GrizzlyDevil said:

Vacation is for the family...I'm their butler, chauffeur, wallet, and security, haha.

Was originally planned for July 4th week. But had to push it due to things happening with family...but we're here now...during the bye week, having fun.

I should be in better shape than most the team when I get back!

Good luck to your Wolves this week.

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REWhitley said:

While I am hoping North Iredell has a really good game, they need it as a team, school and community, Starmount will almost certainly win this game.
The problem for North is: there is no Community. Every other team in Iredell has a "Community". Even West Iredell is close enough to Statesville to be claimed, and they have the Celeste Hinkle community to call their own.

Olin is only a rural post office that no one can find. Harmony is about a hundred miles away and Union Grove (about 10 miles) is not really a "community" in a town sense. Central is only a sign post on Hwy 115. And the Cool Spring community might as well be in Davie or Rowan County.

It is very hard for North Iredell HS to build a sense of "community" because they are the definition of "a

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REWhitley said:

While I am hoping North Iredell has a really good game, they need it as a team, school and community, Starmount will almost certainly win this game.
The problem for North is: there is no Community. Every other team in Iredell has a "Community". Even West Iredell is close enough to Statesville to be claimed, and they have the Celeste Hinkle community to call their own.

Olin is only a rural post office that no one can find. Harmony is about a hundred miles away and Union Grove (about 10 miles) is not really a "community" in a town sense. Central is only a sign post on Hwy 115. And the Cool Spring community might as well be in Davie or Rowan County.

It is very hard for North Iredell HS to build a sense of "community" because they are the definition of "a rural school".

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Lincolnton said:

GDevil, here, the 4:30 PM temperature was in the low 90's and the dew point is 69 which equals nasty hot and humid. I checked the temperature in Orlando at the same time on a weather App and the temperature is around 90 with a dew point of 74 which would feel like the rain forest. Cannot understand why someone would want to live in Florida unless they just have an aversion to cold weather. I've been there, once. The residents were nice and it was a clean good looking area, but the heat and humidity were awful. It sure attracts so very many people, though.
My parents once bought a set of encyclopedia books for me. According to the 1950 census the Florida population was 2.7 million, then. The population, now, is 22 million. It's obviously got something going for it.

Enjoy the vacation.

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owen98 said:

From what I saw last night Owen is just too young and too small at the present time. They were bullied by a bigger older team last night. Owen dressed 24 last night 2 seniors and 6 Juniors and 16 underclassmen. Enka had 40 dressed most of which were upperclassmen. I think Enka is pretty solid but not sure how good they are. Our JV played pretty solid on Thursday. A couple of costly turnovers and lack of depth hurt them. With that said if they stick together I believe they will improve on both teams and win a few games. Next year I can see a pretty good jump then the year after they will be very good. Also our middle school has in the mid 20’s with what I’ve heard has some solid talent. It’s going to take a couple years but I believe Owen can again be competitive. It’s gonna take the kids buying in and sticking around. It’s also going to take the coach sticking around. I think he can be the right guy to turn it around. Time will tell. We have to stay healthy or we will suffer through a disappointing season but if we do I think we can win 3-5 games. They have to pick up a couple the next couple weeks though. It would have helped this year if we didn’t have a very good player transfer to ACR and 2 decide to just not play. They would have all been upperclassmen and helped significantly. With low numbers that is very rough. It’s hard to work so hard for kids and lose but stay the course young Warhorses and you will learn a lot about yourself and it will pay off not only on the field but in life. Go Owen! Stack your chips! The community is behind you!

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GrizzlyDevil said:

It's a blazing 98 right now here in Florida...humid and sun's UV is way up.

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tarheel fan1 said:

West Forsyth is 4a and usually not a bad team

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Vik-Val 86 said:

As for the weather this Friday probably be last hot temperature to see for the season. Next week looks real good for football. Meteorologist said it will be cooler fall start out with.

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EWCards#1 said:

This NW jv squad should be pretty decent. That group has been good since they was in 3/4 grade all the way up.

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LTown Wolves said:

Basic and flashy?

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CPC4LIFE said:

Simmons has West as 5pt favorite... I know Oak Ridge is really good and has a terrific QB & RB. West QB Riley Horton must have another big night along with that Titan Defense. "Trap Game" .... before #1 Weddington comes to town and that could get ugly in 2 weeks.

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Slasher Killer said:

North Wilkes 52, Elkin 0

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amaidendevil said:

Bandy's by as many as they choose. Foard just doesn't have anything going for them right now.
Willis by a lot. The one man team continues over St Stephen's. Hopefully they can rest him some, I have a feeling next week against randleman may be difficult.
Freedom will exploit EB inability to cover fast athletic Wr's.
North over basic Lincolnton 🤣. North wins in the trenches where the tough win. Lincolnton is flashy, but flashy don't win.
Stupid 2nd week bye 🤬
Hickory by a lot, but hickory will probably build a quick lead and take foot off gas giving Newton trash points. Kind of what happened last year.
Shit show of the week, West wins, iredell that is.
Congratulations on winning the nobody could care less game 🤣🤣.
West Lincoln wins, I would say a lot but West offense doesn't allow it to score a lot. Luckily it's not played in cherryville. If so the ironmen would just push rebels out of bounds hard and they would get hit by traffic 🤣🤣. You gotta understand the stadium to get that.

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bigdadd11103 said:

Know this staff. Think it's a great staff and they are typically very well prepared. So think saying they were unprepared is a bit harsh. The gameplan may not have worked but they were prepared.

Agree with the talent leaving and not being as good as anticipated. Butler is not getting the incoming talent in the 9th grade that they used to

Lastly this should be somewhat expected. When you don't hire the coach that the players want and it's a big culture change you can get shock. Liken it to changing fish water in a tank. You can put brand new pure clean filtered treated water in a tank and still kill fish. Nothing wrong with the water it just changes the environment. vs. putting pure water and mixing it with some of the old water THEN putting it in the tank. You get a more gradual and better result. Sorry for the fish water change analogy but it fits perfectly. Long term a sudden change is better but risk losing players, vs. retaining some old staff/cultures may help you short term but muddy waters long term. Butler choose sudden change. They'll be ok long term

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buzzcoach said:

Still looking for all the transfers for MA to show up! Only seen 2 Friday night. And we knew about them.

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