New HS rankings and what Kell did Saturday

Valdosta will be dropping out of the top 10 in 5A after Brooks Co.(AA) beats them this weekend. AA is loaded this year.

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McEachern deserves every bit of that ranking. A very, very good team with an explosive offense and a strong defense.

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If you are ranked and you loose a game this early in the season and you should be knocked out of the top 10. Period.

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I agree with Take em to the Woodshed. If McEachern is a top ten team ,then win a few and get back in. Peachtree Ridge looked suspect to me last night but we’ll see what they’re about in a couple weeks. Region 1 hype is being torn away early this year. Lowdnes is the only power team in that region this year. The rest are pretenders.

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Kell Football For Life, Hahaha

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@Terry, Somewhat agreed, I don’t see how Peachtree Ridge looked weak other than the few defensive mistakes that led to big plays.

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To “Quinn of the Ridge” I agree, McEachern has a solid but not great defense and an absolutely explosive offense, it seems they are never really out of the game. if their defense can catch up with offense I say they are a favorite for title in 5A. Best game in Dome last night.

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The Tucker-SWD game will be interesting. Should tell a lot about where teams are, and starting to become a good Dekalb rivalry.

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TUCKER DOES NOT HAVE MORE TALENT THEN SWD . SWD BEAT TUCKER 26-0 LAST YEAR .

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Man, What do you guys think about Lowndes at McEachern (September 3rd), now that should be a heck of a game.

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Newnan’s first game is Aug. 27 vs LaGrange so they are 0-0.

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Hard not to be biased but it doesn’t bother me for a team to stay ranked after losing a close game to a program that has won a state title, played for another and is generally in the mix year in, year out. Final ranking in December is all that really matters, anyway…it always shakes out the way it should in the end.

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Nobody in the the top 10 in single A has played, yet an unranked Bremen team beat a AAA school (Central- Carroll) on Fri. nite. So where is Bremen on this list?

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What time is it??? Game time baby!!!! Thought it was tme for ole JAYBO to make his 2010 appearance…welcome back guys…its time to get this party started!! So my TCC Yellow Jackets are ranked #5..I wont kick up a lot of sand about that, I just think we are better than tucker, clarke central and griffin…and if you want my honest opinion, I think we are better than those world beaters from WR(LOL). No, but I do understand the logic behind ns being ranked #1. Looking forward to the season, but I wont have as much time to follow my team or vent b/c I am now coaching HS football as well. Good luck to all and lets have a good season!!

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The HS front page references scores and schedules. Where can one find schedules and region alignments? The HS section seems as hopelessly disorganized as it always has been. GHSA site doesn’t seem much better. Where does one go for the best HS scores/schedules info?

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HERE WE GO AGAIN, SOUTH GA ALWAYS RANKS HIGHER THAN NORTH GA. CAMDEN, LOUNDES-NORTH GWINNETT-PTREE RIDGE. GIVE ME A BREAK… GHSA BS AGAIN BACK FOR ANOTHER YEAR….

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Bartkowski –
How region 5AAAA works is they are divided into a north and south sub and in game 9 will be 1 v 4, 2 v 3, 3 v. 2, 4 v 1. To determine who goes to playoffs. So there is an outside chance all 4 teams could go from one sub region or you could go undefeated all year, win your sub, and lose in the last game. Rough way to end.

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@ Ralph…the last four seasons its been camden/ lowndes or a gwinnett team…need i say more

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6-A usually owns 6-AAA.

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see this is why the south teams are better/ down south ga n the country where all the kids have is football and the kids been playing with the same group of kids all there life n the north half of ga the kids move around alot new schools all the time that sucks how most of westlakes talent went to langston hughes high school and it sucks how they suck to if you put them back together then maybe they will be a gud time again

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Tucker has more talent than southwest dekalb this year by a long shot. This year tucker team is a whole lot better than last year tucker team and this year southwest dekalb team is no where near last year team but it should be a good game if southwest playes perfect.

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yes, South Ga teams are again ranked higher than North Ga. ask North Gw and Peachtree Ridge about the last time they played Lowndes. also, P.R. tied for a state title but I don’t remember N.G. ever winning one! Lowndes and Camden have combined to win 6 of the last 7 titles. South Ga will remain on top until N Ga can consistently do somethine about it! North Ga does have some great football but you also have many more teams and fewer titles!

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So long farewell,5yr gravey train is over,now it is time to coach,oh sorry,how is that done,talent on the team,not in the staff,hello Mr principle and Mr AD,watch da game.
every game i will see and players do learn on their own,go Bay Creek Grayson rams.

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Well as far as Region 1-AAAAA that was the first game. There is a lot of season left. I believe that Colquitt County will get back into their groove. I am not sure about Coffee County and Tift County.

