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DF players and coaches will do that for me! The Yoemen will be a serious test, no doubt! Nothing DF will not be able to handle! I was meaning no dis-respect to KV, in fact I picked them in both games! Just calling it like I saw it!

[quote name="T-Dawd" post="932534" timestamp="1292275645"] Correct me if I'm, wrong, but didn't Wimberely have a balanced offense? Did they try to spread Coldspring out? Did they have good backs? Did they get 30 yards total rushing? [/quote] Correct me if I'm wrong, but did Wimberly win the last two state-championships??? Are you seriously trying to compare Carthage's speed with Wimberly? If I'm wrong, then I will man up! Just my observation of this game! I have no dog in this fight! Good Luck to both teams! Should be a great game!!!

When are you SETX fans going to understand that a one dimentional team will only get you so far in the playoffs now! Coldsprings is a great team, and has a salty run game, and a great defense! However, KV has had the same thing 3 years now, and made it all the way the last two years, only to get beat by a more balanced offensive team. That will be the difference in this game! Carthage has the defense to slow down Coldsprings, and the balanced offense to score more points! Coldsring will have to honor Holland, or lose! That was proven against Brownwood! However, look at the capsule on this board, Carthage can do both on offense very well! If Coldspring has penalties, or a couple of TO's, and Carthage can get ahead, then this game will be over! I would have thought that KV would have learned this lesson by now! If Coldsprings does pull the upset, then I will give them all the respect they deserve! I'm just pointing out the facts! It will be much harder for Coldsprings to score more consistantly than Carthage, specially since Carthage has been in this game the last two years! Carthage will spread Coldsprings out, and get the ball to their speed in space, and let them make plays!  Coldspring-373yrds rush/ 62 pass,  100.3 pass allowed/80.4 rush Carthage-229 yrd. rush/ 215 pass        157.8 rush allowed/167 pass Which team will be easier to stop on defense???

East Chambers had a great run this year! They have alot to be proud of, and to build on for the future. However, all that ends against Yoe. EC will not be able to slow Yoe's pass game any at all. Yoe's defense will put a iron curtain up against EC run game. Remember what Yoe did to Newton, held them to 6 until Yoe jv came in. Yoe 70+ EC 21( late in the 4th).

There is no doubt that it will get you there, it has gotton KV there 2 years in a row! However, I believe if KV would have been running the spread offense, PP would have had alot tougher time stopping KV offense than they did! KV had much more overall team speed than PP in my opinion, and alot more offensive weapons(speedy runners) than PP. Due to spreading KV D out, and having 1 great and speedy RB, and due to extra space, PP was able to make the plays they had to to win. Let me put it this way! If PP would have run strictly out of the eye, I do not think they would have been able to come within 14 points of KV. KV's defensive speed was great, and if they would have congested the line, KV would have been able to contain the run game, and they would not have been able to break some of the long runs. Plus with the little extra time the Qb and reciever had to get open on that huge third down play would not had been possible in my opinion if they would have lined up out of the I! It doesn't matter to me either way, but in my opinion if the spread can deliver wins and championships to teams with 2 or 3 speedy skilled guys, what can it do to teams that have a whole team full?

I believe the spread is best when a team has alot of speed! The whole point is to spread the defense out, and to get the ball to your skilled-players in open space and give them a better opportunity to make big-plays! Gilmer & DF are great examples of what happens when the spread is mixed with speed! DF had for years run out of the eye, and did win state 3 times doing it! However, as time went by, they couldn't seem to make it all the way to the big-game, or like in 98, when Newton spanked us, they hit two big pass plays down the middle of the field, and DF could not pass worth a poot, nor defend the pass! Newton won 21 to 0! Not long after, Gilmer went to the spread, and after running it for several years, started rewriting their own football history books! After taking some beatings from Gilmer, DF decided to make the change! It took a couple of years of running it for them to find success! Not because of lack of talent, but it's a different system, and mind-set! But once ran several years, look what has happened! DF's QB has ran this offense since 7th grade, that has alot to do with DF's success! I have been wondering when more teams like Newton and KVILLE would start running it! These teams seem to have just as much speed as DF and Gilmer year after year! If that kind of speed had the space that the spread would create for them, it could be sick!!! Newton in my opinion had a very good passing QB for the last two years, and if that big reciever they had last year could of played out of the spread, and with the healthy backs they had in the back-field, it would have been sick! As we all know, the spread ran with speedy players, puts alot, and I mean alot of pressure on the defense! If the offense lines up in a 4 reciever set with a reciever like the Alfred kid of last year, and then has a back in the back-field like Ford or Bennent, tell me how you would like to be the defensive Coordinator that would have to defend that for 48 minutes! I would pay alot of money to have watched Ford run the ball with that kind of space to run with for 48 minutes!

I was at the game, on DF's side, and basketballs were thrown on to the field.