[BelfryPride]

Boy, it's a Doozy!

8\25 - Huntington (WV) (Pike County Bowl) 8:30

9\01 - @ Lexington Bryan Station

9\08 - @ Newport Central Catholic

9\15 - Pikeville (Battle of the Mountains Bowl)

9\22 - @ Floyd County Central

9\29 - Sheldon Clark

10\06 - @ Cabell Midland (WV)

10\13 - Lawrence County

10\20 - @ Pike County Central

10\27 - Johnson Central

Home Games in BOLD


http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/bel...hedule.htm

[OutlawJoseyWales]

Very Challenging schedule to say the least. Realistically....I can see potentially 4-5 losses...depending on how long it takes the 0ffensive line to jell into a cohesive unit. But IMO, by November......Belfry will have rounded into a serious contender for a 5 peat

[Eagle84]

where do you see 4 losses?

[RunItUpTheGut]

How good is Huntington and Midland suppose to be this year?

[OutlawJoseyWales]

where do you see 4 losses?

I think Huntington, NewCath and Bryan Station could all very well be toss up games......especially so early in the season.

Cabell Midland and Johnson Central will both be tough as always.


Thus 4-5 potential losses.

[bucslover68]

Those are definitely the 5 toughest games. The win-loss record may not be as pretty as some years, but the pieces are there to make another run to a title.

[99PIRATEFAN]

As usually nobody gives this bunch of kids any credit you'll sing a different tune after the season starts I'm not talking about you bucslover but every since these kids were in middle school it's been the same thing but the good thing is this Jr. Bunch has done nothing but win and it's not going to stop now

[99PIRATEFAN]

I think Huntington, NewCath and Bryan Station could all very well be toss up games......especially so early in the season.

Cabell Midland and Johnson Central will both be tough as always.


Thus 4-5 potential losses.

Potential 14 or 15 wins I'm glad everybody has a option

[CoachNM0523]

As usually nobody gives this bunch of kids any credit you'll sing a different tune after the season starts I'm not talking about you bucslover but every since these kids were in middle school it's been the same thing but the good thing is this Jr. Bunch has done nothing but win and it's not going to stop now

What post took any credit from anyone..?

[OutlawJoseyWales]

As usually nobody gives this bunch of kids any credit you'll sing a different tune after the season starts I'm not talking about you bucslover but every since these kids were in middle school it's been the same thing but the good thing is this Jr. Bunch has done nothing but win and it's not going to stop now

No one is a bigger Belfry fan than I am. Sorry you've gotten your fur up over saying this team could drop a few games. I'm only being a realist. Any team that loses 4-5 starters off their offensive line has some rebuilding too do. Let alone, lose the size and quality of what Belfry has enjoyed for the past 4 seasons. Like it or not.....the schedule....especially the top half, could be a challenge. The back half...with Cabell and JC is no slouch. This team's chances for a 5 peat rest with the rebuilding and replacing of those lineman on both fronts. THAT'S NOT A KNOCK......that's just reality. I think Belfry has a great chance of playing for another championship....but.....IMO....It's going to take some time for our new line to work themselves into a cohesive unit. Whether or not we can win every game while that occurs remains to be seen. However.....my point was this.....it shouldn't be the "end of the world" if we don't. Its a long season. Belfry plays for success in November and December.

Go Pirates....

[WinkWinkler]

Easy schedule. Only challenge will come from Johnson Central. District teams are all terrible.

[EKUAlum05]

I feel much more confident against Bryan Station and NewCath (though I expect a closer game with NewCath than last year). Feel confident against Pikeville and the District.

Bryan Station is getting hit heavy by the new school it seems.

Huntington
Cabell Midland
Johnson Central

Those are the 3 tough ones. I will say Belfry beats Huntington and loses to JC and Midland

8-2 regular season.

[WILDCAT NATION]

I feel much more confident against Bryan Station and NewCath (though I expect a closer game with NewCath than last year). Feel confident against Pikeville and the District.

Bryan Station is getting hit heavy by the new school it seems.

Huntington
Cabell Midland
Johnson Central

Those are the 3 tough ones. I will say Belfry beats Huntington and loses to JC and Midland

8-2 regular season.

Bryan Station will lose several athletes to the new school but CM and JC are still who they are for sure. Now comes the twist of the cross bracketing of the playoffs. 1 of the next 2 seasons Belfry is going to see Corbin and Dudley's new Bell Co to get out of the regionals.

[#55PirateFan]

No one is a bigger Belfry fan than I am. Sorry you've gotten your fur up over saying this team could drop a few games. I'm only being a realist. Any team that loses 4-5 starters off their offensive line has some rebuilding too do. Let alone, lose the size and quality of what Belfry has enjoyed for the past 4 seasons. Like it or not.....the schedule....especially the top half, could be a challenge. The back half...with Cabell and JC is no slouch. This team's chances for a 5 peat rest with the rebuilding and replacing of those lineman on both fronts. THAT'S NOT A KNOCK......that's just reality. I think Belfry has a great chance of playing for another championship....but.....IMO....It's going to take some time for our new line to work themselves into a cohesive unit. Whether or not we can win every game while that occurs remains to be seen. However.....my point was this.....it shouldn't be the "end of the world" if we don't. Its a long season. Belfry plays for success in November and December.