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Congrats Cook County. Well deserved win. Colquitt County needs to jump back on the bandwagon and prepare for South Panola, MS. Don’t let the State of Georgia down!!! As for rankings, they don’t mean very much. Something for us to point at but the real ranking is played on the field. Just want remind everyone when Camden lost a couple of games last year, they were written off. But they re-focus their efforts (all about coaching) and things turn out good for them.

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Hoya Chuck…

Great to see ya back in here…Yeah I will also miss having the Harrison game on the schedule…You guys went two for two against EAST, would have been nice to had a few more games to see how they went…

Back in AAAA EAST gets a lot more in county and closer to home games that will help with the economy like it is…Hope ya’ll have a great season and I also look forward to the blogs as the season progresses…

BE CAREFUL OVER THERE!!!!

GO RAIDERS!!!!!!

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what a way to start off the season. LG vs NHS Aug 27 Lowndes vs McEachern Sept 3 Carver vs Buford Sept 3 NHS vs PT Ridge Sept 10 plus NG plays the nationally ranked team from Cali and Camden plays it great out of region schedule. Also of Note I hear the Freshmen Berry Boys are the Real Deal.

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I Saw tha Front Page Of DCSS: ATHLETICS Which is DEKALB COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL’s FRONT PAGE and The Article is “Preseason games ringing in the 2010 high school football season” The QB FROM CEDAR GROVE!!!!!?????. Everybody in Dekalb Knows about this Kid HE is the flat out truth!!!!!!!!!!

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@a viking fan 2….yeah more titles, that’s a fact woohh…Gwinnett county has twenty plus highschools; lowndes plus camden has two high schools combined. We do have more teams but the distribution of talent is farrrrr more widespread than it is down south…. if gwinnett county had just one team like camden and lowndes, wow the south would never rise again, nor would they travel up NORTH to the dome.

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Hoya Chuck is back! How are your Hoyas looking this year?

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I still strand on my pre-season prediction for 1-AAAAA when I said the season will end in a three way tie for 1st place. Colquitt will bounce back and Valdosta with it’s 35 seniors will make things tough for our yound rebuilding Lowndes Viking team. (Valdosta fans think they have their best team in over a decade.)

Not making excuses for Lowndes in last week’s 4th quarter, but we did play a whole lot of sophmores after going up 28 -0 to start the 4th quarter. And believe me, So Gwinnett is a very good team. We’ll know a lot more about what we have after we travel to McEachern on Sept 3rd.

BTW, JAYBO, where are you coaching at? Did you see the Lowndes/TCC scrimmage game? The TCC QB is “for real.”

To Kramers2009 – Todd Holcomb and his staff at GHS Football Daily do the highschool rankings for the AJC, and usually do a hell of a job!.

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But, until then we owned the Dome and the last 6 of the last 7 championships, and very likely 8. I think Gwinett Co. has the largest school system in Ga. So it should not be that hard to find some talent walking the hallways. Your schools population is probably close to being the same as Camden and Lowndes. So stop with that excuse, could it be we work harder, train harder, coach harder that equals you play harder. Whats the difference, if I take 3000 students from a system thats has 30,000 kids or a system that has only 3000. In the end you still bascially got the same number of kids in your student body. You see my point. We as well as Lowndes start training our kids for our system in the middle schools. You don’t wait until they become freshmen to start. We trained harder, and that equals we play harder. The Area in which your kids attend NG, probably is more populated than our whole county, so that argument doesn’t add up. So in the end our schools population is close to being the same or you would not play AAAAA football(unless you choose to play up). You have more AAAAA in Gwinett Co, than we have down south combind, So shouldn’t the odds or the numbers for winning be in you guys favor. We only have 5 true AAAAA schools down south, Camden, Lowndes, Colquitt, Coffee, Tift,( Valdosta plays up). But we owned AAAAA Football. North more teams less titles, South less teams more titles. Tell your Head Coach to start implementing his system in the middle schools that feed NG, and watch the difference in the way the kids play. My son is 5 years old and all he talks about is playing for the Wildcats, thats how young we try to get them involved trust me it makes a difference. Off-season programs, implementing your system in the middle schools, its all in part of building a good program year in and year out. Some of our PEEWEE teams are running the same system as the highschool.

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Our Camden Wildcats will worry about 1 thing—Getting better every week. Colquitt has a great team–We will NEVER underestimate any team regardless of their record. We have a lot of young kids that need to work hard if they plan to compete with Lowndes or any other team in the State. Best of luck to everyone.

