Dalton will face more familiar rivals, enjoy shorter road trips this year
The way their coach looks at it, the Catamounts are already winners in 2022.

The way their coach looks at it, the Catamounts are already winners in 2022.

High expectations are a good thing to have as a football coach. Living up to them depends on a myriad of factors.

Scott painfully calls his first year on the job the "could have, would have, should have" season after the Ramblers ended the year with three consecutive region losses, all games that came down to the final minutes.

Pritchett's return to his alma mater comes at a time when the once-proud program needs a savior.

The Phoenix begin a new era as they rise to Class AAAA, where the teams are deeper and stronger.

Coming off the program's best regular season since 2010 and first playoff appearance since 2015, Poston knows his team - even competing in a tougher region - has the talent to at least match last year's success.

The headliner of last year's team was 2,600-yard rusher Rob Brown, who parlayed his huge season, which included more than 40 touchdowns, into a scholarship at Kennesaw State University.

The big story in Chickamauga is a move from Class A to AAA after GHSA reclassification.

In a new-look Region 7-AAAA, Heritage may be the exception this season.

On the surface, having just six returning starters from an 0-10 team might be a harbinger of bad things to come, but a group of talented youngsters has Hamilton and his staff more than ready for the Warriors to turn the page.
