact that Burton had an enrollment of less than 300 playing a school like Riverheads with 700. It can make a huge difference when that happens especially when you have good not great athletes.Quote:
Originally Posted by UnIoNfAn
I can see Gate City and we have played them many times over the last decade, many during those state title runs so that point is kinda mute. Not sure playing a team 3+ hours on a bus ride is feasible. Playing PV, Gate City, Clintwood many of those years is pretty good for a small D1 school. Also, you gotta remember this is a two way street and several things involved in scheduling. There are quite a few times we tried to schedule people and they wouldn't do it for fear of losing power points if a Div 1 school beat them. I see what you're saying but it's not for lack of effort.
2008 we beat GC 27-13 lost to CW in regionalsQuote:
Originally Posted by starbuck
2007 we lost GC 33-7 lost to CW in regionals
2006 we beat GC 51-7 lost to Riverheads 21-20 in State Finas
2005 we lost GC 28-6 lost to William Cambell 18-0 in State Finals
2004 we lost GC40-30 lost to Franklin 41-0 in State Finals
yall played gate city but did you play quality OOD teams. GAtecity was in the LPD at that time. if you load the schedule with better D1 then you make a better team. playing ONE quality opponent dont help. you got to play up more than down. Gatecity alone dont make up for the weaker teams.
There is a whole lot more to football scheduling than most people realize. Travel time, expenses, and gate receipts are a driving force behind the majority of the decisions. You also have realize that the dates people can play have to fit your schedule, and if you don't act quickly, you may be left without games. Throw in the fact that if you are a good team, some people just don't want to play you.