Go Pirates....

I agree with everything your saying. It would take someone with a low football IQ to say that Belfry's O-Line didn't/won't feel the lose of the line that we just had depart. Hard to replace the size and athletic ability of that line, period! But I will say this, the line that Belfry will be presenting this year is still going to be very good. This Pirate line looks to me like it will still be, on average, around 6'2"-6'3"/ 260-270 lbs. That folks is still a pretty impressive O-Line as far as size. And the athletic ability is there also. What I seen from spring practice, and this is just me giving my opinion, I look for Wolford to start at Center, Rash and Arbogast to play at Guards, and Lawson will play one of the Tackle positions. Not sure who will get the nod at the other Tackle spot. And I agree, its going to take a few games for this group to start jelling together and getting use to playing with one another but when they do, I believe, it will be one of the best lines in 3A. As far as the skill positions and defense, I'm pretty sure we're going to be just fine. Can't wait until August 25th!

[Bulldogs4Ever]

Where is Louisville Trinity, Cincinnati Moeller, Indiapolis Ben Davis, Lakeland Florida???? Thought they were beefing up the schedule???? Two little West Virginia teams and Johnson Central? Easty wins for the Pirates. 15-0 again.

[Hurricane Storm]

I agree with everything your saying. It would take someone with a low football IQ to say that Belfry's O-Line didn't/won't feel the lose of the line that we just had depart. Hard to replace the size and athletic ability of that line, period! But I will say this, the line that Belfry will be presenting this year is still going to be very good. This Pirate line looks to me like it will still be, on average, around 6'2"-6'3"/ 260-270 lbs. That folks is still a pretty impressive O-Line as far as size. And the athletic ability is there also. What I seen from spring practice, and this is just me giving my opinion, I look for Wolford to start at Center, Rash and Arbogast to play at Guards, and Lawson will play one of the Tackle positions. Not sure who will get the nod at the other Tackle spot. And I agree, its going to take a few games for this group to start jelling together and getting use to playing with one another but when they do, I believe, it will be one of the best lines in 3A. As far as the skill positions and defense, I'm pretty sure we're going to be just fine. Can't wait until August 25th!

I think there will be some early lag also. But one thing that I think is often overlooked is that Belfry had many games that starters got to freely substitute, maybe wholes halves of games. Someone had to play those positions. The underclassmen got a lot of varsity game experience. And honestly, it showed sometimes. But upcoming seniors have effectively practiced 4 1/2 seasons already (45 games). Juniors 3 seasons. Upcoming sophomores 1 1/2 seasons.

Who cares what team is preseason #1. Or for that matter #1 at the end of the regular season. If they can maintain their approach of getting a little better each day, good things can happen.

[EKUAlum05]

Bryan Station will lose several athletes to the new school but CM and JC are still who they are for sure. Now comes the twist of the cross bracketing of the playoffs. 1 of the next 2 seasons Belfry is going to see Corbin and Dudley's new Bell Co to get out of the regionals.

Dudley's Bell might be interesting in 3-4 years, but with what Belfry has in their underclass ranks compared to what Bell currently has I don't see them threatening over the next two seasons.

Now if Dudley can start re-working magic and get a few young stars to joint the roster that were either not playing football or currently playing elsewhere (Remember Harlan County has a POWERHOUSE group of Freshman coming in), then in 3 or 4 years it might be a different story.

Corbin should be consistently solid the next few years. They should be a Top 5 3A team for at least the next two or three seasons.

[EKUAlum05]

Where is Louisville Trinity, Cincinnati Moeller, Indiapolis Ben Davis, Lakeland Florida???? Thought they were beefing up the schedule???? Two little West Virginia teams and Johnson Central? Easty wins for the Pirates. 15-0 again.

Hyperbole aside I don't think the 2017 schedule is as hard as the 2015 or 2016 schedules.

Huntington is an improvement over Tates Creek.

Midland will be better than last year but not as good as 2015.

Johnson Central will be excellent but probably not as good as last year (probably comparable or slightly better than 2015)

Pikeville will be nowhere near 2015 and weaker than 2016.

You replace a great Knoxville Catholic team and an average Harlan County team with an good but not special Bryan Station and a weak District foe in Floyd Central. Sheldon Clark is comparable to 2015 and the 2017 version is a good bit weaker than the Cleveland OH team they played in their place last year.





Not a killer schedule whatsoever but also definitely a high quality schedule for a 3A team. I think it works though for this Belfry team. 2015 and 2016 were probably the two toughest schedules in school history but it was probably also the two best Belfry teams of all-time as well.

