Week 7 Rankings

Hominy has about the same non district game every year. Pawhuska and Cleveland. I know people are down on Pawhuska but they look like they are in position to be the two seed in their 2A district. Cleveland is 4A, but a bad program. Woodland played Commerce and Newkirk as well as Pawhuska, I would call it an average non district schedule. It is way better than some, and not near as tough as others. It will be interesting to see what non district games look like in this area after the split. I could see the Tonk's, Woodland, Pawnee, Pawhuska, Morrison, and Hominy's all playing each other every year. Those would be brutal non district schedules. I could see Tonk playing Woodland, Hominy, and Morrison, which might be the toughest non district schedule next season.

Coach Tyler left because it was a promotion.  Class A to 4A is a huge step and if he does well at Sallisaw, he'll probably shoot for a 6A gig.  BTW, no surprise about the Central game, I called Central for the win and their seniors dominated that game.  It could have been far worse with the young Gore team melting down on the sidelines.  I think they had players wanting to quit at certain points in the game.  Definitely a lack of leadership on the team and it'll be interesting to see how the respond to adversity moving forward.

No faith in your own team, huh?

What does my assessment have to do with "faith" in my own team?  So regardless of facts, one is supposed to blindly pick their team to win every week?  This is a rebuilding year at Gore and I suppose that they've already exceeded expectations.  A senior led Central Sallisaw team would be more disciplined, physical, and usually more talented (surely you knew this already) and that played out last night. Gore is mostly Freshmen and Sophomores and will be very good over the next few years, especially in A2.  This was Central's golden opportunity to finally take down the Pirates but rest assured, they will be repaid next year...how's that for faith?