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Gwinnett Fan

Camden as well as all South Georgia teams have a lot of respect for Coach Conn. When Grayson came to Camden a few years ago Coach Conn as well as his players showed a lot of class. Camden has won three State Championships. It takes good players great coaching and a little bit of luck. I think Coach Conn is one of the best coaches in the State. Good luck Grayson—Maybe Camden will get another chance to play you guys. I am sure it will be a game to remember. Best of Luck

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Gwinnett does have a lot of AAAAA size schools (about 18 I think) and open new ones with regularity. That’s actually a problem Mr. Brainless Wildcat Fan. Existing schools are split when new schools open and that hurts consistency. Players are put in new systems with new coaches and seldom excel in football for the first few years of existence. Region 1 schools are rarely, if ever, split into multiple schools so…….stop your $%^&*( whinning. Georgia isn’t even one of the top high school football states.

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It is not appropriate to use the word ‘class’ and ‘Lowndes’ in the same sentence. Reference your comment: “Yo is right to say that Camden and Lowndes are the class of the state and we look forward to that this year! Good Luck Region 1AAAAA!”

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For you soccer mom wimps. There was no controversial play in the PTR / Mc game! No rules were broken. Nothing unethical was done. Time out was called legally and nothing sneaky about it. Anyone that says different nothing about football. Everyone in the dome knew timeout was going to be called, especially McEachern. Coaching Tip>>> If you have three time outs remaining you use two of them and not the third; it messes with the kicker’s mind thinking a third time out will be called. Nothing wrong and the same would have been done by McEachern.

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As a NG fan and parent I can tell you that the splitting of the schools in Gwinnett County has a big effect on talent and consistency. NG has been split 4 times in the last 18 or so years. Those new schools are Collins Hill, Peachtree Ridge, Mill Creek and now Lanier. The South Ga. Schools don’t seem to that happen to them too often. When you add the the additional effect of Private schools like Wesleyan (a recent State Champion) GAC and City Schools like Buford (Multiple State Championships) getting some of the top athletes, It presents challenges that the South GA. teams don’t necessarily have. At NG we make no excuses. We have laid a couple of eggs and lost to Lowndes and Camden that were better teams than us. Our challenge is to get past that finally succeed.

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robert, before you take what i say completely out of context you go back and read my post… i said as a WHOLE. Yes there is no taking away the fact that camden is far and away the best team in AAAAA. My point is for you to automatically write off any team north of warner robins is laughable. Yes they play st thomas aquinas, yes they are the 2 time defending champs but past lowndes and camden, who does south georgia have? lets look at the daunting region 3… Groves, Jenkins, Beach, Bradwell Institute, and Windsor Forest just to name a few powerhouses… Again i was NOT questioning the talent on those 2 storied programs, i was simply saying dont name the good without considering the bad

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Still no love for my North Clayton Eagles, even with the top LB in the state of GA. That’s okay they’ll fly under the radar again. I guess the only way they’ll be ranked is if they go 10-0, win it’s region, and make it to the 4th round of the playoffs.
2008 – 10-2 unranked.
2009 – 10- 3 unranked
2010 – ????

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Valdosta will do well this year. It’s too bad that Coach Tomberland was ran out of town before he had a chance to see the benefit of his work. Coach Gillespie will get all of the credit but do not forget the effort that was put in develping these young men the past few years was from Tomberland’s staff. I cannot wait to see Effingham come back to prominance in the next few years.
One of Coach T’s old teams – WACO looks to be loaded again this year. They look promising.
In A ball – Johnson County should be solid. Walker is the real deal. I think that ECI is going to be really good but will be and absolute force the next two years because most of their roster is underclassmen.
In AAAA – I really am looking for Jones County to turn a few heads this year.

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Colquitt may have had more yards than Cook, but Cook was the better team by far. Cook was bigger and faster than Colquitt. Cook also had the best player on the field and probably best linebacker in the state in Shannon Brown. He dismantled Colquitt by himself on defense. Cook didn’t look like a AA school, they are LOADED.

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Quinn of the Ridge – Hope this answers your question. Lowndes would very much like a renewal of the series with PR. We wanted both games to be played here, but as with McEachern we would be willing to travel if we have to. Problems traveling for us goes beyond football. Our band takes 16 to 18 school buses, another bus for the cheerleaders, 3 or 4 for the football team, and a semi for band equipment. One quickly sees the cost of all that, especially when you consider a school system doesn’t have that many extra buses. Those same buses are used to take kids home from school, then refueled to make the trip to a ball game. When we have to travel as far as Atlanta, special arrangementrs have to be made to take the kids home earlier than normal, disrupting the school day. Parents don’t like their little kids to be taken home early because a lot of the parents are still at work. Very few schools in the state have close to 500 band students. Sooooo, you see it isn’t just a football issue. We think PRidge is a very good opponent, year in and year out. They have great coaches and athletes. Our coaches get along really well with theirs. This year when making schedules, we just couldn’t work it out with PR, and signed a home and home Mceachern. Hopefully in the future we can. One of our former players is a respected community coach for PR. Boo Williams played for us as a receiver and at Vanderbilt. Great guy!

