Your High School Football Team

What school from a different state would you LOVE to see your hometown school play atleast one game against in football? Can be any school in the nation as long as that school is not from the same state. Also what other high school teams would you like to see face each other?

My school is Gate City and two of the teams I had always wanted to see them play they played last season against Sullivan South and Bluefield. The team I would love to see them play from TN now is Dobyns Bennet. Win or lose I would love to see the crowd for that game. The team from KY I would love them to play is Bell County. Lee High had played them for a long time and I dont think ever did beat them. The team from WV I would like to see would be Princeton.

so that means I cant pick Gate City to take on Miami Northwestern or Mater Dei??

shoot

but it has to be PV and DB. i dont care how bad we lose, because if we won, itd be awesome

Princeton wouldn't necessarily be a good matchup for GC. If I am thinking correctly, they generally aren't very competitive in football, although with the looks of their 8th grade team, that may change in the near future.

We'd get hammered,but the team I'd want to play would be Maryville,TN

I went to high school in Tenn so I'd like to see Clintwood play my school's rival high school. They're a 5A school but I think they could hang ha

Reasonably I am fine with RC lining up with Sullivan North every year. Its a close school that is a good money getter, but for a better opportunity at a win, and a school that I have always admired, I would like to see RC schedule Hampton. Not the Crabbers, the Bulldogs over past Elizabethton. They always have an excellent team, are similar in size, and have a great following.

Id like to see Pound play St Thomas Aquinas just for the hell of it!

Ervinton and Southlake Carroll Texas

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Originally Posted by Jason

The team from KY I would love them to play is Bell County. Lee High had played them for a long time and I dont think ever did beat them. \

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Lee High nearly beat them in 2001 I believe it was. Lee High had the lead until late in the 4th quarter and ended up losing 26-22.

db, south, maryville...

vs

okaton, phoebus, oscar smith

love to see these NET teams play some real va football teams

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Originally Posted by DJP

db, south, maryville...

vs

okaton, phoebus, oscar smith

love to see these NET teams play some real va football teams

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Maryville would have a shot at any of them more years than not IMO

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Originally Posted by Fifty_One

Ervinton and Southlake Carroll Texas

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LOL. At Ervinton, right?

i think that'd be the best and most intresting match ups

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Originally Posted by Unchained

Maryville would have a shot at any of them more years than not IMO

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They'd have more than a shot. VA coaching is seriously lacking. They usually have much better athletes but the coaching is kind of pathetic usually.

idk id still take those va beach kids over kingsport kids, i just think va teams would be a step quicker everywhere

i can see maryville having a shot, but id take phoebus by 21 over south and db

and oscar smith just sent a 4* QB to the defending national champions, the talent is def. there, but lung is right, the coaching at the top level in VA is very poor in comparison to TN

Pheobus and etc would absolutely cream DB/South and etc. Maryville versus them would be excellent games.

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Originally Posted by DJP

i can see maryville having a shot, but id take phoebus by 21 over south and db

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Of course they'd assrape South and DB. 21 would be easy to cover. They're not very good TN teams. If they played Alcoa, Maryville, Riverdale, Brentwood, MBA, or any of a plethora of Memphis area schools it'd be bad for the most part for VA.

while i do agree that maryville or alcoa would give some of the best VA teams a good game, I do think that Phoebus/Oscar Smith etc.. would win the majority of the time.

now against the Memphis-area schools, im taking the TN guys. talk about some talent, those schools have 5-6 DI kids a piece

and cmon dude, Phoebus would beat DB by 35+, same with South or any of the tri cities schools.
so would O. Smith

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Originally Posted by Biggin

I do think that Phoebus/Oscar Smith etc.. would win the majority of the time.

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I'm not sure about that either. Alcoa and Maryville (especially MHS) have less D1 talent than those two have lately, but the coaching would win more times than not IMO. It kind of shocked me when I saw Oscar Smith play on TV to open the season last year with some of the things the kids were doing that were just dumb, bad technique, and just wrong. You don't see that with teams like Maryville. They're fundamentally sound and don't do things that cause you to lose games. That's a reflection of a coach like Quarles.

im not disagreeing with that at all, its sad to see those kids with true D1 talent have to deal with those terrible coaches. OS is the worst, they had a team chock full of D1 talent, and could look like a crunch bunch team at times.

but i think on sheer talent alone, PH/OS beats MY/AL 6 times outta 10.
its also worth noting that the VA schools have almost double (? is that right guys?) the kids maryville or alcoa have.

but it would be awesome to see DB or SS play those big time VA schools, maybe it would take their arrogance down a couple notches after giving up 50+ points.

I watched a good portion of TNs state finals last year. Good games, but I think I have saw better teams in VA overall.

I dunno man, those Memphis-area teams are for real.
i dont think the memphis-area teams would rail the VA teams, not at all, but I think they would be great games.

