What's the word? Who they play this week?
What's the word? Who they play this week?
peabody at home. trojans' offense has been struggling since the loss to winnfield. peabody has a really good sophomore running back named jalen richard. if ash's offense doesn't snap out of its funk, could be a close game.
the bold, the beautiful, theprofessor
What happened against Winnfield?
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
Is ASH pass heavy, run heavy, or balanced?
Glade to see there is some more ASH Trojans on here.
ASH smoked Peabody; 41-0.
ASH is still the most overrated team in Cenla. They are good, but the local media makes it out like they will win state. They just play in a weak district and have an extremely weak non-district schedule. They lost big to Winnfield who is 2A. Thatis what happens when they play someone who is decent. Now on the flip side, Menard is underrated and undefeated. Not to mention they won against those same Winnfield Tigers this very weekend. Of course the town talk and KALB don't care about them for some reason.
ASH will be out by the 2nd round just like every other team from CENLA. I can never figure out why that region of the state can't get it's act together on the football field.
Nick White
ESPN 97.7
Population base is spread too thin. If you combined Tioga and Pineville, they would be a better team. Maybe not state contender, but still better than they are. The same used to be true of ASH and Bolton...especially during the 90's. They've got 4 mediocre 4A teams instead of 2 decent to good 5A teams.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
Bolton has gone to crap, Peabody is a basketball school. The biggest problem with ASH for the longest time was one JL Butch Stoker. I hate to say it because I like Coach Stoker and he has had some brutal health problems, God help him, but when I was on the team, we got knocked out of the playoffs twice when we had games in the bag and blew it.
Junior year, we had the game wrapped up and all we had to do was run out the clock but went too conservative and gave up a last second TD to lose in teh first round.
Senior year, we romped Northside out of Lafayette in teh first round, then we had a Abbeville all but locked up. I actually blame this lose on our QB because he called a QB draw in the huddle then tried to hand the ball off while we were driving with about 2 minutes left up by 4 and would have sealed the game. However, we fumble, they get it, then Abbeville (a team that had no passing O) drove down the field on us in a little under 2 minutes by throwing the ball and us getting two PI calls which were blatantly obvious. That Abbeville team went to the Semis where they barely got beat. Should have been us with a chance to go to the dome. Oh well, such is life. We choked it in close games and all of Stoker's teams have done that for a long time.
It will be interesting to see how the team does under Gatlin come playoff time because he was our offensive coordinator when I was there and we did little to prepare for a team that brought a different D to face us (Abbeville with a cover 2 press against our run and shoot O).
I'm not a fan of Gatlin either. Word through the grapevine is that he told his second string "you don't really even need to suit up" for the jamboree against Northwood, Lena, a class 1A school who is terrible. That is just a dick move and shows no respect for the game. The quote came from his own players, one on the first team at that.
Yeh, he is all about beating people up. Usually it is the rivalry game like Bolton where ASH thumped them. I have no idea why you would want to run up the score on Northwood Lena because you arent proving anything. That is just ridiculous. Has ASH been that bad over the last couple of years that they have to prove their "might" by beating up on Northwood? If so, then that is just sad.
That is why I don't like him.