Historically I've heard of kids moving from district to district in the same County or even a neighboring County due to a parent working there or something like that but never heard of kids going to another State. They must love the guy!!! Clinton plays Lumberton Friday night and Lumberton may actually be the favorite, who would have ever thought that???

Deana_King said:

Needs picks:

@Thedawg197985
@Bullzye

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I think Indy has a decent shot at winning this game. This is will show us a lot as this might be the toughest game of their season, unless butler gains confidence later down the road and looks different.

West has a lot of experience and last week Randleman had at least 4 personal fouls and wildcats didn't have any. Both teams have good coaching staffs. It will be a physical game

nepsy7 said:

Stone or Littlejohn would have been great selections. Stone understood the Culture and knew the kids. I doubt a lot would have changed with him. Littlejohn was not interested. Knotts or Palmieri would have stayed at their last Charlotte programs. Definitely no interest between those 2. Butler's Varsity could easily go 4-6 this year, with the JV potentially doing worst. It's already difficult geographically to get parents to relocate to Mathews. If they don't figure it out this year. How do you convince anyone to play at Butler. Parents are already on the phone, trying to find homes for next year. If Charlotte paid like SC, and GA the Aaron Brands, Mike Palmieri's and Tommy Knotts would still be here. 85% of the head coaches in Charlotte wouldn't have jobs. Six figures would increase the talent level of coaching pedigree.

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Relocating to Matthews isn’t the roadblock. Half of Butler’s zone is in East Charlotte with way more affordable housing. It’s all about coaching up and winning games, not transfers.

Same thing with Indy. McFadden is getting kids into Indy because they have East Charlotte as well. If Indy was dependent on mint hill alone, the surge of families moving their kids to Indy for football wouldn’t happen bc most houses in mint hill are now north of 500k. Indy and butler are located in the suburbs geographically, but their student body isn’t as “suburban” as you would think. Butler is only 35% white for example…that is NOT a direct representation of the town of Matthews lol, most of their student body and independence are minority students. Same thing with north meck, school is in huntersville but decent amount of kids zoned there are from north Charlotte.

All in all none of that really matters. Butler is just getting dealt a rough hand and that happens. I for one have been tough on this staff but we must take everything into consideration. They hired a staff super late in may, have one of the toughest schedules in the state with multiple state title contenders, and also have an injured starting QB. Folks are being up creek changers and dub c…all 3 of those schools would go 0-4 as well with this schedule if they were dealing with a back QB as well.

Since when is Chambers thought of as some power? They built their program in a couple years with Brand/forebee off the backs of residency changes that everyone knew. Kids stop transferring to chambers and their programs gradually has been declining…

BleedBurnsBlue said:

No joke, this game could decide who goes 0-3 in the county this year.

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The only thing I'll predict is we won't go 0-3 in the county this year.

BoKnowsSports said:

Ferebee is a great coach, however, the culture that he wants to bring to Butler can only work at 2-3 schools in Charlotte (JC, West, & Creek). Butler has been Butler since they’ve been in existence.. Hire within, they do things the “Butler Way” and the community support in Matthews is probably only behind the Hough’s, Park’s and Kell’s of the world. In all, Butler is a class program but he just doesn’t have the kids out that way to do what he did on IBM. It’s just different on that side of town (Creek/JC/WC).

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It’s not different on that side of town. Butler and chambers opened in similar years I believe and butler has almost always had the better athletes in football. What in the world are we talking about??

I also think it’s a disservice to Ferebee to suggest that he can only coach at 3 schools, I wouldn’t consider that a top level coach.

Definitely got Irmo winning..but what’s the status on Lawrence? If he can’t play they can’t be that much competitive.

I don’t see west being as physical as the east surry team I seen last week. I was very impressed with the cards. Although the Ma team East played last week isn’t quite hitting on all cylinders just yet, I don’t believe west is as good as the bears. That’s based on the film I’ve seen. Lowman might be looking to hang a 100 as said above but I know this group of young men from pilot has the shittiest of taste in there mouths from that situation as does the community. Refs will have their hands full as this game will carry tons of emotions

i would give the nod to irmo

This definitely some good football weather

Purple1995 said:

Blah Blah Blah you full of it there’s always a sleeper in the Smokies

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They sleeping all right!

AhsCougar1 said:

And there are 8 generations of the same last names that have lived in Cleveland county since 1903 so you’re always hearing the same last names on both team whether the game is in 1973 or 2023.

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Facts.

Purple1995 said:

East by 56😂

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Game has long been over!

Anytime I think of Havelock there rap video comes to mind 🤣

Game day!

kingbluedevil said:

I think it's going to be defensive game and whoever has the least turnovers wins

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It is going to be a high-scoring affair. I see the defenses giving up many points. There are too many studs on the West Stokes offense to be held down. Lowman will hang as many as he can on East.

Southern Piedmont 1A/2A (No conference games yet)

Highland Tech 4-0
Thomas Jefferson 5-0-1
Burns 5-1-1
Shelby 3-3-2
East Gaston 2-5-1
Bessemer City 1-3-1
Cherryville 1-6-1

Chopper747 said:

Battle of who is the clumsiest team

Cleveland County Clumsy Bowl

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No joke, this game could decide who goes 0-3 in the county this year.

Maiden Creek said:

The freshman… leads the team in tackles.

He must be sump ‘em. 😉

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Yeah, I actually wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't the best player on that team. His middle school team beat reidsville last year due to him.

Burns1985 said:

Some of y'all are eatin biscuits and mustard......

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I may have been known to slingblade a biscuit a time or 20.

BIGSAUSAGES said:

Alex
I’ll take Play Design for a $1000 please

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That's a Daily Double!

Some of y'all are eatin biscuits and mustard......

BIGSAUSAGES said:

Yungins

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Going by Mountie Prides consistent "yOuNg" post I would say Lloyd had 3rd graders on the line when they played Catholic in 23 overtimes. Fortunately, those kids are finally Freshman and we only have 2 more years of them being young. I always wondered if these kids were ever going to be seasoned veterans but I also had no clue KM Elite was the majority of their varsity a few years back.

KingJordon704 said:

im assuming your team is shelby right the same team havelock would have beat probably 10 times outta 14 the last 14 years ? like stop yapping lol

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He’s far from a Shelby fan, but Havelock ain’t hitting on anything. They are just a good Eastern program. They do good to beat 2A WRH, whenever they meet. Meet a western team in the championship, and they get smoked every time.

I remember Crest beat the brakes off of them in the state championship. Havelock had all those big name players, and they were getting decleated by Crest’s defense. Yet, Tre Habinson, Crest’s running back, had Havelock’s defense making business decisions. You have “704” in your screen name, and you’re repping Havelock.