Think it’s just RPI after they seed conference champions. Head to head doesn’t factor I don’t believe
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That's what I was thinking. I was looking at the rules and I didn't at least see anything that would address it.
He forgot yous guys out in the country. I think ER probably be #3 at least at the end playing the 2@ schools
Well BK ER is 6th on Maxpreps in 1A with 12.8 and 4-1 record. Only team above them with tougher schedule is Rville?
Thomasville at 10 has 12.1. Only team with tougher schedule ranked higher, according to Maxpreps, is Rville. They are however 3-3.
Rankings are hard to figure out ain’t they?
And Simmons last week anyway, had Rville at 13 in SOS and 3rd in ranking and Mt Airy at 28 with them still #1. Eastern Randolph SOS in his system was 6th and they are ranked 6th?
Thomasville by the way ranked 4th in Simmons with a SOS of 3.
I think you can look at it that way. But we both know they're pretty close in team strength. You guys had people dinged up last year. They did not well never mind they did didn't they haha. Man two offensive lineman out with bad knees. But none of them were contact related.
Robbinsville has the talent and skill players to go undefeated in the SMC although it seems everyone is just handing them the SMC right now. I would like to flashback to Spring of 2021 (when they didn't have football in the fall because of Covid) when Robbinsville was coming winning state the year prior and riding an undefeated season again. Going into the Murphy game that season with both teams undefeated and surprising enough was the last game of the conference and determined the SMC championship, Murphy when into Big Oaks and lost 17-7. Robbinsville had ALOT of talent and arguably one of the best defenses they've ever had there. Last round of the playoffs, they met again at Big Oaks with Robbinsville a heavy favorite and practically no one giving them a chance. I remember about every play on that game to this day as I was watching it on FYN. Murphy came out and took them to the woodshed winning 24-14. Both games that Robbinsville had against Murphy that season, Murphy held them to their lowest point total.
My point is, its not over till its over. In the SMC, you can't count out anyone. Trust me when I say this, all these SMC teams and players look at these message boards and use it for bulletin board material and if any of them think their backs are against the wall, someone will come out and surprise people. I think we all should wait till the end of October before we start talking about who is going to meet who and who is going where in the playoffs.
Andrews has arguably the best offensive line in all of 1A and we all know in this conference, if you win at the line of scrimmage, 9 times out of 10, you come away with the win.
Swain it appears has the best defense in the conference.
Cherokee & Hayesville is just waiting for someone to overlook them and can steal a win from someone
Murphy has arguably the best offense behind Robbinsville and enough athlete's to compete with Robbinsville. If they can get their D to play consistently, I see a good game.
One week at a time fellas lol. Good luck to all SMC teams though.
My point is, its not over till its over. In the SMC, you can't count out anyone. Trust me when I say this, all these SMC teams and players look at these message boards and use it for bulletin board material and if any of them think their backs are against the wall, someone will come out and surprise people. I think we all should wait till the end of October before we start talking about who is going to meet who and who is going where in the playoffs.
Andrews has arguably the best offensive line in all of 1A and we all know in this conference, if you win at the line of scrimmage, 9 times out of 10, you come away with the win.
Swain it appears has the best defense in the conference.
Cherokee & Hayesville is just waiting for someone to overlook them and can steal a win from someone
Murphy has arguably the best offense behind Robbinsville and enough athlete's to compete with Robbinsville. If they can get their D to play consistently, I see a good game.
One week at a time fellas lol. Good luck to all SMC teams though.
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MHS is hurt by their Opponent Winning Percentage. Rosman, Hendersonville, Erwin and Chase have all struggled.
Swains defense? What makes you think they have some great defense? Their opponents have won a total of like 7 games lol
I agree with most this but Robbinsville my have the best Defense in the smc.
Our linebacker and DB are good.
It's mostly the defensive line. They have a good line that gets off the snap quick and breakup what the OL is trying to do. Also, the DBs are not the best in coverage admittedly, but they run to ball quickly to put a hit on the receiver, which is fun to watch.
These SMC guys crack me up. Give a little credit to Robbinsville and Murphy, they played a few decent opponents. The rest either haven’t played anybody worth talking about or got beat by the only team they played with a pulse.
Robbinsville is very good all round. I like watching their offense. Adams is fast and I like watching him get around the edge and get down field. I don't know his name, but #5 is a dangerous wideout and the QB seems to have a good arm to get it to him. Their defense is just good. They did the best they could with Raburn, but the OL was just huge. If you have all day to pass the ball or clear lanes to run through not much you can do.