Are you driving over to Powder Spgs September 3rd? Maybe we can meet before the game. Lowndes Touchdown Club will have a hospitality tent giving out burgers and soft drinks to fans as they arrive. Look for it and ask for AVikingFan!

This is my 40th year with the same reserved seat tickets at Lowndes games. If you’re ever down our way on Friday night, I’d love to show you around. Good luck to PRidge this year.

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mark my word the swd panthers may not be ranked but eveyone will take notice after their game vs tucker this weekend

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NOT a school in AAAAA that is loaded…tell them to play some AA schools if the gap is really wide. I know they won’t.

North Gwinnett quit going out of state for opponents and go across the street to play Buford.

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WILDCAT FAN– At NG we certainly understand our history of football is not the best. What we are trying to do now is change history. For the first 45 years of the 50 years that NG has been open, the football team had 0 ten win seasons and 0 region championships and probably only a handful of playoff appearances. Coach Sphire came in changed the atmosphere at the school and now we have won at least 10 games a year, Won a region championship, made it to at least the State Qtr Finals each year and played in 1 State Championship game. In a lot of ways it resembles Camdens rise to the top. Camden has won 15 region titles and 3 State Titles. 10 of the region titles have come in the last 14 years and the State Titles have come in the last 7 years. I don’t say that we will reach that level, only that we strive to. I am happy to see that Camden also plays quality national opponets in your non region games. We do the same and I believe it does nothing but helps the team get better.

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How in the HELL Kell can be #10 in AAAA and knock North Clayton out and they did not play. That is some BS.

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AVikingFan,

Who has the State’s best Drumline?

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why is this called a “Daily” update?

and when or where can I get a week-by-week sked of all the friday night games in georgia?

anybody know?
thanks

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CAMDEN CO. RULES THE STATE EVERBODY ELSE IS A JOKE. MAKE IT THREE IN A ROW THIS YEAR. RAN NORTHSIDE BACK DOWN TO 4A.

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thanks for the kind ranking to start. newnan has a brand new team this year, we lost alot of players. hope to make the plat offs with alot of sophmores. this will be a tuff rebuilding year. good luck everyone.

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wildcat fat, please explain your logic where camden co would beat grayson 9 or 10 out of 10… seeing as how the stat line read like this: total yards Grayson: 248 Camden: 108, o not to mention no player on camden rushed over 28 yards, meanwhile a 5 foot 8 back who cant even see over the line rushed for 133 yards (well over the total for the game for your beloved wildcats) and you wanna know who plays in gwinnett? ok here it goes. North Gwinnett: my pick for the champ, South Gwinnett: dangerously close to beating the untouchables (Lowndes) Grayson: young but will be in the thick of it come december, Brookwood: back on the map after the kell classic, Peachtree Ridge: year in and year out could be considered in the top 5… need i go on? my point is this (once again, hopefully you will understand this time) Has the SEC won 4 straight national championships? yes, but does that mean that the big 12, big 10 and pac 10 teams are worthless and have no shot? Try explaining this logic to texas, nebraska, oklahoma, usc, and ohio state fans…

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Amazed, do you look up fatcs or do you make them up:
Brookwood: 1-1 Region 8-AAAAA
North Gw 1-0 Region 7-AAAAA
PTR 1-0 Region 7-AAAAA
Parkview 1-0 Region 8-AAAAA
Walton 1-0 Region 8-AAAAA
Stars Mill 1-0
Norcross 1-0 Region 7-AAAAA
Grayson 1-1 Region 8-AAAAA
Dacula 0-1 Region 8-AAAAA
Woodstock 1-0 Region 5-AAAAA
Camden is: 9-3 against Gwinnett area schools. Majority of the victories were during the Kell classic. Yes Grayson beat Camden lat year by 3, but Camden ende up State Champs. Camden beat Grayson 22-7 in the playoffs (when it counts). They beat Woostock and PTR in the payoffs to go 15-0 08/09. State Champs.
Camden has 3 titles, Lowdnes has 3 Titles and Parkview has 3 titles. Roswell/PTR shared a title. All since AAAAA came in to play in 2000. I am sure Camden would give up an early season game to win another State Title.

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Wardawg– Camden is a great team and has done some great things the last 15 years. But you should really be careful when quoting facts when you do not have the facts correct. Woodstock, Walton and Starr’s Mill are no where near Gwinnett County. I appreciate you trying to embelish the record, but there really is no need. Camden’s record against Gwinnett county schools is 6-3. I guess that didn’t look as impressive.

