I just wanted to to make an introduction to you all. I am sure that we all will make excellent conversations together!

So Hi!

-Jon

I think Most in Grayson feel the same about Newnan. Newnan is a great team. All eight teams remaining are really good and any one of them could win and it wouldn’t be surprising.

Here’s how we’d do Class AAAAA:

1-AAAAA (6 teams)
Camden County (moved from 3-AAAAA)
Coffee
Colquitt County
Lowndes
Tift County
Valdosta (playing up)

Going down: Houston County, Northside, Warner Robins

Notes: Four current 1-AAAAA schools were assigned to Class AAAA because of declining enrollment. Schools may choose to play in higher classes than the ones they’ve been assigned. We expect Valdosta to play up while the Houston County schools (Warner Robins, Northside, Houston County) play in AAAA. Do we think the GHSA is going to put Camden County in this region? We’ll believe it when we see it. But here’s the logic: The average road trip for Camden County in the new Region 1-AAAAA would be 121 miles. The average trip in Region 3-AAAAA would be 107 miles. But in 1-AAAAA, there are only five opponents. Let’s do the math: Five road trips times 121 miles is 606. Seven road trips times 107 miles is 749. In other words, Camden will travel less in a six-team Region 1-AAAAA than an eight-team Region 3-AAAAA. We realize that Camden pays many Savannah schools to give up their home football games and come to Camden, but that’s irrelevant because the travel for the region overall is the same whether Savannah comes to Camden County or vice-versa. GHSF Daily asked Camden County football coach and athletics director Jeff Herron about his school moving to Region 1. His answer: “I still don’t see how we could with the consideration we must give to the other sports. It would force all of our other sports to play all of their games on the weekends [because of long travel on week days]. But, with that few of schools [in Region 1], the region schedule might be easier to pull off. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens

Yea I know when the polls come out, but I’m referring to those teams being ranked above us even before they lost. My contention is Marist, Hiram and Westside Macon should have never been ranked above us even before last friday night. Heck, I dont even think Sandy Creek should be ranked above us!! But anyway, I do understand that the rankings dont even matter right now…we just have to keep winning and the rest will take care of itself!! I do know that Sandy Creek will be better than Richmond so we gotta be ready to play and I hope and believe we will.

Hey Jacket, on another note….I would like to play golf friday in Thomasville…is the country oaks golf course in good shape?? Just checking to see if you know anything about that?? Thanks for your help and I can’t’ wait for friday night…I will be there with bells on and my headphones so I can hear Randy Young call the game!!

Good luck to everyone and Camden with ther 7 hour road trip. Man that sucks for anyone who has to travel that long, but we will be alright though.

Martin resigned last week after taking Windsor Forest to its fourth consecutive playoff appearance in AAAAA. The coach said Windsor Forest would have trouble improving on his record as long as the school is required to play in the highest classification despite AAA enrollment numbers.

“I think the kids are missing out on opportunities if we were in a different classification,” Martin told Rich McGowan of the Savannah Morning News. “There’s a lot of issues in Savannah that haven’t been addressed and need to be addressed and I just don’t see it changing much.”

Martin was 29-25 in five years at Windsor Forest, a middle-sized school that plays in Region 3-AAAAA. Windsor Forest, with projected enrollment of 1,300 students for the 2010-11 academic year, lost to Union Grove 47-20 in the first round this season.

there is a story today about one of the coached from a Savannah school quitting. He says they have AAA enrollment and are playing AAAAA. Winsor Lake i think it was.

I said that region3-AAA is the toughest region in the State in Class AAA. I still stand by that assessment. That does not mean that they could not be beaten. Put your team in Region 3-AAA and see where they go in the regular season.

There are several motels/hotels at the Lawrenceville Suwanee Rd exit off of I 85. That is about 5 miles from the school. I believe there is a Days Inn, a Fairfiled, and a couple of others. There is also a variety of decent food along Lawrenceville Suwanee Rd.

I am pretty sure if you search the internet for accomodations in Suwanee you will find those and perhaps a few others scattered in the area. A little further away, there are more hotels near the Sugarloaf exit off I 85.

I would recommend not waiting to make a reservation since accomodations in the area may be taxed because of the holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving! Have a safe trip. This should be a very exciting game.

