Thanks for responding. I’ve gotta say, the fumbles are starting to concern me a little. We can overcome those turnovers against the teams we’ve been playing, but can’t afford to do that against better teams. We’ve had a few goal line fumbles at that. Let’s hope that gets cleaned up
You guys are having a tremendous year. I would not be surprised at all to see you guys in the playoffs.
Agreed, I certainly think we are better than last year, but I feel our youth shows at times. I’m sure outsiders don’t realize how young this squad is. We are very fortunate to still be as good as we are this year considering the age of most of our skilled players
I hope y’all bring a crowd like South Columbus did in 2011. That was a great high school environment
If I'm not mistaken we only have nine seniors on the roster this year. We definitely are better than last year imo. Turnovers just need to be addressed. Most of the turnovers have come when we are inside the opposing teams Red zone.
Yea, I don’t know if it’s just playing lack luster because of the competition, but agreed, it needs to improve in order to get where we all wanna go.
Most definitely, I’d love to have a big game atmosphere. We hadn’t had one in the playoff since edenton moved back up to 2A.
Would be nice for sure. I made the trip to that game. Was fun for sure. If we were to make it that far, I’m sure quite a few would make the trip.
Not many teams have tried putting 10 in the box against Tarboro this year. Mainly because Tarboro has opened up its offense and now if you stack 10 in the box it's a chance Tarboro could come out with a play action pass. As for who the favorite would be IF Tarboro and Mount Airy face each other, it'll be Mount Airy most likely. They'll be favored til proven otherwise.
Injury Bug has hit MA hard.....hope they make it to the ship ! May have two out rest of season that plays both ways. Big time players! Tarboro Coach is one of the best in the State and i'm sure he has his team playing lights out and will have those Vikings prepared and Hungry for the title. Good luck to the Vikings!
I appreciate your kind words, but as others have said, you guys got us last year, so y’all are still “the man” until someone beats you guys. You all have a fine program, and much to be proud of
Not sure where your info is from. But Reid back for playoffs and gallimore just sprained his ankle. He's back in 2 weeks. Will need them both.
Most of the turnovers have came from backups in the 2nd half. Our 1st team has had 3 fumbles and 1 int in 8 games. Rest of turnovers are from our younger back ups
A good honest assessment. You’re right, special teams killed us last year and set up two of their scores. As bad as we played, take those away, who knows what happens. With that said, special teams is part of the game, and we need to make sure we are performing well in all of the phases of the game
Absolutely! And you can expect that with backups. It’s great they are getting game experience though. I’ve always been in favor of winning a game 35-7 or 42-7 and the backups get reps versus 55 -0 with the backups getting no reps
And Tarboro fans have a great respect for Mount Airy...aside from having possibly the greatest mascot name after the G'boro Grimsley Whirlies, MA has a tremendous tradition...and we seem to have developed this plan for meeting up with someone from Surry county for the title for longest time, lol...Good luck to you all...hope your injured make it back quickly with no lasting affects.
Thank you so much for those kind words. We take great pride in the T and doing exactly as you described. The coach when I was in High School was Jim Brett...he use to say give me 10 points and I will win by keeping the ball away from you...thats a paraphrase of course, but thats what we have always done since the 60s at least, maybe further back than that. Thank you again, and please feel free to catch a game from our side of the field lol.
West Columbus has gotten much better as the season as went along and they have absolutely NOTHING TO LOSE. That is a heck of a combination. It should be an exciting time watching them play in the tournament this year !!
I've seen Jim Brett teams back in the day,he run sissor offense and man was it effected. He had his special tough at West Brunswick. Great coach. Russell Weinstein came to Whiteville. He coached with Jim at Tarboro. Then head coach there. He was great coach too. My son played for him 2 years at Whiteville. I've seen some really good football in my time. You are talking about some coach's on another level. Coach Craddock in that category also. I hope you get to play West Columbus.
Wienstien a great coach? Lol. He got told to kick rocks at Tarboro.. I wish he was still their coach....I went to church with his wife and kids, he didn't go, heathen, but trust me, those weren't good times for Tarboro football..However, Tarboro was still 3a then, they hadn't been crowned king of the fruit flies then.😁
Weinstein was the head coach of that 93 Tarboro team that is regarded by some longtime Tarboro faithful as the best team to ever come through Tarboro. Even though they didn't win the state title they had a very good team that year.
Home games just aren’t what they used to be. When we were 2A, regular season games seemed to mean more and people showed up. Now every game is uncompetitive and the town doesn’t shut down entirely the way it used to on Friday night. I miss those days.
That team lost to Jim Brett in the eastern finals
