USA Today 2015 Tennessee All-Star Football Team

[kwc]

USA Today 2015 Tennessee All-Star Football Team

 

Selecting the players to get on these teams is a daunting task. Especially if your knowledge of the subject is limited to what you can find on the internet and a small amount of time to do research in order to get an article written and posted for your employer (USA Today). Not to mention that USA today does this for all 50 states. Throw in the fact that these people are making one big team with 1st team and 2nd team being comprised of football players from every class being combined into one team. After taking those things into consideration I think they did and pretty good job of it. I'm from Memphis so I am very familiar with the teams from the Memphis area ... but even then, I haven't seen every team from this area play because I attend the Whitehaven games. There are quite a few teams in my area that I only read about in the paper, or I've listened to the post-game high school football program on the radio after the games have been played on a Friday night,  or I watched them compete in the state championship game from watching it on the NFHS network, or something similar, or I've had conversations with others like me in the Memphis area who attend other games or know other folk who are fans or staff of other local teams.

 

I think that it is inevitable that some young man is going to get snubbed. It's just a numbers thing. I know a lot of you will look at the list and say, so and so should be a 1st team guy and yada, yada, yada. I even thought that Tee Higgins (Oak Ridge) and TD Blackmon (Maryville) should have been 1st team guys. But I don't know enough about the other guys that were listed on the first team in those guys positions to know which guy they should have left off or listed on the 2nd team in their stead.

 

Like I said, I think the writer did a bang up job considering the circumstances. It's not going to please everybody, but it is a decent stab at it.  

Edited March 30, 2016 by kwc

[Shante]

USA Today 2015 Tennessee All-Star Football Team

 

Selecting the players to get on these teams is a daunting task. Especially if your knowledge of the subject is limited to what you can find on the internet and a small amount of time to do research in order to get an article written and posted for your employer (USA Today). Not to mention that USA today does this for all 50 states. Throw in the fact that these people are making one big team with 1st team and 2nd team being comprised of football players from every class being combined into one team. After taking those things into consideration I think they did and pretty good job of it. I'm from Memphis so I am very familiar with the teams from the Memphis area ... but even then, I haven't seen every team from this area play because I attend the Whitehaven games. There are quite a few teams in my area that I only read about in the paper, or I've listened to the post-game high school football program on the radio after the games have been played on a Friday night,  or I watched them compete in the state championship game from watching it on the NFHS network, or something similar, or I've had conversations with others like me in the Memphis area who attend other games or know other folk who are fans or staff of other local teams.

 

I think that it is inevitable that some young man is going to get snubbed. It's just a numbers thing. I know a lot of you will look at the list and say, so and so should be a 1st team guy and yada, yada, yada. I even thought that Tee Higgins (Oak Ridge) and TD Blackmon (Maryville) should have been 1st team guys. But I don't know enough about the other guys that were listed on the first team in those guys positions to know which guy they should have left off or listed on the 2nd team in their stead.

 

Like I said, I think the writer did a bang up job considering the circumstances. It's not going to please everybody, but it is a decent stab at it.  

No he left out Justin Swift of Trezevant defense player of the year and Cordarrian Richardson 2nd team no . The city of Memphis had a lot great player