Where are the best places to stay around NG??

inthatrenches

Did you really post this??? come on man!!! 27 to 7 on your field. You got whipped and there was a reason your team looked like a deer in headlights and gave up flukish turnovers!! Great defs overcome (camden gave lowndes the football on a muffed punt around our 40yard line and shut them down) thats what great defs do at home when the games on the line!! So quit making excuses you got beat soundly at home by a better team!!
Camdens playoff record against newnan
2008 27 to 7
2005 50 to 0
2003 20 to 10

To all Grayson fans get ready for the excuses when you BEAT newnan (its already started with coin toss)!!

Fortunately, none of our kids are going to Buford, anymore. If anything, it is great to see a talented kid like Scotty Hosch coming back to North where he belongs. I have little worry about the team if Uzomah gets hurt, with a kid like Scotty ready to run the offense. Hopefully, Scotty proved himself to the rest of the community when he drove the team for a touchdown late in the Centennial game. I never coached Scotty myself, but I know how talented he is. I was an avid fan of his brother, Twoey, when he led Buford to a State Championship a few years back. Too bad we let Twoey get away.

The NG/PTR rivalry is a heated one that is between 2 of the best teams in the state. Both teams are well coached and the players are top notch. Let’s hope we get to see you guys again in the dome.

I met my neighbors right away. Whenever a new family moves in, existing residents go out of their way to introduce themselves and usually do something like bake a pie or present some other house-warming gift. When we go on vacation we tell the neighbors and I know they will watch the house for us; I might even have the lawn mowed by someone before I get back. I have no reservations about allowing my teenagers to attend a concert at Suwanee Town Square without an adult to supervise, because I know it will be safe with plenty of police. So I am surprised you consider Suwanee folks to be rude, and I would like to understand.

To recap what I think you said: you asked police for assistance and they were helpful. But there may be some sort of problem with loose metal boards in the stands. I am going to check those stands myself to see if there is anything that can be done to secure them. In the 15 years or so that I have attended events in those stands, I was not aware of any such issues. I believe you, but I never heard of a problem like that before. I’ll see what I can do. I am sure the administration is concerned about safety issues.

Next, you walked around the outside of the track holding a teenager’s hand during the biggest game of the year, and nobody noticed, therefore Suwanee people are rude. OK, you got me. I guess I am rude by that definition. If I were in that part of the stadium, I probably would have been bent over the fence watching the game. If I happened to notice a mom holding a teenager’s hand I would not have thought anything of it. My wife and daughter do that sort of thing all the time. If you said something, it might have depended on what was going on in the game as to whether I would take a huge interest. I probably would point you in the direction of emergency personnel, but I am not sure I would take you there myself, if P Ridge was “driving the ball” or something like that.

Alright – guilty. I guess I am rude in your world. You’re from Sugarloaf, right? But I am not sure that I would announce to the world that Suwanee is a hostile environment full of rude people based upon that definition of rude. I think you do a disservice to your community with that sort of pronouncement.

By the way, your band is fantastic, and you have an outstanding music program at Peachtree Ridge. Thank you for allowing the County to use your facility for practices by the Kendall Honors Orchestra. Thank you for allowing the County to use your theater for performances by the Gwinnett County Youth Symphony. Those are programs that improve the quality of education in Gwinnett for many students, and we appreciate your gracious loan of the facility.

They dont change the polls until Mondays I believe. Cant wait until Friday night at the Jackets Nest it’s going to be a big one. Hope we can pull this out but it won’t be as easy as this past Friday night.
GO JACKETS!!!!!!!!!

You can blame your #1 Fan Marcus, just like you stated that jump on the bandwagon and has not made a comment yet unless he changed his name. He talked a million dollars worth of _ _ it.

Great season young man and good luck in the future.

HOWEVER, as in the movie Boomerang MARCUS MARCUS, where are you no comments? You were the ultimate SWD fan two weeks ago.

cane fan–Im sure Callaway will be ready, but win or lose, they wont lose by the 3-5 tds you claimed…are there any photos of the stadium anywhere online i can view?

Camden at North Gwinnett
Peachtree Ridge at Northside Warner Robins
Newnan at Grayson

There is still plenty of exciting football left to play by the best teams in Georgia. Not one of those teams would have made it to this level without a very strong team.

And congratz to “title town” for such a strong showing. The rest of us are in awe of your football mastery.

The problem with that sort of trash talk, Senior, is that old dirty shoes just do not taste very good. The remaining teams are good teams that deserve considerable respect for making it to this level. For example, Newnan is a dangerous team and it will take a very good game by Grayson to notch a win against them. It may take a good game by North and a bad game by Camden for North to even have a chance against such a superior team.