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Cook is known for UPSETS. Go back to 2005 when they upset Dublin who was undefeated and had only allowed seven points in 11 games, and then the past three years they’ve upset several #1 seeds in the playoffs (as a #4 seed). Recently last week, they upset nationally ranked Colquitt. Cook is UPSET UNIVERSITY.

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Kell comes to Etowah in week 2…. WATCH OUT… All of that Kell hype might quickly dissapear…

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Etowah tore up Kell last year and Kell hasn’t changed at all other than getting older. Should be interesting. I’m looking forward to see what they can do against Etowah and Woodstock in weeks 2 and 3

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Etowah? Lol dude come on. Etowah fell apart last year and all Kell did was improve. You can’t seriously think that Ghetowah will beat my Longhorns….. We’ve got Mr. Tennessee (one of the best safeties in the state) and a defense that will shut you down.

and @goldenglove002, Kell didn’t play Etowah last season, they played Woodstock.

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My bad, it was indeed Woodstock. Tend to mix up the two schools since they are right down the street from each other. I still expect Etowah to be a decent challenge.

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All of this is interesting but what about GAC???? Nothing!!!!! hahahahahahahahahaha….guess we’ll be talking about them in playoffs!!! That’s fine!!!! I want to see what the new recruits bring….Rickmans anyone?????

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by the way Columbus Northern spanks some team from Ohio 6-0 in the LLWS!!

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For the person that wanted to find the Georgia High School Football game schedule,
try this site:

http://www.ghsa.net/2010-ghsa-football-schedule

As a matter of fact, GHSA.net gives you a ton of information from rules to schedules, on all sports.
It is also a good location for the “run to the championship” brackets at the end of the regular season.

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I still say that if Camden had to play the big boys week in and week out it would take a toll on them come playoff time.

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wardawg, once again i ask you… which of my statements is false

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Hey South Paulding…Your FIRST RAIDER’S COUNTDOWN CLOCK continues…

It’s 55 Hours+ and counting until you have your FIRST visit to “THE BONEYARD”…

TICK…TICK…TICK…BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO RAIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey Wolverine fan you are exactly right, Camden plays a pretend region schedule every year and better be glad they don’t have to play NSWR again and No they didn’t knock NSWR down they are up again and better than ever!

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The nay-saying has begun already. First, fans around the states complains about Camden’s schedule. With the exception of Region 1 & 3, who wants Camden in their region/schedule…let’s be honest. (Be careful for what you wish for because it may come true) Sometime happiness is not being there…get my drift.
Next until Camden is beaten, don’t complain. Last but not least, someone step up to the plate and take command or suffer defeat.
BTW, take a look at what’s on Camden schedule:
http://flavarsity.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=957&CID=1116432

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Colquitt County’s troubles are just beginning. This week they have South Panola, Miss., and the week after that, the mighty Jackets of TCC at the Jacket’s Nest……Could very well be an 0-3 start for the Pack.

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Dark bronco with twin horses and a thrower will rise this year to surprise some top GW teams into the playoffs.
Concession food is good at Grayson, run Mickey run.

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HARDAWY HEROES – The 100 mile rule applies to games played on a night followed by a school day, as with Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. This rule limits B teams and Freshman teams to how far they can travel because they normally play on Wednesday or Thursday. So to comply with the rule, those 100+ mile games have to be scheduled either Friday or Saturday nights, and usually when the Varsity is out of town, which is not fair to fans and often parents who have kids on both the Varsity and one of those other teams. Further complicating this is the rule applies to ALL sports played by those high schools, not jst football.

Increasing the minimum to say, 125 or 150 miles would help, but in these hard times I’m not sure what hardship that would put on the budgets of these schools. I think it would end up causing some schools to delete certain sports from what they participate in.

Camden has that problem when considering joining 1-AAAAA. It’s over a 100 miles to every school in our Region for them, or for us going there. And I’m sure it’s that far to Savannah for them also, which makes scheduling a nightmare for all sports. That may one day be the “straw that broke the wagon” issue that causes them to build a 2nd highschool and split their enrollment, thus placing them into a lessor classification.

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Tucker vs Southwest Dekalb is week 1 game of the week.
Tucker vs Marist is week 2 game of the week.
IDC what team you are this i a tough 1st 2 games of the season and they are both road games.
Good Luck Tucker

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joe, I’m certain a lot of folks in Powder Springs are thinking McEachern’s game with Lowndes on September 3rd will be right up there with Tucker and Marist in significance and excitement. I know we do way down here in John Wayne, Johnny Cash and John Deere country…..

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get off the band wagon…yal are acting like BAMA fans….Any top five 5-AAAAA team would beat Buford hands down….they wont play north because NG is a great program now compared to years ago, and i played in the state championship against lowndes in ‘07=either lowndes or camden would break buford in half every play for four quarters. A.K.A. they don’t f*%k around down there.

