[AC Fball]

First of all, I am a player on AC's football team, and b/c of this I have some knowledge I would like to share.

We did not water our field b/c...

Our field had very little grass on it, and I think any fans at the game would agree. Plus, the grass we had was Bermuda, which is a warm-season grass, meaning that it dies around late-October or early-November. Therefore, when it rains for three days straight, like it did Monday-Wednesday of the game week, water does not soak into the ground very well because the field has dormant roots or no roots in some areas. This causes the field to look like it had been watered.

For the fan that stood in the end zone, I am supposing he or she stood on the end closest to the scoreboard. This end of the field is where are sub-par drainage system lets all of its water out. Anderson County has never really had a good football team or much money to support it. B/c of this we never have provided top-quality ground/underground work on the practice or game fields. Faulty drainage explains the “standing water.” It also explains why we had to practice on the baseball field for two practices and had to travel to Woodford County High’s artificial turf field for one practice on the three days leading up to game. (We did practice on our swimming pool of a practice field on Monday) We did not practice on our game field because of the very poor shape it was in.

Also, for those who believed we changed our cleats specifically for this match-up, I can only remember one instance of a player changing into new cleats, but his cleats were not in great shape beforehand. And, many other players on the team, including the running back, the full back and at least two of the receivers that played, wore molded cleats. These cleats cannot be changed out on the bottom, which means they had no more advantage than the other team in this regard either.

I know that the people that made these comments have qualified that SW most likely would have lost even with better conditions, but I am tired of seeing people make false assumptions on this thread.

I know I wrote a lot and most people probably don't care enough to read this lengthy post, but these are factual statements, and if you still don't believe that we did not attempt to enhance our performance shamefully, then nothing will.