Good luck to N Gwinnett on beating Camden. Give them another long ride home.

What did I tell you about your Hiram Hornets??????? I congratulate your team on a great season, but I knew that those west metro Atlanta teams have always suspect when they get in the playoffs!! Great improvement in your program, keep it up!!

Best football in the state GWINNETT!!!

For that matter with Buford, Wesleyan, Grayson, Peacthree Ridge, and North Gwinnett still left in the playoffs, there is almost zero chance that Gwinnett will not have a team in the dome. And I would say chances are pretty good that Gwinnett County will bring home at least 1 championship.

Go Gwinnett!!!

NG, I guess we will see you at the Dome! Sorry I just couldn’t resist!

As far as Newnan is concerned- best defense wins this game. If high scoring games are the only way to impress this forum neither team will win that prize this week. It’s going to be a war–

Fot the Wildcats, I do not think it really matters if we play at home or on the road. We are not going to change anything anyway. Best of luck to you. Camden will always show class. Talking trash has never put points on the board. It seems like NG is also a real classy organization. Our fans are great. I am certain we will bring at leat 5 thousand to the game. At the State Championship game last year we had somewhere around 8 thousand fans. Heck the Lowndes game Friday night had people sitting in the isles. There were at least 17 thousand at the game. Last year we had to go to Newnan and then turn around the next Saturday and go to the dome. We have played in the dome so many times that the trip to NG will not be a factor.

We really do not have any big play makers. We just put on our blue collard shirts and play smash mouth football. I think they call that 4 yards and a really big clowd of dust.

We look forward to all the hype. Heck, the hype makes us play a lot better. I wish NG the best of luck. It is just another game to us. At the Newnan game last year (Camden played at Newnan), they had a really big hostile crowd and we hung 27 on them and only gave up 7. They had only given up 33 points all season. Nothing in the past matters anyway. I am sure you guys are really good and I am sure we will be really ready to play.

I remember the trips to Valdosta in ‘78 and ‘80, the nailbiters with Morrow, Fayette County, Newnan, and LaGrange. It seemed we played them forever, along with R.E. Lee in Thomaston until ‘77 or so. I was a band member in ‘80 when Lowndes shut us down in the title game, but we tied (beat) Valdosta in ‘78 down there. You guys had some great players on the field in those days. Griffin was a good place to grow up. I won’t comment beyond that. I still have family there.

“3. Bands are not to play during live-ball situations.

NOTE: This includes the situation in which there is no timeout and the teams are in a huddle.

(a) If, during a football game, a team claims interference with communications due to band noise, the Referee shall give a warning to one or both head coaches and the bands must cease playing.

(b) If there is a second offense by the same school’s band, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty will be imposed against that school’s team.”

So it is up to the COACH to point it out to the ref’s as an interference. If they don’t then the ref’s let it go.

Where do you get that information about the rule change regarding the band?

1) The band playing mid-play is NO LONGER against GHSA rules. Although in your opinion you may see it as disrespect it was changed last year. I disagree with the change as well, but it’s not our call to make.

2) I am a current senior at NGHS and as for our fan base, you can easily expect 7,000-8,000 fans of our own for the NG vs Camden game. Without a doubt, this is going to be the biggest game for NG up-to-date.

3) As for “class” and “sportsmanship” you cannot ACTUALLY expect a bunch of high school rebellious teenagers to be “cool” and “chill” at games versus big rivals, in big games. Of course you are going to have the ones trying to start stuff, that’s something people need to learn and accept.

In my opinion, I don’t see Camden getting more than 14 points. Our defense is in tip-top shape right now, I truly do not see them giving up more than 2 touchdowns — IF THAT. As for our offense CJ’s leg injury continues to haunt us in each game. It gets healthy throughout the week but then one wrong hit during the game puts it back to where it started. We can’t afford to sit him out any in the game vs Camden. This game is one for the book, UNDOUBTEDLY! Expect to see one hell of a game friday ladies and gentlemen.

Yes Grayson should be favored at home vs Newnan.
Believe it or not Grayson would also be favored against Lagrange.

I beleive Newnan will be the toughest team Grayson has faced. Camden was 1st game and they are much better now than when Grayson played them. For Newnan Grayson will have to play their best game to win, as it should be in a 3rd round playoff game.

North Gwinn over Camden?
I think so. Haven’t seen North in person this year but I beleive they are a little stronger than the pridge team Camden beat by 7 last year and this Camden team maybe not quite as strong as last year. Since North is at home I will pick them. North may have the most overall balance of any team, strong defense, strong running, strong passing.

