YEP. Best statement I have read. Not so sure that either team really deserves playoffs. I don't see Louisa or Powhatan winning out. Both have to beat upset a d3 team just not many points left on their schedule. Beating Fluvanna won't give either many points. Only way for either to improve seed is beating Western.
Powhatan is overrated anyway. Orange will beat more Jefferson teams coming up too...
I been saying it for years Powhatan came from that weak district thinking they were gonna do something in the Jefferson and they haven't. They are average at best.
You may be right OCBoy! I would not have picked OC to be 3-1 right now. Best thing Orange did was hiring Lohr as their head coach. He has wanted this job for a while and seems to have given Orange some hope at finishing with a winning season. They should beat Fluvanna and if they can win two more games they have had their first winning season since when?
There is some truth to this, but Powhatan did win the district last season. Good win for Orange, who do they have next week?
Exactly! Thats why I really do not think pod 19 and 20 is better than the 757 pod. I think they are pretty even.
Whay happened to Louisa tonight Hoos? After the past two weeks putting all these points up I would have thought Louisa would have scored more points tonight?
Albemarle defense defended Louisa better than Courtland and King George, simple as that, and we overthrew 2 or 3 would-be touchdown passes. Again, we'll be fine. I'm happy with the progress on defense, hardly any mental mistakes with assignments, etc.
Well call it what you want, but Albemarle is not going to be the best team that Louisa sees after they destroy us next week their schedule does not get any easier for them. Louisa has been on the road forever so they are due a nice homestand at some point this season.
I don't know that depth issues would be the reason Courtland would not win such a game. It's just the way the Cougars play. This is what we run. Stop us if you can. And it will be good enough to beat almost any 4A team. They do have lots of talent and the defense is good. But with the way LT runs their defense, there's no way the Wing wins. Like lambs to a hungry Lion. The only way the Cougars win this game is with one hell of a good offensive game plan that throws stuff at LT that are both quick and unexpected. I expect Hall to stick with his bread and butter but it wouldn't be the first time he surprised me. In addition, "risk takers are difference makers". If it ever gets between these two, we'll see. I will certainly be rooting for my blueberries but my pickem' will be easy.
Orange is good and Lohr is the perfect fit for this team. Watch out for Orange Jefferson people...And yes Powhatan won the district last year but got beat easily in the playoffs
When they aren't fumbling and actually executing, they can hang with just about anyone this year. They haven't fumbled since the Riverbend game. The changes to their offense they should've made a year sooner, they made this year. I'm not sure how any team is going to stop Greene inside, speedsters Lawson and Cheetham on sweeps, and Allen and Grant at wide-out with Wilborne and his cannon arm at QB when they're clicking. Contain, yes, but not stop. Moving Allen to wide receiver gives them more needed size and especially speed at that position that they've been lacking, and they can still use him for trick plays to pass the ball. After a few weeks of seeing them, I definitely think they'd blow out Massaponax without the fumbling, and could be the true #2 in the East behind LT. I'd pay $20 to see them play LT.
I would say that with the exception of Western, the district will be cannon fodder come playoff time.
Albemarle would lose by 50 points in the 5A playoffs. I don't see how they or Orange would draw anything but a monster in the first round.
I usually agree with you DSH, but I think you're off here. I believe Courtland is much better than average. They could even be the 2nd or 3rd best team in the East, but there's a big divide between 1 & everyone else. For them to choke they kind of have to be better than avg, I think you contradicted yourself there. My guess is your post was directed at Shauntclair to pay him back a bit since he has been critical of GW even when they beat Courtland.
I don't expect Louisa to make it past the first round. They are 1-3 now and they lost their first district game to Albemarle. Seems like your expectations for Louisa may be a little high again. They'll have tough district games with Western Albemarle, Powhatan, Monticello, Charlottesville, and even Orange now that they've beaten Powhatan. I wouldn't start talking about hypothetical match ups with Monacan, If they don't start winning they may just miss out on the playoffs altogether.
Of course it's a shot Mike but I have to accept it. Cougars choked against GW last year. Just no question about it. Could happen again. But the Cougars are hardly an average team.
I don't think they're avg either, playing in the East will be much more difficult once it gets to the semi's level for sure.
The JD is wide open. WA seems to have the upper hand but no one clearly rises to the top. Other than Fluvanna, they all seem to be pretty average. Nothing more. Anything can happen from here but I can't see any one of them being more than one and done in the playoffs, if they get there.
Albemarle surprised me, and I won't be the only person they surprise. They have a good defense. Charlottesville is the only other team I can see us losing to after seeing all the JD teams except WA, Orange, and Powhatan. Their defense is on par with Albemarle's. WA will struggle against our quickness like last year, we aren't a good match up for them, and I'm still not sold on their defense. Powhatan is not good, and I know Orange didn't turn into powerful tacklers in one off-season. Our biggest issue right now is our line just can't seem to consistently play together without something happening, but I still have expectations to make the playoffs, upset someone in the first round, and see where things go from there. I'm not giving up on them until the fat lady sings, after our defensive performance last night! If they were still playing defense like they were a few weeks ago, I would've thrown in the towel after last night.
Powhatan is having a down year, yes. But to mention any previous success being purely based on having a Southside District schedule is ludicrous. They have had really good teams plow through the southside AND go through Region 1 having a Southside schedule.