Murphy, I am not sure what to make out of them. I have watched two of their games. Franklin and Fannin County. They won the game again Franklin easily, but Franklin also looked like complete garbage that first game and I don't think it was mostly Murphy's doing (example, bad snap on the Franklin punt giving Murphya short field). Not to mention both Robbinsville and Swain also beat Franklin easily. The Fannin game didn't look great either. Neither team did much and Fannin hasn't exactly beaten anyone themselves. Stalcup and Clem are obviously good backs. A couple of passes in the Franklin game made the QB look like he had a weak arm. The OL have decent size but seem a little smaller and maybe weaker than Murphy's usual. They did seem to have good pressure defensively against Franklin, but again, Franklin has not been that good. And that game against Commerce (which I have not seen admitted) is a concern to how good Murphy is. I just don't know how good they are honestly. So I think in the SMC the favorite is Robbinsville with Swain and Murphy on the outside looking in to prove it wrong. My thoughts as a non-SMC guy.
That's why I said "appears" lol. Swains non-conference schedule doesn't stack up to who Robbinsville and Murphy played so only time will tell about their defense. Watching the highlights of the Rabun Gap/Robbinsville game with Rabun being a pass heavy team, the knights held their own against superior competition.
Robbinsville played 1 good team!!!!!!! Take away Raben Gap and teams Robb beat have 9-11 record.
Yeah some folks from rville said our pass D is bad.
I thought this may have been our best game yet. We got better the last few weeks.
I thought this may have been our best game yet. We got better the last few weeks.
Great points although in response to Murphy's line.. Murphy never really has a "big" line because of the offensive formation they run (Wing-T). There are a lot of pulling guards, running buck sweeps, and you have to be quick off your feet when running traps so they tend to average around 220lbs to 240lbs. There are rare occasions when murphy has once in a blue moon talent like Yousef who comes through the pipeline and are just automatic fill ins on the line. So to your point, I wouldn't ever put much say so in Murphy's line since historically they are typically smaller then your other normal line.
Also to note, Murphy's QB is only a sophmore and Franklin was his first game ever as a varsity player.
Historically, Murphy has always been slow starting the season and they get better as the season goes on. Murphy isn't over-looking Hayesville so this week and next week should tell you all you need on what type of team they will be.
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Well MaxPreps has rville as toughest 1a schedule. Robbinsville moved up from 69th to 60th in a loss.
MA dropped the last 3 weeks. With big wins.
If you think that’s bad you should look up the other smc teams. Lol
Buzz coach, if you aren't careful.. you may have another Mitchell come to Mayberry and spoil the party. No need to remind you what happen to Mt. Airy in 2021 when everyone thought Mt. Airy had everything in the bag.. I believe everyone knows what happen next. You guys have East Wilkes this week.. I would worry about them before adding bulletin board material to a SMC team. It may not end well!
Robbinsville posters have said they held there own against Raben Gap......
ROBB PASSING 73 RUSHING 114 187 YARDS
RABEN PASSING 288 RUSHING 205 TOTAL 493 YARDS
36-0
ROBB PASSING 73 RUSHING 114 187 YARDS
RABEN PASSING 288 RUSHING 205 TOTAL 493 YARDS
36-0
Pretty sure they were a "Machine" then as well. Going into that Mitchel game in 2021, they were out-scoring their opponents by a combined 676-25. They lost to Mitchell 21-14. If that isn't the definition of a "Machine", I don't know what is. However, that Machine ran out of batteries so I would just becareful with what you say
Dude, take a seat. Robbinsville, Murphy, Swain and Cherokee have all played teams better than anything Mt Airy has seen so far.
And Rabun Gap would beat the bears as bad or worse than they beat Robbinsville. Penalties negated a lot of Robbinsvilles yards against RG as well.
Who has Swain and Cherokee played that would beat starmount? Not sure if they have played anyone that could beat East Surry.
take Cherokee out of the equation. I was thinking they had played both Smoky and pisgah but Hayesville is who played pisgah.
No sir they didn't have discipline! Very talented but not the mental toughness they had last year or this year. I think Coach Adkins and his staff learned soo much from what happened in 2021 and haven't missed a beat and have these kids focused on the prize!
Robb played East Surry just like Bears. East scored on Robb at big oaks MA won on road 49-0 running clock at the half. Either way play the Dallas Cowboys if it makes you feel better. The time is coming!
You don't know that! MA has a lot more speed than what I seen on film for Rabin Gap on D and Offense and Special teams. MA has a D1 caliber kicker as well.
We went through this crap last year they all said they had something for MA and such and such would win.......how that work out?
You guys may as well be the Dallas Cowboys. Y’all have it all. Speed, Size, Strength, coaching, D-1 kickers. All I gotta say is be careful. The Cardinals are coming……..
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