Peachtree Ridge played for the title last year and played well, losing to Camden by 7 on a late TD.
This year because of an early season loss on the road to a strong lowndes team many people here have wanted to laugh at them or say a team was “peachtree ridged” or even say they are soft.
Having had a few chances to see them play i believe they are more than capable of beating the Eagles at home.

Good luck to everyone

Go Gwinnett!!!

Because Grayson is a relatively new program it has been very easy to take shots at us and our abilities this season and that is okay, it comes with being ranked number one in the state and in the top ten nationally. As I think one of the Lowndes, Valdosta or Camdem posters said earlier in the season, everyone has been watching Grayson to see how they handled going from being the hunter to the hunted this year. I’d say we have passed that test pretty good so far. It could end next Friday but I really expect us to be in the Dome this year.

At the end of the year the team with the trophy is the one with the bragging rights. I expect that to be us. If for some reason it is not, I will be here to congratulate the team that wins. After all, it is a game for kids played by kids and we don’t need to lose sight of that.

Have a great week and good luck next Friday – you will need it.

Good job to both teams and a big congrats to our Chee boys who put everything on the line for this win. When it came time to decide whether to go for the two-point conversion, Coach Davis left the decision to the offensive coordinator and the players and everyone agreed to go for it. The Chee cats may not be the best team when it comes to offense or defense but when it comes to heart, they are in it to win it.

I’m also glad that the next game will be at Apalachee. Try not to get lost finding us, Griffin fans! And don’t be ashamed if you do. The school has been tricky to find for other teams as well. It might be quicker going through the back roads than trying to get on to the highway. I’m speaking from personal experience as someone who sometimes visits friends in Zebulon. If you’re worried about whether you’ll find a place to eat when you visit, we’ve got McDonald’s, pizza and Chinese food nearby. There’s also Publix and Target as well.

I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving!

I think the depth has been pretty good this year. I have also been impressed with the smaller kids! They might not be a Terry Williams size (6′+ 275lbs) but they make up for it with their speed and play.

I think NSWR is going to have a very tough time scoring on the P Ridge defense. I would expect no more than 7 or 10 points from NSWR. In the mean time, I just do not think NSWR can stop Lombardo and Roby for a whole game. This game was tailor made to showcase the P Ridge talent. But KICK THE BALL on 4th down. Go get ‘em Lions!

Fans need to understand that it takes all 11 players to play winning football. Despite a couple of high profile injuries to the Rams the other players continue to do an outstanding job. Grayson will be the legitimate favorite in every game they play.

Let’s see, we played Camdem County (the defending state champs), Warner Robins, Dacula, South Gwinnett, Parkview, Brookwood to mention a few. All but Parkview and Warner Robins made it to the playoffs and they could have had the ball bounced a little different. Yep, you got us, we played some weaker teams as well in our region. We have to lay who the GHSA says we have to play and some of those teams are having off years. We have nothing to do about that except to try to schedule strong teams for the out of region games – see above.

Playoffs, well you might want to play those teams before you call them mediocre. Don’t forget style points don’t count in the standings and we are 2-0 so far in the playoffs after a 10-0 season. I have lost track of who you are FOR but I think it is North Gwinnett. If you want to talk style points, check the rankings. Grayson is ranked higher than any other team in GA. If you are going to badmouth us, at least do it for something that counts!

Suwanee 0wnz did a good job explaining the way Gwinnett builds stadiums. At the newer schools, I think they grade and sod the field and provide the lights; after that it is up to the boosters. I know at Grayson, the boosters have provided both sets of bleachers and press boothes, both concession stands, rest rooms, ticket house, the field house, the weight room building, etc. They too pay a pretty penny for the kids to play and the booster club provides uniforms, helmets, game day meals etc. I’m sure the south GA teams do as well. I grew up in DeKalb County (go Blue Devils!) and the county has never provided stadiums for all of the high schools. During the growth period in DeKalb, the older schools had stadiums and the new ones got to share those or special built multiple school stadiums such as Memorial Stadium – nominally Clarkston’s home stadium but in reallity a schared facility. Different Times, different philosophies, different places.

Camden 17 NG 14
Newnan 28 Grayson 20 UPSET SPECIAL Callaway 35 Fitz 31 DOUBLE UPSET SPECIAL Colquitt 35 Lassiter 31