Gray 27 Abbeville 12

[Atown97]

Still proud of my Fellas. Even after losing our rushing leader starting the 3rd Qt. We scratched, clawed, and punched the Atown way.

[SCPrepTalk]

[*Topcat*]

A rebuilding year for the Panthers ends to one of the "collegiate" schools, who will now play another of their brethren for the 2A title. This is the one and only time this will happen in football since it has finally been acknowledged that these schools have unfair advantages. I really don't consider this game to be legitimate, could care less. The league will likely see a sparse crowd at their home for the games in Orangeburg. That is a whole different story in itself. Playing a state title game on a Thursday night in Orangeburg following a late Friday night game to W Columbia is ridiculous. Somebody needs to work their job a little better than this, come on. For the record, Atown is not afraid of them, we are actually 2-2 against GC, and, everyone knows what we did to OC last year. However, fair is fair, let them take their chances against the better 3A or 4A teams next year, where they belong. As for the game. it was very competitive. Abbeville battled poor field position throughout, once on great int in the END ZONE, that the ref somehow decided was on the one yard line. We should have at least questioned this call instead of shrugging our shoulders, too passive. We lost our leading rusher before half. Kicking game was really bad again, this must be addressed, not sure we have our best personnel covering kickoffs, and, it continually hurts us. Punting has been bad all year. Also, once again, for the third straight week, we let a scoring chance before half go by without even getting aggressive, we took timeouts to the half with us. This is a pattern for a long time. Cannot wrap my head around this way of coaching. We needed more diversity and aggression on offense to win this game. Just too passive. Just a few tweaks is all we need, nothing extreme. We are ok until we play a team that can stack it up and slow us down. We have the talent, but, we would have to adjust our way of thinking, just a little bit, which is unlikely Wouldn't even take that much, really. Anyway, this is a young team, most of which returns next year, we will be right back here next year. Just not against GC, that we know for sure.

[RamFan]

STILL BULL CRAP these schools play in public school league

Not a fair comparison

Hats off to Abbeville for keeping it close

[TIM]

A rebuilding year for the Panthers ends to one of the "collegiate" schools, who will now play another of their brethren for the 2A title. This is the one and only time this will happen in football since it has finally been acknowledged that these schools have unfair advantages. I really don't consider this game to be legitimate, could care less. The league will likely see a sparse crowd at their home for the games in Orangeburg. That is a whole different story in itself. Playing a state title game on a Thursday night in Orangeburg following a late Friday night game to W Columbia is ridiculous. Somebody needs to work their job a little better than this, come on. For the record, Atown is not afraid of them, we are actually 2-2 against GC, and, everyone knows what we did to OC last year. However, fair is fair, let them take their chances against the better 3A or 4A teams next year, where they belong. As for the game. it was very competitive. Abbeville battled poor field position throughout, once on great int in the END ZONE, that the ref somehow decided was on the one yard line. We should have at least questioned this call instead of shrugging our shoulders, too passive. We lost our leading rusher before half. Kicking game was really bad again, this must be addressed, not sure we have our best personnel covering kickoffs, and, it continually hurts us. Punting has been bad all year. Also, once again, for the third straight week, we let a scoring chance before half go by without even getting aggressive, we took timeouts to the half with us. This is a pattern for a long time. Cannot wrap my head around this way of coaching. We needed more diversity and aggression on offense to win this game. Just too passive. Just a few tweaks is all we need, nothing extreme. We are ok until we play a team that can stack it up and slow us down. We have the talent, but, we would have to adjust our way of thinking, just a little bit, which is unlikely Wouldn't even take that much, really. Anyway, this is a young team, most of which returns next year, we will be right back here next year. Just not against GC, that we know for sure.

well said. probably will not be 400 people at the gray/ocean game. the 3x multiplier is a step in the right direction but still doesn't solve the problem. hats off to atwon for a good run this year and good luck next season.