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After being @ the South Gwinnett-Lowndes game, I have the following observations
1) Lowndes needs work on special teams (blocked punt, too many men on field (twice), fumbled kickoffs (recovered by Lowndes, but you need to catch the ball).
2) Lowndes DL played well, pressured Kent Rollins all night (under 50% completion rate)
3) Braswell & Hunter are playmakers.
4) South did not give up & fought all night. The final score was a little deceiving, giving that South scored on the final play of the game. However, South did have the ball in Lowndes territory with 3 minutes left, trailing by 8. However, Lowndes stepped up, forcing a turnover & Braswell getting loose & going to the house on the next play to dash South’s hopes.

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Wow that is a tough way to start season for Tucker. SWD followed by Marist. We should know a lot about Tucker as well as SWD and Marist after these games. 6AAAA is a very tough region.

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AVikingFan and HARDAWAY HEROES.
The 100 mile rule supposedly applies to all sports but is never enforced and there are definately exceptions for certain regions. A lot of the Savannah schools are just over 100 miles from Camden and all our sports teams play weekday games there (except football of course). I know for a fact that our wrestling team has gone over 100 miles for non-region matchups on Tuesdays or Wednesdays too.

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Amazed,,, Why do you keep going on and on about one lone Victory. In the end what team raised the Trophy. Get over it DUDE. I would bet the house, that Grayson would give back that lone win, for the chance to raise that beautiful Trophy. So, Let go of Graysons JOCKSTRAP, Remeber this score CAMDEN 35 NG 0. Year in and year out the Trophy comes home to the south. You sound really foolish when you keep going on and on about a victory here and there, beat CAMDEN and Lowndes on a yearly basis and take that trophy back up North and then get on here and run your mouth. If you do those two things, that will shut the South up and then maybe you would not sound so foolish. I have never said anythying disrespectful about any school. I for one as many other Camden fans respect GWINNETT Co. football. We only respond to the negative post about our School. We get attacked more than any school ever, but we know why. When I was in Highschool it was this one kid that i just did not like. Now as an adult I know why, the kid was better than me at sports( I was pretty good myself)and his girlfriend was better looking than mine. Sounds like a fellow BLOGGER. Get my hint. You just sound foolish, I just state the very obviuos, when I say, Now at this point in time, footabll in AAAAA is better in the South, but I said the same during basketball reason, that the North is better than the South, its just the truth. Just beat Camden and Lowndes when you play them, until then STOP with the excuses. You may not like it, but Camden football is here to stay 8 Juniors and 1 sophmore on this years defense,(starters). Simple solution beat Camden when play them and STOPPPPPPPPPPPPP with the excuses. We beat Lowndes, Colquitt, and Northside, why do none of these people complain, why you ask, its called RESPECT. Winners respect!!!!!!! Losers complain????????

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Lowndes, colquitt, Northside(twice), Newnan(twice), Valdosta ,North Gwinnett, PeachtreeRidge, Woodstock, Stephenson, Grayson, Brookwood, Dacula, Warner Robins, Tift, Newton, These are some of the teams Camden faced in the play-offs over the last few years. Very good record against them, my point none are from region 3AAAAA.

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I also saw this posted on another blog on ajc..someone stated (paraphrasing) that the weak region Camden plays in allows it to fine tune all aspects of their game, as well as rest key players and develop depth, which would make for deep runs in the playoffs…Just a question to the Camden fans…would this be a true statement? Im not bashing anyone, just want an honest question to an honest answer!!

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MERCURY22—youre obviously from south carolina!!!

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and i dont really understand the “simple solution” isnt that what ive been saying all along? Grayson did beat camden last year haha

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@amazed im gonna help you understand the “solution” get some state championships or shut your mouth thats coming straight out of the boondocks of Valdosta,GA where 28 state championships currently reside

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having watch this debate unfold for a couple of days now i figure i would chime in… as a grayson supporter i can respect what both camden and lowndes has done in the past 5 years. that being said during my 4 years at the school we played camden twice and lowndes once… we went 1-1 against camden and 1-0 against lowndes. to the guy who is saying that the only solution is to win i think grayson has done that. yes camden is the best team in the state right now yes lowndes is loaded year in and year out but does that take away from the pretty good ball teams that reside north of warner robins? Not by any stretch of the imagination. Now would grayson switch the win in the corky kell for a championship? of course but this is real life and they can still hang their hat on the fact that they were the only team in the state to beat the champs… as far as the weaker region goes it has to be region 3… I know you cant help your location but i would hope even camden fans can admit that anytime you outscore your opponents 274-0 in a 5 week span (see week 5-9) that it is indeed a LOUSY region.

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anyone know if the progressive challenge will be shown on tv outside of atlanta??