Memphis is truly a hotbed for HS football, not as good as it was 10 years ago but its still good.

but NOVA is a hotbed too, a hidden one that people overlook.
people wonder why VT can compete without getting hte big name recruits from FL or GA or MS or LA, but they get serious talent from the Chesapeake Bay

Talent level, VA is ahead by a large margin. It's not even close.

I think some of the regular powers like Maryville being in a rebuilding mode kind of weakened TN's teams last year. I watched 2-3 of the state games last year and there was definately a drop off from what had been displayed the past 5-10 years.

I noticed taht with some of the Memphis teams as well, they were good but nowhere near as good as ive seen them.

VA is really up there in terms of producing D1 talent, behind states like CA, TX,FL,GA, OH, PA, and maybe MS or LA, VA is right there.

Our area is not great, but the state of VA past Richmond are GREAT FB teams

Agreed, and to me it has fell off some in the past couple of years too compared to what it was 10 years ago. Generally comparing similar size schools, VA's top teams are better than TN's top teams, but its definitely not a rule. Generally VA falls in the top 7-10 states as far as producing D1 talent.

I think only MS or GA have more D1 athletes per capita, CA TX and FL all have tons of people, they have more D1 athletes because there are more kids.

VA is a hotbed that people often overlook as well.
I wouldnt be surprised in the next few years to see the big boys (UF, Bama, OU, UTexas, ((UT already does to an extent, so does Clemson)), USC, etc..) really working NOVA hard, and bring in more kids to big time schools.*
The more VA kids that go on and produce in the NFL and during their college careers, the more schools that will come and try to poach the talent from VT's back yard.


*NOTE
Listen VT nuthuggers I am NOT saying VT isnt a big boy, but they already recruit this area, and they arent really national title contenders most years like OU or UTexas or USC or UF

I think if you look at the VA top 10 this year there are some pretty big OOS programs starting to try and get a foothold now.

oh yeah, but this year was the first year I can remember the really big schools coming to VA for top talent.
Philip Sims going to Alabama, Justin Hunter to Tennessee, Evan Hailes to Penn State, Jeremiah Attaochu to GT, but this is just the beginning.

Eastern Va has some of the best Athletes in the country, not even close in TN. Just look at the NFL, NBA, MLB, Track, Boxing. Just a few names, LT, Mike Vick, Darren Sharper, Tiki and Ronde, Jamie Sharper, Percy Harvin, Rudi Johnson, Eddie George, Chris Perry, Bruce Smith, and thats just a few in Football. Coaching could be a question yes, but look at the types of kids they are dealing with in the Hampton Roads area. I mean come on it is not even close, Football in VA is in the top 7 in the country.

oscar smith beat veince flordia this year by 13 or 14 right?

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Originally Posted by Biggin

so that means I cant pick Gate City to take on Miami Northwestern or Mater Dei??

shoot

but it has to be PV and DB. i dont care how bad we lose, because if we won, itd be awesome

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Yes you can. But PV will have to face next seasons #1 team in the nation.:mooning:

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Originally Posted by 1inStripes

Princeton wouldn't necessarily be a good matchup for GC. If I am thinking correctly, they generally aren't very competitive in football, although with the looks of their 8th grade team, that may change in the near future.

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That was what I was thinking of when I made the post. Though from what I hear most of Princetons 8th grade team will go to Bluefield to play Varsity.

Guys how can you put Phoebus and Oscar Smith in the same Category? Most years Pheobus would beat OS. To me Phoebus is the #1 team in VA year in year out since 2001. They seem to always be in the running every year to win State. I may be wrong but isnt Oscar Smith a Johnny Come Lately? OS just started making deep runs into the Playoffs in 2007 and has only one title since 1970. Phoebus has been the better team winning 5 AAA State Titles all since 2001. So Technically they could be called Johnny Come Latelys if you are a Hampton Crabbers fan. Hampton has won 5 Division 5 State Titles since 1995. They also won 2 Division 6 Titles and 6 outright AAA State Titles from 1975 to 1985. They also were awarded 4 other AAA State Titles from 1942 to 1969. They have 17 total State Titles. I would love to see the 1996 Hampton team play the best team that DB has ever had. That or the 1998 Hampton VA State Champs vs. the 1998 Maryville TN State Champs.

Calpreps projects 2009

Phoebus 22 Maryville 21
Phoebus 31 DB 6
Phoebus 28 Sullivan South 14
Phoebus 17 Alcoa 21

Alcoa 26 Oscar Smith 21
Maryville 28 Oscar Smith 27
Oscar Smith 35 Sullivan South 19
Oscar Smith 35 DB 7

lol biggin thats exactly why i wanted to see db and south play real va teams, so it would shut them up a little bit

Whats the link to the Game predictor on cal preps, i cant find it

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Originally Posted by Fifty_One

Whats the link to the Game predictor on cal preps, i cant find it

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calpreps.com