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Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:25 pm
by No Fly Zone
Emerald should be able to get back on track in this one

BUT…if they don’t, I’m not sure they’ll win a game this season.

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:55 pm
by No Fly Zone
Rock bottom

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:49 pm
by *Topcat*
Crescent is improved this year. Emerald is really struggling.

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:56 am
by No Fly Zone
*Topcat* wrote:
Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:49 pm
Crescent is improved this year. Emerald is really struggling.
Crescent is certainly a solid team. Not trying to take anything away from them.

Emerald just looks so down.

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:11 am
by MrFootball68
Emerald does not LOOK like they are well coached at all.

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:46 am
by 1fan
Both teams had penalty after penalty . Looks like the Vikings are getting worse.

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:32 am
by No Fly Zone
1fan wrote:
Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:46 am
Both teams had penalty after penalty . Looks like the Vikings are getting worse.
I always believe in giving a new coach and his staff at least three seasons to get things right. That just hasn’t happened.

These kids seem undisciplined and uninterested. Those two traits will wreck any program.

Now they inherited quite a mess when Mac left but ALL of those kids have graduated/moved on and the coaching staff is mostly turned over.

My problem with this staff is there’s no one aside from Dubose that’s been successful anywhere. He’s assembled a crew of very nice, high character men and that is important but that culture isn’t being established.

FCA is a nice program but it’s not winning them any ball games. Basketball will be just as bad.

They’ve got zero identity on either side of the ball. They are AWFUL on special teams.

This may have been the last winnable game on their schedule. If they blank in the win column, then what?

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:36 am
by No Fly Zone
MrFootball68 wrote:
Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:11 am
Emerald does not LOOK like they are well coached at all.
They are not.

Who are the coordinators?

The offense is a disaster.

The defense is surprisingly undisciplined.

Special teams has at least one key mistake every game. They’ve most two games because of ST mishaps.

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:50 pm
by Blister
Is it the coaching, or that nobody can handle the kids? For years and through different coaching staffs, Emerald has had size and speed that should make for a good football team but they always seem to underachieve. Is there just a culture happening in Greenwood to where the kids are just uncoachable. Seems that folks at Greenwood are asking that same question.

Re: Emerald vs. Crescent

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 12:04 am
by No Fly Zone
Blister wrote:
Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:50 pm
Is it the coaching, or that nobody can handle the kids? For years and through different coaching staffs, Emerald has had size and speed that should make for a good football team but they always seem to underachieve. Is there just a culture happening in Greenwood to where the kids are just uncoachable. Seems that folks at Greenwood are asking that same question.
For all the hate McMahon gets, his teams were consistently in the playoffs. Things just got away from him at the end when he was looking to retire.

His teams in 2014 and 2017 were really great and made deep playoff runs.

Gang culture has run rampant in Greenwood, but the right coach and staff can make a difference.