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North Clayton is now referred to as the DA CLAYTON. Like the U at Miami.

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Zack, let us compare Grayson 8-AAAAA and Camden 3-AAAAA for last season shall we:
8-AAAAA: Grayson- 8-0
S Gwin – 7-1 27-16
Dacula- 6-2 44-0
Brkwd- 5-3 22-12
PKVW- 4-4 33-37
Shiloh- 3-5 34-0
C Gwin- 2-6 42-3
Berk- 1-7 37-0
Mead- 0-8 56-0
Total: 36-36 295-68

Camden: 7-0
Win For- 6-1 39-6
Bradwell- 4-3 56-9
Jenkins- 4-3 50-0
Johnson- 3-4 51-0
Beach- 3-4 56-0
Groves- 1-6 76-0
Savan- 0-7 41-0
Total: 28-28 369-15

Playoffs:
Grayson: Marietta: 5-5 21-14
Roswell: 10-1 24-14
Newnan: 13-0 7-9 (L)

Camden: Newton: 6-4 43-19
Lowndes: 10-1 10-7
N Gwin: 12-0 35-0
Colquitt: 11-2 19-10
Northside: 13-1 31-3

It appears to me that Gray did not face competiton wekkend and week out. In fact their division faired as well as Camdens division. In fact Camden maintained the same level of play throughout the playoffs. The only games not included are the non region games. To show fair comparison here we go:

Grayson: 14-10 (Camden) 13-2
10-0 (Warner Robins) 6-4

Camden: 10-14 (Grayson) 12-1
30-24 ( First Coast, Jacksonville, Fl) 5-5
27-30 (Hoover, Al) 16-0 ( Region 6 6A State Champs)

Facts are facts. Playoffs present the same level of competition. Before we start talking about which region is weaker, let’s look at every regions level of competition. As you can see Graysons level of competition was the same as Camdens. Graysons scoring tailed off in the playoffs, while Camden scored at the same level of scoring as they did during the regular season. A lot of those blowouts by Camden was done by the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stringers. This method can be applied to any region to see who has the upper hand. Does this dimenish what Grayson did at the beginning of the year, no, does it dimenish what Camden did, no. It shows that all regions have the also rans, and that if you want to be the best in the region, then you have to play the game as it is presented to you. I beleive that the level of competition at all levels of high school football has increased tremendouly in Georgia, any team can beat any team on any given night. Nothing replaces hard work during the season and after the season. Any good program will run 12 months out of the year. That is what really separates good teams from the not so good teams. I can say that I have never seen the Savannah schools ever quit competing when they have played Camden or any other school. The level of talent is not there to compete week end and week out, but the effort is there. The other thing is Camden has a team concept not seen in most programs. You will never see them listed with the likes of some programs who have numerous DIV 1 players. That Coach there has the players and the community believing in the importance of team over individualism. Are there players on that team who are Div 1 prospects I am sure there are. Take a few good athletes and surround them with some good players and a system that suits the players you have and get the community to buy into the system and you will thrive, no atter where you are at. Let’s all get out and support the school programs as a whole. God Bless all of the athletes who will be strapping it on every friday and saturday this year. May they be injury free and show great sportsmanship this season.

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WARDAWG58,,,Great post.

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JAYBO…Good to see ya…they been after your TCC boys in here, ya need to get em straight!!!…LOL!

Hey South Paulding…Where are all your supporters??? NOBODY has been in here posting yet…I hope ya’ll show up tomorrow night…I realize it can be a VERY INTIMIDATING sight looking across from the visitor’s side of “THE BONEYARD” at our STANDING ROOM ONLY HOME bleachers as they cheer our RAIDERS on to yet another VICTORY!!!

BUT Your FIRST RAIDER’S COUNTDOWN CLOCK continues…

It’s only 34 Hours+ and counting until you have your FIRST visit to
“THE BONEYARD”…

TICK…TICK…TICK…BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO RAIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My thing is if the North want to prove how good they are,why want they play some teams from the south that have good teams not the ones close to atlanta but the ones from 75 south.Teams like Peach county Waco,Lowndes,Camden county,Thomas County Central just to name a few.Come own North get own our level down south.Every year its the same thing the south always has to prove how good we are because of how its sat up in the playoff.They need to have a better system because some time the number 1 team meets the the Number 2 team in the state meet each other in the second round of the playoff.i seen it happen with Peach and Lagrange a couple of years ago,that should not have happen that early but it was ok.This year AAA is loaded with good team,the Peach state has 4 teams in the top 10 and 3 of them are in the same region the same about AAAAA.All i got to say is that some team from the south will be in the dome this year !!!!

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Bartkowski – I went to the website you raved about gaprepcountry.com and there was NOTHING about football there. Basketball and baseball. What gives?

