Cherokee vs Albemarle
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If the Cherokee team that came to the Hill and punched Murphy in the mouth shows up, Cherokee will no doubt win. This is not a vintage Albemarle team by any stretch.
Cherokee by 100 - we scrimmaged Albamarle and scored at will. They aren’t a strong team at all.
We are still trying to recover from almost having the school closed to 6 different coach's in 6 years..We still have a ways to go..Just hope we can be competitive in this game....
Either way, Mitchell gets a chance at pay back. Pulling for Cherokee though, they bring a great crowd and it makes for a heck of an atmosphere.
8 years can make a lot of difference. 2010 when Mitchell played Albemarle in the 1AA West Regional championship and lost 22-7 and Albemarle went on to win the state. Albemarle had I believe 65 players no one going both ways, I've never seen a 1A school with that many players.
If tha shoe fits then stick it on and wear it!! Haha!!! It'll only be us die hards if we make that long trip to unz in a couple weeks!!! Hopefully will get looked past and get a chance to pull big upset!!
Albemarle is without a doubt one of the top programs in the history of NC high school football ... but this particular team is not to that level. Cherokee is very dangerous. The injury bug and indecision in picking a QB contributed to a mid-season slump that saw the Braves lose to Swain, Robbinsville, and Murphy. Now that they are relatively healthy and they are settled at QB, they are much more confident and have the ability to make some serious noise in the playoffs. I pick the Braves to win this game easily, 28 or more. Not only that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and pick them to upset Mitchell. I don't mean that as any disrespect to Mitchell. I just think we have all forgotten how good Cherokee played the first five games of the season.
I'm not sure about what first 5 games you are talking about. They went 3-2, beating Choctaw, Asheville School (Not Asheville High School), and Gladiator Sports Academy. They lost to North Buncombe at home. Smoky Mountain is the only team of quality that they played, and the Braves lost 28-12 on the road. Cherokee struggled thru conference play, getting Clobbered at home vs Swain, letting Rosman, Hayesville and Andrews hang aroung, getting thumped on the road by Robbinsville, before giving Murphy a 1 half scare at the hill. I think the Braves will beat Albemarle, but beating Mitchell in Ledger this year is a stretch.
After Murphy thumped Cherokee last season, I personally gave them zero chance of beating Mitchell in Ledger. I don't look for a repeat of last year, but i also never believed Cherokee would go to Mitchell and win last year. Of course Cherokee needs to take care of business against Albemarle for a rematch to happen.
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You and everyone else lol. Not throwing off on the braves, and definitely not sour grapes from last season...
No one is over looking Cherokee. Last year Mitchell was a senior lead experienced team and on paper would have bet on Mitchell but we forget these are just kids and things don't always go as planned. This year Mitchell is a young team but they do have talent a quick running QB with a good arm , good receivers especially #10 (who is playing with a heavy heart his younger brother by one year unexpectedly died a few weeks ago ). Good RB 6' 205 and a good line 5'10" 230- 6'1" 310- 6'3" 270- 6'6" 305. And I believe they can play with anyone in the playoffs but it's highschool football anything can happen.
Hate to hear that about his brother and a heavy heart in a kid is a double edged sword that could go either way, hope it works out in a positive way for that kid!! Anything can happen!!
Yeah it's hard, both him and his brother really good kids. HIs older brother played last year and had to leave WCU football because of something they discovered he was born with and can't play anymore and he has been helping the coaches while going to the local Community College. Thier little brother who played basketball had a blood aneurysm that he was born with but no one knew. This is the second year in a row the kids at Mitchell have had to deal with a death like this.
Yeah your right. The boy last year was the field goal kicker for two years but he was born with a heart defect and the doctor finally said he couldn't kick anymore and couldnt take a chance of getting hit even before he would kick and then get out of the way. So he was helping at the games. In fact I have disability issues with a leg and after a game need help to the car on cart and the last time I saw him he helped me in the car and said I'll be praying for you and the next week from his heart issue he fainted on that cart fail out a hit his head in the parking lot at school and passed away.
No one is down playing Mitchell. We are actually hoping they lose during their bye week. But I will say this, 1st things first. Albemarle. 2nd thing: Mitchell. If and when Cherokee rolls up to Ledger if there is no rain in the forecast ...look out. Cherokee will be as tough as anyone. No need to come scout against Albemarle, Mitchell’s game plan will be completely different I’m sure. The pregame regiment with the cowboy music really hyped us up last year. Braves faithful will be there 3 hours early. Order double everything for concession. Last year y’all ran out of food before halftime.
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They'll probably put another concession stand on the visiting side like they did for the heritage game this year. If you can believe that far out weather channel give 39° which is alot warmer then I thought it would be with a 40% chance of rain. And do bring a crowd we need the money. But it will be a fun & great football atmosphere.
Sell hot chocolate and chili and you’ll make 10 grand
Did you know that during the playoffs that the home team pays the visiting team $270 for meals and 75 cents per mile after 75 miles. The schools split the gate after nchsaa gets thier 15%.
Six head coaches in six years and talk of closing the school set the program back for sure. This is Coach Davis second season and there has been improvements made but I'm not sure they will ever get back to where they were competing for state titles every year. They just don't have the numbers now that they had years ago..They are like a lot of schools now where they have a lot of kids walking the halls that could help the football team.At least they are in the playoffs again and that is something to build on for next year.
Yelp that sucks dog9 and we know exactly what your sayin about coach situation!!! Hope health and politics let's Briggs hang around for a little while!! Is albemarle bout to shut down!?? What school will gain most of tha kids!??
At the present time there are no plans to close the school .What needs to happen is to redraw the district lines because there are kids that go to both West and North Stanly that actually live closer to Albemarle but I don’t see that happening with our current school board.Over the years we have lost students also to Grey Stone but probably not any football players. What really should have been done here years ago when they built four new middle schools was to consolidate into two high schools and use the current high schools as the middle schools.That’s just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.
Your right. They there should only be 1 or 2 high-schools in Stanly County. I was against consolidation in the past when Albemarle was going to shut down, but I see it will greatly benefit the schools and kids. Over here in Cabarrus County where my kids go to, the school system is light years ahead as far as I can see. I've been nothing but satisfied.
Stanly County has some major issues....just sad...
We're bout in tha same boat!! Hows unz crowd travel, will unz have tha visitor side packed out Friday!??