[99PIRATEFAN]

No one is a bigger Belfry fan than I am. Sorry you've gotten your fur up over saying this team could drop a few games. I'm only being a realist. Any team that loses 4-5 starters off their offensive line has some rebuilding too do. Let alone, lose the size and quality of what Belfry has enjoyed for the past 4 seasons. Like it or not.....the schedule....especially the top half, could be a challenge. The back half...with Cabell and JC is no slouch. This team's chances for a 5 peat rest with the rebuilding and replacing of those lineman on both fronts. THAT'S NOT A KNOCK......that's just reality. I think Belfry has a great chance of playing for another championship....but.....IMO....It's going to take some time for our new line to work themselves into a cohesive unit. Whether or not we can win every game while that occurs remains to be seen. However.....my point was this.....it shouldn't be the "end of the world" if we don't. Its a long season. Belfry plays for success in November and December.

Go Pirates....

We're not going to win every game we have never done it before my point was there's a lot of people that has never gave these boys there props and they done the same things to this point that our senior class done we are going to have a few challenges but JC will be the best team on our schedule no fur up

[BelfryPride]

Two little West Virginia teams and Johnson Central?

I'll give you Huntington but Cabell Midland is no joke....they are flat out good.

Bryan Station will be hobbled because of defections to the new Frederick Douglass HS 4 miles away in Hamburg.

Personally I would have liked to have seen Boyle Co. or Central on the schedule. However, I think Central will struggle a while without Scroggins.

I see 8-2 or 9-1 with losses to Cabell Midland and possibly Johnson Central.

[#55PirateFan]

I'll give you Huntington but Cabell Midland is no joke....they are flat out good.

Bryan Station will be hobbled because of defections to the new Frederick Douglass HS 4 miles away in Hamburg.

Personally I would have liked to have seen Boyle Co. or Central on the schedule. However, I think Central will struggle a while without Scroggins.

I see 8-2 or 9-1 with losses to Cabell Midland and possibly Johnson Central.

I agree, I think Cabell Midland and JC will be the toughest games on our schedule. However, I see us having a harder time with JC than I do with Cabell Midland. Belfry has a long memory and although we beat CM last year it still wasn't good enough revenge for the beating they gave us two years ago. Belfry will still be looking for more payback! Whether they get it or not is left to be seen. Also, I believe that the game against Huntington in the Pike County Bowl will be a toss-up as well. This will be the first game that this young offensive line will play in a real game and it's quite possible that they may struggle coming out of the gate. I talked to an Army buddy of mine who has family that goes to Huntington High and he said that this team is a quick scrappy little bunch. I'm my honest opinion, I think the 2017 Belfry Pirates will go 9-2 (at best) or 8-3 (at worse) in the upcoming season. But hopefully we go 10-0 and get #7 in an undefeated season! Go Big Red!!!

[bucslover68]

I had the chance to talk with Tyler Brown's father this past week while we were signing papers for my wife's new vehicle. Tyler was Midland's QB in 2015 when Belfry played them for the first time. His dad said this was the year that Midland had been pointing to as far as their O line is concerned and they expected to have a good team. It will definitely be another good test for Belfry.
As far as what we lost it cannot be replaced, but they are gone. I base my expectations on what we have coming back and that is exciting. Lots of young guys get to step up and shine and the veterans coming back are all really good football players. I expect another great year and I figure Belfry will be right back in the thick of it all again and then the years ahead they look loaded too.
Just another note...Tayveon and Hensley went 1-2 in the regional 100 meters and Hensley won the 200.

[bball_fan]

I see a max of two losses, Johnson Central will be the strongest team in the mountains probably next year with Belfry hot on their heels. After watching Huntington play Central last year, I think this would be a good game to gauge how Belfry will fair against Lexington Catholic and Louis. Central. Cabell Midland will be the other possible loss in my opinion, key word being possibly. I say Belfry goes 9-1 on the season and wins number 5. These boys have gone up against the very best 3A linemen this state had to offer the last few years in practice, they will be ready for anything.

[64SUR]

Good luck this year belfry fans that's a pretty dang tough schedule irateSho Corbin is coming :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[99PIRATEFAN]

Good luck this year belfry fans that's a pretty dang tough schedule irateSho Corbin is coming :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

Well the truth is we're just going to disappoint you again you guys got a good little team but before your boys can win they got to believe they can and to be honest they laid it all out there and got destroyed at the end they don't believe and there coaches don't believe and the sad thing is we're still really good and that trip to the CAM well I guess you remember maybe the year after oh wait no we're still going to be good sorry it may never happen by the way that's exactly what you said this past season come on we're waiting for Ya LolirateSho irateSho irateSho irateSho

[Fly Like a Duck]

11-3 or 12-3 at the very worst.

Next thread.....

[pjdoug]

Good luck this year belfry fans that's a pretty dang tough schedule irateSho Corbin is coming :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

is hell coming with them ?

[#55PirateFan]

is hell coming with them ?

lmbo!!!

[jgrlzz]

I do believe the game against Sheldon Clark is on Sept 22 and Floyd Central is Sept 29. That was what on the schedules I received from both of those two school's A-D's

[99PIRATEFAN]

All I can say is where is that 6 and 4 or 7 and 3 you football Gods predicted