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GHSF says…..”Kell-North Clayton. Someone asked how NC could be dropped when they didn’t play. Here’s how it works: You make $50,000 a year and are ranked the No. 10 highest-paid guy in your office. Another guy just got a raise and you didn’t, and now you are No. 11. You’re still making $50,000. In other words, Kell got a raise”………LoL thats the biggest problem in the work place today…..Unproven money….I think you guys were a little premature dropping North Clayton and boosting Kell….Yes they did defeat Grayson , a young Grayson and a Pemberton less Grayson..Not exactly a blowout either..I would have waited to see how good or bad Grayson was before dissing North Clayton , who by the way has back to back 10 win seasons

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wildcat fan, you are absolutely right… which is why i compared the entire county to your region… region 8 is not a juggernaut however i would say the top teams in gwinnett county are fairly good.

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8:29 pm

JUST WAITING ON AN ANSWER FROM A CAMDEN FAN—ANYONE??

I also saw this posted on another blog on ajc..someone stated (paraphrasing) that the weak region Camden plays in allows it to fine tune all aspects of their game, as well as rest key players and develop depth, which would make for deep runs in the playoffs…Just a question to the Camden fans…would this be a true statement? Im not bashing anyone, just want an honest question to an honest answer!!

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To Wildcat Fan…I appologize for jumping into your argument with the Grayson fan. I never post any blogs on here I usually just read them. The only reason I did was becouse I didn’t appreciate his tasteless comments about boondocks and hicks…which was the reason I chose this name to post under. Any ways cudos to you for being the bigger man and telling him you respect his program when he showed you no respect for yours.

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AVikingFan–I was just wondering. That was a repost of a post I read somewhere and I just wanted to get a camden fans opinion on it. As far as Newnan goes, they have just ran into a couple of buzzsaws the past couple of years i guess..its like the semis are kryptonite for them!!!

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AVikingFan–but that wont be said about Newnans region this year because that region is LOADED!!
probably the closest to last years 1-AAAAA in my opinion

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HARDAWAY HEROES,,I really don’t agree with that assumption. My thing is we have guys that play no more than a half game every Friday night. It makes for the team not to be in full game shape, fine tuning your offense with only a half of play from your starters. You got to have talent to win, because you can fine tune your team all year, but if the team has no talent it would not make a difference the better team comes out on top most of the time. Its difficult to keep those guys in game shape when they play less than a half of every game and then ask them to play full games in the play-offs. But I would admit that it gives our younger players game time experience, but he plays those same kids in critical times also. I think it hurts for no team to push you in the regular season because in the play-offs if a team comes out and drive the ball down your throat on the first series then comes back and knock you in the mouth on defense, and you haven’t experience that it could be trouble. A year ago we had Norhtside by 2 touchdowns, they came back to take the led, I believe our kids was tired, then after they got their legs back under them, they came back to score two quick touchdowns. Thats was the first game that year, were the starters had to play an entire game and that was game 12(second round of the playoffs). It has positives not as much as you may think, but it comes with a lot of negatives also. The same thing happen to us against Woodstock, 15, 16, and 17 year old kids easily get the mind set of every game is that easy, and when Woodstock comes to play ball its a reality check, Camden was easily 28 better than Woodstock, not on that night, breeze through game 1-11 and you think 12 will be that easy.

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Ding, Ding,

Those Camden Wildcats are ready, scratching and pawing for another title run.
Holla if you are with me…Roll Cats…

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BIG CAT,

Since we bringing up the past

11-26-1999 Camden Co H W 54 7 NORTHSIDE VICTORY

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Hey Flyer ……….. Does 3 straight Buford state championships and 6 in the last 10 years make a better case for dominance ?? Sit down

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East Paulding 34…… South Paulding 0 3rd qt

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sorry college coach, i was just informed that u coach the girls chess team. that explains why u know nothing about high school football.

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Well for everybody that said that we would lose to the Demons, we started the title defense with a shutout of the Warner Robins Demons!!!The defenses is ligths out and i dont see to many teams in the region putting up that many points up aganist them,they got speed every where around the ball.The offense is young,but give them a couple of game together and they should be alright.But they say Defense is what win Champion Ships.This should be a good season this year,this test is yet to come,when we play Westside in macon.But for now we will take one game at a time,That win friday nite makes it 16 straight,so whos next, next week.Where ever we go we Take Over!!Peach County Baby!!!

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North Gwinnett is better than any team in AAAAA, or any other division for that matter. From the coaching staff, to the players. North Gwinnett is ranked nationally, and will take state this year. Mark my words by the end of the season, North Gwinnett will be ranked in the top 5 in the nation.

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This was truely an amazing trip for me, I’m going to upload my own record of the flightchi flat irons

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